Sentences with phrase «pools of organic carbon»

Permafrost soils on land and in ocean shelves contain large pools of organic carbon.

Frozen tundra soils are one of the largest pools of organic carbon on the planet.

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Nearly 61 to 62 gigatons of carbon are lost from this pool as soil organic matter is oxidized by the atmosphere through tillage and erosion.

«We don't just look at total soil organic carbon, but also the components of soil that have stable pools of carbon — humic substances, which gives us a much more accurate and precise view of the stable, long - term storage of carbon in the soils.»

The pool of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the oceans is as large as all of the carbon in the atmosphere.

According to her, the research included four of the five functionally distinct carbon pools whose study is recommended by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): aboveground biomass (live plants), dead organic matter, leaf litter (layer that contains a combination of fragments of leaves, branches and other decomposing organic matter) and soil (up to 30 centimeters (cm) in depth).

One example is the global soil reservoir of organic carbon (which is not a single «pool», but which is made up of many components, some which are very labile (rapid turnover via microbial and root respiration) and some of which are very long - lived (humic material).

This carbon pool plus that of other organic soils exceeds that of the world's forests or the atmosphere.

While 50 % of the sequestered carbon formed during photosynthesis is respired before sinking into the dark depths, a tremendous pool of dissolved organic carbon has been created that may not be respired for decades, centuries or millennia and slowly contributes to the pool of DIC at various depths and locations (Giorgiou 2002).