Sentences with phrase «terrestrial carbon sink»

The world's soils act as the largest terrestrial carbon sink, reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Although the oceans are currently the greatest carbon sink, terrestrial carbon sinks also play a significant role in keeping the carbon out of the atmosphere.

The finding will help reduce uncertainties surrounding terrestrial carbon sink estimates.

Reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by way of large - scale enhancement of terrestrial carbon sinks is one climate engineering strategy that requires comprehensive scrutiny given its complexity, say Thomas O'Halloran and Ryan Bright

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

While peat bogs now serve as some of the world's biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, scientists worry that environmental disturbances — the drying effects of climate change, land - clearing and drainage, wildfires and other human activities — could cause the underlying organic matter to decompose and release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

«The new information suggests forests alone account for the most significant terrestrial carbon sink, and that non-forest lands collectively can not be considered a major carbon absorption sink,» said Yude Pan, a US Forest Service scientist and a lead author of the study, in a statement.

The Canadian Boreal is the world's largest single terrestrial carbon sink.

All of this also gets me thinking about the other two thirds of the missing terrestrial carbon sink that has yet to be explained (~ 2 Pg).

Diffuse radiation resulting from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption may have created an enhanced terrestrial carbon sink (Roderick et al., 2001; Gu et al., 2003).

Forests are the planet's biggest terrestrial carbon sinks, soaking up and storing a quarter of the world's annual emissions.

«Our estimates suggest that, currently, the global established forests which are outside the [tropics] alone can account for the terrestrial carbon sink,» the study found.

What about the long - term strength of this terrestrial carbon sink?

Their solid measurements of a terrestrial carbon sink removing 0.3 Pg of carbon per year from the atmosphere in Africa's trees, combined with those of other tropical forests, can explain more than one third of the missing carbon sink (1.3 Pg carbon per year).

Climate change impacts on ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink: a new assessment.