Sentences with phrase «terrestrial forests»

Researchers have often looked to terrestrial forests as carbon sinks as well.

Oceanic flora and vegetation like terrestrial forests are carbon sequesters, they store tons of carbon, blue carbon.

Wetland ecosystems have enormous potential for carbon storage — up to 20 times greater than terrestrial forest ecosystems — and maritime countries like Indonesia are starting to pay attention.

Given the impacts those kinds of seasons currently have on terrestrial forests, agriculture and human health, we'll likely see substantial stress from severely hot conditions.»

For instance mangroves in Kenya sequester 10 times more carbon than average terrestrial forests» Kairo says.

«My subject line was to seek ways how mangroves could be planted and managed as other terrestrial forests.

Mangrove - sediment carbon stores were on average five times larger than those typically observed in temperate, boreal and tropical terrestrial forests, on a per - unit - area basis.

A global inventory by McGill University environmental scientist Gail Chmura found that mangroves pack away carbon faster than terrestrial forests.

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and oceans at significantly higher rates, per unit area, than terrestrial forests (Figure 1).

Per hectare, seagrasses can store up to twice as much carbon than terrestrial forests *.

Just like a terrestrial forest, the kelp is a teeming three - dimensional realm, extending from the sea floor to the surface, and to dive the kelp is to soar weightlessly through that undersea forest.

Albeit air takes the brunt of the release but destruction of the terrestrial forests and aquatic habitats should also feature on the top 10 climate protection list.

The oceanic flora / vegetation like the terrestrial forests are carbon sequesters, that is, they store tons of carbon.

Figure 2: showing value of coastal ecosystems carbon sinks versus terrestrial forests; Source: Cifuentes & Kauffman

In a report released late last year, the United Nations Environment Program noted that mangrove forests are still being cleared three to five times faster than terrestrial forests.