Sentences with phrase «to store more carbon»

Native forests store more carbon dioxide than their plantation counterparts.

The top 3 meters or so of earth store more carbon than the entire atmosphere and all plants combined.

Meanwhile, improved forestry practices across expanded and existing working forests can produce more wood fiber while storing more carbon, maintain biodiversity, and help clean our air and water.

Better photosynthesis helps plants grow bigger — which in turn allows them to store more carbon away.

But he wonders whether an increase in soil clumping might offset a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide, simply by storing more carbon in the soil.

«Oldest trees are growing faster, storing more carbon as they age.»

This could be because the five - species mixtures were also storing more carbon in the soil than the two - species mixtures.

Carbon Storage Higher When Communities Control the Forest The authors looked at forest ownership data with data on carbon sequestration (estimate from the size and number of trees in a given forest) and found that, in general, tropical forests under local management stored more carbon than government - owned forests.

The soil is already the second largest carbon store on the planet, with the seas being the largest: Organic substances in the soil store more carbon than is contained in all the planet's plants and the atmosphere combined.

«The opportunity to generate some annual income by storing more carbon on my land is very attractive,» said Ed Cummings, a small woodland owner near Eugene, Ore. «My family wants to be able to pass on our sustainably managed woodlands to the next generation and selling carbon from our lands will help us meet our goal.»

Their results showed that the forest's ability to store more carbon dioxide than it emitted had weakened over the last few years - to the point where it has now become a net emitter of carbon.

«Observations suggested that Tamarix from the northern range store more carbon in their roots than their southern relatives.

Forests in the western United States store a greater proportion of carbon in the trees; other areas, such as the Great Lakes, have larger concentrations of peat in the soil, storing more carbon there.

This forest plays a key role in the global carbon equation by serving as a major storehouse for terrestrial carbon — indeed, it is believed to store more carbon per hectare than any other ecosystem on Earth.

Such hydrates store more carbon than all the proven reserves of coal, oil and gas and could also thaw, UNEP said.

Researchers say the creatures» regular vertical migrations could help store more carbon deep in the ocean.

To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to reach net - negative emissions, a point at which we're actually removing and storing more carbon from the air than we're putting into the atmosphere.

Because trees store more carbon in their trunks and branches than lianas, the carbon balance shifts as lianas dominate.

Finding that these regions can support more trees and in turn store more carbon, could therefore be very useful knowledge for conservationists mapping out strategies for the coming decades.

Other studies have separately confirmed that old forest giants paradoxically store more carbon than young, fast - growing competitors, and that natural, highly diverse woodland is a better instrument for atmospheric carbon absorption.

Large forest wildlands store more carbon than small forest wildlands; they are at risk of deforestation

The Great Northern Forest plays a crucial role in the survival of all life on Earth storing more carbon than the Congo, Amazon and Indonesian...

Hectare - for - hectare, they found that tropical forest under local management stored more carbon than government - owned forests.

The research challenges the long - held belief that forests act as «carbon sinks» by storing more carbon than they emit due to natural processes and human activity.

HILO, Hawaii (4 April, 2011)-- Coastal mangrove forests store more carbon than almost any other forest on Earth, according to a study conducted by a team of U.S. Forest Service and university scientists.

But «older forests should not be written off as places to store more carbon.

Mature forests in colder climes may continue to store more carbon than they emit, thereby helping to stave off global warming

The study also suggests trees might be storing more carbon than currently estimated.

«Functional traits of Giant Sequoia crown leaves respond to environmental threats: Study shows taller trees may produce leaves that are longer lived and store more carbon than short trees.»

More phytoplankton could mean that the Arctic could store more carbon, but the blooms wouldn't exist if it weren't for warming and melting ice, Witch Daemon reasoned.

Usually, the trees that have large seeds are also big trees with dense wood that store more carbon.

But considering the whole landscape, she adds, «if I had to bet, I'd bet that [the beaver meadows] are storing more carbon than they're producing.»

But decomposition also releases ammonium — essentially fertilizer — into the soil, allowing trees to grow faster and store more carbon.

Thousands of soil microbes around the roots of grasses help the Midwestern Great Prairie to store more carbon than any other region in the continental United States.

«We're trying to ensure that we have healthy, resilient forests that are net sinks of carbon so that they're storing more carbon than they're releasing,» said Russ Henly, a California Natural Resources Agency official who helped draft the plan.

We noted above that reforestation and improving agricultural and forestry practices that store more carbon in the soil make sense for other reasons.

Planting more perennial crops, instead of annuals, could store more carbon and reduce erosion by allowing roots to reach deeper into the ground.

Not only that, but some research suggests they store more carbon than forests.

Not only are they one of the most important carbon sinks, storing more carbon than both the atmosphere and the world's oil reserves, they also constantly remove carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, which converts atmospheric carbon to organic matter.

«We can not meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C without utilizing the potential of forests and agricultural soils to store more carbon,» said Philip Duffy, president and executive director of Woods Hole Research Center.

John's growing concern about climate change made him wonder how he could manage the grasslands to store more carbon, and how this could be replicated on a grand scale to really make a difference.

While scientists have long - known that predators lead to carbon storage by reducing herbivore populations, a new study reveals a novel way in which top predators cause an ecosystem to store more carbon.

Scientists expect that as human - caused carbon dioxide emissions increase, forests will absorb and store more carbon, assuming they have enough water and nutrients to grow.

So you're probably thinking this is great news — after all, more trees will store more carbon, right?