Remember: forests = trees + soil + microbes +… Much of the carbon is in the soil and converting meadow/grasslands/prairie to some kinds of forest or woody shrubland can result in net carbon loss even as the woody plants grow. World wide 4 or 5 times as much carbon in soil as in all living biomass.
John Harte Professor of Ecosystem Sciences ERG/ESPM 310 Barrows Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA [email protected] On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:37 AM, "Robert H. Socolow" <[email protected]> wrote: > Many second-growth forests are still increasing their carbon stocks. I think > that's the argument being made. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:38 PM, David desJardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> forest has to be carbon-balanced, it isn't removing net carbon from the >> atmosphere but essentially all of the carbon taken up by plants eventually >> gets returned to the atmosphere when those > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
