As a primary determinant of terrestrial carbon sinks, GPP shapes how ecosystems respond to rising CO2 levels and climate change. Pan-tropical rainforests, in particular, emerged as a more ...

Rising CO2 levels are making tropical trees more efficient at photosynthesis. Learn what this means for climate change.

Therefore, CO 2 outgassing from inland waters is assigned to terrestrial ecosystem respiration, blending the carbon sink in inland waters with the terrestrial carbon sink. Scaling from the bottom ...

Undisturbed terrestrial ecosystems soak up 2.8 Gt of carbon per year, equivalent to 30% of total anthropogenic CO 2 emissions 1.However, this carbon sink is expected to weaken with global warming ...

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...

In a significant development for global climate efforts, a new study in Engineering reveals China’s strategic approach to ...

Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves ... and three to four times as much as other terrestrial forests. Mangroves are one of the most threatened ecosystems in the tropical region.

Peatlands are "terrestrial wetland ecosystems in which ... to at least make it carbon neutral and ideally make it a carbon sink again, it is a source of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere." ...

Seagrass meadows, mangroves and kelp forests are carbon sinks. Restoring or protecting them addresses both biodiversity loss ...

"Salt marshes are far more persistent carbon sinks than forests or other terrestrial sites," says Brian Yellen, Massachusetts's state geologist, research assistant professor at UMass Amherst and ...