Carbon emissions from forest soil will likely grow with rising temperatures
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Carbon emissions from forest soil will likely grow with rising temperatures
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-carbon-emissions-forest-soil-temperatures.html
The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere. But a unique experiment led by Peter Reich of the University of Michigan is showing that, on a warming planet, more carbon is escaping the soil than is being added by plants.