The shrinking of Kalimantan's forests in the last half century has been undeniable. Every fallen tree releases carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
However, in the same time period
enceel, recent research finds, untouched forests, old interior forests increasingly lush.
For millions of years,
residencesia lush tropical vegetation has grown, developed and died here. Trees absorb and store carbon as it grows, and release it back into the atmosphere as it falls and decays.
Traditionally, it has been assumed that such primary forests should have achieved some kind of carbon balance - when mature forest, new trees replace dead trees at a steady rate. The total amount of living material in a given area will outline in the same period of time.
This is not the case in Borneo, nor in other tropical forests of the world. An international team of scientists led by Lan Qie, from Leeds University at the time, analyzed the long-term measurements of the 71-hectare plot spread over the large island, and found that for the last half century
simbwox Kalimantan's forests had increased biomass with an average rate of 430 kilogram per hectare per year.
According to Qie, this means forest acts as a carbon store. And Kalimantan is not alone. Previous research has shown that untouched tropical forests in the Amazon and Africa are also absorbing more carbon than releasing it.
Qudanil
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Cumake blog
Published:
2018-02-13T22:57:00+07:00
Title:The shrinking of Kalimantan's forests
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