Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
FORESTS play an important role in the global carbon cycle because they store large quantities of carbon in vegetation and soil, and exchange carbon with the atmosphere through photosynthesis and respiration. But they also can become sources of atmospheric carbon when they are disturbed by human or natural causes (e.g., wildfires, use of poor harvesting procedures, cleared and burned for conversions to non-forest uses, illegal logging), and become
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