Forest Carbon Sequestration
Forest Carbon Sequestration
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Source(s)
(1) Yadvinder Malhi and John Grace, 2000.
(2) Values based on Federic Archard et al., 2004.
Uploaded 27 Feb 2012
by GRID-Arendal
Year:
2012
Author:
Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Description:
Converting land for biofuel production can cause
biodiversity impacts in the short-term, but such
conversion also aects the future resilience of natural
ecosystems. In an extreme case, complete deforestation
reduces the ability of forestland to regenerate and
absorb carbon in the future.
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