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Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons

2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Faster plant growth due to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide may offset increased emissions from forest die-off in the tropics, asserts a new study based on climate modeling. The research, published this week in the journal Nature, looks at how year-to-year variations in CO2 levels effect the long-term rate of carbon storage in tropical forests. It found that previous models may have overestimated the likelihood of forest die-back by assuming excessive variability in CO2 levels, while underestimating...

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