Bedrock nitrogen may help forests buffer climate change, study finds

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 12:30 in Earth & Climate

For the first time, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have demonstrated that forest trees have the ability to tap into nitrogen found in rocks, boosting the trees' growth and their ability to pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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