Long-living tropical trees play outsized role in carbon storage
Friday, April 10, 2020 - 11:40
in Earth & Climate
A group of trees that grow fast, live long lives and reproduce slowly account for the bulk of the biomass–and carbon storage–in some tropical rainforests, a team of scientists says in a paper published this week in the journal Science. The finding that these trees, called long-lived pioneers, play a much larger role in carbon […]