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 […]

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