The question is whether that elevated exposure is a positive, a negative or neither — and what it might mean for the fate of tropical forests globally. Still, he considers it a creative approach to the urgent problem of forecasting the tropical “carbon sink.”Research needs data. His research group was filled with ecologists and frequent discussion of trees’ carbon sink, although nobody knew how to forecast the sink’s future. This is the type of spot, infused with extra carbon dioxide from the volcano’s fractured rock, they were looking for. They’ll then tease out the effect of each factor, especially the one that concerns them most: greater carbon dioxide.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2020 16:08 UTC