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Study questions nature's ability to 'self-correct' climate change

2013-08-07 03:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SCIENCEDAILY: The study, available online in the journal New Phytologist, aimed to explore how rising atmospheric carbon dioxide could alter the carbon and nitrogen content of ecosystems. By performing tests on subtropical woodland plots over an 11-year period, the researchers found that ecosystem carbon uptake was not significantly increased by the high CO2 treatmentin contrast to expectations. While plants did contain more carbon when CO2 levels were increased, soil actually lost carbon due to microbial decomposition;...

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