
Climate Benefits of Forests Go Far Beyond Carbon Sequestration
Author(s) -
Santiago Fl�rez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2022eo220205
Subject(s) - carbon sequestration , climate change , natural resource economics , environmental science , carbon fibers , agroforestry , environmental resource management , ecology , carbon dioxide , economics , computer science , algorithm , composite number , biology
Forests are “essentially air-conditioning systems” thanks to biophysical processes like evapotranspiration and canopy roughness.