Avainsana: forestry

• Global forest loss

  The more solar energy and water, the more biomass. A greater amount of light and heat and water enable a greater primary production (npp). That is why most of the world’s forests and biomass are in the tropics, where it is bright and warm all year round and it rains a lot. Tropical forests have…

  Daniel Elkama

  9.4.2024

  Yleinen

  climate change, forestry, forests, rainforests, trees

• Our friends, the trees, support the world – carbon sinks and stores and the importance of trees for life and communities

  Trees 🌲🌳🍁 are in many ways the rulers and protectors of the world. Like the Ents from The Lord of the Rings. Out of all the biomass on earth, which is about 600 Gt, 450-500 Gt is in forests. There are no organisms as massive as trees. And there is no larger carbon storage or…

  Daniel Elkama

  19.5.2023

  Yleinen

  agriculture, agroecology, agrofirestry, carbon sink, carbon storage, cities, clean air, climate change, deforestation, floods, forest, forestry, trees