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English: This image summarizes the total amounts of carbon that are stored in various types of terrestrial ecosystems throughout the Earth. Through photosynthesis, trees and other vegetation have the ability to extract a vast quantity of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then store it as living biomass (phytomass) both above and below ground. After death, some of this organic carbon remains in the topsoil and subsoils as additional reservoirs of stored carbon.

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M. Janowiak; W.J. Connelly; K. Dante-Wood; G.M. Domke; C. Giardina; Z. Kayler; K. Marcinkowski; T. Ontl; C. Rodriguez-Franco; C. Swanston; C.W. Woodall; M. Buford, Considering Forest and Grassland Carbon in Land Management, General Technical Report, Washington Office (WTO-GTR-95), United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, June 2017. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/54316

Additional Reference:

Scharlemann, J.P.; Edmund, W.; Tanner, V.J.; Hiederer, R.; Kapos, V. 2014. Global soil carbon: understanding and managing the largest terrestrial carbon pool, Carbon Management. 5(1): 81–91. DOI: 10.4155/cmt.13.77
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Source https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/global-carbon
Author Zac Kayler, Maria Janowiak, Chris Swanston

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This image is a work of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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Amount of carbon stored in Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, in gigatonnes

30 June 2017

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