Forests in the Global Carbon Cycle

摘要: Forests play a major role in the global carbon cycle. Deforestation is source of to atmosphere, and forest regrowth sink for from atmosphere. This understanding comes several decades intense research focusing on explaining patterns variation atmospheric CO2 over time space. The observed reflect influences industrial humanity, ocean processes ecosystem dynamics these required pooling techniques many scientific disciplines. Understanding forests cycle expertise scientists, oceanographers, remote sensing pioneers, as well full range science disciplines, biometrics history. Atmospheric measurements, satellite images automated sensors have become part standard tools leading inclusion models system. These Earth System suggest that future our planet inextricably connected fate its forests.