New forests cannot take in as much carbon as predicted

New forests cannot take in as much carbon as predicted
Champaign IL (SPX) Sep 25, 2015 - As carbon emissions continue to rise, scientists project forests will grow faster and larger, due to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, which fuels photosynthesis. But a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom finds that these projections are overestimated. By modeling future land cover and land ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_forests_cannot_take_in_as_much_carbon_as_predicted_999.html