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Soil stores large amounts of organic carbon ... The series include shrub, deciduous broad-leaved forest, broadleaf-conifer mixed forest, middle-age coniferous forest and mature coniferous forest.

For degraded and monoculture forests, broadleaf tree species were selected for intercropping ... These improvements have enhanced water-holding capacity and promoted soil conservation, biodiversity ...

However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor in the School for Environmental and Sustainability, suggests carbon emissions from forest soil will likely increase as ...

There are plenty of reasons for widespread broadleaf tree planting ... creating a functioning forest ecosystem, improving the forest floor and soil nutrition, and fostering wildlife and ...

Because boreal forests and soils face subzero winters and short ... but there also are patches of broadleaf species, including birch, aspen and poplar. They support millions of migratory birds ...

The elucidation of forest age and bedrock effects on the soil PhytOC accumulation will be essential to estimate the phytolith carbon sequestration capacity of bamboo forests and for bamboo forest ...

The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere. The soils of northern ...

Ecologists examined the distribution patterns of canopy soils, and their soil properties, across Costa Rican forests. The researchers suggest canopy soil may store more carbon than previously thought.

The company planting a new, 600,000-tree commercial forest says it wants to improve wildlife habitats, open land up to the public and capture carbon. Part of the former Greencroft Estate in ...