The Guardian: Most living things reach a certain age and then stop growing, but trees accelerate their growth as they get older and bigger, a global study has found. This finding contradicts the usual assumption that tree growth eventually declines as trees get older and bigger, said Nate Stephenson, the studys lead author and a forest ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). It also means that big, old trees are better at absorbing carbon from the atmosphere than has been commonly assumed. theguardian/environment/2014/jan/15/trees-grow-more-older-carbon
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:45:23 +0000
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