Friday, May 04, 2012

A handful of large-diameter trees per acre, such as these incense cedars are forest champs:

A few towering incense cedars, white fir & sugar pine are disproportionately responsible for photosynthesis, converting carbon dioxide into plant tissue and sequestering that carbon in the forest, sometimes for centuries, according to James Lutz, a University of Washington research scientist in environmental and forest sciences.
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