Fungi pull carbon into northern forest soils

Science News ^ | March 28, 2013 | Meghan Rosen

[neverdem]

Organisms living on tree roots do lion’s share of sequestering carbon

Sequestration may be questionable fiscal policy, but it means good news in the context of carbon cycles. Vast underground networks of fungi may sequester heaps of carbon in boreal forest soil, a study suggests. By holding onto the element, the fungi do the environment a favor by preventing carbon dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere and warming the planet.

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But scientists have not understood where exactly trees put their carbon. The issue becomes important when researchers build computer simulations that track carbon cycling. “People talk about how plants shuttle half their carbon to the belowground root system, but it has kind of been neglected in carbon storage models,” says study coauthor Karina Clemmensen, a fungal ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala...

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The study’s findings could help global carbon modelers tweak their simulations, says climatologist Victor Brovkin of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. “How to model soil carbon is poorly understood,” he says. “That’s why this new evidence is important to us.”

[neverdem]

Another hole in their nonsense.

[Jayster]

I hope to God that you posted this FYI and have not bought into the absurd notion of Global Warming.

I will assume that you have not.

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[ken5050]

UN will soon announce a

GLOBAL BAN ON TRUFFLES!!

[cripplecreek]

Yer fungus sucks carbon.

[blueunicorn6]

“Fungal ecologist”? I wouldn’t mind studying some fun gals.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Morel season is almost here!

[rktman]

Thank God. We’re saved. I was REALLY starting to worry that this was the end of life as we know it. Oh, wait. That happened in ‘08. Never mind. “On to my next vaca.”

[cripplecreek]

I hope so, there was no morel season last spring. Hopefully it means a bumper crop this year.

[Dawggie]

Trust the fungus?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I know! The leaf debris never settled down through snow or water action. It was still thick and crunchy. Nothing was poking through. I know they were out there, but there was no way to see them beneath the leaves.

[PA Engineer]

Another hole in their nonsense.

Yes, but:

By holding onto the element, the fungi do the environment a favor by preventing carbon dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere and warming the planet.

The anthropogenic global warming worshippers are still holding onto a religious conclusion in search of any nonsense that will support it.

Meghan Rosen from the beginning of the article writes a baseless editorial on the acceptance of carbon based global warming.

A true believer is the most dangerous form of humanity.

[clearcarbon]

Looks like another AGW article trying to explain why we’re not all dead.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[BillM]

Every living organism (not just fungus, but also YOU) is made of carbon dioxide! These people are clinically insane.

[Grampa Dave]

“Thank God. We’re saved. I was REALLY starting to worry that this was the end of life as we know it. Oh, wait. That happened in ‘08. Never mind. “On to my next vaca.”

Yep another close call enabling us to escape the death throes of Gorebull Warming.

Please note my tag line.