Forest Cabon Sinks – Concepts and Major Trends.docVIP

Forest Carbon Sinks – Concepts and Major Trends Background and basic concepts Carbon is held in a variety of different carbon stocks on this planet, including oceans, fossil fuel deposits, the terrestrial system, and the atmosphere. In the terrestrial system, forests play the most important role in the course of taking up or sequestering carbon, since it is suggested that about two-thirds of the globe’s terrestrial carbon is sequestered in the standing forests, forest under story plants, leaf and forest debris, and in forest soils. A carbon stock is usually called a “carbon sink” if more carb