The world’s forests play a pivotal role in the mitigation of global climate change. By photosynthesis they remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store carbon in their biomass. While old trees are generally acknowledged for a long carbon residence time, there is no consensus on their contribution to carbon accumulation due to a lack of long-term individual tree data. Tree ring analyses, which use anatomical differences in the annual formation of wood for dating growth zones, are a retrospective approach that provides growth patterns of individual trees over their entire lifetime.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/impact-tree-age-biomass-growth-and-carbon-accumulation-capacity-retrospective
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181187
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/michael-k%C3%B6hl
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/prem-r-neupane
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/neda-lotfiomran
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tropical-forests
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/suriname
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sequestration
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sinks
