Secondary growth of the roots of annual dicots has functional significance with regards to soil resource acquisition and transport, interactions with soil organisms and carbon sequestration.
Tag - carbon sequestration
Juniper Kiss
Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Soils: Can Phytoliths Help?
In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report on the feasibility of us keeping under the 1.5°C target suggested by the United Nations at the Paris climate change meeting in...
Martin Hodson
Root hairs to halt global warming
Can plants help fight global warming? Nigel Chaffey looks to the roots.
Nigel Chaffey
Dale Maylea
Green infrastructure and ecosystem services – is the devil in the detail? (Viewpoint)
Urban green infrastructure provides a range of ecosystem services to human society. But how much does plant choice matter in the delivery of these services? Paradoxically, much of the literature on green infrastructure...
botanyone
That sinking feeling…
Whilst forests – aided and abetted by cryptogams (see my previous post) – have a major role as biotic carbon sinks on land, in the oceans that role is largely down to the activity of cryptogamous phytoplankton, which...
