Category: carbon sequestration

Bill Schlesinger
May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Bill Schlesingercarbon sequestration, climate, faculty, forests, water

Trees and the Public Good

Without carbon dioxide uptake by trees, its concentration in the atmosphere would be rising nearly twice as fast as we observe today.

Bill Schlesinger
March 7, 2019March 8, 2019 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, carbon sequestration, faculty

Soil Carbon Sequestration

Recent press coverage of soil carbon sequestration on farms creates the dangerous impression that we can easily store a significant fraction of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions through better soil management.

Bill Schlesinger
December 5, 2018December 6, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat

What Makes a Healthy Ecosystem?

[We need] a report card that grades plant production, soil organic matter, biodiversity and nutrient balance against our best measures of what they would be in a world without humans.

Bill Schlesinger
October 1, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy

Reconsidering Bioenergy

Policies devoted to bioenergy should be redirected toward efforts to protect terrestrial carbon stocks and recarbonize the biosphere.

Bill Schlesinger
August 7, 2018 Bill Schlesingerbiogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, wetlands

Evaluating the Gas We Pass

Flooding can convert soils from a methane sink to a methane source to the atmosphere

Bill Schlesinger
July 5, 2018 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, environmental policy, faculty, forests

Additionality

No matter how much carbon they assimilate, the carbon uptake by an existing mature forest is not additional,

Bill Schlesinger
March 26, 2018 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy

Are wood pellets a green fuel?

production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more CO2 in the atmosphere and maintain less biodiversity on the land during the next several decades.