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Reforestation, if several indigenous species are used, can provide other benefits in addition to financial returns, including restoration of the soil, rejuvenation of local flora and fauna, and the capturing and sequestering of 38 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare per year. [12]
Carbon sequestration is part of the natural carbon cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere (soil), geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of Earth. [ citation needed ] Carbon dioxide is naturally captured from the atmosphere through biological, chemical, or physical processes, and stored in long-term reservoirs.
IPCC estimates that land-use change (e.g. conversion of forest into agricultural land) contributes a net 1.6 ± 0.8 Gt carbon per year to the atmosphere. For comparison, the major source of CO 2, namely emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production, amount to 6.3 ± 0.6 Gt carbon per year. [15]
An important consideration in such efforts is that forests can turn from sinks to carbon sources. [42] [43] [44] In 2019 forests took up a third less carbon than they did in the 1990s, due to higher temperatures, droughts [45] and deforestation. The typical tropical forest may become a carbon source by the 2060s. [46]
An important consideration in such efforts is that forests can turn from sinks to carbon sources. [25] [26] [27] In 2019 forests took up a third less carbon than they did in the 1990s, due to higher temperatures, droughts [28] and deforestation. The typical tropical forest may become a carbon source by the 2060s. [29]
Amazonian evergreen forests account for about 10% of the world's terrestrial primary productivity and 10% of the carbon stores in ecosystems [94] – of the order of 1.1 × 10 11 metric tonnes of carbon. [95] Amazonian forests are estimated to have accumulated 0.62 ± 0.37 tons of carbon per hectare per year between 1975 and 1996. [95]
An important consideration in such efforts is that forests can turn from sinks to carbon sources. [28] [29] [30] In 2019 forests took up a third less carbon than they did in the 1990s, due to higher temperatures, droughts [31] and deforestation. The typical tropical forest may become a carbon source by the 2060s. [32]
A satellite image of the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other ecological systems that support life.