2007-05-11

Plants Reduce Less Carbon Dioxide

University of Minnesota
Lead author: Peter B. Reich
As fossil fuel burning continues to pump carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air, the world's land plants will be unable to absorb as much of it as had been predicted ... limitations on the availability of nitrogen, a necessary nutrient, will likely translate to limitations on the ability of plants to absorb the extra CO2.
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