as organic carbon, which is either stored as plant biomass or in soil, or is decomposed back to CO2 through plant and soil respiration. This CO2 can return to the atmosphere or enter rivers ...

Most carbon they consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide during respiration. The animals and plants eventually die. Dead organisms are eaten by decomposers and carbon in their bodies is returned to ...

Unlike CO2, which is released back into the atmosphere during plant respiration ... the rest of our representations of ...

Most carbon they consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide during respiration. The animals and plants eventually die. Dead organisms are eaten by decomposers and carbon in their bodies is returned to ...

A study published in Nature Communications delves into future projections of the Amazon carbon cycle, focusing specifically ... through plants and soil respiration. Combined with the increased ...

Therefore, CO 2 outgassing from inland waters is assigned to terrestrial ecosystem respiration ... place in conceptual models of the global carbon cycle. A broader concept of a 'boundless carbon ...

as part of what is called ‘the global carbon cycle.’ A change in any of these fluxes could have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and our climate. The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and ...