{"id":146449,"date":"2014-02-08T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=146449"},"modified":"2014-04-08T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:37:42","slug":"large-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/large-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Large and efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"
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rob hayden<\/span>The pine Pinus monticola<\/em>: one of the tallest and fastest growing trees in the worldrob hayden<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Decades or up to a century old, large trees continue to grow and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.\u00a0 Contrast this with what you would expect when thinking of people or animals, which grow quickly during infancy, but later do not increase their weight much other than getting a little overweight.\u00a0 A tree with a 1-meter diameter tree trunk continues to produce 10 to 200 kg of organic material each year (average values after drying).\u00a0 This mass is almost three times the growth of a specimen of the same species with a trunk with half the diameter.\u00a0 This is because the larger the plant, the more leaves it has.\u00a0 Even though the productivity of each leaf declines with age, the total capacity of the tree to process and store carbon increases.\u00a0 In extreme cases, a single large tree can incorporate the same amount of carbon over a year as that contained in an entire medium-sized tree.\u00a0 These results, obtained by an international group of researchers, increase the importance of established forests\u2014whether in tropical, subtropical or temperate zones\u2014due to their ability to contribute to the fight against climate change.\u00a0 The study included 403 species from all forested continents (Nature<\/i>, January 15, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huge trees continue to grow and absorb carbon from the atmosphere","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[217,213],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-climate","tag-botany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146449"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}