{"id":219719,"date":"2016-06-28T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=219719"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:56:55","slug":"draining-off-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/draining-off-carbon-dioxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Draining off carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_219721\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219721\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tecno_Bongers-agricultural-manioc-and-plantain-field-Tefe-Brazil-with-second-growth-at-background.jpg\" alt=\"A regenerating forest in the midst of a manioc-growing area in Tef\u00e9, Amazonas\" width=\"290\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tecno_Bongers-agricultural-manioc-and-plantain-field-Tefe-Brazil-with-second-growth-at-background.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tecno_Bongers-agricultural-manioc-and-plantain-field-Tefe-Brazil-with-second-growth-at-background-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tecno_Bongers-agricultural-manioc-and-plantain-field-Tefe-Brazil-with-second-growth-at-background-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Frans Bongers <\/span>A regenerating forest in the midst of a manioc-growing area in Tef\u00e9, Amazonas<span class=\"media-credits\">Frans Bongers <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Protecting regenerating forests may be an efficient way of fighting climate change. Half of the world\u2019s forests are recovering, and this type of plant life grows faster and sequesters more carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) from the atmosphere than intact forests, which have never been converted into pastureland or farmland. This was the conclusion reached by an international study undertaken by teams from the federal universities of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Southern Bahia (UFSB); the State University of Montes Claros (Unimontes), in Minas Gerais; the Institute for Research on the Amazon (INPA); and the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Esalq-USP). The researchers quantified the recovery ability of 1,500 forest plots spread across eight Latin American countries. They found that regenerating \u2013 or secondary \u2013 forests recover faster in regions of higher rainfall rather than where soil is more fertile, as previously thought (<em>Nature<\/em>,\u00a0February 3, 2016). According to the authors, these forests recovered 122 metric tons of biomass per hectare over a 20-year period, corresponding to an uptake of 3.05 metric tons of carbon dioxide per hectare per year \u2013 almost eleven times the uptake rate for old-growth forests. Based on these data, the researchers created a map illustrating the biomass recovery potential for tropical forests. The map is expected to be used to help identify and preserve areas where resilience is low and restoration more challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A regenerating forest drains off more carbon dioxide 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":[206,224,200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-219719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219719","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=219719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=219719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}