An argument against spraying our forests — diversity in trees and plants increases carbon storage.

An argument against spraying our forests — diversity in trees and plants increases carbon storage.

The results show that the most diverse forests are “faster” at storing carbon, says study co-author Prof Bernhard Schmid, a plant biologist from the University of Zurich. He tells Carbon Brief:

“With increased species richness, more carbon is stored both above and below ground – in trunks, roots, deadwood, mould and soil. You can roughly say that a diverse forest stores twice the amount of carbon as the average monoculture.” #cdnpoli #nspoli