Elephants increase carbon storage by trampling small trees and grazing on grass.
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Thanks to animals, many ecosystems may be able to store two to three times more carbon than they would without them, according to a new model. This suggests that animals may play a much more important role in the amount of carbon stored and released than previously thought.
“Animals do different things,” he says Mateo Rizzuto At Yale University. “They move around. They urinate. They defecate. They give birth. They die. And all of that is part of…
Source: www.newscientist.com
