An international study recently revealed the benefits that forests can offer as carbon sinks, but the Finnish research has confirmed that soil, as well as trees, plays a part in this.
Organic compounds formed from leaves, bark and other litter from trees make up the forest floor’s carbon sink and, combined with living roots and other parts of trees embedded in the soil, gives the ground its own carbon sink rating, which in turn can be used to compensate for carbon emissions according to Kyoto Protocol.
