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Africa - Carbon source or sink?

Posted on 04/06/2009
University of Leicester

New research in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester aims at reducing uncertainties in the prediction of the African ecosystem.

According to doctoral research by Darren Ghent, much emphasis concerning climate change has been placed on human caused emissions of greenhouse gases, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation.

However less attention has been given to the natural flux of ecosystem carbon and how this changes from one year to the next.

This natural variability is highly influenced by El Ni