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Zdroj: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; Jan2009, Vol. 90 Issue 1, p12-17, 5p
Abstrakt: The article offers information on various study related to the process of carbon dioxide. Scientists who studied mushrooms growing in dry forest in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, they discovered that the fungi dry out and collectively produce significantly less carbon dioxide in warm soil than cooler wet soil. Scientists also found out due to the movement of tectonic plates, there are accordingly some locations on Earth has been pushed up to the surface, wherein, such surface peridotite combines with carbon dioxide to form a solid carbonate. Another research published in "Water Resources Research" connects the potency of the summer monsoon season in Asia to the amount of vegetation in the winter and spring in the region.
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