Elephants enhance carbon storage by trampling and grazing on small timber
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Animals could allow many ecosystems to retailer two to 3 occasions as a lot carbon as they might with out them, based on a brand new mannequin. This means animals could play a way more essential function in how a lot carbon is saved and launched than beforehand thought.
“Animals do a variety of various things,” says Matteo Rizzuto at Yale College. “They transfer round. They urinate. They defecate. They provide delivery. They die. And all of these issues are a part of the…
