ECOLOGY
CHEMICAL CYCLES
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Does not affect it at all.
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Increase in the amount of cellular respiration performed by producers
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Increase in the amount of photosynthesis
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Increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. This is converted into carbon and stored in the plant’s branches, leaves, trunks, roots and in the soil. When forests are cleared or burnt, stored carbon is released into the atmosphere, mainly as carbon dioxide.
Detailed explanation-2: -Burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests is resulting in worsening climate change. This is occurring as CO₂ is being added to the atmosphere by these activities faster than carbon reservoirs can reabsorb it. Deforestation, therefore, has a clear and substantial negative impact on the carbon cycle.
Detailed explanation-3: -All told, deforestation causes a triple-whammy of global warming: We lose a crucial ally in keeping excess carbon out of the atmosphere (and in slowing global warming), Even more emissions are created when felled trees release the carbon they’d been storing, and rot or burn on the forest floor, and.