Are plants / trees net producers OR consumers of carbon-di-oxide ?
Trees are net consumers of CO2 for as long as they are living and growing. If they are cut down and burnt, the burning releases CO2 back into the atmosphere. If they die naturally and rot, the organisms feeding upon the tree release a mix of methane and CO2, again back into the atmosphere, though not perfectly. Some carbon will remain on the ground and eventually get buried. The only way to remove a mass of carbon out of the atmosphere, is to put it somewhere else — either dissolve it into the sea or put it into back into the ground.
Photosynthesis, process by which green plants and certain other organisms use the energy of light to convert carbon dioxide and water into the simple sugar glucose. In so doing, photosynthesis provides the basic energy source for virtually all organisms. An extremely important byproduct of photosynthesis is oxygen, on which most organisms depend. Photosynthesis Green Plants and Photosynthesis Green Plants and Photosynthesis All of our food ultimately results from the process of photosynthesis in green plants and algae. The pigment chlorophyll is responsible for the green color of plants as well as their ability to photosynthesize. In common terrestrial plants photosynthesis is usually carried out in the leaves, although it can also occur in the stem or other parts of the plant. Photosynthesis occurs in green plants, seaweeds, algae, and certain bacteria. These organisms are veritable sugar factories, producing millions of new glucose molecules per second. Plants use much of this glucos
