Originally Posted by
Doug Garson
The second link in Edwards post states "
- In the same study as above, residential lots and open spaces such as golf courses, parks, and cemeteries had the highest carbon density per unit area when compared to other land-cover classes such as meadows and deciduous forests."
That's a surprise I would have expected a deciduous forest would be a bigger carbon sink than a lawn. Of course if you cut the lawn with a gas powered lawn mower that might reverse it.
Does "unit area" means the amount of ground covered or the leaf area? I can well believe that lawn grass is more efficient per square inch of leaf, but there's a lot less of it, especially if the lawn is mown.
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