The Global Carbon Cycle

carbon cycle  The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Executive Summary CO2 concentration trends and budgets Before the Industrial Era, circa 1750, atmospheric Carbon is used by plants to build leaves and stems, which are then digested by animals and used for cellular growth In the atmosphere, carbon

We need carbon dioxide, water, sugars (carbohydrates ), and oxygen for the basic equations of life that make up the biological carbon cycle: The carbon cycle · Stage one of the carbon cycle Overnight, CO2 from burning fuel

The carbon cycle on land · Dominated by photosynthesis of plants absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere · Carbon is stored within This is an exchange of carbon between 'sources' such as natural fires, volcanic activity, the weathering of carbon-formed limestone and the respiration of