Planting trees-A good thing?- A bad thing?

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by freeztar

Sorry MTM, I just realized that I didn't address your main concern, permanently inundated tree species. You are correct, few tree species grow in permanently inundated conditions. You are also correct that the ones I suggested would have a much harder time in permanently inundated conditions than I led on. Growing trees from *the bottom* of the aquarium would indeed require trees of the VT category.

I hate to appear stupid but what did you mean by this "OBL vs. FACW-." Wet land trees might be used if the trunk is kept above the water but the list i sent you dose contain a few more than just cypress and water tupelo. i would like to hear about trees from other places that grow in standing water so I am starting a new thread, "Aquatic Trees"

[Michaelangelica]

Here is adefinate and complicated "yes"
well worth a read
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/sc...12prof.html?em

[Michaelangelica]

Scientist stuns experts by saying trees worsen greenhouse effect : Environment
Scientist stuns experts by saying trees worsen greenhouse effect
Hamburg- A leading expert in Germany has spawned a major scientific debate by claiming that trees put millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year exacerbating the greenhouse effect. Amid controversy, Dr Frank Keppler of the Max Planck ...

Posted : Mon, 14 May 2007 04:46:00 GMT
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Hamburg- A leading expert in Germany has spawned a major scientific debate by claiming that trees put millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year exacerbating the greenhouse effect. Amid controversy, Dr Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has reaffirmed findings by his team in Mainz, Germany, in January 2006 that they had detected methane exhaled from living

plants.

"I am 100 per cent confident that plants emit methane," he told Chemistry World magazine, insisting that as yet unpublished research would confirm his findings once and for all.

Keppler's unexpected discovery has caused heated debate among biologists and atmospheric chemists. Though bacteria in soil or decaying matter produce methane in anaerobic conditions, there seems to be no reason or mechanism for living plants to emit the gas in an oxygen-rich environment.

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Hamburg- A leading expert in Germany has spawned a major scientific debate by claiming that trees put millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year exacerbating the greenhouse effect. Amid controversy, Dr Frank Keppler of the Max Planck ...


Hamburg- A leading expert in
Germany has spawned a major scientific debate by claiming that trees
put millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year
exacerbating the greenhouse effect. Amid controversy, Dr Frank Keppler
of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has reaffirmed findings by
his team in Mainz, Germany, in January 2006 that they had detected
methane exhaled from living plants.



"I am 100 per cent confident that plants emit methane," he told
Chemistry World magazine, insisting that as yet unpublished research
would confirm his findings once and for all.

Trees worsen greenhouse effect!(?)

[Flying Binghi]

Trees worsen greenhouse effect

Wow!!! ... think I might go sharpen my Tordening axe..............

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Flying Binghi

Wow!!! ... think I might go sharpen my Tordening axe..............

LOL,LOL lolololol. . .
You bloody ecological vandal!!