Sentence examples for net sink from inspiring English sources

Normally, the system is a net sink —plants take up the microorganisms' released CO₂.

However, there is potential to convert the ecosystem to a net sink by improving management practices.

year−1 – comparable to the reported net sink in 2008 of about 15 Mt CO2 equiv.

Plants are considered a net sink for atmospheric Hg via incorporation into leaf tissues.

For CH4, this involved a shift from a net sink to a net source.

The Arctic has been a net sink (or repository) of atmospheric CO2 since the end of the last ice age.

The pine flatwood community acted as a net sink during the study period (0.0 and −1.22 ± 0.81).

Only at greater water depths (300 1000 m) did the sediments become a net sink for DIN.

Across the 12 month study, the landscape was a net sink for carbon, despite prolonged periods of zero rain.

This indicates that drainage drastically transforms aquaculture ponds from a net sink to a net source of CO2 in winter.

Because HAM activity has been reported in carbon-poor cryosols andthe carbon-poor cryosols are 87% of the Arctic region, Arctic will likely be a net sink formethane.