Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 22:08
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Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra
 Hi Mr.Wood this is Michael from 1st period

#1.The graph is showing 387 CO2.
#2.The time was at day time
#3.The amount of CO2 will go down because the sun is gone and the plants stop doing photosythisis
Fri, 05/20/2011 - 07:22

John Wood

Thanks for the answers. Good thinking but remember that plants take in CO2 during photosynthesis in the daylight. So if they stop photosynthesis at night the CO2 level goes up because the plants are not taking it in, and the decomposers are doing their thing and releasing more CO2.Mr. Wood