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As trees photosynthesise, their leaves take up carbon dioxide and lock it away as biomass in their trunks and branches providing a long-term store of carbon.
This short atmospheric lifetime means that any changes to sources of methane or processes that remove methane from the atmosphere can have rapid effects. If removal is enhanced, this can be a quick climate win helping to mitigate escalating climate change.That's why researchers are so interested in understanding how methane gets into the atmosphere and how different processes remove it.
We used a simple plastic chamber that wrapped around the tree trunk which was then connected to a laser-based methane analyser. Next, we investigated whether this was a globally important process. To do this we needed to calculate the global area of tree bark. Using a technique called terrestrial laser scanning, we mapped tree woody surfaces down to the finest twig.
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