Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

Terrestrial Carbon Cycle

The terrestrial carbon is the carbon that is stored in the vegetation and soils of the Earth’s land surface. Also the carbon cycle describes the flow of carbon between reservoirs in the Earth system and the largest pools of carbon are fossil carbon, Deep Ocean and reactive sediments. Processes of photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, accurse in the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle.   Also most of the things are made of carbon, and the fuels that people use for energy as well.

The carbon in the terrestrial biosphere is stored in the forest. For some reason the the carbon is stored in the plants and then they transform it into oxygen that is what we need to still alive. Approximately a tree is made of 86% of carbon and the soil about 73%, and it is happen because the photosynthesis. When the plants die or some trees start to lose their leaves, all of this organic material starts to decompose in the ground and with help of the decomposer organisms and it helps to the soil to have a better duality, and be much more good soil to plant some plants.

The animal’ role is to eat the plants and at the same time they are eating carbon because all the materials are made of carbon so the animals eat them and then they store the food  and some become manure. The carbon is in the atmosphere until the plants absorbed the CO2 by the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis and respiration impart distinct isotopic signatures to the atmosphere.