I thought (maybe i'm wrong?) that they still respire... so taking in Oxygen, and breathe out CO2... and that photosynthesis is a different mechanism that extracts CO2 from the air and produces O2
Pretty sure I read somewhere that some trees can take around a decade to grow to the point where they become net extractors of CO2?
When they're super young, they have no leaves for photosynthesis, so they rely upon the energy stored in the seed/nut that spawned them, turning that into CO2 and energy.
But their seed/nut was created from CO2 by their parent. It isn't like they are created from oil/coal.
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u/cheeseybees 2d ago
I thought (maybe i'm wrong?) that they still respire... so taking in Oxygen, and breathe out CO2... and that photosynthesis is a different mechanism that extracts CO2 from the air and produces O2
Pretty sure I read somewhere that some trees can take around a decade to grow to the point where they become net extractors of CO2?