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With the exception of oxygen (where a forest is definitely not a closed system, since the light from the sin and the co2 we breathe go back to the forest), the
by vikramkr 6y ago
With the exception of oxygen (where a forest is definitely not a closed system, since the light from the sin and the co2 we breathe go back to the forest), the amount that we remove from forests through foraging and hunting is trivial compared to the amount of resources we demand from agricultural land. And when we continually harvest wood, well, forests don't do well. Managed forests are basically just farms. Nutrient cycles are pretty slow - as we remove minerals amd nutrients from a forest (and dump those nutrients into oceans via sewage) - we are depleting forests. Forests can't produce excess minerals.
- hutzlibu 6y ago"the amount that we remove from forests through foraging and hunting is trivial compared to the amount of resources we demand from agricultural land." Sure thing. I just debated the "closed system" point. Forests are mostly a cycle in themself (called ecosystem), but not enclosed.