Earth's oxygen production and carbon cycling rely on a vast diversity of marine phytoplankton, forests, and varied terrestrial ecosystems, meaning grass alone does not produce enough oxygen to sustain global life.
Evidence against · 3
Global Carbon Budget 2020
2020 · cited by 2,559
Friedlingstein et al. (2020) demonstrate that the global terrestrial carbon sink is distributed across diverse vegetation types and oceans, showing that no single plant group alone sustains global atmospheric oxygen and carbon balances.
See more details
More against · 2
Global Carbon Budget 2019
2019 · cited by 1,715
Friedlingstein et al. (2019) quantify complex multi-component global carbon and oxygen budgets involving diverse global ecosystems, contradicting the notion that grass alone suffices for planetary life support.
Global Carbon Budget 2023
2023 · cited by 1,410
Friedlingstein et al. (2023) emphasize that planetary-scale biogeochemical cycles depend on a broad mosaic of marine and terrestrial biomes rather than any single plant family.