What is the process called when trees take carbon dioxide and hold carbon in their trunks and leaves?

sudf	possibley carbon sink http://www.elmcare.com/trees/how_trees_breathe.htm Apr 19 08, 2:05 PM

Baloo55th

Photosynthesis http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html However, plants also put out quite a lot of carbon dioxide at night when they reverse the gas exchange. Some carbon is retained in the unused sugars produced, and the new growth. When the plant dies, all this breaks down again and the carbon stored re-enters the atmospheric economy. Unless the plant is buried deep in a mine (like pit props are), or lands in a swamp where there is no oxygen available so the plant material gets eventually buried beneath more and more yuk and in the end becomes coal or oil millions of years later. Not common at the moment. When the world warms up enough, this will probably restart, which will provide fresh supplies of coal for the descendants of the racoons to burn..... Apr 19 08, 3:04 PM

JonLikeSwim

The process when trees take in carbon dioxide and hold carbon in their leaves is called carbon sink, unless you are referring to photosynthesis. http://www.otg.usyd.edu.au/papers/gy95.htm Apr 19 08, 5:27 PM