Find a term from the labs, understand the process behind it, and see how it appears in the landscape. Each entry connects an explanation with a real observation and a model you can explore.
Term
Store
A quantity of material or energy held within part of a system, such as water in a lake or carbon in vegetation. Inputs and outputs change the amount stored. A store is an amount; a flux is a transfer rate.
What to look for
Tropical forest at Bodiman, Cameroon: living vegetation is a carbon store, exchanging carbon with the air and soil.
