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Where does the CO2 absorbed by trees end up?

What is the final destination of the CO2 captured by trees? Their bodies? If that, is it released back into the atmosphere if the woods happen to burn down?
gpt
Yes, trees turn water and CO2 into wood and leafs. If the forest burns the carbon turns back into CO2 again. Also, if the tree dies and is digested by insects etc that will also release the carbon as CO2 again. So a forest keeps a certain amount of carbon bound as biomass, but it's a steady-state, it doesn't keep absorbing carbon on net. If e.g. farmers burn down the forests to create fields this releases some extra carbon to the atmosphere, because the field has less biomass than the forest.