Oxygen and climate
A metaphor often referred to as the forest of "lung of the planet. Despite or even 'vital' many functions it plays, the forest cannot be directly compared to lung (lung does not supply oxygen and it is plankton that produces the bulk of the global oxygen available in the air and solubilized in water). However, the forest has functions essential micro and macro-climatique and for the quality of the atmosphere in terms of thermohygrometer balance and purity of the air notably. From a certain point of view, a little like the lung, but on another level, it is a kind of ecotone complex and functional between the atmosphere and the ground related to the carbon cycle in particular, but also to all of the major biogeochemical cycles.
For more information, please click the excess of oxygen.