Sentences with phrase «terrestiral ecosystem model»

By being self - aware of your own thought processes, you can consciously edit out a tendency to think in battlefield metaphors and reframe situations using the ecosystem model.

Her interests span from microbiology to macro-scale ecosystem modeling, with a goal of reducing human's environmental impact.

CSIRO senior scientist and co-author of the paper Dr Eva Plaganyi said the research was enabled through a complex ecosystem model nicknamed «MICE», an acronym for Model of Intermediate Complexity for Ecosystem Assessments.

In addition, both studies have yielded valuable data that can be integrated into ecosystem models — which are in turn essential to forecasts of how the retreat of sea ice will affect the Arctic ecosystem.

The team used DayCent, an ecosystem modeling tool that tracks the carbon cycle, plant growth, and how growth responds to weather, climate and other factors at a local scale.

Vulnerability of anaerobically protected carbon to future climate or land use change thus constitutes a yet unrecognized soil carbon - climate feedback that should be incorporated into terrestrial ecosystem models.»

The researchers paired MIT's global circulation model — which simulates physical phenomena such as ocean currents, temperatures, and salinity — with an ecosystem model that simulates the behavior of 96 species of phytoplankton.

High throughput genome sequencing and quantitative image analysis provide evolution, metabolic, and interaction data to build community metabolome maps, taxa / gene networks, and spatial ecosystem models.

We will present our first steps in the construction of an ecosystem model designed to be coupled with geo - climate models of early Earth and Mars.

«He possesses a strong skill set that will further strengthen the solid foundation at SMAST in fisheries and ecosystem modeling.

Previously a postdoctoral research associate at the NOAA NEFSC's Woods Hole Laboratory, Fay's research focuses on spatial modeling and statistical analyses of marine fisheries populations with an expertise in quantitative fisheries science and ecosystem modeling.

Studies of processes affecting plankton community structure through the use of size - structured ecosystem models.

For the three subprojects proposed here, the synthesis tools to be established within BIOACID range from meta - analysis techniques over regional and global numerical ecosystem models to economic methods of integrated assessment.

These tools will help to better understand ongoing changes in chemical and biological state of the North Sea from alkalinity fluxes originating from the Wadden Sea over a synthesis model that integrates OA sensitivities at organism level into a North Sea ecosystem model (5.1) to an economical impact assessment.

Develop a framework for integrating ocean acidification sensitivities at the organism level into ecosystem models.

We've got a great representation of these things within ecosystem models that we tend to use uncoupled and we just run those on the land surface.

Also, atmospheric measurements of the amounts of methane released by permafrost (a top - down approach) are far less than estimates of these amounts made using point - based field assessments and ecosystem modeling (bottom - up approaches).

For example one ocean ecosystem model that I know is used in at least one GCM does not include any sort of parameterization related to ocean acidity.

I've read a few papers on ocean ecosystem modeling and would argue that our understanding of the crucial processes is still quite primitive.

The project's goal is to develop next - generation root phenotyping technology integrated with ecosystem modeling to accelerate the breeding of root - focused cultivars with certain traits; for example, better climate resiliency and better tolerance for low water and low fertilizer conditions.

In cooperation with potentially affected stakeholders, Scientists from the University of Bremen have developed an ecosystem model that integrates the relevant environmental processes and examines ecological changes and their socio - economic implications.

Our study once again emphasizes the importance of a realistic representation of ocean physics, in particular vertical mixing, as a necessary foundation for ecosystem modeling and predictions.»

When the climate model output is fed into ecosystem models, and these in turn are coupled to socio - economic analysis tools, the potential future scenarios that come out, assuming the world continues its business as usual, appear rather grim, see e.g. the very interesting final report of the European ATEAM project.

Modelling of the biological system, however, has been more challenging, and it has only been recently that primitive ecosystem models have been incorporated in global general circulation ocean models.

Their results indicate that the radiocarbon input to the atmosphere from soils and vegetation was 2 to 3 times higher than predicted by their ecosystem model.

In the paper, Peng et al. (2013) use the Canadian Terrestiral Ecosystem Model to investigate the effects of climate change and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations on the amount of carbon that has been drawn down by plants in British Columbia since 1900.

Jerry's research team has developed and uses a simulation model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to consider the impacts of various aspects of global change — climate, chemistry of the atmosphere and precipitation, land cover and land use — on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe.

Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70 % of the observed greening trend.

This variability is not captured in today's ecosystem models, however.

Uncertainty Management in Coupled Physical - Biological Lower Trophic Level Ocean Ecosystem Models

State - of - the - art ecosystem models build on empirical observations of past climate changes and enable development of estimates of how ocean life may react in the future.

But the precise effect of pine bark beetle plagues on the nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle is highly variable, says a research group led by the University of Idaho, who have used an ecosystem model to simulate outbreaks.

In this project, we will assess the role of sea ice dynamics on the upper part of the Arctic Ocean energy budget and on primary production using for the first time a Lagrangian sea ice model, neXtSIM, coupled to an ocean - marine ecosystem model.

The scientists modified a land surface ecosystem model called ORCHIDEE to account for how carbon behaves at different layers, such as at the surface versus 30 centimeters below ground.

Prediction of Ecological Effects of Toxic Chemicals, Overall Strategy and Theoretical Basis for the Ecosystem Model.

Here we use three long - term satellite leaf area index (LAI) records and ten global ecosystem models to investigate four key drivers of LAI trends during 1982 — 2009.

The regional effects of unexplained factors suggest that the next generation of ecosystem models will need to explore the impacts of forest demography, differences in regional management intensities for cropland and pastures, and other emerging productivity constraints such as phosphorus availability.

The Canadian Earth System Model CanESM2 combines the CanCM4 model and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model which models the land - atmosphere carbon exchange.

A proportional approach to downscaling the SRES land - cover scenarios has been applied to global ecosystem modelling (Arnell et al., 2004) by assuming uniform rates of change everywhere within an SRES macro-region.

«We believe our work can help fill in some gaps in methane budgets and environmental processes in global ecosystem models.»

This research will fuel the development of a first - of - its - kind tropical forest ecosystem model that extends from the bedrock to the top of the forest canopy.

Despite the recognised importance of multiple drivers of ecosystem change, they are rarely all included in current climate and ecosystem models used for assessing climate change impacts on ecosystems (Hansen et al., 2001; Levy et al., 2004; Zebisch et al., 2004; Feddema et al., 2005; Holman et al., 2005b; Pielke, 2005).

Palmer, J. R. & Totterdell, I. J. Production and export in a global ocean ecosystem model.

Varpe, A. Yool, and Y.J. Lee, Ecosystem model intercomparison of under - ice and total primary production in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys.

Results from an ecosystem model intercomparison, J. Geophys.

Vegetation / ecosystem modelling and analysis project: comparing biogeography and biogeochemistry models in a continental - scale study of terrestrial responses to climate change and CO2 doubling.

Scientific Disciplinary Expertise: Ecosystem modeling.

The ocean ecosystem models used in C4MIP are at an early stage of development.

For example, the MIT IGSM which is coupled with the Woods Hole Terrestrial Ecosystem Model, which certainly has a CO2 fertilization effect imbedded.

Any model that's integrated with an ecosystem model.