Sentences with phrase «do terrestrial plants»

And because these floating plants absorb as much of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide - a major greenhouse gas - as do terrestrial plants, they are important to any global climate study.

Not exact matches

In recent years our incredibly varied geology has provided the oldest known vascular land plants, evidence of the oldest herbivores, as well as the earliest examples of terrestrial footprints («Did centipedes take the first steps on terra firma?»

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

CO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there, but continuously recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth's oceans — the great retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide.

And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2 - induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet.

Terrestrial palaeoclimate reconstructions based on botanical proxies (pollen and seed productivity, stomatal frequency) do not account for plant physiological response to low atmospheric CO2 levels.

I consider a terrestrial sink to be both land and plant life, which would also mean that the CO2 is «missing» since we do not know where it went.

It's a terrestrial plant's only source of carbon and at 280 parts per million in the atmosphere a plant must work very hard to extract what it needs out of the gases it does not need.

Happily enough, terrestrial also plants also require less water per unit of growth as CO2 rises because they don't have to open their stomata as much to get the respiratory exchange of gases.