Sentences with phrase «drought effects on ecosystem»
Severe drought effects on ecosystem CO2 and H2O fluxes at three mediterranean sites: revision of current hypothesis?
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This study highlights the importance of considering hydrological drought for wildfire prediction, and the researchers recommend that hydrology should be considered in future studies of the impact of projected ENSO strength, including effects on tropical ecosystems, and biodiversity conservation.
Professor Friedlingstein, who is an expert in global carbon cycle studies added: «Current land carbon cycle models do not show this increase over the last 50 years, perhaps because these models underestimate emerging drought effects on tropical ecosystems.»
In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.
The vicious confluence of weather anomalies in recent years — and, even just this year we've seen a rash of devastating floods, tornadoes and droughts — suggest that shifting climate patterns are having adverse and wide - ranging effects on our ecosystem.
as droughts and storms, and rapid climate change are two factors which could have dramatic effects on human society and natural ecosystems.
The effects of disturbances on an ecosystem such as flooding or increasing drought have been difficult to predict in the past.
As climatic warming is expected to bring more intense droughts and stronger storms, understanding their effect on tropical and forest ecosystems becomes ever more important.
Such droughts have impacts that go far beyond any one forest region: researchers have suggested that what happens in one region could have long - term consequences for ecosystems far away, and most certainly severe drought in the Amazon would have knock - on effects that would be felt worldwide.