Sentences with phrase «ecosystem carbon balance»

Vegetation changes associated with a biome shift, which is facilitated by intensification of the fire regime, will modify surface energy budgets, and net ecosystem carbon balance, permafrost thawing and methane emissions, with net feedbacks to additional climate change.

Not exact matches

Yet industrialized farming practices have depleted a majority of the country's agricultural land of active carbon and a balanced microbial ecosystem.

Agroforestry and other techniques for better environmental management of such agriculture remain rare, despite their proven ability to help balance increased food production with ecosystem services like carbon sequestration.

If a balance was established and the system could be reliably controlled, it would be possible to alter the amount of carbon dioxide to simulate conditions of global warming, then analyse how ecosystems respond.

Historically intact ecosystems, like parts of the Amazon, could be managed to simultaneously maximize biodiversity, a balanced food web and ecosystem services such as storing carbon or cleansing water, all the while preserving a feeling of wildness.

For example, we could describe climate change primarily in terms of the physical processes: carbon emissions, the radiative balance of the atmosphere, average temperatures, and impacts on human life and ecosystems.

We have to go low carbon, green ecomoy, limit resource, balance of ecosystem, cliamte change all are the reasons.

These findings are important in understanding the carbon balance of ecosystems in the Arctic.

Changes in vegetation carbon residence times can cause major shifts in the distribution of carbon between pools, overall fluxes, and the time constants of terrestrial carbon transitions, with consequences for the land carbon balance and the associated state of ecosystems.

Ocean acidification is no small matter, and the balance of ecosystems is on the brink of a big change if carbon dioxide levels aren't reduced.