Sentences with phrase «ecosystem carbon stocks»

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As soil erosion has huge impacts on ecosystems, food production, drinking water, carbon stocks and biodiversity, the EU has called for quantitative assessments of soil rates at EU level, and put soil protection at the heart of its environmental agenda.

Walls that are covered in plants could increase the overall stocks of biomass, and thus the proportion of of carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems compared to in the atmosphere.

Predators help protect carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems Trisha B. Atwood, Rod M. Connolly, Euan G. Ritchie, Catherine E. Lovelock, Michael R. Heithaus, Graeme C. Hays, James W. Fourqurean, Peter I. Macreadie.

Major objectives include national - level accounting of carbon stocks and emissions from blue carbon ecosystems, increased management effectiveness of blue carbon ecosystems within protected areas, and the development of blue carbon offsets for tourism activities.

These ecosystems, primarily the Arctic tundra (5), peatlands (1), and tropical rain forests (6, 7, 8), harbor ancient, highly - concentrated carbon stocks, which are rapidly released during fire events like the one in Indonesia.

Tree plantations and degraded forests, logged or otherwise, have far lower carbon stocks and carbon - storage capacity than primary forests, and suffer from severe biodiversity loss, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance.

A new Ecosystem Marketplace report takes stock of the 13 most advanced efforts, and offers a glimpse of the carbon markets of tomorrow.

The study presented in the journal BioScience analyzed 276 published peer - reviewed articles that looked at the landscape effects of oil, natural gas, and wind production infrastructure worldwide, in order to compare their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services — wildlife mortality, habitat loss and fragmentation, noise and light pollution, invasive species, and changes in carbon stocks and freshwater resources.

Indonesia - As scientists are increasingly exploring the high carbon stocks contained in mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows — known as «blue carbon» — alarm bells sounding for these ecosystems» rapid destruction have never been louder.

By 2020, ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has been enhanced, through conservation and restoration, including restoration of at least 15 per cent of degraded ecosystems, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to combating desertification which has a benefit of $ 7 for every dollar spent.

«The distribution of biodiversity and of carbon stocks should help inform decision - makers which forests are valuable for both, so that you're getting the biggest bang for your buck when you're investing in avoided deforestation, and will also indicate which non-forest ecosystems have high carbon stocks and biodiversity,» said Miles.

Changes in carbon stocks and ecosystem function linked to anthropogenic activities such as land - use change and land management determine emissions and removals of GHG that are reported by countries for the IPCC Land Use, Land - Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) categories.

Estimating the carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems and accounting for changes in these stocks requires adequate information on land cover, carbon density in vegetation and soils, and the fate of carbon (burning, removals, decomposition).

Accounting for changes in all carbon stocks in all areas would yield the net carbon exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere (NBP).

«Carbon stocks» refers to the amount of carbon stored in various compartments in the ecosystem, including biomass above and below ground, in woody debris and litter, and in soil at a measurable depth.

Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a range of valuable ecosystem services, ranging from fisheries and coastal protection, to carbon stocks that are important for mitigating climate change.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

This manual provides scientists and coastal managers with a practical tool for measuring carbon stocks in coastal and marine ecosystems.

Kasischke, E.S., Boreal ecosystems in the global carbon cycle, pp. 19 - 30 in Fire, Climate Change and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest, Kasischke, E.S., and B.J. Stocks (editors), Ecological Studies Series, Springer - Verlag, New York, 2000.

Hilbert says that the ecosystem feedbacks in global climate models are based on short term processes such as carbon fixation by photosynthesis or decomposition, whereas in the longer term stocks of carbon are controlled by tree demographic processes.

The direct CO2 - fertilisation impact and warming effect of rising atmospheric CO2 have contrasting effects on their dominant functional types (trees and C3 grasses may benefit from rising CO2 but not from warming; C4 grasses may benefit from warming, but not from CO2 - fertilisation), with uncertain, non-linear and rapid changes in ecosystem structure and carbon stocks likely.

Spatial variability and controls over biomass stocks, carbon fluxes and resource - use efficiencies in forest ecosystems.

Forest cover data measure the extent of forests, forest ecosystems, and related features such as carbon stocks.