Sentences with phrase «ecosystem modeling»

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

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

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

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.

To answer this question Justin Fisk from the University of Maryland, US, and his colleagues combined an advanced terrestrial ecosystem model with a mapped reconstruction of tree mortality from tropical storms impacting the US from 1851 to 2000, and a mapped land - use history reconstruction.

«While the general result was anticipated, our review revealed a breadth of environmental and societal detrimental impact, from local to global scales,» says Prof. Dr. Kerstin Wiegand from the Department of Ecosystem Modelling at Göttingen University.

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

LeEco officially launches its disruptive ecosystem model in the U.S. Through this LeEco would deliver content and services on a wide array of connected smart devices — including smartphones, TVs,...

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.

A 2007 paper, for example, concluded from satellite data that rainforests may be «more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume.»

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.

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.

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.

«In contrast to the recent assertion that biofuels rely on reduced food production to provide a GHG benefit, our integrated economic - ecosystem modeling approach predicts that changing the mix of biofuel feedstocks from corn ethanol to high yielding perennial crops could meet the 32 - billion - gallon mandate without significantly reducing food production and with modest GHG savings,» the team writes.

Linger in epic seascapes and explore aquatic ecosystems modeled with unprecedented detail.

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.

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.

Mongabay was recognized for its Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF - DAS), which was developed in partnership with the Carnegie - Ames - Stanford Approach (CASA) ecosystem modeling team at NASA Ames Research Center.

Evaluation and analysis of a dynamic terrestrial ecosystem model under preindustrial conditions at the global scale

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.

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.

Non-linear responses to increasing rainfall variability may be expected, as ecosystem models of mixed C3 / C4 grasslands show initially positive NPP relationships with increasing rainfall variability, but greater variability ultimately reduces both NPP and ecosystem stability even if the rainfall total is kept constant (Mitchell and Csillag, 2001).

By incorporating chlorophyll data derived from ocean color observations into a northeast Atlantic ecosystem model, the researchers generated the first - ever long - term reanalysis simulation of the biogeochemical conditions in the northwest European shelf.

«Unlike most Africa tech ecosystems, the Ghanaian startup ecosystem is not centralised in one area, making it unique and, importantly, specialising in capacity building rather than trying to replicate an existing ecosystem model.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

His research focuses on understanding how carbon dioxide and methane are cycled between fossil fuels, the atmosphere, ocean, and land, using remote sensing data and ecosystem models.

Collaborators from the University of Exeter, who are co-authors of this study, developed computer generated models to create a global ecosystem model that took into account world ocean temperatures, 1.5 million plankton DNA sequences taken from samples, and biochemical data.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.