Sentences with phrase «from terrestrial biomass»

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Tropical forests convert more carbon from the atmosphere into biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Recent estimates from satellite imagery indicate that humans now appropriate 38 percent of all terrestrial biomass generated annually.

Carozza et al (2011) find that natural global warming occurred in 2 stages: First, global warming of 3 ° to 9 ° C accompanied by a large bolus of organic carbon released to the atmosphere through the burning of terrestrial biomass (Kurtz et al, 2003) over approximately a 50 - year period; second, a catastrophic release of methane hydrate from sediment, followed by the oxidation of a part of this methane gas in the water column and the escape of the remaining CH4 to the atmosphere over a 50 - year period.

«For 20 million years, from the early Neogene approximately 23 million years ago until the Pleistocene started around 2 million years ago, this rule applied: The larger the amount of biomass produced by plants, the higher the diversity of terrestrial mammals that evolved.

Such connections would be much harder to detect from space for terrestrial plant biomass.»

Carozza et al (2011) find that natural global warming occurred in 2 stages: First, global warming of 3 ° to 9 ° C accompanied by a large bolus of organic carbon released to the atmosphere through the burning of terrestrial biomass (Kurtz et al, 2003) over approximately a 50 - year period; second, a catastrophic release of methane hydrate from sediment, followed by the oxidation of a part of this methane gas in the water column and the escape of the remaining CH4 to the atmosphere over a 50 - year period.

This means that the equivalent of half our annual emissions of CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by the oceans and terrestrial biomass.

This is because any net additions of CO2 to the atmosphere resulting from biomass combustion should be captured by analyzing land - use, land - use change activities and their associated effects on terrestrial biomass carbon stocks.

We attribute this increase to the response from the terrestrial component of the carbon cycle — a combination of reduction in biospheric uptake of CO2 over pan-tropical regions and an enhancement in biomass burning emissions over Southeast Asia and Indonesia.