Sentences with phrase «global carbon cycling»

In fact, information from deep - sea studies such as this will be essential to improving computer models of global carbon cycling and climate change.

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.»

«The evidence suggests that human activities in coastal zones will continue to have an important impact on global carbon cycling,» Bauer said.

Our findings have significance for global carbon cycling, oceanic carbon sequestration, and the cellular biology of coccolithophores.

The behavior of these carbonates at the high pressure and temperature conditions of Earth's interior is therefore of great interest for understanding global carbon cycling and storage.

«The possibility of shelves becoming a more important carbon dioxide sink in the future should be considered in global carbon cycle models and flux assessments.»

This is because converting permafrost loss into carbon emissions is far from trivial, says Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, a professor of global carbon cycling at the University of Exeter and co-author on the new research.

It's true that the main uncertainty there is human behavior, but at least the IPCC could attempt to answer questions like «Given such - and - such human behavior, what is the expected global carbon cycle response to that behavior?»

Soil plays a critical role in global carbon cycling, in part because soil organic matter stores three times more carbon than the atmosphere.

Jain, A.K., et al., Distribution of radiocarbon as a test of global carbon cycle models.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from thermokarst ecosystems are highly variable [3]--[5] and often not considered in large - scale GHG studies and global carbon cycling models since small ponds can not be seen with remote sensing tools [6]--[7].

He formerly led the Ecosystem Dynamics Group, studying the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon cycle, at the Montana Institute on Ecosystems.

Global change research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes.

The policy interest in terms of the global carbon cycle is obvious, although until just a few years ago, Freeman considered his work to be «very obscure.»

Race between sinks and sources Northern Eurasia plays an important part in the global carbon cycle because of its large areas of forest and huge soil carbon reservoirs, he added.

The effects of these microscopic coccolithophores are far - reaching: they influence biogeochemistry, global carbon cycling, and global microbial ecology.

«What's more, the savannahs play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and therefore affect the planet's climate cycles,» says Victor Odipo of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany).

The study also has implications for understanding the global carbon cycle that involves the transport of surface carbon back into the Earth's mantle.

To explain this apparent paradox, the researchers called upon a theory for how the global carbon cycle, atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's temperature are linked on geologic timescales.

«Fragmentation therefore plays an important role in the global carbon cycle,» says Andreas Huth to summarise.

The studies show that sea ice may have a major impact on the global carbon cycle, and that chemical processes have a much greater impact on the sea ice's ability to remove CO2 than biological processes.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, so changes to Amazonian climate could affect global climate and weather, according to the study's authors.

The new modeling tool — Carbon, Organisms, Rhizosphere and Protection in the Soil Environment, or CORPSE — represents a major advance in the ability of scientists to simulate the global carbon cycle.

«It's a mechanism for the rivers» role in the global carbon cycle — it's the food for the river breath.»

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

Former President Barack Obama in 2014 made research on understanding carbon dynamics in these coastal ecosystems a priority because of their importance to the global carbon cycle.

In order for basic research on climate change and the global carbon cycle to move forward, researchers need this information.

Protists are vital in the global carbon cycle.

Should we worry more about quantum decryption in the future or the past, how salt's role as a micronutrient may effect the global carbon cycle, and a daily news roundup.

This is important knowledge to advance our understanding of the reef functioning, and another step towards quantifying the role of cold - water coral reefs in the global carbon cycle,» explains Lorenzo Rovelli.

These little organisms are central to the global carbon cycle, a role that could be disrupted if rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming temperatures interfere with their ability to grow their calcified shells.

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Several corporations, including BP and Ford Motor Co., are also putting money into understanding global biogeochemical cycles (although most of this money is being doled out to institutions and not to individuals); carbon - intensive studies aim to identify cost - effective ways to intervene in the global carbon cycle to reduce atmospheric CO2.

The measurements provide the ability to detect changes in the behavior of the global carbon cycle.

Our research demonstrates that those feedbacks are also essential for the global carbon cycle — they help determine the net CO2 balance of the biosphere and have implications for improving critical management decisions in agriculture, security, climate change, and so much more.»

«Just a couple of years ago, the issue of sink saturation was barely known,» says Will Steffen of Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences, who chairs the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme, which has pioneered research into the global carbon cycle.

The loss of satellite - based «ocean color» measurements would be a blow to climate science, because phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — help regulate the global carbon cycle.

«That is because oxygen production is ultimately tied to the global carbon cycle — the cycling of carbon between Earth, the biosphere, the atmosphere and oceans.»

In sodium - poor soil, a University of Oklahoma ecologist has found, small amounts of added salt boost invertebrate biomass and increase decomposition — so much so, his latest work suggests, that a lack of salt could have a major impact on the global carbon cycle.

Now researchers at MIT and Bristol University in the United Kingdom have found that these microscopic, mixotrophic organisms may have a large impact on the ocean's food web and the global carbon cycle.

These disparities have led to major doubts about the reliability of global forest area estimates, and to questions about the real contribution made by forests to the global carbon cycle.

«Ocean food web is key in the global carbon cycle.»

In a study of the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, Siegel and his colleagues used those nuggets to their advantage.

According to the researchers, oceans are a central component in the global carbon cycle through their storage, transport and transformations of carbon constituents.

Nonetheless mature forests do play an important role in the global carbon cycle as stable carbon pools, and clearance of forests leads to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

«These numbers are important to quantifying the global carbon cycle and making predictions about future stocks and flows of carbon.»