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The detailed mechanisms of how the oceans contribute to this global carbon cycle at the microscopic scale, and which microbes have a leadership role in the breakdown process, are complex and convoluted problems to solve.

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Ken Caldera A professor at Stanford and staff member in the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Caldeira works at the nexus of climate, the carbon cycle, and energy.

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.

That target has been «applauded by the international community given China's emissions have been growing at rates of 5 % to 8 % over the past decade and a half,» says Canadell, who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon Global Carbon Project, an international consortium of scientists studying the global carbon global carbon cycle.

I study the cycles of water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur at the process, ecosystem and global levels.

In a paper published in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt.

Schimel presented his work to forecast and understand land - ecosystem impacts on the carbon cycle at the global scale as part of the Frontiers in Global Change Seminar Series, Juglobal scale as part of the Frontiers in Global Change Seminar Series, JuGlobal Change Seminar Series, June 21.

he unsung heroes of the global carbon cycle are methanogens — microbes at the bottom of the food chain who break down the waste products of other organisms and release methane gas into the atmosphere.

«Methanogens are critical players in the global carbon cycle and have potential uses for addressing human problems,» says William W. Metcalf, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, and a member of the research team.

His research is at the interface of ecosystems, land use, and climate change focusing on tropical deforestation and degradation, functional diversity of tropical canopies, conservation of African savannas, invasive species and climate change, and the effects of land use on the global carbon cycle.

At least 4 transient global warming events related to massive carbon input occurred through the late Paleocene — early Eocene, apparently paced by orbital cycles within the Milankovitch band (Lourenset al., 2005; Galeotti et al., 2010).

The exposure at Duvanny Yar also makes clear the tremendous amount of carbon that has been frozen in Arctic soils and therefore not a reactive part of the global carbon cycle.

Changes in biological activity are an important part of the carbon cycle but are difficult to quantify at the global scale.

If one tried to actually write «the» partial differential equation for the global climate system, it would be a set of coupled Navier - Stokes equations with unbelievably nasty nonlinear coupling terms — if one can actually include the physics of the water and carbon cycles in the N - S equations at all.

Mathematical physicist Enting (author of the Australian Mathematical Scences Institute book Twisted: The distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial) worked at Australia's leading science agency, the CSIRO, for 24 years in atmospheric research and modelling of the global carbon cycle.

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Over the past week, at least four high - profile papers largely funded by the U.S. government have contributed new evidence, observations, and insight into the role of soil and forests in the global carbon cycle — the flow of material in and out of land, air, life, and sea that's currently broken and getting worse.

Field's research looks at the interactions among the climate, the carbon cycle, and ecosystem processes, from the molecular to the global scale.

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?»

January 18, 2007 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences for 2006 to Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, «for his innovative and pioneering research on the operation of the global carbon cycle within the ocean - atmosphere - biosphere system, and its interaction with climate»