Sentences with phrase «impact on the carbon storage»
Overall, the study shows that forest biomass and tree species composition and their combined impact on carbon storage are affected by climatic variability on a sensitive and short timeline — just a few decades.
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Lastly, this summary reveals that, contrary to what is observed elsewhere in the world, rainfall amounts have no impact on the carbon storage capacity of Amazonian soils.
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Agricultural management impacts on soil organic carbon storage under moist and dry climatic conditions of temperate and tropical regions.
Uncertainty in estimating land use and management impacts on soil organic carbon storage for US agricultural lands between 1982 and 1997.
Researchers studied the large - scale impact of wildlife extinctions induced by over-hunting on carbon storage right across the Amazon.
Crowther cautions that even though the latest figures do not change the current science on carbon storage or diminish the impact of deforestation.
In this section, we will consider the impact of changes in fire, insect, and pathogen outbreaks on forests, as well as on soil and carbon storage, for which we have better capacity for forecasting (Table 4 - 4).
Working with researchers from Humboldt State University, University of California, Berkeley, and citizen scientists, we are studying the impacts of climate change on redwoods» growth, carbon storage, and forest biodiversity through the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative (RCCI).
The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.
«Invasive species are a leading driver of the decline of native species,» said Pejchar, which is why she was surprised at the paucity of «science on the footprint of energy development [as it impacts] the spread of invasive species or the loss of carbon storage / sequestration through habitat alteration.»
In response to RFA's comment that ARB did not correct its analysis to reflect the impact of ARB's own assumption on carbon storage in building products, ARB states that it made an error due to «miscommunication.»
Broader economic approaches, however, can attach monetary values to non-market impacts, referred to as externalities, placing an economic value on ecosystem services like breathable air, carbon capture and storage (in forests and oceans) and usable water.
Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.
Impacts of a climate policy on coal use will depend upon the type of climate policy employed, the stringency of the policy, the future price of natural gas, the future cost and penetration of nuclear and renewable technologies, and the cost of coal - fired generation with carbon capture and storage technologies.
A 2009 study on the negative effects of power generation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), «The hidden costs of electricity: externalities of power generation in Australia» calculated the greenhouse impacts and health damage costs of different power generation technologies including coal, gas, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear energy, and determined that health costs of burning coal are equivalent to a national health burden of around $ A2.6 billion per annum.
«Without this long - term storage, there is little influence on atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that impacts earth's climate.»
«Sequestration projects» require the right to benefit from sequestration (storage) activities on the land (a «carbon sequestration right») because these projects must be maintained for a long period of time and may impact on the rights of others.