Sentences with phrase «in global carbon cycling»

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.

«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).

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

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.

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

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.»

Protists are vital in the global carbon cycle.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

According to the research team, this suggests that the continental shelves are becoming a crucial element in the global carbon cycle and for the climate system.

Ponds and lakes play a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and are often net emitters of carbon gases to the atmosphere.

That's important news to scientists, given the significance of peat bogs worldwide in the global carbon cycle.

These forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle that allows Earth to be capable of sustaining life.

Tropical forests around the world play a key role in the global carbon cycle and harbour more than half of the species worldwide.

«The data is still coming in but there are indications that this ecosystem is shifting and it could potentially be a massive shift,» he says, pointing to changes in the global carbon cycle and the predator / prey dynamics.

Unicellular photosynthetic microbes — phytoplankton — are responsible for virtually all oceanic primary production, which fuels marine food webs and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle.

In consequence, the data available up to now are scarce and we are just starting to comprehend the fundamental properties that will allow us to better understand the role of jellyfish and pelagic tunicates in the global carbon cycle.»

As trees grow, they absorb carbon from the atmosphere, making forests a key player in the global carbon cycle.

«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.

ECCO model - data syntheses are being used to quantify the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, to understand the recent evolution of the polar oceans, to monitor time - evolving heat, water, and chemical exchanges within and between different components of the Earth system, and for many other science applications.

Each compartment in the global carbon cycle stores and recycles carbon, but the magnitude of the storage and the rate of exchange vary enormously between them.

The team will also measure the microbial activity in these sediments to better understand the role of these buried microbes in the global carbon cycle.

Kadyszewski presented ACR's Climate Leadership award to Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock senior scientist and former director of Winrock's Ecosystem Services Group, for four decades of work advancing the understanding of the role forests play in the global carbon cycle.

Trees and other living organisms are key players in the global carbon cycle, a complex biogeochemical process in which carbon is exchanged among the atmosphere, the ocean, the biosphere and Earth's crust.

There are two domains in the global carbon cycle, fast and slow.

They will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.»

Kasischke, E.S., Boreal ecosystems in the global carbon cycle, pp. 19 - 30 in Fire, Climate Change and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest, Kasischke, E.S., and B.J. Stocks (editors), Ecological Studies Series, Springer - Verlag, New York, 2000.

Boreal forests and peat lands — which often include carbon - containing permafrost — play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and therefore in regulating climate change.7, 15

Centennial - scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation.

These rapid changes in atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations are also recorded during the Heinrich Stadials of MIS 3, demonstrating an important mechanism that operates on centennial time scales during the glacial and deglaciation, which may point to important thresholds in the global carbon cycle.

Given all the known cycles in the climate (PDO, AMO, ENSO, etc) forgive me if I think that a 1 - 2 % change in the global carbon cycle over a period of 50 - 100 years is probably more than likely.

Clearly, methane hydrate has a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and it is gaining recognition as an important player in global climate processes and climate change.

(a) Scientific, socio - economic, technical, and methodological issues, including the role of forests, in particular tropical forests, in the global carbon cycle; definitional issues, including those relating to links between deforestation and degradation; data availability and quality; scale; rates and drivers of deforestation; estimation of changes in carbon stocks and forest cover; and related uncertainties;

The microbial breakdown of cellulose and related byproducts is a key process in the global carbon cycle.

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.

Because forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, the international community is actively pursuing policies and programs to increase the amount of carbon stored in forests.

Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle.

Since 2009, US CLIVAR has collaborated with the OCB Program, whose mission is to study the impact of oceanic variability in the global carbon cycle in the face of environmental variability and change.

The world's oceans are one of the biggest carbon pools, or sinks, in the global carbon cycle.

The oceans play a central role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that humans put into the air («anthropogenic carbon»), primarily by fossil fuel burning.

The forests» trees store the most carbon of any of the Earth ecosystems, contributing 14 % of carbon fixed in the global carbon cycle.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

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.

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.

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.