Sentences with phrase «on grassland ecosystems»

«We can identify the impacts of climate extremes on these grassland ecosystems by comparing ecosystem performance in each year to the perfect curve,» said Yi.

Not exact matches

Severe droughts are on the rise in many regions worldwide and are increasingly affecting a wide range of ecosystems — including marshes, mangroves, temperate and tropical forests, grasslands and coral reefs — that provide essential services to humans and the environment alike, Silliman said.

This pattern has emerged time and again in studies on ecosystems ranging from grasslands to Arctic tundra.

Mass extinctions of the big beasts of the jungles, grasslands and oceans could already be adding to emissions, according to a new study based on fieldwork in aquatic ecosystems.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

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Walks leading out from the guest house wind through a variety of unspoiled ecosystems — forest, wetland, river and grassland on the upper reaches of the Nicholson river, north east from Bairnsdale.

Scott Strough may already have linked this, but for those interested in soil carbon storage, I just stumbled across this article on the Nature Conservancy's blog site while investigating something else: Can Grasslands, The Ecosystem Underdog, Play an Underground Role in Climate Solutions?.

A portion of this controversy and the lack of scientific support for the claims made for his method on livestock productivity and grassland ecosystem function may be found in peer - reviewed papers (e.g. Briske et al. 2008).

It traverses a diverse range of forest, grassland and taiga ecosystems that support at least 2,800 plant and 500 animal species on the Russian side alone.

This guidance document focuses on the importance of drylands as ecosystems ranging from rangelands and grasslands to semi-desert, and host 1.1 billion hectares of forest — more than a quarter of the world's forest area.

«All these ecosystem services add up to societal relevance in the region, where around half a million farmers rely on these grasslands for their main activity: cattle and sheep production.»

Very few experimental approaches have assessed ecosystem responses to multi-factorial treatments such as listed above (Norby and Luo, 2004), and experiments on warming, rainfall change or atmospheric CO2 level are virtually absent in savannas, with many ecosystem studies confined mainly to temperate grasslands (Rustad et al., 2001).

Spurred on by the region's wildfires, which have been steadily increasing over the last few years, and droughts, the region's remaining swaths of forest and grasslands risk being lost in a single summer - leaving behind a spare, «semidesertic» ecosystem.

«Because grassland ecosystems are the most vulnerable to extreme climate events, we examined data collected by many other scientists to try and understand the relationship between rain events and drought on the potential productivity of grasslands,» said Chuixiang Yi of City University of New York.