Sentences with phrase «on terrestrial vegetation»

The overall outcome is a summary of the current state of knowledge concerning the impacts on terrestrial vegetation of future policy decisions that aim to influence anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

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«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

Current research focusing on terrestrial animals includes several studies on the island fox, one on the role of deer mice in affecting vegetation community recovery, and one on the response of lizards to the removal of rats on Anacapa.

These works derived from or mimicking biological forms, installed on the floor or in the surrounding vegetation rather than solely on clean white walls, call for temporal, terrestrial, and metaphysical frames of reference.

By process of elimination, there is net flow of CO2 into vegetation / land (with emissions from them being overall negative aside from fuel combustion), which is unsurprising in contexts ranging from a multitude of studies on co2science.org to how satellite - measured global net terrestrial primary production increased by several percent per decade during the period of global warming (Nemani et al. 2003, for instance).

The ability of terrestrial vegetation to both take up and release carbon and water makes understanding climate change effects on plant function critical.

They include the physical, chemical and biological processes that control the oceanic storage of carbon, and are calibrated against geochemical and isotopic constraints on how ocean carbon storage has changed over the decades and carbon storage in terrestrial vegetation and soils, and how it responds to increasing CO2, temperature, rainfall and other factors.

Here seven GVMs are used to investigate possible responses of global natural terrestrial vegetation to a major new set of future climate and atmospheric CO2 projections generated as part of the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5)(6), the primary climate modeling contribution to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment.

Estimating the carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems and accounting for changes in these stocks requires adequate information on land cover, carbon density in vegetation and soils, and the fate of carbon (burning, removals, decomposition).

In recent years, many have expressed concerns that global terrestrial NPP should be falling due to the many real (and imagined) assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades — including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, and deforestation, as well as overly - hyped changes in temperature and precipitation.

The long - term potential predictability of soil water variations in combination with the slow regrowth of vegetation after major disruptions leads to enhanced predictability on decadal timescales for vegetation, terrestrial carbon stock, and fire frequency, in particular in the Southern United States (US) / Mexico region.

In the version of this Letter originally published, in the final paragraph, the section of text including «Earth system models should... nutrient cycling)» was misleading and should have been: «Models simulating the dynamics of the terrestrial biosphere currently consider the effects of nitrogen on vegetation and soils25, 26 but they still do not consider the effects of other nutrients such as phosphorus or potassium.

Studies also suggest there could be impacts on the carbon cycle (Zickfeld et al, 2008) and on soil moisture and primary productivity of the terrestrial vegetation (Vellinga and Wood, 2002).»