Microbes play crucial roles in
regulating global cycles involving carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus among others, but many of them remain uncultured and unknown.
Viruses can significantly affect the protist population, reducing their ability to
regulate global cycles.
Not exact matches
The loss of satellite - based «ocean color» measurements would be a blow to climate science, because phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — help
regulate the
global carbon
cycle.
Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in
regulating Earth's biogeochemical processes; everything from
regulating plant health to driving nutrient
cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments, processes that can impact
global climate.
Climate change is thus inseparable from ocean change, and our ability to understand these changes relies heavily on our understanding of ocean ecosystems and, more specifically, the role of iron in
regulating ocean productivity and hence the
global carbon
cycle and climate.
This includes rivers, which reportedly are crucial in
regulating the
global carbon
cycle.
For cause and effect: You never know, but I don't think that cloud cover
regulates the sun
cycle... Globally, the variation of cloud cover during a sun
cycle is around 2 %, which can have a substantial influence on
global temperatures.
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
Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are naturally
regulated by many processes that are part of the
global carbon
cycle.