Sentences with phrase «terrestrial carbon accounting»

It followed what Krug called a «cookbook» approach terrestrial carbon accounting.

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«The carbon cycling that happens in freshwater systems needs to be accounted for in estimates of terrestrial production,» Holgerson said.

New research suggests that the capacity of the terrestrial biosphere to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) may have been underestimated in past calculations due to certain land - use changes not being fully taken into account.

«Our estimates suggest that, currently, the global established forests which are outside the [tropics] alone can account for the terrestrial carbon sink,» the study found.

«This graph gives you an idea of what the Anthropocene climate looks like as... without even taking into account the possibility of carbon cycle feedbacks leading to a release of stored terrestrial carbon.»

12 November 2013 WARSAW Poland India has a Constitution; Germany has a Grundgesetz; and the Terrestrial Carbon Accounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, andAccounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, andaccounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies.

When reporting corporate - level greenhouse gas inventories, the accounting of terrestrial carbon stock changes associated with harvesting and combustion of biomass may fall within the organizational boundaries of different companies, i.e., the wood being burned is not cut on land owned by the company.

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).

Accounting for changes in all carbon stocks in all areas would yield the net carbon exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere (NBP).

[11] Despite this scarcity, they account for about 30 % of terrestrial carbon fixation.»

Oceanic methane releases could account for the magnitude of C - 12, while terrestrial sources seem unlikely: «To cause this type of global isotopic shift, you'd have to take all terrestrial plants and burn them into carbon dioxide,» Kessler says in the June 11 edition of Science.