Sentences with phrase «terrestrial ecosystem»

a More moisture transferred to the continent leads to recharging of groundwater and lakes, and a flourishing terrestrial ecosystem.

The DOE support includes funding from the Regional and Global Climate Modeling programme to the Reducing Uncertainties in Biogeochemical Interactions through Synthesis and Computation (RUBISCO) Scientific Focus Area, from the Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences programme to the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments — Tropics, and from the Early Career programme (DE-SC0012152).

For example, the MIT IGSM which is coupled with the Woods Hole Terrestrial Ecosystem Model, which certainly has a CO2 fertilization effect imbedded.

Cao, M. & Woodward, F. I. Dynamic responses of terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling to global climate change.

Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models.

The terrestrial ecosystem portion of the Earth system model simulations were conducted at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab.

Secondly, mechanistic models include the modelling of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function.

The Canadian Earth System Model CanESM2 combines the CanCM4 model and the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model which models the land - atmosphere carbon exchange.

This time around, the scientists tapped the vastly improved satellite imagery from Google Earth, which covered more than 210,000 dryland sites, and ground data gathered by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network to carry out a new global analysis of dryland forest cover.

Mohan K. Wali et al., «Assessing Terrestrial Ecosystem Sustainability,» Nature & Resources, vol.

Their research is one of the first papers published in association with a new Department of Energy project called the Next - Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE - Arctic), which seeks to gain a predictive understanding of the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem's feedback to climate.

«This record is the first evidence that carbon dioxide may be linked with environmental changes, such as changes in the terrestrial ecosystem, distribution of ice, sea level and monsoon intensity.»

New inputs of N into the terrestrial ecosystem come from fixation of atmospheric N. New inflows of P are small and come from weathering of mineral soils and rocks.

Wetland - A transitional, regularly waterlogged area of poorly drained soils, often between an aquatic and a terrestrial ecosystem, fed from rain, surface water or groundwater.

FACE is a method and infrastructure used to experimentally enrich the atmosphere enveloping portions of a terrestrial ecosystem with controlled amounts of carbon dioxide (and in some cases, other gases), without using chambers or walls.

Examples of such nonlinear behaviour include rapid circulation changes in the North Atlantic and feedbacks associated with terrestrial ecosystem changes.

It is Earth's single largest land habitat, and it stores about 30 percent of the carbon found on the planet's surfaces — more than any other terrestrial ecosystem.

Jerry's research team has developed and uses a simulation model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to consider the impacts of various aspects of global change — climate, chemistry of the atmosphere and precipitation, land cover and land use — on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe.

Wårlind, D., Smith, B., Hickler, T., and Arneth, A.: Nitrogen feedbacks increase future terrestrial ecosystem carbon uptake in an individual - based dynamic vegetation model, Biogeosciences, 11, 6131 - 6146, doi: 10.5194 / bg -11-6131-2014, 2014 link

Prognostic models of terrestrial carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystem processes are central for any consideration of the effects of environmental change and analysis of mitigation strategies; moreover, these demands will become even more significant as countries begin to adopt carbon emission targets.

«Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change» When trying to position the Amazon tipping point on the scale of the global temperature rise, one of the most - often cited studies is one from the year 2009, performed by a team of researchers of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, led by Chris Jones and published in Nature Geoscience.

Mohan K. Wali et al., «Assessing Terrestrial Ecosystem Sustainability,» Nature & Resources, October — December 1999, pp. 21 — 33.

It's not even about the Amazon specifically, but rather the entire world, titled «Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change», but it's this study that led to headlines, shortly before the big UN climate conference in Copenhagen that same year, of how unabated climate change could wipe out most of the world's largest remaining rainforest.

Supposing that ever gets implemented, what do you think that will do to the incentive to maximize terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage, with it's many ancillary benefits, or to slowing the burning of fossil fuels?

It is well understood by those who study terrestrial ecosystem dynamics that there are multiple limiting factors on growth.

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Funding for work on both papers was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy - Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna has gathered an exceptional number of renowned experts over the past years with complementary research areas in microbial ecology, functional genomics and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem research.

Because tropical forests like those in the Sabah have converted large quantities atmospheric carbon into organic material — and they accomplish more of this than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

Alistair Rogers, leader of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science & Technology Group, gave the morning keynote address at the 2014 Young Researchers Symposium.

«If numbers decline — which is to be expected — this will have an impact on the whole terrestrial ecosystem,» says Prop.

Vulnerability of anaerobically protected carbon to future climate or land use change thus constitutes a yet unrecognized soil carbon - climate feedback that should be incorporated into terrestrial ecosystem models.»

«I was particularly curious of the ecological role of this root adaptation,» explained Frida Piper, a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist at the remote research center Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP) in Coyhaique, Chile.

«Late Triassic terrestrial ecosystem changes.»

The Norian Chinle Formation in the Southwestern United States provides a snapshot into an ancient terrestrial ecosystem with its famous petrified tree trunks and various plant and vertebrate remains.

Today, there is no modern terrestrial ecosystem like that of ancient Abaco, with reptiles filling the roles of largest herbivore and carnivore.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

Tropical forests convert more carbon from the atmosphere into biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

West Coast Environmental Law is working to prevent the expansion of the tar sands by opposing pipelines and tanker projects in BC in order to protect our watersheds, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, our climate, and the human communities that rely on them.

the key function of the dairy sector in the management of terrestrial ecosystems and the need to address environmental degradation and climate change, and to support biodiversity;

Tropical ecosystems, currently an important source of N2O (and NO) are often phosporus - limited rather than being N - limited like the Northern hemispheric terrestrial ecosystems.

In physical geography, a wetland is an environment at the interface between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems.

At the moment, however, there is a lack of standardized methods for determining microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems in order to produce an accurate assessment of the situation.

This data is necessary to be able to respond effectively to contamination by microplastics and the risk they pose to terrestrial ecosystems — where, after all, most plastic waste that enters the environment accumulates.

In spite of their occurrence in all terrestrial ecosystems and overall ecological importance, lichens are commonly overlooked.

Diffenbaugh and Field review the physical conditions that are likely to shape the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, showing that they will face rates of change unprecedented in the past 65 million years.

Ecologist Knute Nadelhoffer of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, wanted to explore whether nitrogen fertilization might help explain how terrestrial ecosystems store 1800 - billion kilograms of carbon each year.

Not only are the fish abundant and economically important, but they also serve as a keystone species in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, according to the researchers.

Take out the dinosaurs and in 10 or 15 million years mammals had evolved into all sorts of large forms and dominated terrestrial ecosystems.