Sentences with phrase «terrestrial ecosystem research»

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.

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.

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.

Rabies Research Unit, Southern Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Section, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada.

Not exact matches

New research shows that extreme climate variability over the last century in western North America may be destabilizing both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

«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.

Initially specializing in aquatic research, the station has grown in scope to include research on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des Antilles)-- together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany — have shown that Parisian street gutters are oases of microscopic life, home to microalgae, fungi, sponges, and mollusks [1].

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.

This research is part of the U.S. Department of Energy Consortium for Research on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) which also includes researchers at Oak Ridge National Labresearch is part of the U.S. Department of Energy Consortium for Research on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) which also includes researchers at Oak Ridge National LabResearch on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE) which also includes researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

My research concerns carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly (but not exclusively) high - latitude northern ecosystems.

Dr. Alex B. Guenther, a renowned scientist in land ecosystem and atmospheric research, has joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to lead research in the interactions between terrestrial systems and climate.

Bailey currently leads a PNNL research project for DOE's Terrestrial Ecosystems Sciences program that focuses on understanding and modeling the mechanisms of carbon stabilization in soil, and associated greenhouse gas fluxes.

At PNNL, her research focuses on the microbial ecology of soils and other terrestrial ecosystems, which includes efforts to understand the carbon cycling processes of microbial communities.

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The terrestrial and reef ecosystems are fascinating and over the years we have spent a great deal of time to research these aspects of the islands and ensure that our snorkeling and scuba trips give visitors an unforgettable experience.

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 acrossTerrestrial 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 acrossterrestrial ecosystems across the globe.

The largest reservoirs of carbon on land are in the forests of the tropics and the soils of northern high latitudes, which are paradoxically, the least studied of terrestrial ecosystems, with the bulk of research effort made where most ecologists live, in the mid-latitudes.

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 toEcosystem Experiment (NGEE - Arctic), which seeks to gain a predictive understanding of the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem's feedback toecosystem's feedback to climate.

Scientists from these agencies will undertake programs in climate modelling, atmosphere radiation measurement, atmospheric science, the terrestrial carbon cycle, the ocean carbon cycle, and ecosystem research program, and finally will produce an integrated assessment, according to Dr. Raymond Orbach, the Energy Department's director of the Office of Science.

The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO2 should start to diminish as CO2 emissions increase, letting greenhouse gas levels skyrocket.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate physicist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, says that, even though CO2 emissions from fossil - fuel sources are down, global emissions overall are still increasing, mainly because of changes in terrestrial ecosystems, including deforestation in the Amazon Basin.

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.