Sentences with phrase «terrestrial ecosystem responses»

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Important areas are interannual variability in terrestrial fluxes and the interplay of warming, management, and CO2 enrichment responses at the ecosystem scale.

The structure of terrestrial ecosystems, which respond on even longer time - scales, is determined by the integrated response to changes in climate and to the intermediate time - scale carbon - nutrient machinery.

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

Amazon forests represent the world's largest terrestrial biome and potentially the tropical ecosystem most vulnerable to abrupt change in response to future climate change in concert with agricultural development (e.g., Cox et al., 2000; Lenton et al., 2008; Zelazowski et al., 2011).

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

Vegetation / ecosystem modelling and analysis project: comparing biogeography and biogeochemistry models in a continental - scale study of terrestrial responses to climate change and CO2 doubling.

Ecosystem responses to past rainfall variability in the Sahel are potentially useful as an analogue of future climate change impacts, in the light of projections that extreme drought - affected terrestrial areas will increase from 1 % to about 30 % globally by the 2090s (Burke et al., 2006).