Sentences with phrase «total ecosystem carbon»

Not exact matches

The difference between intake and output — just 1 to 2 percent of the total carbon going into ecosystems — accounts for the amount of carbon fixed in things like the trunks of Biosphere 2's cottonwoods.

Arctic and boreal ecosystems carry about one - third of total global soil carbon, where plant matter takes a long time to decay in the cold weather.

The microbial life of subglacial ecosystems exists in total darkness and relies on relict carbon within subglacial sediments to persist.

These characteristics included morphometric, geographic, and historical properties of study reservoirs (i.e., depth, residence time, volume, surface area, age, and latitude), biologically significant water column solute concentrations (i.e., NO3 — , total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon), and metrics of ecosystem primary productivity (i.e., trophic status and mean or modeled surface water chlorophyll a concentrations; see the supplemental materials for a complete list of the tested variables).

To look at the broader benefits of carbon finance, it would be better to use total revenue rather than net income as well as incorporate some of the other ecosystem services afforded by intact forest.

Further motivations for incorporating tree richness into planted forests include the contribution of diversity to total forest carbon - pool development, carbon - pool stability and the provision of extra ecosystem services.

In addition to the total value (US$) of PES programs, this new analysis, which is based on data from Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace, also tracks the total number, size, and geography of programs across three sectors — biodiversity, water, and forest carbon.

Total carbon storage in upland and wetland ecosystems in the state is expected to increase from 3.7 million metric tons of carbon per year prior to 2009 to up to 34 million metric tons per year through the end of the century.