Sentences with phrase «tropical plants on land»

Meanwhile, collaborators Dave Keeling and Stephen Piper of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, charted annual variations in atmospheric CO2 stored or released by tropical plants on land.

Not exact matches

That crop could be expanded, he says, if the new aluminum - tolerant plants could be grown on some of the 3 million hectares of tropical Mexican land where aluminum toxicity has prevented papaya cultivation.

These thicker - rooted plants employ what the authors call a «conservative» strategy — similar to that of Earth's earliest land plants — that relies on the soil fungi prevalent in wet, warm tropical and subtropical soils to provide nutrients.

You can go it alone (with the help of a park service map), but on a guided tour led by a park service ranger, you'll learn about St John's tropical forests as they identify the trees, plants and animals — deer, bats, land crabs, termites — along the way.

Human land use changes are only roughly known, based on cleared area at one side and reforestration at the other side, and the difference betzeen CO2 capturing between tropical forests and replacement by crops, or the uptake by planting new forests.

One of the problems is that bioethanol production relies on the cultivation of large amounts of plant material often on land that was formally tropical rain forest, or on land that would otherwise have been used to produce food.

Secondly, are you insane??? Tropical diseases will have a wider band around the earth with warming, bug infestations that destroy plants and trees are already having a field day, weeds are likely to overwhelm agricultural lands since they respond much better to increased co2 than do cultivated plants, weather patterns will change and everything dependent on weather will have to adjust etc. etc..

Let's just make that clear again: Cut down tropical rainforest (say in Indonesia and Malaysia), plant the land with a biofuel crop (perhaps oil palms) and because of the soil on which that forest used to grow it would take 600 hundred years for the carbon emitted from that land conversion to be balanced out by carbon savings by using that biofuel for transport.

Built on reclaimed waterfront land, the 101 - hectacre gardens comprise three separate landscapes and includes two massive (but energy - efficient) biomes designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects that contain tens of thousands of Mediterranean and tropical plants.