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Author : David Beerling,F. Ian Woodward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521801966
An analysis of the Earth's vegetations and carbon cycle in the past and predictions for the future.
Author : D. J. Beerling,F. I. Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biogeochemistry
ISBN : 051104772X
Using knowledge of present day vegetation processes and models of global climate, the authors simulate and analyse changes in the earth's vegetation and in the capacity of the Earth's carbon cycle over the past 400 million years. Possible conditions in future centuries are also investigated, providing valuable predictions.
Author : G. M. Woodwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951000151951I
The carbon dioxide problem. Classification and mapping of plant communities: a review with emphasis on tropical vegetation. Organic carbon in soils of the world. Soil organic matter: a source of atmospheric CO2. Remote sensing to measure the distribution and structure of vegetation. Remote sensing for monitoring vegetation: an emphasis on satellites. Coupling remotely sensed data to ground observations. The LACIE experiment in satellite aided monitoring of global crop production. Measurement of changes in the vegetation of the earth by satellite imagery.
Author : Global Terrestrial Observing System (Organization),Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 9251048010
The term 'terrestrial carbon' refers to carbon contained in vegetation or soil stocks. The global carbon cycle plays an important role in sustaining agricultural productivity, biodiversity and forest ecosystems processes. This report presents the results of a workshop, held in Canada in February 2000 and organised by the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) in collaboration with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The workshop was designed to review existing data and observation requirements regarding terrestrial carbon, identify major gaps and propose solutions.
Author : Allen M. Solomon,Herman H. Shugart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461528166
During the summer of 1987, a series of discussions I was held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (nASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, to plan a study of global vegetation change. The work was aimed at promoting the Interna tional Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), sponsored by the International Council of Scientific Unions (lCSU), of which nASA is a member. Our study was designed to provide initial guidance in the choice of approaches, data sets and objectives for constructing global models of the terrestrial biosphere. We hoped to provide substantive and concrete assistance in formulating the working plans of IGBP by involving program planners in the development and application of models which were assembled from available data sets and modeling ap proaches. Recent acceptance of the "nASA model" as the starting point for endeavors of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Core Project of the IGBP suggests we were successful in that aim. The objective was implemented by our initiation of a mathematical model of global vegetation, including agriculture, as defined by the forces which control and change vegetation. The model was to illustrate the geographical consequences to vegetation structure and functioning of changing climate and land use, based on plant responses to environmental variables. The completed model was also expected to be useful for examining international environmental policy responses to global change, as well as for studying the validity of IIASA's experimental approaches to environmental policy development.
Author : Brian Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521624800
Summarises understanding of global change interactions with terrestrial ecosystems.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Developing a Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309484527
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, "negative emissions technologies" (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change. Unlike carbon capture and storage technologies that remove carbon dioxide emissions directly from large point sources such as coal power plants, NETs remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or enhance natural carbon sinks. Storing the carbon dioxide from NETs has the same impact on the atmosphere and climate as simultaneously preventing an equal amount of carbon dioxide from being emitted. Recent analyses found that deploying NETs may be less expensive and less disruptive than reducing some emissions, such as a substantial portion of agricultural and land-use emissions and some transportation emissions. In 2015, the National Academies published Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration, which described and initially assessed NETs and sequestration technologies. This report acknowledged the relative paucity of research on NETs and recommended development of a research agenda that covers all aspects of NETs from fundamental science to full-scale deployment. To address this need, Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda assesses the benefits, risks, and "sustainable scale potential" for NETs and sequestration. This report also defines the essential components of a research and development program, including its estimated costs and potential impact.
Author : Josep G. Canadell,Diane E. Pataki,Louis F. Pitelka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540327301
This book examines the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on impacts of atmospheric, climate and land use change, and the book discusses the future challenges and the scientific frameworks to address them. Finally, the book explores fundamental new research developments and the need for stronger integration of natural and human dimensions in addressing the challenge of global change.
Author : Jerry S. Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Atmospheric carbon dioxide
ISBN : UCSD:31822016449779
Author : George M. Woodwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633198719
Author : Brian Harrison Walker,Will Steffen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521578108
This major new book presents a collection of essays by leading authorities who address the current state of knowledge. The chapters bring together the early results of an international scientific research program designed to address what will happen to our ability to produce food and fiber, and what effects there will be on biological diversity under rapid environmental change. This book addresses how these changes to terrestrial ecosystems will feed back to further environmental change. International in scope, this state-of-the-art assessment will interest policymakers, students and scientists interested in global change, climate change and biodiversity. Special features include descriptions of a dynamic global vegetation model, developing generic crop models and a special section on the emerging discipline of global ecology.
Author : T. M. L. Wigley,David Steven Schimel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521583374
Leading scientists describe how we can reduce CO2 emissions; for graduate students and researchers.
Author : H. H. Shugart,F. I. Woodward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444348347
Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what we know to solve a problem with deep historical roots in our discipline. In ecology, the question, “How do terrestrial ecosystems interact with the other earth systems to produce planetary change?” has sufficient depth to be the focal challenge. This central question is sharpened further as the changes that we may be manifesting upon our planet’s systems of land, sea, air and ice can have potential consequences for the future of human civilization. This book provides the depth of the history of global ecology and reviews the breadth of the ideas being studied today. Each chapter starts with a brief narrative about a scientist whose work traces forward into today’s issues in global ecosystems. The discussions are framed in a growing realization that we may be altering the way our planet functions almost before we have gained the necessary knowledge of how it works at all.
Author : Martin Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119393245
The first systematic examination of the role of geomorphological processes in the cycling of carbon through the terrestrial system. Argues that knowledge of geomorphological processes is fundamental to understanding the ways in which carbon is stored and recycled in the terrestrial environment Integrates classical geomorphological theory with understanding of microbial processes controlling the decomposition of organic matter Develops an interdisciplinary research agenda for the analysis of the terrestrial carbon cycle Informed by work in ecology, microbiology and biogeochemistry, in order to analyse spatial and temporal patterns of terrestrial carbon cycling at the landscape scale Considers the ways in which, as Humanity enters the Anthropocene, the application of this science has the potential to manage the terrestrial carbon cycle to limit increases in atmospheric carbon
Author : R. Nieder,D.K. Benbi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402084331
Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of C and N fluxes between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere; issues related to C and N management in different ecosystems and their implications for the environment and global climate change; and the approaches to mitigate emission of greenhouse gases. Drawing upon the most up-to-date books, journals, bulletins, reports, symposia proceedings and internet sources documenting interrelationships between different aspects of C and N cycling in the terrestrial environment, Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment fills the gap left by most of the currently available books on C and N cycling. They either deal with a single element of an ecosystem, or are related to one or a few selected aspects like soil organic matter (SOM) and agricultural or forest management, emission of greenhouse gases, global climate change or modeling of SOM dynamics.
