Some of the oldest life forms in our biosphere were microorganisms known as“hydrogenotrophic methanogens”that particularly benefited from the atmospheric composition of the time. Feeding on the CO2 (carbon dioxide) and H2 (dihydrogen) that abounded in the atmosphere (with H2 representing between 0.0...
Tree carbon storageBiodiversity indicesIn the present study, the tree species phytosociological attributes, tree density, basal area, and tree biomass carbon (above- and below-ground) distribution pattern was explored in the undisturbed and disturbed forest sites in Dibru-Saikhowa biosphere reserve ...
They were found dead, clustered near an emergency exit, the only place where the biosphere's glass let in the ultraviolet light bees use to navigate, Rand said. "Even this seemingly very controlled experiment still had problems with biodiversity," Rand said. That's a powerful lesson the ...
2014). Then later, when the carbon price is ramped up, producers and consumers are in a position to shift more easily to those alternatives, making the higher price economically less disruptive. Further support for this “climate
Bacteriophages (so-called phages) are considered the most diverse and abundant biological entities in the biosphere [1]. The estimated number of bacteriophage particles in nature is around 1031. Thereby, the relevant role of these viruses, which infect bacterial cells, cannot be neglected in several...
levels. MPI-OM is used with a bi-polar grid at 1.5∘∘horizontal resolution and 40 vertical levels. The main conceptual differences to the predecessor model ECHAM5/MPI-OM [40,41], which was applied in CMIP3, are the fully coupled carbon cycle and the stratosphere resolved up to 0.01 ...
the epiphyte bucket remains saturated, or near-saturated, most of the time; thus, epiphytes (particularly vascular epiphytes) can store little precipitation, limiting their impact on the forest canopy water budget. We present evidence that contradicts this common assumption from (i) an examination ...
Trees and forests contain significant carbon, in the trees themselves as well as in the soil and other vegetation, and are therefore globally very important to the carbon cycle and as part of the planet’s greenhouse gas balance. The effective management of trees and forests is important for ...
While existing forums of global tobacco land change such as IDRC are valuable, they would perhaps need to be refocused from a national level (stressing rural development) to a planetary/biosphere level (stressing land stewardship), and, additionally, be remodelled so as to become part of much...