Reforesting and managing ecosystems have been proposed as ways to mitigate global warming and offset anthropogenic carbon emissions. The intent of our opinion piece is to provide a perspective on how well plants and ecosystems sequester carbon. The ability of individual plants and ecosystems to mine carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, …
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume : (2018). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14559 Sites: CA-Man, CA-NS1, CA-NS2, CA-NS3, CA-NS4, CA-NS5, CA-NS6, CA-NS7, CA-Qfo, CA-SF1, CA-SF2, CA-SF3, US-AR1, US-AR2, US-ARc, US-ARM, US-Blo, US-GBT, US-GLE, US-HAR, US-KS2, US-Me1, US-MMS, US-Myb, US-NC1, US-NC2, US-PFa, US-Snd, US-SRG, US-Ton, US-Tw1, US-Tw2, US-Tw3, US-Twt, US-Var, US-WCr
Microbial carbon degradation and methanogenesis in wetland soils
generate a large proportion of atmospheric methane, a highly potent greenhouse
gas. Despite their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, knowledge about
methane-consuming methanotrophs is often limited to lower-resolution single-gene
surveys that fail to …
Journal: mBio, Volume 9 (6): e00815-18 (2018). DOI: 10 .1128/mBio.00815-18 Sites: US-OWC
Hummock-hollow microtopography is a unique feature ofwetland ecosystems, but our understanding ofits effects on soil carbon and nutrient cycling is limited. We investigated effects of microtopography on hydrology, phenol oxidase activity (POX) and nutrient availability in a freshwater forested wetland of coastal North Carolina. Water …
Journal: Wetlands, Volume : 1-11 (2018), ISBN 1943-6246. DOI: 10.1007 Sites: US-NC4
Journal: Vadose Zone Journal, Volume 17 (1): 0 (2018). DOI: doi:10.2136/vzj2018.07.0129 Sites: US-Rls, US-Rms, US-Rws
Journal: Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, Volume 115 (37): E8604-E8613 (2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1800236115 Sites: US-Rls, US-Rms, US-Rws
Upscaling water use of individual trees to stands using sap flux techniques is a common method for partitioning site water balance, but few such studies have occurred in the tropics. Increasing interests in the role of tropical forests in global cycles have spurred upscaling studies in natural tropical forests, which present challenges …
Journal: Ecohydrology, Volume 11 (3): e1920 (2018). DOI: 10.1002/eco.1920 Sites: CR-SoC
Photosynthetic parameters are key for predicting the carbon cycle and fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. In northern high-latitude regions where cold temperatures limit available nitrogen for plants, the photosynthetic parameters are tightly linked with the nitrogen content. Here, we present the leaf- and ecosystem-scale photosynthetic …
Journal: journal of Agricultural Meteorology, Volume 74 (2): 79-86 (2018). DOI: Sites: US-Rpf, US-Uaf
Temperate and boreal conifer forests are dormant for many months during the cold season. Climate change is altering the winter environment, with increased temperature, altered precipitation, and earlier snowmelt in many locations. If significant enough, these changes may alter patterns of dormancy and activity of evergreens. Here …
Journal: Agricultural And Forest Meteorology, Volume 252: 241-255 (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.01.025 Sites: US-NR1
Landscape carbon (C) flux estimates help assess the ability of terrestrial ecosystems to buffer further increases in anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Advances in remote sensing have led to coarse‐scale estimates of gross primary productivity (GPP; e.g., MODIS 17), yet efforts to develop spatial respiration products …
Journal: Journal Of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Volume 123 (10): 3231-3249 (2018). DOI: 10.1029/2018JG004613 Sites: US-NR1
Ecosystems where carbon fluxes are being monitored on a global scale are strongly biased
toward temperate Northern Hemisphere latitudes. However, forest and moorland ecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere may contribute significantly to the global and regional C balance and are affected by different climate systems. Here, we present …
Journal: Ecosphere, Volume 9 (4): e02193 (2018). DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2193 Sites: CL-SDF