NASA-ISRO radar mission to provide dynamic view of forests, wetlands
NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth's forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.
NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth's forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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In a large-scale study with almost 400 partners, researchers worldwide have collected data on tree species, to which scientists from Bayreuth have contributed their knowledge about the Kilimanjaro region. The study, which ...
Ecology
Oct 24, 2023
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Plants take in CO2 to grow. They extract it from the atmosphere and use it to build organic compounds by means of photosynthesis and water. Terrestrial ecosystems have absorbed an average of about 32 percent of CO2 emissions ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2023
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Global fires have widespread impacts on the global carbon cycle and atmospheric environment with immediate direct carbon emissions. Fire carbon emission has substantial spatiotemporal variabilities and contributes to the ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2023
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Forests hold a vast amount of Earth's terrestrial carbon and play an important role in offsetting anthropogenic emissions of fossil fuels. Since 2015, the world's tropical forests can be observed regularly at an unprecedented ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 7, 2023
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In a new journal article, EPFL professor Tom Battin reviews our current understanding of carbon fluxes in the world's river networks. He demonstrates their central role in the global carbon cycle and argues for the creation ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2023
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Forests contribute an enormous carbon flux to terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, accurate estimation and prediction of forest dynamics both play an important role in understanding the carbon cycle in the background of global change. ...
Ecology
Dec 1, 2022
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Soil respiration is fundamental in terrestrial ecosystems, where plants and microbes dominate the production of carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere. The scientific understanding of the processes underpinning soil respiration ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2022
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"Streams to the river, river to the sea." If only it were that simple.
Environment
Mar 16, 2022
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The interplay between the terrestrial carbon cycle and emissions of carbon dioxide from streams and rivers into the atmosphere is at the center of a new Yale School of the Environment-led study aimed at calculating the amount ...
Environment
Mar 15, 2022
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