What Is the Role of the Eurasian Forests Under a Warming Climate?
The Eurasian forests are an important component in the earth’s climate system: Forests contain a lot of carbon in the vegetation and in the soil. But their role under warming conditions is still unclear – on the one hand, a higher CO 2 level in the air acts like a fertilizer for plants that grow and...
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ftopenresearchl:oai:biblioboard.com:3ab89d6c-be4d-45ab-a2a6-1066efe81d2f 2023-05-15T18:30:45+02:00 What Is the Role of the Eurasian Forests Under a Warming Climate? Heimann, Martin 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z video/mp4 https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/3ab89d6c-be4d-45ab-a2a6-1066efe81d2f https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10213 English eng Latest Thinking https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/3ab89d6c-be4d-45ab-a2a6-1066efe81d2f doi:https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10213 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode CC-BY-NC-ND MODID-5bb4149a01c:Latest Thinking VIDEO 2014 ftopenresearchl https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10213 2021-03-17T09:53:10Z The Eurasian forests are an important component in the earth’s climate system: Forests contain a lot of carbon in the vegetation and in the soil. But their role under warming conditions is still unclear – on the one hand, a higher CO 2 level in the air acts like a fertilizer for plants that grow and thus store more CO ">2 in the form of carbon. On the other hand, microbes that like warmer temperatures bring the soil to decompose faster and release even more CO ">2 and methane. To monitor long-term biogeochemical changes, a German-Russian research collaboration established an observatory in the Siberian taiga. Since 2006, the regional effects of global warming are studied from the Zotino Tall Tower Observatory. As MARTIN HEIMANN explains in this video, two of the main findings of the long-term measurements are that currently the western Siberian forests store more carbon than they release. However, due to the many bogs the region is also a source of methane, another important greenhouse gas. Moving Image (Video) taiga Open Research Library Latest Thinking |
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The Eurasian forests are an important component in the earth’s climate system: Forests contain a lot of carbon in the vegetation and in the soil. But their role under warming conditions is still unclear – on the one hand, a higher CO 2 level in the air acts like a fertilizer for plants that grow and thus store more CO ">2 in the form of carbon. On the other hand, microbes that like warmer temperatures bring the soil to decompose faster and release even more CO ">2 and methane. To monitor long-term biogeochemical changes, a German-Russian research collaboration established an observatory in the Siberian taiga. Since 2006, the regional effects of global warming are studied from the Zotino Tall Tower Observatory. As MARTIN HEIMANN explains in this video, two of the main findings of the long-term measurements are that currently the western Siberian forests store more carbon than they release. However, due to the many bogs the region is also a source of methane, another important greenhouse gas. |
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