Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Carbon Sinks
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Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response
oils store about four times as much carbon as plant biomass, and soil microbial respiration releases about 60 petagrams of carbon per year to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Short-term experiments have
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Short and long-term carbon balance of bioenergy electricity production fueled by forest treatments
Forests store large amounts of carbon in forest biomass, and this carbon can be released to the atmosphere following forest disturbance or management. In the western US, forest fuel reduction treatments
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SoilGrids1km — Global soil information based on automated mapping
Soils are widely recognized as a non-renewable natural resource and as biophysical carbon sinks. As such, there is a growing requirement for global soil information. Although several global soil information
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A shift of thermokarst lakes from carbon sources to sinks during the Holocene epoch
Thermokarst lakes formed across vast regions of Siberia and Alaska during the last deglaciation and are thought to be a net source of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide during the Holocene epoch. However,
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India State of Forest Report 2013
The 2013 edition of the assessment report on India’s forest resources published by the Forest Survey of India and released by Shri Prakash Javadekar contains information on forest cover, tree cover mangroves cover & growing stock inside and outside the forest areas.Special thematic information on forest cover such as hill districts, tribal districts, and north eastern region is also given separately in the report. Click here for full text of this report.
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Quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes in agriculture and forestry: methods for entity-scale inventory
America’s farm, ranch and forest managers are stewards of the land, and have long recognized the significance of managing soil health, plant productivity and animal nutrition. Conservation practices and
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Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels
Plants in most biomes are thought to be living at their hydraulic limits, and alterations to precipitation patterns consistent with climate change trends are causing die-back in forests across the globe.
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Kenya Carbon Credit Tree Protection Program to Grow Fivefold
Wildlife Works Carbon LLC, a U.S.- based business selling carbon credits in the voluntary market generated by forest conservation, plans to expand fivefold the biodiversity-rich areas it protects in Kenya.
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Bottom feeding fish helping the fight against Global Warming
Over-fishing is already a concerning problem, but new research indicates that not only could it mean losing fish species, it could also contribute to global warming more than we'd previously thought. That's
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Intact Amazon forests show possible signs of global warming impact
Climate change may be taking a hidden toll on intact rainforests in the heart of the Amazon, finds a new study based on 35 years of observations. The research, published in the journal Ecology, focused