Wisniewski / Lugo Natural Sinks of CO2

Palmas Del Mar, Puerto Rico, 24–27 February 1992
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-94-011-2793-6
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 466 Seiten, eBook

Most of the attention with respect to the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations centers around three issues: human-generated sources of carbon, mostly from burning fossil fuels; tropical deforestation, which accelerates the production of atmospheric carbon while causting havoc with biodiversity and the economic development of tropical countries; and the temperature increase that may accompany increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. This is the first book to focus extensively on the reverse to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), i.e. the sequestering of atmospheric carbon by aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Natural ecosystems are currently sequestering carbon and it is economically feasible to manage existing and additional terrestrial (forest, soil, saline land) and aquatic (coastal, wetland and ocean) ecosystems to substantially increase the level of carbon storage. The prospect of managing natural systems to absorb additional carbon should begin to change the mindset under which scientists, policy makers and society deal with the issue of further greenhouse gas increases.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wisniewski, Joe

Lugo, Ariel E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I The Importance of Carbon Sinks.- The Search for Carbon Sinks in the Tropics.- Why Understanding the Natural Sinks and Sources of CO2 is Important: A Policy Analysis Perspective.- II Effects of CO2 on Natural Systems.- The Impact of Rising CO2 on Ecosystem Production.- Field Measurements of CO2 Enhancement and Climate Change in Natural Vegetation.- Potential Effects of the Increase in Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change on the Dynamics of Vegetation.- III Managing Natural Sinks of CO2.- Effects of Forest Management on Soil Carbon Storage.- On Estimating Agriculture’s Net Contribution to Atmospheric Carbon.- Processes and Lands for Sequestering Carbon in the Tropical Forest Landscape.- Forestry Opportunities in the United States to Mitigate the Effects of Global Warming.- Should We Store Carbon in Trees?.- The Potential Role of Temperate Forests as Sinks for CO2 — Examples from the German Environmental Policy against Global Warming.- Estimating the Global Potential of Forest and Agroforest Management Practices to Sequester Carbon.- Forest Fertilization: Its Potential to Increase the CO2 Storage Capacity and to Alleviate the Decline of the Global Forests.- The Use of Halophytes to Sequester Carbon.- Carbon Sinks in Mangroves and Their Implications to Carbon Budget of Tropical Coastal Ecosystems.- Marine Algae as a CO2 Sink.- IV Modeling Carbon Fluxes.- The Response of Terrestrial C Storage to Climate Change: Modeling C Dynamics at Varying Temporal and Spatial Scales.- Changes in C Storage by Terrestrial Ecosystems: How C-N Interactions Restrict Responses to CO2 and Temperature.- Aspects of the Interaction between Vegetation and Soil under Global Change.- The Transient Response of Vegetation to Climate Change: A Potential Source of CO2 to the Atmosphere.- AGeographically-Based Ecosystem Model and Its Application to the Carbon Balance of the Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico.- Potential of Marine Macroalgae as a Sink for CO2: Constraints from a 3-D General Circulation Model of the Global Ocean.- An Approach to Assessment of Management Impacts on Agricultural Soil Carbon.- V Natural Sinks of CO2 Workshop Summary — Technical Synthesis, Conclusions, Key Findings and Research Recommendations.- Natural Sinks of CO2: Technical Synthesis from the Palmas Del Mar Workshop.- Natural Sinks of CO2: Conclusions, Key Findings and Research Recommendations from the Palmas Del Mar Workshop.- List of Participants.- Author Index.