why do ecosystem carbon cycle feedbacks matter for climate
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Why do ecosystem carbon cycle feedbacks matter for climate. Ankur R Desai Ecometeorology Lab CCR-SAGE Symposium. 20 March 2012. Or… Why Climate Scientists will never hug Ecologists again. Or why CCR and SAGE need each other more than ever…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Why do ecosystem carbon cycle feedbacks matter for climate
Ankur R DesaiEcometeorology Lab
CCR-SAGE Symposium20 March 2012
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Or… Why Climate Scientists will never hug Ecologists again
Or why CCR and SAGE need each other more than ever…
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Arrhenius, S., 1896. On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground.
if the quantity of carbonic acid increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature will increase nearly in arithmetic progression
Double CO2 -> 5-6 C increase
Callendar, G.S., 1938. The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on climate. QJRMS, 64, 233-240.
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If only were it so simple…
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The Beat Goes On…
Image: They Might Be Giants
Data: NOAA/ESRL
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Biology drives Physics
Ecosystem Carbon Sink
Houghton et al. (2007)
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And we fail at modeling it…
Friedlingstein et al., 2006
Feedbacks are ubiquitous and unconstrained
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Why?
xkcd.com
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Light
Schaefer et al., submitted
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Long et al., 2006
C3 vs C4
Farquhar vs LUE
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Temperature and Humidity
Yi et al., 2011
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[N]
Janssens et al., 2010
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Indirect Climate 1: Phenology
Richardson et al., 2012
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Indirect Climate 2: Water
Sulman et al., 2012
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Forest Succession
Image: P. Curtis, Figure: Amiro et al., 2010
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Pests
Time since disturbance (years)-2 -1 1 2 3 4 50
NEP
(g C
m-2
y-1
)
-200
200
400
600
0
Mountain Pine BeetleForest Tent CaterpillarGypsy Moth
Amiro et al., 2010
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People!
Gower et al., submitted
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What else?
• Microbes, fungi, earthworms• Herbivores (deer)• Shading, resource competition• Genetic variation• Dispersal, recruitment, adaptation/evolution• Fire, extreme events, feedbacks• Acclimation• Riverine export• Ahhhh!
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It Matters…
Friedlingstein et al., 2006
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What to do?4th Paradigm: Confronting science with intensive data
www.pecanproject.orgNSF Advances in Biological InformaticsM. Dietze, A. Desai, D. LeBauer, R. Kooper