Global Biomass Variation and Its Geodynamic Effects: 1982–98

Global biomass variation and its geodynamic effects, 1982-1998

Redistribution of mass near Earth’s surface alters its rotation, gravity field, and geocenter location. Advanced techniques for measuring these geodetic variations now exist, hut the ability to attribute the observed modes to individual Earth system processes has been hampered by a shortage of reliable * Corresponding author address: M. Rodell, Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space F...

Temperature explains global variation in biomass among humid oldgrowth forests

Methods We developed a new approach to modelling the aboveground biomass of old-growth forest (AGBmax) based on the influences of temperature on gross primary productivity (GPP) and what we call total maintenance cost (TMC), which includes autotrophic respiration as well as leaf, stem and other plant construction required to maintain biomass. We parameterized the models with measured carbon flu...

GLOBAL GEODYNAMIC EFFECt OF THE MACQUARIE RIDGE EARTHQUAKE

Besides generating seismic waves, which eventually dissipate, an earthquake also generates a static displacement field everywhere within the Earth. This global displacement field rearranges the Earth's mass distribution, using the Earth's rotational properties and gravitational field to change. The size of these changes depends, in general, upon the size of the earthquake. The Macquarie Ridge e...

Global Biodiversity and Its Variation in Space and Time

genetic variation for salinity tolerance and its association with biomass production in cultivated chickpea genotypes

in this study, salinity tolerance of 51 kabuli chickpea genotypes was investigated at vegetative growth phase using 4.5 and 6.5 ds/m salt solution (by adding nacl to 1/2 hoagland solution) and 1/2 hoagland solution (ec= 1.7 ds/m) as control treatment. a split plot design was used in this experiment where the main plot was salinity treatments and the sub plot was genotypes. treatments continued ...