Monographic Musings from 53 Degrees North Latitude

Musings from the Editors' Desk

Winter Soil CO2 Flux from Different Mid-Latitude Sites from Middle Taihang Mountain in North China

Winter soil respiration is a very important component of the annual soil carbon flux in some ecosystems. We hypothesized that, with all other factors being equal, shorter winter SR result in reduced contribution to annual soil C flux. In this study, the contribution of winter soil respiration to annual soil respiration was measured for three sites (grassland: dominated by Artemisia sacrorum, Bo...

Holiday musings.

A M d his Editor’s Page is being written during the Christmas reak, a traditional period of family reunions, relaxation, ecreation, and reflection. It is often a time when people tep back and try to put the daily activities in which their ives are immersed into a broader perspective. In that spirit, thought I would share with you some of my musings uring this time. The first issue that occurred...

Moody's Musings.

Surprise! I bet you thought Moody’s Investors Service rated only bonds and other arcane Wall Street instruments. In fact, Moody’s also evaluates specific sectors of our economy and renders its famous score on a host of individual pharmaceutical companies. I think you’ll find my quick review of Moody’s outlook on the U.S. drug industry to be of interest.1 It should come as no shock to us that Mo...

Episodic release of CO2 from the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean during the last 135 kyr

Antarctic ice cores document glacial-interglacial and millennial-scale variability in atmospheric pCO2 over the past 800 kyr. The ocean, as the largest active carbon reservoir on this timescale, is thought to have played a dominant role in these pCO2 fluctuations, but it remains unclear how and where in the ocean CO2 was stored during glaciations and released during (de)glacial millennial-scale...