Ewing Symposium in Honor of Taro Takahashi: The controversial aspects of the contemporary [carbon] cycle

[摘要] This Ewing Symposium in honor of Taro Takahashi's work on the carbon cycle was held at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, on October 26-27, 2000. A program and set of abstracts are appended to this report. A summary of the meeting (included in this report) will be published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles. The theme of the symposium was the magnitude and cause of excess carbon storage on the north temperate continents. Disagreement exists on the relative roles of forest regrowth and fertilization by excess fixed nitrogen and carbon dioxide, as well as the distribution of this storage. Phenomena playing important roles include pre-anthropogenic gradients in carbon dioxide, the so-called rectification effect, uptake and release of carbon dioxide by the ocean, soil nitrogen dynamics, atmospheric carbon-13 gradients, and the role of fire.

[发布日期] 2001-12-31 [发布机构] Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY (United States)

[关键词] Forests;Storage;Fertilization;Carbon Cycle;Carbon Dioxide