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Two types of tundra affect carbon balance

Two kinds of tundra differ in their capacity to store carbon dioxide, a distinction that may affect predictions of global climate change.

References:

Walker, D.A., et al. 1998. Energy and trace-gas fluxes across a soil pH boundary in the Arctic. Nature 394(July 30):469.

Further Readings:

Baskin, Y. 1994. The greening of global climate models. Earth 3(March):26.

McInnis, D. 1993. New fuel for global warming? Earth 2(November):20.

McKane, R.B., et al. 1997. Climatic effects on tundra carbon storage inferred from experimental data and a model. Ecology 78(June):1170.

______. 1997. Reconstruction and analysis of historical changes in carbon storage in arctic tundra. Ecology 78(June):1188.

Oechel, W.C., et al. 1994. Transient nature of C0₂ fertilization in arctic tundra. Nature (Oct. 6):500.

Additional information about tundra and carbon storage can be found at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Web site at http://www.atdd.noaa.gov/alfs/alfs.htm.

Sources:

Christopher B. Field
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department of Plant Biology
290 Panama Street
Stanford, CA 94305

Donald A. Walker
University of Colorado
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Campus Box 450
Boulder, CO 80309
E-mail: Donald.Walker@Colorado.EDU

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