Process and production
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Comparisons between existing and new process-based terrestrial biogeochemical models (TBMs) can help scientists better understand the dynamics underlying the global carbon cycle. The findings obtained by studies of carbon fluxes conducted by Jerry M. Melillo using the terrestrial ecosystem model are expected to pave the way for such comparisons. Meanwhile, future models should be prepared to take into consideration several other relevant factors not dealt with by present quantitative and predictive models, so that more accurate predictions of the carbon cycle can be obtained.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Back at the last interglacial
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It has been established that broad climate changes have led to alterations in regional vegetation over the past 20,000 years. Whitlock and Bartlein have analysed a 125,000 year pollen record of vegetation originating from Carp Lake in North America, and have concluded that climate variations cuase millennial-scale changes in vegetation. The findings can be used with climatic models to help understand future abrupt changes and their environmental effects.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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