doomscroller, 6 months ago to worldwithoutus

Climate Mitigation and Hope for the Cryosphere
(Starts about 4:20 in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NIZupzcEP4 #Cryosphere #BlackCarbon #Feedbacks #Greenland #Antarctica #Glaciers

doomscroller, 7 months ago to space

NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska

https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-flights-link-methane-plumes-to-tundra-fires-in-western-alaska/
#NASA #Methane #Tundra #Alaska #Arctic #ClimateChange #Feedbacks

ASNAmNat, 10 months ago to random

Does species richness ensure #resilience? Karatayev et al. show that it does not: Alternative consumer- or resource-dominated states can arise in #foodWebs with low trait #diversity or high functional redundancy. Thus diversity only limits the #feedbacks that can produce #alternativeStableStates.

Available now on the ahead of print page! https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725421

jgpausas, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to wildfirescience

Erdos et al. Biol. Rev. (2022): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12889

A nice review on the drivers shaping the huge #Eurasian #forest-steppe by Erdos et al., emphasizing #Alternative #Biome States & #feedbacks (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.11.003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.03.008)

How come I haven't seen it before?!

#ABS #steppe #forests #grasslands #fire #herbivory @ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience #BiologicalReviews