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2019-09-30 | |
发布年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 美国 |
领域 | 气候变化 |
正文(英文) | As one descends a mountain, the temperature steadily increases. A new study by a team including Andrew Nottingham, a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, took advantage of this principle to predict what would happen as tropical soils warm. The team discovered that warmer tropical soils released more car-bon, the species of soil microbes changed and microbial activity increased. A major cause for concern associated with global warming is the possibility that as soils warm, additional carbon stored in soil organic material may be released into the atmosphere. This would con-tribute to climate warming and warm the soil even more, a 'positive feedback loop,' because global warming is caused by the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere that traps heat from the sun on the Earth's surface. "If one accepts the current projections of a 4 to 8 degree Celsius increase in global temperatures during the next century, tropical soils could cause roughly a 9% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide this century," Nottingham said. "The fate of soil carbon in response to global heating remains one of the greatest sources of un-certainty in our predictions of future climate," said Patrick Meir of Australian National University in Australia and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the project's principal investigator. "Tropical soils have a particularly large influence on the global carbon cycle and are home to unique biodiversity, but their response to warming remains poorly understood." Accurate predictions of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere depend upon understand-ing the contributions from different sources. And while tropical forests may have the potential to release vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere as they warm, the effects of warming on tropical soils and the microbes that break down organic matter are poorly characterized. At four sites in the Peruvian Andes, Nottingham and colleagues removed soil cores from the ground. A set of cores stayed at the same site, while other cores were moved to sites either higher up the mountain (thus, cooler) or lower on the mountain (warmer), a 3,000-meter range equivalent to plus or minus 4 to 15 degrees Celsius. "Our study clearly shows that global warming is likely to create a powerful positive feedback loop, as the microbes and enzymes they synthesize that thrive under warmer conditions release even more carbon from the soil into the atmosphere," Nottingham said. "We need to use field experiments to investigate this further, especially in lowland tropical forests." "Quantifying the likely carbon emissions from warming soils represents a big step forward, made possible through long-term international collaboration," said Ben Turner, co-author and staff scientist at STRI. "This study indicates that tropical soils are likely to be a considerable source of carbon to the atmosphere, promoting further increases in temperature."
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Story Source: Materials provided by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Journal Reference:
Cite This Page: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. "Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils: Warming tropical soils could cause a 9% increase in atmospheric CO2 this century." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 September 2019.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. (2019, September 30). Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils: Warming tropical soils could cause a 9% increase in atmospheric CO2 this century. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 18, 2020 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190930161925.htm
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. "Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils: Warming tropical soils could cause a 9% increase in atmospheric CO2 this century." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190930161925.htm (accessed January 18, 2020).
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