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Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon Fluxes Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon Fluxes Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Towards the Balance and Management of the Carbon Budget of the
Biosphere The current state of misunderstanding of the global C
cycle and our failure to resolve an issue that has been debated for
100 years (Jones and Henderson-Sellers, 1990) speaks loudly about
the limitations of modem science when faced with the complexity of
the biosphere. Efforts to understand and balance the global C
budget have gone through several phases. First was a holistic view
of the C budget as part of efforts to understand the geochemistry
of the Earth (e. g. , Clarke, 1908). Next, came a period of data
collection and sythesis which focused on the diversity of sectors
of the biosphere. This phase culminated in the early 1970's with
the realization that humans were greatly impacting the global C
cycle as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory (Keeling et al. ,
1973). New syntheses of the global C budget emerged at this time
(Woodwell and Pacan, 1973; Bolin et al. , 1979). The next phase was
one of controversy and intense focus on particular sectors of the
biosphere. The controversy rested on discrepancies about the role
of the terrestrial biota in the global C cycle and the failure to
account for sufficient C sinks to absorb all the C emitted by
land-use change in the tropics (Woodwell et al. , 1978, 1983;
Houghton et al. , 1983).
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