Biotic Feedbacks in the Warming of the Earth   总被引：16，自引：0，他引：16  

G. M. Woodwell  F. T. Mackenzie  R. A. Houghton  M. Apps  E. Gorham  E. Davidson 《Climatic change》1998,40(3-4):495-518

A positive correlation exists between temperature and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane over the last 220,000 years of glacial history, including two glacial and three interglacial periods. A similar correlation exists for the Little Ice Age and for contemporary data. Although the dominant processes responsible may be different over the three time periods, a warming trend, once established, appears to be consistently reinforced through the further accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere; a cooling trend is reinforced by a reduction in the release of heat-trapping gases. Over relatively short periods of years to decades, the correspondence between temperature and greenhouse gas concentrations may be due largely to changes in the metabolism of terrestrial ecosystems, whose respiration, including microbial respiration in soils, responds more sensitively, and with a greater total effect, to changes in temperature than does gross photosynthesis. Despite the importance of positive feedbacks and the recent rise in surface temperatures, terrestrial ecosystems seem to have been accumulating carbon over the last decades. The mechanisms responsible are thought to include increased nitrogen mobilization as a result of human activities, and two negative feedbacks: CO₂ fertilization and the warming of the earth, itself, which is thought to lead to an accumulation of carbon on land through increased mineralization of nutrients and, as a result, increased plant growth. The relative importance of these mechanisms is unknown, but collectively they appear to have been more important over the last century than a positive feedback through warming-enhanced respiration. The recent rate of increase in temperature, however, leads to concern that we are entering a new phase in climate, one in which the enhanced greenhouse effect is emerging as the dominant influence on the temperature of the earth. Two observations support this concern. One is the negative correlation between temperature and global uptake of carbon by terrestrial ecosystems. The second is the positive correlation between temperature and the heat-trapping gas content of the atmosphere. While CO₂ fertilization or nitrogen mobilization (either directly or through a warming-enhanced mineralization) may partially counter the effects of a warming-enhanced respiration, the effect of temperature on the metabolism of terrestrial ecosystems suggests that these processes will not entirely compensate for emissions of carbon resulting directly from industrial and land-use practices and indirectly from the warming itself. The magnitude of the positive feedback, releasing additional CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O, is potentially large enough to affect the rate of warming significantly.  相似文献   

Viewing Highland Scotland: ideology, representation and the 'natural heritage'     

Fraser MacDonald 《Area》1998,30(3):237-244

Summary This paper reconsiders the role of conservation within the cultural politics of Highland Scotland. The crofting version of the natural heritage debate is regarded as counter-hegemonic to dominant discourses of conservation and the sporting estate. That view is given precedence in defining the ecology and landscape of the Highlands.  相似文献   

Monitoring Biotic And Abiotic Processes Across The Hyporheic/Groundwater Interface   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Brian G. Fraser  D. Dudley Williams  Ken W.F. Howard 《Hydrogeology Journal》1996,4(2):36-50

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Address of the president of the international hydrographic Bureau     

Rear Admiral F. L. Fraser 《Ocean Dynamics》1986,39(6):266-266

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Methane,carbon monoxide and methylchloroform in the southern hemisphere   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

P. J. Fraser  P. Hyson  R. A. Rasmussen  A. J. Crawford  M. A. K. Khalil 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1986,4(1):3-42

New observational data on CH₄, CO and CH₃CCl₃ in the southern hemisphere are reported. The data are analysed for long term trends and seasonal cycles. CH₃CCl₃ data are used to scale the OH fields incorporated in a two dimensional model, which in turn, is used to constrain the magnitude of a global CH₄ source function. The possible causes of observed seasonality of CH₃CCl₃, CH₄ and CO are identified, and several other aspects of observed CH₄ variability are discussed.Possible future research directions are also given.  相似文献   

Wave packet structure and phase jumps in low latitude Pc3 geomagnetic pulsation     

I A Ansari  B J Fraser  K J McLean 《Journal of Earth System Science》1986,95(1):13-24

An array of four low latitude induction coil magnetometer stations has been used to study the spatial and temporal characteristics of Pc3 pulsations over a longitudinal range of 17° atL=1·8 to 2·7 in south-east Australia. A preliminary study of individual Pc3 wave packet structure at the azimuthal stations has established the existence of phase jumps between wave packets at low latitudes similar to those observed at synchronous orbit and at higher latitude ground stations. However there did not appear to be any obvious pattern in phase jump occurrences between stations or signal components.  相似文献   

Spectral characteristics of low latitude Pc3 geomagnetic pulsations in south-east Australia     

I A Ansari  B J Fraser  K J McLean 《Journal of Earth System Science》1986,95(1):25-45

Geomagnetic pulsations in the Pc3 period range (10–45 sec) were recorded simultaneously in south-east Australia using an array of four low latitude induction coil magnetometers over a longitudinal range of 17° atL=1·8 to 2·7. Geomagnetic data from March 25 to September 21, 1982 were digitized and spectral studies were carried out from Grey scale digital (GSD) dynamic spectra and contour sonagrams. Similar wave spectra were generally seen at the three stationsWM, BH andNC in the same latitude with Pc3 waves mostly being observed in the 40–45 mHz band. In addition the higher latitude station (LN) also showed lower frequency Pc4 bands (≈ 10mHz) on some days but higher frequency bands (60–80mHz) on others. Sometimes completely different wave frequencies were observed on theX andY components with the stations in the same latitude generally showing similar spectra on the corresponding components. Dynamic spectra also indicated that wave energy often turned off and on abruptly over short intervals of time implying solar wind control and Pc3 pulsation activity. A band harmonic structure was occasionally seen in wave spectra at the azimuthal stations mainly on theX component during the local afternoon with a harmonic spacing (Δf) of ≈ 10 mHz.  相似文献   

Land-use and prehistory in South-East Spain,A. Gilman and J. B. Thornes,George Alien and Unwin, 1985. No. of pages: 217     

Donald A. Davidson 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1985,10(5):535-535

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Paleomagnetism of gabbros of the Early Proterozoic Blachford Lake Intrusive Suite and the Easter Island dyke,Great Slave Lake,NWT: Possible evidence for the earliest continental drift     

E. Irving  A. Davidson  J. C. McGlynn 《Surveys in Geophysics》1984,7(1):1-25

The Caribou Lake gabbro, part of the Blachford Lake Intrusive Suite accurately dated at –2186±10 mA, has a predominantNW–/SE+ magnetization with a mean, irrespective of sign, ofD=119°,I=50°, ₉₅=5° and a palaeopole 14°N, 064°W,A ₉₅=5°; it has not proved possible to determine if the magnetization is primary. The Easter Island dyke, less well-dated in the range –2200 to –2500 Ma, has a predominantWNW+ magnetization, whose mean, when corrected for an 8° tilt, isD=288°,I=46°, ₉₅=5 and palaeopole is 32°S, 2°W,A ₉₅=5°; the magnetization is probably primary. A vertical magnetization (D), not significantly different from the present field, occurs sporadically in both units and is considered to be Late Phanerozoic in age. Palaeopoles from the Caribou Lake gabbro and the Easter Island dyke, together with those already known from Early Proterozoic intrusives of the Archaean Slave Structural Province, roughly define a swath (the Slave Track) which maps the motion of the Slave Province relative to the geomagnetic axis during this interval. The corresponding array of palaeopoles (the Superior Track) from the Superior Structural Province does not fall in the same place. Hence it would appear that Slave and Superior were not in their present relative positions in the Early Proterozoic in disagreement with arguments that have been made for a fixed supercontinent during much of the Proterozoic. Mid-Proterozoic paleomagnetic signatures indicate that Slave and Superior had assumed their present relative position by about –1750 mA. These Early Proterozoic relative motions are the earliest for which there is palaeomagnetic evidence.Earth Physics Branch Contribution No. 1111.  相似文献   

Tectonic boundaries within the Grenville province of the Canadian shield     

A. Davidson 《Journal of Geodynamics》1984,1(3-5)

Recent work in a previously little-known part of the Central Gneiss Belt of the southwestern Grenville Province has outlined a regional structural pattern made by a number of geologically distinctive domains that are separated by broad ductile shear zones. Characteristics rock assemblages, metamorphism, geophysical signatures and structural trends are modified or truncated at domain margins. Bounding high strain zones contain mylonite and other forms of tectonically modified gneiss, formed under at least middle amphibolite facies conditions, within which kinematic indicators imply a northwesterly sense of overriding or lateral sliding between adjacent crustal masses. Similar kinematics also apply at the margin of the Central Metasedimentary Belt to the southeast and along the Grenville Front to the northwest. A scenario involving northwesterly stacking of large crustal blocks and slices at relatively deep level can account for the observed relationships and implies a period of crustal thickening that may represent the culmination of the Grenvillian Orogeny in this region.  相似文献