Biotic feedbacks in the global climatic system: will the warming feed the warming?

Abstract

Part I: Global Warming: Perspectives from Land and Sea 1. Biotic feedbacks from the arming of the earth 2. Climatically important biogenic gases and feedbacks on global climatic change Part II: Biotic Processes and Potential Feedbacks 3. Plant physiological responses to elevated CO temperature, air pollution and UV-B radiation 4. On the potential for a CO fertilization effect in forest trees: An assessment of 58 controlled-exposure studies and estimates of the biotic growth factor 5. Indicators of climatic and biospheric change: Evidence from tree-rings 6. Global climate change: Disturbance regimes and biospheric feedbacks of temperate and boreal forests 7. Permafrost and vegetation response to global warming in North Eurasia 8. Soil respiration and change in soil carbon stocks 9. The biogeochemistry of Northern peatlands and its possible responses to global warming 10. Methane output from natural and quasi-natural sources 11. Linkages between carbon and nitrogen cycling and their implication for storage of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems 12. Biofeedback in the ocean in response to climate change 13. Net carbon metabolism of oceanic margins and estuaries 14. Biogenic dimethyl sulphide, marine aerosol and climate 15. Implications of increased solar UVB for aquatic ecosystems Part III. Global Carbon Budgets, Models and Geophysical Constraints 16. Modelling interactions of carbon dioxide, forests, and climate 17. Vegetation geography and global carbon storage changes 18. CO climate feedbacks 19. Effects of land-use change 20. Storage versus flux budgets 21. Perturbations to the biospheric carbon cycle Part IV: Biotic Feedbacks in the Global Climatic System 22. What we need to know 23. Will the arming feed the warming Index