Toward an integrated assessment of the interactions of climate change within a grassland biome: A program of measurements and modeling
- Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
The Great Plains Center for Global Environmental Change (GPRC), located at the University of Nebraska, has established a program focused on assessing the impact of climate change on a grassland biome. Primary research thrusts of the GPRC are: (1) the quantification of the consequences of climate change for managed and unmanaged ecosystems in grasslands, including assessment of the adaptive capacity of such ecosystems and any ecosystem-climate feedback; and (2) the measurement and modeling of net exchanges of energy-relevant, radiactivity-active trace gases between terrestrial grassland ecosystems and the atmosphere. The GPRC supports an integrated program involving scientists from several states and focusing on the Great Plains. It supports field-based process studies to improve understanding of the basic climate interactions with physical and biological systems. Particular emphasis is on modeling and measuring net carbon exchange in key Great Plains ecosystems. The GPRC supports development of climate change scenarios for impact analyses and the development of models to synthesize results of process studies that can estimate regional scale consequences of climate change on some aspect of the natural resources base of the Great Plains.
- OSTI ID:
- 478349
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961119-; TRN: 97:002641-0009
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Eco-informa `96: global networks for environmental information, Lake Buena Vista, FL (United States), 4-7 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of Eco-Informa `96 - global networks for environmental information. Volume 10 and 11; PB: 1103 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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