I contacted GBC about this back in October 2020. I am posting the correction / corregendum here. In the paper “The Global Distribution of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Terrestrial Natural Ecosystems” by Davies‐Barnard, T., & Friedlingstein, P. (Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2020, 34(3), e2019GB006387), a bug in code was found that affected the 75% interquartile range …
It’s peas and beans and clover, right? That is what most of us know about biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). BNF actually encompasses a huge range of microbes living in places as diverse as the soil, mosses, plant nodules, dead wood, plant stems and leaves, lichens, and leaf litter. BNF is usually separated into a false …
Nitrogen is a key component of the terrestrial carbon cycle, and the latest versions of vegetation models in land surface models include nitrogen. After being part of the team that implemented nitrogen into JULES, I am currently working on extending this nitrogen component to account for mycorrhizal fungi.
How much water can the vegetation canopy hold and how should models parameterise this? It sounds like a simple question, but nothing could be further from the truth. In models, the representation of the canopy interception capacity varies quite a bit from the measured values in the literature – by as much as a factor …
How has terrestrial biodiversity changed over time? Previous modelling studies of vegetation have generally used a small number of plant functional types to understand how the terrestrial biosphere responds to climate changes. Whilst being useful for understanding first order climate feedbacks, this climate-envelope approach makes a lot of assumptions about past vegetation being very similar …
The net impact of the terrestrial biosphere on climate over the glacial-interglacial cycle has been speculated upon and modeled at low resolution (e.g. with only 51° longitude). Given the spatial heterogeneity of biogeophysical (e.g. albedo) effects, it is important to consider finer spatial scales and distinguish between biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects to fully understand the …
Afforestation and future climate; should we be re-evaluating its role in climate change mitigation policy? Global land use change and its interaction with the climate system is recognised as an important component of the IPCC future climate scenarios. The full effects of carbon and non-carbon impacts of land use change in the representative concentration pathways …
Our latest paper, Quantifying the relative importance of land cover change from climate and land use in the representative concentration pathways, is published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles. The link to the official publishers version is here. You can find the abstract listed there. In this paper, we disassemble the contributions of LULCC, CILCC and accumulation …
I’m generally (though not exclusively) interested in biogeophysical changes to the land surface. What does this mean? Well, there are two ways that the land surface can affect the climate. One is the biogeochemical, the other is biogeophysical. The difference is this: Biogeochemical generally means changes in greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide …
This paper is published in Philosophical Transactions A and provides a full explanation of the concept of crop albedo bio-geoengineering, as well as how it compares to other geoengineering proposals. See the full paper, Singarayer and Davies-Barnard 2012. The intention of this review is to place crop albedo biogeoengineering in the wider picture of climate …
