Tag Archive: climate change

Research brief: Nutrient availability framework accurately forecasts plant growth from CO2 fertilisation effect

May 30, 2019 10:31 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Nutrient availability framework accurately forecasts plant growth from CO2 fertilisation effect

CLEX researchers and colleagues revisit the quasi-equilibrium analytical framework introduced by Comins and McMurtrie (1993) and explore the consequences of specific model assumptions for ecosystem net primary productivity (NPP).

Research brief: Towards reliable extreme weather and climate event attribution

May 29, 2019 2:02 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Towards reliable extreme weather and climate event attribution

New work published in Nature Communications develops a correction method that ensures the probability of climate extremes in the model simulations are consistent with real-world observations. In addition, it also corrects the rate of the long-term changes and the inter-annual variability so that it is consistent with observations.

Research brief: Data assimilation produces more realistic representation of Antarctic warming

May 13, 2019 2:57 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Data assimilation produces more realistic representation of Antarctic warming

New research confirms the long-term cooling over Antarctica during the last millennium and the delayed onset of anthropogenic warming are found in simulations that assimilate palaeoclimate data. This is not evident in simulations without data assimilation.

Climate extremes explain 18%-43% of global crop yield variations

May 2, 2019 1:24 pm Published by Comments Off on Climate extremes explain 18%-43% of global crop yield variations

CLEX researchers and colleagues from Australia, Germany and the US have quantified the effect of climate extremes, such as droughts or heatwaves, on the yield variability of staple crops around the world. Overall, year-to-year changes in climate factors during the growing season of maize, rice, soy and spring wheat accounted for 20%-49% of yield fluctuations, according to research published in Environmental Research Letters.

Marine & Antarctic Studies Seminar: Seaweed and seagrass in the future ocean: impacts, opportunities and solutions

March 11, 2019 4:30 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Coastal ecosystems such as seagrass beds and seaweed communities are facing rapidly changing ocean conditions due to ocean warming, ocean acidification and eutrophication. The three speakers will talk about different approaches to understand the effects that the projected future ocean conditions will have on seaweeds and seagrasses, including omics techniques and field and laboratory based experiments. The speakers will also discuss opportunities to utilise marine macrophytes to mitigate impacts of climate change and salmon aquaculture and highlight how current research... View Article