Re: Global Carbon Cycle [was RE: Number of carbon atoms in the Earth's biomass]

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 11:46:46 MDT

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    Hal's statement is only accurate if you do not count one celled
    photosynthetic organisms as plants.

    --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
    >
    > I think Hal wrote...
    > > >
    > > > 99% of the biomass is in plants, not animals or
    > > > microorganisms. 99% of the plant biomass is in land plants,
    > > > not ocean plants.
    >
    > If you do a Google on "Global Carbon Cycle" you get a *lot*
    > of references -- these look to be pretty good as starting points
    > if one wants to study the problem:
    >
    > http://www.esd.ornl.gov/iab/iab2-2.htm
    > http://www.whrc.org/science/carbon/carbon.htm
    > http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/vol4no1/carbcycle.html
    >
    > I particularly like the quote from ORNL: "Research has uncovered more
    > complexity than was previously appreciated. Researchers are unable to
    > balance all the fluxes of the global carbon cycle over the period
    > 1800 to
    > the present, and different mathematical models give results that are
    > difficult to reconcile."
    >
    > Robert
    >
    >

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