Terrestrial responses

Predicting the effect of the terrestrial vegetation response to C02-induced climate change for a particular site involves explicit treatment of feedbacks. These are diagramed in Figure 3. The balance between decomposition + autotrophic respiration and gross primary production (GPP) determines the net storage and release of carbon to atmosphere. Climate meets each of these... 

Figure 3. Feedbacks in terrestrial ecosystem responses to C02-induced climate change. Arrows with plus signs (-I-) indicate processes that have positive effects or that increase the rates of other processes. Arrows with minus signs (—) indicate processes that have the opposite effects.

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The lateral diverticulum cells in semi-terrestrial species such as toads can still detect a wide range of amino acids, comparable to the properties of fish neuroepithelium. Both water-soluble and volatile odourants are discriminated by the olfactory neurones of the Clawed toad (Xenopus) (Iida and Kashiwayanagi, 1999). When single olfactory neurones were tested with acidic, neutral and basic amino acids, over 50% of the receptors gave some excitatory response. 

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