Research project NG| Carbon Loss In Plants, Soils and Oceans (CALIPSO)
CALIPSO is aimed at understanding the fate of future CO2 and climate change through a new representation of carbon loss pathways from plants, soils and ocean, by leveraging novel observations, theoretical understanding, machine learning tools and integration of processes with Earth system models
Project description
The physics-based models used for future climate projections predict a weakening of both land and ocean carbon uptake capacity in response to a warming climate, resulting in a steeper rise in atmospheric CO2. Many known terrestrial and marine ecosystem processes that could reinforce or weaken this carbon-climate feedback are missing or poorly represented in current models. Thus, the key research question being addressed by the CALIPSO researchers focuses on the extent to which the natural carbon cycle may be destabilized by climate change. To better understand how increasingly frequent extreme events may trigger a destabilization of biological carbon reservoirs, the CALIPSO project develops biologically accurate representations of how climate change will impact the mortality and resilience of trees following drought and fire, the efficiency of diverse soil microbial communities that decompose organic matter, and the recycling and deep export of ocean carbon resulting from activities of viruses and diverse zooplankton communities.
Project members
Project managers
Stefano Manzoni
Universitetslektor, docent
Members
Gustaf Hugelius
Professor
Stefano Manzoni
Universitetslektor, docent