David J Beerling
Biographic Data
| ID | 6232869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Beerling |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Beerling |
| SIGNATURE | BEERLING D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1869-4314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical needs to close monitoring gaps in pan-tropical wetland CH 4 emissions
Global wetlands are the largest and most uncertain natural source of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ). The FLUXNET-CH 4 synthesis initiative has established a global network of flux tower infrastructure, offering valuable data products and fostering a dedicated community for the measurement and analysis of methane flux data. Existing studies using the FLUXNET-CH 4 Community Product v1.0 have provided invaluable insights into the drivers of ecosystem-t…
Question-Led Innovation
When upscaling novel techniques for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), public attitudes are crucial, yet there is a serious lack of social science research outside of Western nations. CDR research can clearly benefit from maximising inclusion and opening up to diverse perspectives, including those of local communities, and ideally should involve public insight into the questions we should be prioritising. This paper reports results from a major delibe…
The role of enhanced rock weathering deployment with agriculture in limiting future warming and protecting coral reefs
Meeting the net-zero carbon emissions commitments of major economies by mid-century requires large-scale deployment of negative emission technologies (NETs). Terrestrial enhanced rock weathering on croplands (ERW) is a NET with co-benefits for agriculture, soils and ocean acidification that creates opportunities for generating income unaffected by diminishing carbon taxes as emissions approach net-zero. Here we show that ERW deployment with cropl…
Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals
Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial enhanced weathering (TEW), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). We assess the opportunities and risks associated with these options through the lens of their potential impacts on ecosystem services (Nature's Contributions to People; NCPs) and the United N…
Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics
Increasing atmospheric methane (CH 4 ) concentrations have contributed to approximately 20% of anthropogenic climate change. Despite the importance of CH 4 as a greenhouse gas, its atmospheric growth rate and dynamics over the past two decades, which include a stabilization period (1999–2006), followed by renewed growth starting in 2007, remain poorly understood. We provide an updated estimate of CH 4 emissions from wetlands, the largest natural …
Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ∼500 GtC fossil fuel emissions a…
A multi-model analysis of risk of ecosystem shifts under climate change
Climate change may pose a high risk of change to Earth’s ecosystems: shifting climatic boundaries may induce changes in the biogeochemical functioning and structures of ecosystems that render it difficult for endemic plant and animal species to survive in their current habitats. Here we aggregate changes in the biogeochemical ecosystem state as a proxy for the risk of these shifts at different levels of global warming. Estimates are based on simu…
The Emerald Planet
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2oC or 8oC over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking into the distant past, for a comparison with the world long before the rise of mankind. We may currently believe that atmospheric shifts, l…
Variations in the carbon isotope composition of late-Holocene plant macrofossils
Stable carbon isotope measurements (δ 13 C) made on Quaternary sequences of terrestrial plant subfos sils are frequently used to infer palaeoclimatic trends. However, differential decomposition of individual con stituents during incorporation of plant material into lake sediments could influence these interpretations. There fore, we investigated down-core variations in the carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C) of subfossil leaves of Salix herbacea …
A Holocene CO2 record from the stomatal index of subfossil Salix herbacea L. leaves from northern Sweden
A stomatal-based method of palaeo-CO 2 estimation has been applied to a temporally detailed sequence of leaves from a high-latitude lake (68°N) in northern Sweden spanning the last 9000 years. The resulting atmospheric CO 2 reconstruction documents the onset of a gradual increase c. 5000 years before present indicating that the carbon cycle has not been in steady state over this time. Stable carbon isotope (δ 13 C) measurements of the subfossil l…
Stomatal Density as an Indicator of Atmospheric CO 2 Concentration
Examining the response of stomatal densities to changing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations is an important element in understanding whole plant responses because it effects both water use efficiency and rate of carbon uptake. These two physiological processes have a major influence on the productivity of vegetation. Methods and sources of material that may be used for making stomatal counts are reviewed. The response of stomatal density to changing…
A Holocene CO2 record from the stomatal index of subfossil Salix herbacea L. leaves from northern Sweden
A stomatal-based method of palaeo-CO 2 estimation has been applied to a temporally detailed sequence of leaves from a high-latitude lake (68°N) in northern Sweden spanning the last 9000 years. The resulting atmospheric CO 2 reconstruction documents the onset of a gradual increase c. 5000 years before present indicating that the carbon cycle has not been in steady state over this time. Stable carbon isotope (δ 13 C) measurements of the subfossil l…
Stomatal Density as an Indicator of Atmospheric CO 2 Concentration
Examining the response of stomatal densities to changing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations is an important element in understanding whole plant responses because it effects both water use efficiency and rate of carbon uptake. These two physiological processes have a major influence on the productivity of vegetation. Methods and sources of material that may be used for making stomatal counts are reviewed. The response of stomatal density to changing…
A Holocene CO2 record from the stomatal index of subfossil Salix herbacea L. leaves from northern Sweden
A stomatal-based method of palaeo-CO 2 estimation has been applied to a temporally detailed sequence of leaves from a high-latitude lake (68°N) in northern Sweden spanning the last 9000 years. The resulting atmospheric CO 2 reconstruction documents the onset of a gradual increase c. 5000 years before present indicating that the carbon cycle has not been in steady state over this time. Stable carbon isotope (δ 13 C) measurements of the subfossil l…
Variations in the carbon isotope composition of late-Holocene plant macrofossils
Stable carbon isotope measurements (δ 13 C) made on Quaternary sequences of terrestrial plant subfos sils are frequently used to infer palaeoclimatic trends. However, differential decomposition of individual con stituents during incorporation of plant material into lake sediments could influence these interpretations. There fore, we investigated down-core variations in the carbon isotope composition (δ 13 C) of subfossil leaves of Salix herbacea …
The Emerald Planet
Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2oC or 8oC over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking into the distant past, for a comparison with the world long before the rise of mankind. We may currently believe that atmospheric shifts, l…
Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ∼500 GtC fossil fuel emissions a…
A multi-model analysis of risk of ecosystem shifts under climate change
Climate change may pose a high risk of change to Earth’s ecosystems: shifting climatic boundaries may induce changes in the biogeochemical functioning and structures of ecosystems that render it difficult for endemic plant and animal species to survive in their current habitats. Here we aggregate changes in the biogeochemical ecosystem state as a proxy for the risk of these shifts at different levels of global warming. Estimates are based on simu…
Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics
Increasing atmospheric methane (CH 4 ) concentrations have contributed to approximately 20% of anthropogenic climate change. Despite the importance of CH 4 as a greenhouse gas, its atmospheric growth rate and dynamics over the past two decades, which include a stabilization period (1999–2006), followed by renewed growth starting in 2007, remain poorly understood. We provide an updated estimate of CH 4 emissions from wetlands, the largest natural …
Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals
Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial enhanced weathering (TEW), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). We assess the opportunities and risks associated with these options through the lens of their potential impacts on ecosystem services (Nature's Contributions to People; NCPs) and the United N…
The role of enhanced rock weathering deployment with agriculture in limiting future warming and protecting coral reefs
Meeting the net-zero carbon emissions commitments of major economies by mid-century requires large-scale deployment of negative emission technologies (NETs). Terrestrial enhanced rock weathering on croplands (ERW) is a NET with co-benefits for agriculture, soils and ocean acidification that creates opportunities for generating income unaffected by diminishing carbon taxes as emissions approach net-zero. Here we show that ERW deployment with cropl…
Critical needs to close monitoring gaps in pan-tropical wetland CH 4 emissions
Global wetlands are the largest and most uncertain natural source of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ). The FLUXNET-CH 4 synthesis initiative has established a global network of flux tower infrastructure, offering valuable data products and fostering a dedicated community for the measurement and analysis of methane flux data. Existing studies using the FLUXNET-CH 4 Community Product v1.0 have provided invaluable insights into the drivers of ecosystem-t…
Question-Led Innovation
When upscaling novel techniques for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), public attitudes are crucial, yet there is a serious lack of social science research outside of Western nations. CDR research can clearly benefit from maximising inclusion and opening up to diverse perspectives, including those of local communities, and ideally should involve public insight into the questions we should be prioritising. This paper reports results from a major delibe…
Ecology (9 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Geology (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Ecosystem (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 works) · Climatology (4 works) · Global warming (4 works)