Biological Weathering in the Terrestrial System

Zaharescu, Dragos G.; Burghelea, Carmen I.; Dontsova, Katerina; Reinhard, Christopher T.; Chorover, Jon; Lybrand, Rebecca A.

doi:10.1002/9781119413332.ch1

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“…Furthermore, exuded sugars, and organic acids by AM hyphae (Hooker et al, 2007;Toljander et al, 2007) uptake (Cheng et al, 2012), and enhanced soil aggregation (Rillig et al, 2015). The latter can create local anoxia and steep microenvironmental gradients (Sexstone et al, 1985) that can increase weathering (Zaharescu et al, 2020). Simultaneously however, lock-up of minerals and reduced respiration inside aggregates may retard weathering rates.…”

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Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi speed up carbon sequestration by enhanced weathering?

Verbruggen

Struyf

Vicca

2021

Plants People Planet

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Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental and societal issues currently faced by humanity (IPCC, 2018). At the 2015 climate summit in Paris, nearly all world leaders committed themselves to limit global warming to well below 2°C (UNFCCC, 2015). Achieving this target requires rapid and complete decarbonization of all sectors. Current policies focus on conventional mitigation to reduce emissions, yet scenario analyses and model projections unveiled that conventional mitigation alone

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Section: Directmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi speed up carbon sequestration by enhanced weathering?

Verbruggen

Struyf

Vicca

2021

Plants People Planet

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“…The construction industry includes a wide range of businesses, from small-scale, low-tech industries to large-scale global corporations that harvest and process minerals using cutting-edge technology. Materials, particularly mineral-derived fuels, are critical resources for civilization advancement ( Zaharescu et al, 2020 ). The Industrial revolution 4.0 program integrates the functionality from the IoT and the cyber-physical system (CPS) into the industry and manufacturing environment, which is linked to the rapid advancement of digital technology and the slow but steady depletion of conventional manufacturing, economic, and social control mechanisms potential for growth and efficiency.…”

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Energy Strategy for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas Based on the Analysis of Sustainable Digital Economy

Wang

Zhao

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Technology has played a vital role in modifying the lifestyle of individuals and the emerging countries are progressing so fast as no one has ever thought before. With the progression of technology boosting, the pattern of energy resources consumption has also been the center of attention for researchers in this decade. China has been one of those countries that have adopted such energy strategies in its industrial regime. The economists and information technology (IT) working together have done wonders in digitalizing and sustaining the economies that will lead to sustainable development goals. This study has been an effort to understand the role of technology and the availability of affordable energy resources in obtaining a sustainable digital economy with the mediating role of sustainable development. The population of this study was IT professionals and economists. The survey data were collected from 285 respondents selected based on purposive sampling. The software adopted for data analysis was SmartPLS 3.3.3. This study showed that technology utilization had been an important predictor of sustainable development, contributing to a sustainable digital economy. Similarly, low operational cost also moderated the relationship of sustainable development and sustainable digital economy that has been the major focus of developing countries. Moreover, the strategy of cutting down the operation costs to bring it down to the level of affordability is a major challenge for the economies such as China that have been among the low production cost. Studies on the sustainable digital economy with respect to technological use are very limited. Hence, this study will find many advantages for economists and IT professionals in the future with respect to devising the strategies taking into account the sustainable development goals and the achievement of a sustainable digital economy.

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“…This was an active process. Oxidative metabolic enhanced silicate weathering dampened the CO 2 concentration 1000 times faster [89,131] compared to inorganic anoxic carbonate-silicate weathering [132]. The oxidative atmosphere derived from the evolution of photosynthesis shifted the metabolic rates towards oxidation and thus faster reduction of greenhouse gases [73,133].…”

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Future climates: Markov blankets and active inference in the biosphere

Rubin

Parr

Costa

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J. R. Soc. Interface.

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We formalize the Gaia hypothesis about the Earth climate system using advances in theoretical biology based on the minimization of variational free energy. This amounts to the claim that non-equilibrium steady-state dynamics—that underwrite our climate—depend on the Earth system possessing a Markov blanket. Our formalization rests on how the metabolic rates of the biosphere (understood as Markov blanket's internal states) change with respect to solar radiation at the Earth's surface (i.e. external states), through the changes in greenhouse and albedo effects (i.e. active states) and ocean-driven global temperature changes (i.e. sensory states). Describing the interaction between the metabolic rates and solar radiation as climatic states—in a Markov blanket—amounts to describing the dynamics of the internal states as actively inferring external states. This underwrites climatic non-equilibrium steady-state through free energy minimization and thus a form of planetary autopoiesis.

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Biological Weathering in the Terrestrial System

Cited by 12 publications

References 323 publications

Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi speed up carbon sequestration by enhanced weathering?

Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi speed up carbon sequestration by enhanced weathering?

Energy Strategy for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas Based on the Analysis of Sustainable Digital Economy

Future climates: Markov blankets and active inference in the biosphere

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