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Soil Warming Experiments In Global Change Research, Long-Term Ecological Research Network
Soil Warming Experiments In Global Change Research, Long-Term Ecological Research Network
Long Term Ecological Research Network
The report of a workshop held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
There is widespread consensus that the global temperature is likely to increase by about 1° C during the next 35 years as a result of enhanced retention of the Earth's reradiation by "greenhouse" gases (IPCC 1990). The anticipated rate of global warming will exceed all known climate changes during human history and during the development of all human socio-economic systems, including agriculture. These changes in climate will have unprecedented impact on natural and managed ecosystems.
As a result of concern about soil warming caused by anticipated global climate change, the …