{"id":625,"date":"2019-08-11T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=625"},"modified":"2020-10-12T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:07:20","slug":"animals-and-the-zoogeochemistry-of-the-carbon-cycle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/08\/11\/animals-and-the-zoogeochemistry-of-the-carbon-cycle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-628 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/scottchris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/scottchris.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/scottchris-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/scottchris-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/scottchris-1024x646.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Doughty (left) and Scott Goetz (right) discuss their research on the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle (photo credit: Shannon Swain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From caribou in the arctic tundra, to monkeys in the tropical rainforest, animals play a large and often unrecognized role in the carbon cycle.\u00a0 In a recent paper, GEODE lead <strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong> and NAU colleague <strong>Chris Doughty<\/strong> review existing research on these &#8220;zoogeochemical&#8221; effects and how they impact landscapes.\u00a0 Recent advancements in spatial ecosystem ecology, remote sensing and\u00a0geospatial statistical are providing the tools needed to finally understand animal impacts at a regional scale, and include these impacts in models of carbon cycling and climate change.\u00a0 Some of this work is underway right now in the <a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/tundra-vegetation-dynamics-2\/#caribou-veg\">GEODE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdoughty.org\/\">Doughty<\/a> Labs.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Read more about this research in the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/nau-researchers-combine-satellite-data-and-modeling-to-predict-climate\/article_c83138f8-736a-55ed-9f2d-da8e8803aa1f.html\">Arizona Daily Sun<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> and NAU&#8217;s <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jackcentral.org\/news\/nau-research-shows-biodiversity-could-diminish-climate-change\/article_b4717622-3d30-51aa-a0c6-c3ee4f8a7d9d.html\">The LumberJack.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From caribou in the arctic tundra, to monkeys in the tropical rainforest, animals play a large and often unrecognized role in the carbon cycle.\u00a0 In a recent paper, GEODE lead Scott Goetz and NAU colleague Chris Doughty review existing research on these &#8220;zoogeochemical&#8221; effects and how they impact landscapes.\u00a0 Recent advancements in spatial ecosystem ecology, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/08\/11\/animals-and-the-zoogeochemistry-of-the-carbon-cycle-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}