{"id":1649,"date":"2019-10-04T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1649"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:08:51","slug":"animals-and-the-zoogeochemistry-of-the-carbon-cycle","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/animals-and-the-zoogeochemistry-of-the-carbon-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From caribou in the arctic tundra, to monkeys in the tropical\nrainforest, animals play a large and often unrecognized role in the carbon\ncycle.&nbsp; In a recent paper, GEODE lead&nbsp;<strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong>&nbsp;and NAU\ncolleague&nbsp;<strong>Chris Doughty<\/strong>&nbsp;review existing research on these\n\u201czoogeochemical\u201d effects and how they impact landscapes.&nbsp; Recent\nadvancements in spatial ecosystem ecology, remote sensing and&nbsp;geospatial\nstatistical are providing the tools needed to finally understand animal impacts\nat a regional scale, and include these impacts in models of carbon cycling and\nclimate change.&nbsp; Some of this work is underway right now in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/goetz-lab\/wordpress\/index.php\/tundra-vegetation-dynamics-2\/#caribou-veg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GEODE<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdoughty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doughty<\/a>&nbsp;Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more about this research in\nthe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/nau-researchers-combine-satellite-data-and-modeling-to-predict-climate\/article_c83138f8-736a-55ed-9f2d-da8e8803aa1f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona Daily Sun<\/a>&nbsp;and\nNAU\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackcentral.org\/news\/nau-research-shows-biodiversity-could-diminish-climate-change\/article_b4717622-3d30-51aa-a0c6-c3ee4f8a7d9d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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.&nbsp; In a recent paper, GEODE lead&nbsp;Scott Goetz&nbsp;and NAU colleague&nbsp;Chris Doughty&nbsp;review existing research on these \u201czoogeochemical\u201d effects and how they impact landscapes.&nbsp; Recent advancements in spatial ecosystem ecology, remote sensing and&nbsp;geospatial statistical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/animals-and-the-zoogeochemistry-of-the-carbon-cycle\/\" 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":1641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"newstags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1649","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419.png",1200,757,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-300x189.png",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-768x484.png",525,331,true],"large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-1024x646.png",525,331,true],"news_plugin_small":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-80x80.png",80,80,true],"team-500px":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-500x500.png",500,500,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419.png",1200,757,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419.png",1200,757,false],"twentyseventeen-featured-image":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419.png",1200,757,false],"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-100x100.png",100,100,true],"photoswipe_thumbnails":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-300x189.png",300,189,true],"photoswipe_full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419.png",1200,757,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GoetzDoughtyNews2_100419-272x182.png",272,182,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<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.&nbsp; In a recent paper, GEODE lead&nbsp;Scott Goetz&nbsp;and NAU colleague&nbsp;Chris Doughty&nbsp;review existing research on these \u201czoogeochemical\u201d effects and how they impact landscapes.&nbsp; Recent advancements in spatial ecosystem ecology, remote sensing and&nbsp;geospatial 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.&nbsp; Some of this work is underway right now in the&nbsp;GEODE&nbsp;and&nbsp;Doughty&nbsp;Labs. Read more about this research in the&nbsp;Arizona Daily Sun&nbsp;and&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Uncategorized","author_info_v2":{"name":"siccs-ecoinfo","url":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/author\/siccs-ecoinfo\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"newstags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstags?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}