Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?

KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models—II: model description, implementation and testing

(2021) Omar Flores et al.   PeerJ

Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores

(2021) Erick J. Lundgren et al.   Scientific Data

Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon

(2021) Chao Wang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

COMBINE: a coalesced mammal database of intrinsic and extrinsic traits

(2021) Carmen D. Soria et al.   ECOLOGY

A facilitation between large herbivores and ants accelerates litter decomposition by modifying soil microenvironmental conditions

(2021) Xiaofei Li et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

(2021) C. Terrer et al.   NATURE

Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now

(2021) Cécile A. J. Girardin et al.   NATURE

Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter

(2021) Emanuele Lugato et al.   Nature Geoscience

Equids engineer desert water availability

(2021) Erick J. Lundgren et al.   SCIENCE

Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter

(2021) Gerrit Angst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions

(2021) Sebastián H. Villarino et al.   Science Advances

Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands

(2021) Shane W. Stoner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Do large herbivores maintain open habitats in temperate forests?

(2021) Rafał Kowalczyk et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Conservation with elevated elephant densities sequesters carbon in soils despite losses of woody biomass

(2021) Alexandra Sandhage‐Hofmann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation

(2021) Julia Rouet‐Leduc et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effects of large herbivore grazing on relics of the presumed mammoth steppe in the extreme climate of NE-Siberia

(2021) Jennifer Reinecke et al.   Scientific Reports

Heavy Grazing Altered the Biodiversity–Productivity Relationship of Alpine Grasslands in Lhasa River Valley, Tibet

(2021) Mingxue Xiang et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Decomposition and transformations along the continuum from litter to soil organic matter in forest soils

(2021) Cindy E. Prescott et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands

(2020) Judith Sitters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pleistocene Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution?

(2020) Marc Macias-Fauria et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning

(2020) Brian J. Enquist et al.   Nature Communications

Wild boar grubbing causes organic carbon loss from both top- and sub-soil in an oak forest in central China

(2020) Yanchun Liu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Depth-dependent soil mixing persists across climate zones

(2020) Harrison J. Gray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the Three Major Recycling Pathways in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2020) Juli G. Pausas et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Invasive earthworms unlock arctic plant nitrogen limitation

(2020) Gesche Blume-Werry et al.   Nature Communications

Protection of Permafrost Soils from Thawing by Increasing Herbivore Density

(2020) Christian Beer et al.   Scientific Reports

The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements

(2020) Zheng Shi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

(2020) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

(2020) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Herbivore Impacts on Carbon Cycling in Boreal Forests

(2020) Shawn J. Leroux et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Food Webs and Ecosystems: Linking Species Interactions to the Carbon Cycle

(2020) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments

(2020) Xuefeng Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Post‐Soviet shifts in fire and grazing regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe

(2020) Martin Freitag et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept

(2020) Gaby Deckmyn et al.   PeerJ

Assessing microbial residues in soil as a potential carbon sink and moderator of carbon use efficiency

(2020) Kevin Geyer et al.   Biogeochemistry

Stomping in silence: Conceptualizing trampling effects on soils in polar tundra

(2020) Maria Tuomi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2020) Luke T. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

Elephants limit aboveground carbon gains in African savannas

(2019) Andrew B. Davies et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bioturbation and erosion rates along the soil‐hillslope conveyor belt, part 2: quantification using an analytical solution of the diffusion‐advection equation

(2019) Andrea Román‐Sánchez et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function

(2019) Elizabeth S. Forbes et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global variation of soil microbial carbon-use efficiency in relation to growth temperature and substrate supply

(2019) Yang Qiao et al.   Scientific Reports

Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity

(2019) Madhav P. Thakur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Browsing and fire decreases dominance of a resprouting shrub in woody encroached grassland

(2019) Rory C. O’Connor et al.   ECOLOGY

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

(2019) Jocelyn M. Lavallee et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

(2019) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Invasive lumbricid earthworms in North America—Different life histories but common dispersal?

(2019) Andreas Klein et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assessing the role of megafauna in tropical forest ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles - the potential of vegetation models

(2018) Fabio Berzaghi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

(2018) Pawlok Dass et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Grazing enhances belowground carbon allocation, microbial biomass, and soil carbon in a subtropical grassland

(2018) Chris H. Wilson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Humboldt and the reinvention of nature

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   Nature Geoscience

Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?

(2018) Christopher N. Johnson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Soil biological responses to, and feedbacks on, trophic rewilding

(2018) W. S. Andriuzzi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of large herbivores on tundra vegetation in a changing climate, and implications for rewilding

(2018) Johan Olofsson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

(2018) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

The impact of cattle dung pats on earthworm distribution in grazed pastures

(2018) M. G. Bacher et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Responses of belowground communities to large aboveground herbivores: Meta-analysis reveals biome-dependent patterns and critical research gaps

(2017) Walter S. Andriuzzi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

(2017) Adam F. A. Pellegrini et al.   NATURE

Integrating Herbivore Population Dynamics Into a Global Land Biosphere Model: Plugging Animals Into the Earth System

(2017) Shree R. S. Dangal et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

(2016) Yiqi Luo et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

(2016) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil movement by burrowing mammals

(2016) Natalie S Haussmann   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Ancient grasslands at risk

(2016) W. J. Bond   SCIENCE

Ungulate control of grassland production: grazing intensity and ungulate species composition in Yellowstone Park

(2016) Douglas A. Frank et al.   Ecosphere

Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The contentious nature of soil organic matter

(2015) Johannes Lehmann et al.   NATURE

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

(2014) C. J. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review

(2013) Megan E. McSherry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mammoth steppe: a high-productivity phenomenon

(2012) S.A. Zimov et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

(2011) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Elephants (and extinct relatives) as earth-movers and ecosystem engineers

(2011) Gary Haynes   GEOMORPHOLOGY

A Disease-Mediated Trophic Cascade in the Serengeti and its Implications for Ecosystem C

(2009) Ricardo M. Holdo et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Defoliation induces root exudation and triggers positive rhizospheric feedbacks in a temperate grassland

(2008) E. William Hamilton et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY