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Environmental Sciences
William H. Schlesinger
Summary: Potassium presents a dilemma for biogeochemists. While it is inefficiently cycled at the plant level, it seems to be conserved at the ecosystem level, sometimes limiting net primary productivity. The increasing demand for K fertilizer in agriculture, especially in highly weathered tropical soils, may control the distribution and productivity of natural vegetation. However, the molar ratios of N/K in herbaceous plants, global fertilizer applications, and commodity price of fertilizer suggest that nitrogen is overused and potassium is overpriced in modern agriculture.
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Ecology
Luhong Zhou, Shangshi Liu, Yaning Gu, Linfang Wu, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He
Summary: The impact of fire on above-ground biomass has significant consequences on soil carbon dynamics. The study conducted a global meta-analysis to determine the extent to which fire influenced soil respiration. The findings reveal that fires reduce soil respiration and its components, but the negative effects diminish over time. Fire severity, season, type, climate zones, and biomes moderate the influences of fire on soil respiration.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Thanh Le, Kyung-Ja Ha, Deg-Hyo Bae
Summary: The study examines the causal effects of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the global carbon cycle, showing significant impact on terrestrial carbon fluxes and storage in various regions. The influence of ENSO on carbon cycling in subtropics and high-latitude regions may be more significant than previously understood. Moreover, there is a stronger response of seasonal carbon stocks to ENSO compared to seasonal carbon fluxes.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Hanlin Wang, Huayu Lu
Summary: This study establishes a database using geospatial and climate data to explore the quantitative relationship between major grass lineages and climate at global and regional scales. The results show that environmental factors play a significant role in the distribution of grass lineages, and there are variations in environmental niches among different regions.
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Matthias C. Rillig, Masahiro Ryo, Anika Lehmann
Summary: Human activities are rapidly decreasing terrestrial biodiversity, affecting every ecosystem on Earth. Lack of a systematic ordering system for factors based on their traits hinders progress, and a priori trait-based factor classification is proposed to address this issue. This classification can aid in understanding and communicating the multitude of anthropogenic changes impacting ecosystems.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Seamus Doherty, Frederik Saltre, John Llewelyn, Giovanni Strona, Stephen. E. E. Williams, Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Summary: The biosphere is undergoing rapid changes due to human activities. These changes have direct and indirect effects on ecological communities, making it necessary to develop accurate tools for predicting the impacts and guiding conservation strategies.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Zheng Jin, Qinglong You, Nick Pepin, Deliang Chen, Laurent Li, Guodong Sun, Zhiyan Zuo, Mingcai Li, Panmao Zhai
Summary: The greening and browning of global vegetation are influenced by multiple processes, including climate change, CO2 fertilization, and land management. Based on the vegetation-water-heat relationship, these processes can be categorized into two types of eco-hydrological processes: dryness change and usage change. By analyzing remote-sensing data and climate data, it has been found that dryness change has become the dominant factor in climate change impacts on vegetated lands globally, leading to a fundamental weakening of global greening.
ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Robert M. Pringle, Joel O. Abraham, T. Michael Anderson, Tyler C. Coverdale, Andrew B. Davies, Christopher L. Dutton, Angela Gaylard, Jacob R. Goheen, Ricardo M. Holdo, Matthew C. Hutchinson, Duncan M. Kimuyu, Ryan A. Long, Amanda L. Subalusky, Michiel P. Veldhuis
Summary: Large herbivores have significant ecological impacts, but research findings are often conflicting and uncertain. They consistently control plant dynamics, species composition, biomass, and suppress fires and smaller animal abundance. However, the effects on predation risk, trophic cascades, seed dispersal, and biogeochemistry are less clear. The role of body size in regulating ecological impact is important, and losing large-herbivore species will alter net impact.
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Environmental Sciences
Jiahui Zhang, Mingxu Li, Li Xu, Jianxing Zhu, Guanhua Dai, Nianpeng He
Summary: Ecological stoichiometry is an efficient tool for exploring the balance and cycling of coupled elements. C:N:P ratios are essential in ecological models of productivity or C cycling. This study comprehensively calculated C:N:P ratios from organs to ecosystems in 66 typical natural ecosystems in China using the community biomass-weighted mean (CWM), showing significant differences among ecosystem types and biomes. Environmental conditions explain a substantial portion of the spatial variation of C:N:P ratios from organs to ecosystems.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Yelu Zeng, Dalei Hao, Alfredo Huete, Benjamin Dechant, Joe Berry, Jing M. Chen, Joanna Joiner, Christian Frankenberg, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Youngryel Ryu, Jingfeng Xiao, Ghassem R. Asrar, Min Chen
Summary: Vegetation indices are widely used to study vegetation dynamics, but different indices and factors can lead to conflicting conclusions. Choosing and verifying the indices, as well as analyzing multiple indicators, are necessary for obtaining reliable results.
NATURE REVIEWS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Plant Sciences
Nerya Zexer, Santosh Kumar, Rivka Elbaum
Summary: Plants absorb silicic acid and polymerize it into biogenic silica through the activity of certain cell wall polymers and proteins. Protein activity increases the concentration of silicic acid, while polymeric structures at the cell wall stabilize and allow the flow of supersaturated silicic acid. Silica nucleation and polymerization occur on a polymeric scaffold embedded within the mineral.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Madhav P. Thakur, Anita C. Risch, Wim H. van der Putten
Summary: Anthropogenic climate change is causing an increase in climate extremes, which have detrimental effects on biodiversity. However, certain organisms may also benefit from climate extremes. A review of 16 major taxonomic/functional groups reveals that most groups respond negatively to extreme events, with mosses, legumes, trees, and vertebrate predators being the most negatively affected. Additionally, predicting ecological recovery after climate extremes is challenging and requires considering the characteristics of the recovering species, resource availability, and species interactions.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jing Fang, Xing Li, Jingfeng Xiao, Xiaodong Yan, Bolun Li, Feng Liu
Summary: Vegetation phenology, crucial in regulating the terrestrial carbon cycle and climate, has often been studied using inadequate traditional vegetation indices. In this study, we used the latest gross primary productivity product based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (GOSIF-GPP) to create an annual vegetation photosynthetic phenology dataset from 2001 to 2020 at a spatial resolution of 0.05 degrees. We employed smoothing splines and multiple change-point detection to retrieve phenology metrics for terrestrial ecosystems above 30 degrees N latitude (Northern Biomes), including the start of the growing season (SOS), end of the growing season (EOS), and length of growing season (LOS). Our phenology product can be valuable for validating and developing phenology or carbon cycle models, as well as monitoring climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gerasimos Gkoutselis, Stephan Rohrbach, Janno Harjes, Martin Obst, Andreas Brachmann, Marcus A. Horn, Gerhard Rambold
Summary: Microplastics serve as a carrier for diverse fungal organisms, including potential pathogens, attracting distinctive fungal communities. Studies have shown that plastic waste harbors a variety of fungal species, some of which may pose risks to human health.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Geraldine Sarret, Eva Schreck, Nathaniel Findling, Damien Daval, Jerome Viers, Gauthier Delplace, Oleg S. Pokrovsky
Summary: This study found that during the process of dry ashing, there is a phase transition of the phytoliths and metals are sequestered in the phytoliths. The concentration of zinc, manganese, and lead in the phytoliths showed a linear relationship with their concentration in the leaves. The study suggests that the alleviation of zinc toxicity in plants by silicon does not rely on the sequestration of zinc by phytoliths.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Catia Pereira dos Santos, Heloisa Helena Gomes Coe, Natalia Borrelli, Andre Luiz, Carvalho da Silva, Leandro de Oliveira Furtado de Sousa, Yame Bronze Medina Ramos, Carolina Pereira Silvestre, Amanda Pacheco Seixas
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY
(2015)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Margarita Osterrieth, Natalia Borrelli, Maria Fernanda Alvarez, Mariana Fernandez Honaine
JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES
(2015)
Article
Environmental Sciences
M. Osterrieth, N. Borrelli, M. F. Alvarez, G. N. Nobrega, W. Machado, T. O. Ferreira
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
(2016)
Article
Environmental Sciences
M. Vital, D. E. Martinez, N. Borrelli, S. Quiroga
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
(2016)
Article
Plant Sciences
M. Fernandez Honaine, M. L. Benvenuto, N. L. Borrelli, M. Osterrieth
Article
Plant Sciences
N. Borrelli, M. L. Benvenuto, M. Osterrieth
Article
Geography, Physical
Heloisa Helena Gomes Coe, Yame Bronze Medina Ramos, Catia Pereira dos Santos, Andre Luiz Carvalho da Silva, Carolina Pereira Silvestre, Natalia Borrelli, Leandro de Oliveira Furtado de Sousa
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
(2017)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anne-Desiree Schmitt, Natalia Borrelli, Damien Ertlen, Sophie Gangloff, Francois Chabaux, Margarita Osterrieth
Article
Environmental Sciences
Natalia Borrelli, M. Osterrieth, A. Romanelli, M. F. Alvarez, J. L. Cionchi, H. Massone
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
(2012)
Article
Environmental Sciences
W. Machado, N. L. Borrelli, T. O. Ferreira, A. G. B. Marques, M. Osterrieth, C. Guizan
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2014)
Article
Geography, Physical
Mariano Bonomo, Diego Catriel Leon, Margarita Osterrieth, Pamela Steffan, Natalia Borrelli
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
(2013)
Article
Soil Science
Celia Frayssinet, L. Margarita Osterrieth, L. Natalia Borrelli, Mariana Fernandez Honaine, Esteban Ciarlo, Patricio Heiland
SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH
(2019)
Article
Plant Sciences
Mariana Fernandez Honaine, M. Laura Benvenuto, Lia Montti, Marcela Natal, Natalia L. Borrelli, M. Fernanda Alvarez, Stella Maris Altamirano, Mara De Rito, Margarita L. Osterrieth
Summary: The research found that plant silica content is related to the phylogenetic position of the taxon, but is less affected by ecological factors. Silicophytolith accumulation is a common feature in most species studied, with plant origin being the only bioecological variable that influences silica content.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Natalia Borrelli, Asuncion Romanelli, Mariana Fernandez Honaine, Marcelo Farenga, Ana Fabiani, Karina Soledad Esquius, Margarita Osterrieth
Summary: This study evaluated the dynamics and retention of dissolved silicon (DSi) in a temperate shallow lake and found that its transfer in the lake was influenced by macrophytes and cyanobacteria. These findings are crucial for understanding the role of lakes in nutrient cycling and the global silicon cycle.
Article
Plant Sciences
Mariana Fernandez Honaine, Natalia L. Borrelli, Margarita Osterrieth, Luis del Rio
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2017)