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Fungal community composition predicts forest carbon storage at a continental scale
Forest soils harbor hyper-diverse microbial communities which fundamentally regulate carbon and nutrient cycling across the globe. Directly testing hypotheses on how microbiome diversity is linked to forest carbon storage has been difficult, due to a lack ...
Nature Portfolio2024River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world
Tom Ian Battin, Enrico Bertuzzo, Luis Gómez Gener
River networks represent the largest biogeochemical nexus between the continents, ocean and atmosphere. Our current understanding of the role of rivers in the global carbon cycle remains limited, which makes it difficult to predict how global change may al ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Metabolism of the symbiotic jellyfish Cassiopea in a changing environment
Ocean warming and other anthropogenic impacts have led to a global decline in many photosymbiotic cnidarians, most notably reef-building corals. But some species of the symbiotic and (sub-)tropical upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea are increasingly reported ...
EPFL2023On the dependence of Water Use Efficiency on aridity.
Water use efficiency (WUE) describes how efficiently plants transpire water to assimilate carbon and produce biomass. Here, we used a variety of data sources, including leaf-level gas exchange measurements, tree-ring isotopes, flux-tower observations, and ...
2023A review of Water Use Efficiency across space and time
Water Use Efficiency (WUE) is the variable linking assimilation and storage of carbon in plants with the release of water through transpiration. In this study, we combine multiple datasets including global scale leaf-level gas exchange measurements, tree-r ...
2023Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations
Andrea Rinaldo, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Paolo Benettin, Manon Frutschi, Simiao Wang, Filippo Miele, Mitra Asadollahi
Reduction-oxidation cycles measured through soil redox potential (Eh) are associated with dynamic soil microbial activity. Understanding changes in the composition of, and resource use by, soil microbial communities requires Eh predictability under shiftin ...
2023Ökosysteme und Klimawandel / Écosystèmes et changement climatique
- Antoine Guisan : Le climat et la biodiversité sont deux dimensions essentielles et interdépendantes des écosystèmes. Le climat contrôle la distribution des organismes et, à son tour, la biodiversité régule le climat, par ex. à travers les cycles du carb ...
Accounting for foliar gradients in Vc(max) and J(max) improves estimates of net CO2 exchange of forests
Vertical gradients in the canopy represent a major challenge for scaling from foliar photosynthesis to ecosystem-level CO2 fluxes. We tested whether accounting for independent gradients of carboxylation capacity (Vc(max)) and photosynthetic electron transp ...
ELSEVIER2022On the Uncertainty Induced by Pedotransfer Functions in Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling
Hydrological, ecohydrological, and terrestrial biosphere models depend on pedotransfer functions for computing soil hydraulic parameters based on easily measurable variables, such as soil textural and physical properties. Several pedotransfer functions hav ...
2022Glacier shrinkage will accelerate downstream decomposition of organic matter and alters microbiome structure and function
Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Leïla Ezzat, Massimo Bourquin, Nicola Deluigi, Tyler Joe Kohler, Jade Brandani, Stylianos Fodelianakis, Paraskevi Pramateftaki, Vincent Henri De Staercke, Matteo Tolosano, Michail Styllas, Martina Andrea Schön
The shrinking of glaciers is among the most iconic consequences of climate change. Despite this, the downstream consequences for ecosystem processes and related microbiome structure and function remain poorly understood. Here, using a space-for-time substi ...
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