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Nitrogen deposition promotes the fungal-driven soil organic carbon sequestration in tropical forests 

Zhe Lu, Hui Li, Emma J. Sayer, Zhanfeng Liu, Luhua Li, Yao Chen, Guoming Qin, Jintian Li, Jinge Zhou, Xingyun Huang, Jingfan Zhang, Jingtao Wu, Poonam Thapa, Faming Wang This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Human activities such as fossil fuel use and agriculture release large amounts of nitrogen into the atmosphere, which is … Continue reading Nitrogen deposition promotes the fungal-driven soil organic carbon sequestration in tropical forests 

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Disconnection between plant-microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes

Ji Liu, Linchuan Fang, Tianyi Qiu, Haijian Bing, Yongxing Cui, Jordi Sardans, Enzai Du, Ji Chen, Wenfeng Tan, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Guiyao Zhou, Qingliang Cui, Josep Penuelas This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. In the past, how plants and microbes are limited by nutrients have been investigated as separate lines of research. Generally, it is … Continue reading Disconnection between plant-microbial nutrient limitation across forest biomes

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Soil carbon emissions differ between day and night across seasons in a temperate forest

Yajing Han, Gangsheng Wang, Shuhao Zhou, Wanyu Li, Lihua Xiong This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. We conducted an investigation into soil respiration patterns in a temperate forest, focusing on the diurnal variations and temperature sensitivity. Data was collected over a span of ten years using automatic chamber measurements at half-hour intervals. Our findings … Continue reading Soil carbon emissions differ between day and night across seasons in a temperate forest

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Elevational and seasonal patterns of nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates

Qiong Chen, Chunyan Long, Kaikui Chang, Xiaoli Cheng This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Nitrogen plays a vital role in plant growth. While nitrogen mineralization and nitrification are the key processes for the conversion of organic nitrogen to inorganic nitrogen, which can be absorbed and utilized by plants. The mountain ecosystem system has its … Continue reading Elevational and seasonal patterns of nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates

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Meadow transformations alter interactions between species and ecosystem functions

Erliang Gao, Hui Ma, Ting Yang, Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury, Zhigang Zhao This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Meadow ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau provide crucial ecosystem services. However, they are rapidly transforming due to climate change and human activities. Swampy meadows are drying up and becoming dry alpine meadows, and overgrazing is leading to … Continue reading Meadow transformations alter interactions between species and ecosystem functions

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Environmental filtering drives biodiversity‒spatial stability relationships in a large temperate forest region

Senxuan Lin, Xuetao Qiao, Yan Geng, Chunyu Fan, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Klaus von Gadow This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. The assumption that greater biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability, commonly known as “portfolio effect”, has attracted considerable research attention. Analogous to temporal stability of ecosystem productivity, spatial stability (invariability) of ecosystem productivity is another … Continue reading Environmental filtering drives biodiversity‒spatial stability relationships in a large temperate forest region

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Vegetation restoration increases the contribution of biocrusts to CO2 efflux

Chao Guan, Ning Chen, Linjie Qiao, Changming Zhao This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Soil respiration is the second-largest terrestrial carbon dioxide (CO2) flux and is approximately an order of magnitude larger than anthropogenic carbon (C) emissions. Biocrusts, soil surface communities dominated by cyanobacteria, algae, lichens and mosses, are critical in regulating soil CO2 … Continue reading Vegetation restoration increases the contribution of biocrusts to CO2 efflux

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Foraging under extreme events: Hydrothermal vent animals adapted differently to drastic biogeochemical disturbance

Yiming V. Wang, Thomas Larsen, Mario Lebrato, Li-Chun Tseng, Pei-Wen Lee, Nicolás Sánchez Juan-Carlos Molinero, Jiang-Shiou Hwang, Tin-Yam Chan, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. The extreme and toxic conditions of ocean hydrothermal vents are similar to those when life first emerged on Earth 3.5 billion years ago. Studying animals living in … Continue reading Foraging under extreme events: Hydrothermal vent animals adapted differently to drastic biogeochemical disturbance

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What controls the resorption of nutrients from old leaves?

Xibin Sun, Dejun Li, Xiaotao Lü, Yunting Fang, Zilong Ma, Zhenchuan Wang, Chengjin Chu, Meimei Li, Hao Chen This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. The topic of nutrient resorption from old leaves has been studied for almost a century. Many studies show that this process is very important for plant nutrient conservation. For example, … Continue reading What controls the resorption of nutrients from old leaves?

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Forests that keep fires small, and how they do it

Philip Zylstra, Grant Wardell-Johnson, Daniel Falster, Melissa Howe, Nathan McQuoid, Simon Neville This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. South-western Australia has long prided itself on its record of prescribed burning to reduce fuels, but a recent analysis of their records gave some surprising findings. Burning kept fire risk down for a few years, but, … Continue reading Forests that keep fires small, and how they do it

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