Montane Meadows: A Soil Carbon Sink or Source?

Ecosystems - As the largest biogeochemically active terrestrial reserve of carbon (C), soils have the potential to either mitigate or amplify rates of climate change. Ecosystems with large C stocks...     

Medium,Vector, and Connector: Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems

Ecosystems - Fog and low-lying cloud (fog) play a significant role in the maintenance of ecosystems, from desert to alpine and from coastal to inland systems. Our central thesis is that fog...     

Frost-Associated Defoliation in Populus tremuloides Causes Repeated Growth Reductions Over 185 years

Ecosystems - Climate change is causing a shift to earlier spring budburst in deciduous temperate trees, which may predispose them to greater risk of damage from growing season frosts. Populus...     

Interactions Between Physical Template and Self-organization Shape Plant Dynamics in a Stream Ecosystem

Ecosystems - Both internal feedbacks and preexisting heterogeneity of a physical template can produce biological patchiness in ecosystems. The relative importance of the two drivers might change...     

Quantitative Analysis of Pedogenic Thresholds and Domains in Volcanic Soils

Ecosystems - Pedogenic thresholds describe where soil properties or processes change in an abrupt/nonlinear fashion in response to small changes in environmental forcing. Contrastingly, soil...     

Thirty-Year Repeat Measures of Mangrove Above- and Below-Ground Biomass Reveals Unexpectedly High Carbon Sequestration

Ecosystems - Mangrove ecosystems store large quantities of organic carbon for long periods of time. This study explores organic carbon stock change through the first comparative study of...     

Disentangling Climate and Disturbance Effects on Regional Vegetation Greening Trends

Ecosystems - Productivity of northern latitude forests is an important driver of the terrestrial carbon cycle and is already responding to climate change. Studies of the satellite-derived...     

Accelerating Mountain Forest Dynamics in the Alps

Ecosystems - Climate change alters forest development pathways, with consequences for ecosystem services and biodiversity. As the rate of warming increases, ecosystem change is expected to...     

Grasslands Maintain Stability in Productivity Through Compensatory Effects and Dominant Species Stability Under Extreme Precipitation Patterns

Ecosystems - Extreme climatic events are likely to intensify under climate change and can have different effects on ecosystems depending on their timing and magnitude. Understanding how...     

The Effect of Land-Use Change on Soil CH4 and N2O Fluxes: A Global Meta-Analysis

Ecosystems - Land-use change is a prominent feature of the Anthropocene. Transitions between natural and human-managed ecosystems affect biogeochemical cycles in many ways, but soil processes are...     

Soil Biota Adversely Affect the Resistance and Recovery of Plant Communities Subjected to Drought

Ecosystems - Climate change predictions indicate that summer droughts will become more severe and frequent. Yet, the impact of soil communities on the response of plant communities to drought...     

The Potential of Agricultural Conversion to Shape Forest Fire Regimes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Ecosystems - In densely populated fire-prone regions, interactions between global change drivers, such as land-cover changes and climate change, may increase the frequency and severity of wildfires...     

Distinguishing Rapid and Slow C Cycling Feedbacks to Grazing in Sub-arctic Tundra

Ecosystems - Large grazers are known to affect ecosystem functioning even to the degree where ecosystems transition to another vegetation state. Alongside the vegetation change, several features of...     

Trade: A Driver of Present and Future Ecosystems

Ecosystems - Growing trade among nations is globalizing economies and driving environmental change. As a consequence, trade affects ecosystems, but trade is not currently a major topic in ecosystem...     

Tree Diversity,Initial Litter Quality,and Site Conditions Drive Early-Stage Fine-Root Decomposition in European Forests

Ecosystems - Decomposition of dead fine roots contributes significantly to nutrient cycling and soil organic matter stabilization. Most knowledge of tree fine-root decomposition stems from studies...     

Reforestations of Tropical Forests Alter Interactions Between Web-Building Spiders and Their Prey

Ecosystems - Immense effort has been devoted to mitigating the negative effect of deforestation, one of the main factors causing global change. However, the effect of reforestation management on...     

Simulation and Analysis of the Effect of a Spruce Budworm Outbreak on Carbon Dynamics in Boreal Forests of Quebec

Ecosystems - In a climate change context, the sequestration of atmospheric carbon (C) in forests is key for achieving emission targets. It is thus critical to understand how large-scale...     

Applying Climate Change Risk Management Tools to Integrate Streamflow Projections and Social Vulnerability

Ecosystems - Shifts in streamflow, due to future climate and land use change, may pose risks to nearby human communities. Projecting the spatial distribution and impacts of these risks requires...     

Natural Land Cover in Agricultural Catchments Alters Flood Effects on DOM Composition and Decreases Nutrient Levels in Streams

Ecosystems - A shift in natural hydrologic patterns, such as increases in the frequency, and changes in the magnitude of flood events are expected with climate change. A better understanding of how...     

Climate Effects on Prairie Productivity Partially Ameliorated by Soil Nutrients and Plant Community Responses

Ecosystems - Net primary productivity (NPP) is a key ecosystem function of plant communities. Climate change is expected to affect NPP both directly and indirectly through associated edaphic and...