A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming?

SM Vicente-Serrano, SM Quiring, M Peña-Gallardo… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

Life in dry soils: effects of drought on soil microbial communities and processes

JP Schimel - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, drought has been a common crisis in terrestrial ecosystems; in
human societies, it can cause famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse. As the …

Drought stress and root-associated bacterial communities

D Naylor, D Coleman-Derr - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Root-associated bacterial communities play a vital role in maintaining health of the plant
host. These communities exist in complex relationships, where composition and abundance …

A meta-analysis of soil extracellular enzyme activities in response to global change

W Xiao, X Chen, X Jing, B Zhu - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The crucial biogeochemical processes such as carbon and nutrient cycling are increasingly
altered at the ecosystem scale by global environmental changes. Although soil extracellular …

Altered activities of extracellular soil enzymes by the interacting global environmental changes

P Zuccarini, J Sardans, L Asensio… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soil enzymes are crucial in mediating ecosystems' responses to environmental drivers, so
that the comprehension of their sensitivity to drivers of global change can help make …

The C: N: P stoichiometry of organisms and ecosystems in a changing world: a review and perspectives

J Sardans, A Rivas-Ubach, J Peñuelas - Perspectives in Plant Ecology …, 2012 - Elsevier
This study examined the literature in ISI Web of Science to identify the effects that the main
drivers of global change have on the nutrient concentrations and C: N: P stoichiometry of …

Impacts of climate change on surface water quality in relation to drinking water production

I Delpla, AV Jung, E Baures, M Clement… - Environment …, 2009 - Elsevier
Besides climate change impacts on water availability and hydrological risks, the
consequences on water quality is just beginning to be studied. This review aims at …

The bioelements, the elementome, and the biogeochemical niche

J Peñuelas, M Fernández‐Martínez, P Ciais, D Jou… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Every living creature on Earth is made of atoms of the various bioelements that are
harnessed in the construction of molecules, tissues, organisms, and communities, as we …

Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

J Peñuelas, J Sardans, M Estiarte… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We review the evidence of how organisms and populations are currently responding to
climate change through phenotypic plasticity, genotypic evolution, changes in distribution …

The role of plants in the effects of global change on nutrient availability and stoichiometry in the plant-soil system

J Sardans, J Peñuelas - Plant physiology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The impact on nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles of human activity is a growing
concern and has several causes and consequences (MacDonald et al., 2011; Peñuelas et …