The contribution of living organisms to rock weathering in the critical zone

B Wild, R Gerrits, S Bonneville - npj Materials degradation, 2022 - nature.com
Rock weathering is a key process in global elemental cycling. Life participates in this
process with tangible consequences observed from the mineral interface to the planetary …

Emerging sensing, imaging, and computational technologies to scale nano-to macroscale rhizosphere dynamics–Review and research perspectives

AH Ahkami, O Qafoku, T Roose, Q Mou, Y Lu… - Soil Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The soil region influenced by plant roots, ie, the rhizosphere, is one of the most complex
biological habitats on Earth and significantly impacts global carbon flow and transformation …

Tipping point in North American Arctic-Boreal carbon sink persists in new generation Earth system models despite reduced uncertainty

RK Braghiere, JB Fisher, KR Miner… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Estimating the impacts of climate change on the global carbon cycle relies on projections
from Earth system models (ESMs). While ESMs currently project large warming in the high …

Environmental modulation of plant mycorrhizal traits in the global flora

Y Meng, J Davison, JT Clarke, M Zobel, M Gerz… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mycorrhizal symbioses are known to strongly influence plant performance, structure plant
communities and shape ecosystem dynamics. Plant mycorrhizal traits, such as those …

The importance of hyperspectral soil albedo information for improving Earth system model projections

RK Braghiere, Y Wang, A Gagné‐Landmann… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth system models (ESMs) typically simplify the representation of land surface spectral
albedo to two values, which correspond to the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, 400 …

Resolving the Carbon‐Climate Feedback Potential of Wetland CO2 and CH4 Fluxes in Alaska

S Ma, AA Bloom, JD Watts, GR Quetin… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Boreal‐Arctic regions are key stores of organic carbon (C) and play a major role in the
greenhouse gas balance of high‐latitude ecosystems. The carbon‐climate (C‐climate) …

Ectomycorrhizal effects on decomposition are highly dependent on fungal traits, climate, and litter properties: A model-based assessment

S Shao, N Wurzburger, B Sulman, CH Pries - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
It has been proposed that competition between ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi and free-living
saprotrophs for resources like nitrogen (N) slows decomposition and increases the soil …

Root‐borne microbial necromass—An overlooked source of grassland soil organic carbon

X Zhang, G Dai, G Zhai, W Yi, L Ma… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Root‐borne microbial necromass carbon (MNC) is an under‐investigated contributor to soil
organic carbon (SOC) in grasslands. Here we conduct a benchmark assessment of root …

FungalRoot v. 2.0–an empirical database of plant mycorrhizal traits: A response to Bueno et al.(2021)'Towards a consistent benchmark for plant mycorrhizal …

NA Soudzilovskaia, J He, S Rahimlou… - New …, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
Although we promote combined structural, functional and taxonomic definitions of
mycorrhiza types in I new i diagnostic studies of mycorrhiza (Brundrett & Tedersoo …

Tropical tree ectomycorrhiza are distributed independently of soil nutrients

JA Medina-Vega, D Zuleta, S Aguilar… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Mycorrhizae, a form of plant–fungal symbioses, mediate vegetation impacts on ecosystem
functioning. Climatic effects on decomposition and soil quality are suggested to drive …