Unlocking complex soil systems as carbon sinks: multi-pool management as the key

G Angst, KE Mueller, MJ Castellano, C Vogel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Much research focuses on increasing carbon storage in mineral-associated organic matter
(MAOM), in which carbon may persist for centuries to millennia. However, MAOM-targeted …

Microbial regulation of feedbacks to ecosystem change

TR Sveen, SE Hannula, M Bahram - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Microbes are key biodiversity components of all ecosystems and control vital ecosystem
functions. Although we have just begun to unravel the scales and factors that regulate …

The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions

QJ Wang, GF Feng, HJ Wang, CP Chang - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
This research tests the casual link from political ideology to national greenhouse gas
emissions by utilizing multinational panel data covering 98 countries during the period 1990 …

Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

J Zou, AD Ziegler, D Chen, G McNicol, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon and nitrogen losses from degraded wetlands and methane emissions from flooded
wetlands are both important sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the net …

Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands

H Zhang, M Väliranta, GT Swindles… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including
permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century …

Warming response of peatland CO2 sink is sensitive to seasonality in warming trends

M Helbig, T Živković, P Alekseychik, M Aurela… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Peatlands have acted as net CO2 sinks over millennia, exerting a global climate cooling
effect. Rapid warming at northern latitudes, where peatlands are abundant, can disturb their …

[HTML][HTML] Hidden becomes clear: Optical remote sensing of vegetation reveals water table dynamics in northern peatlands

I Burdun, M Bechtold, M Aurela, G De Lannoy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The water table and its dynamics are one of the key variables that control peatland
greenhouse gas exchange. Here, we tested the applicability of the Optical TRApezoid Model …

A globally robust relationship between water table decline, subsidence rate, and carbon release from peatlands

L Ma, G Zhu, B Chen, K Zhang, S Niu, J Wang… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Peatland ecosystems are globally important carbon stores. Disturbances, such as drainage
and climate drying, act to lower peatland water table depths, consequently enhancing soil …

Convergence of carbon sink magnitude and water table depth in global wetlands

J Li, M Jiang, J Pei, C Fang, B Li, M Nie - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wetlands are strategic areas for carbon uptake, but accurate assessments of their
sequestration ability are limited by the uncertainty and variability in their carbon balances …

Enhanced microbial contribution to mineral-associated organic carbon accrual in drained wetlands: Beyond direct lignin-iron interactions

C Liu, S Wang, Y Zhao, Y Wang, Y Wang, E Zhu… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drainage poses a major threat to the tremendous soil organic carbon (SOC) reservoir in
wetlands. However, drainage-induced carbon loss may be mitigated by the accumulation of …