Living in darkness: functional diversity of mesopelagic fishes in the western tropical Atlantic by Kátia Cristina Aparecido, Kátia Cristina Aparecido, Thierry Frédou, Leandro Nolé Eduardo, Michael Maia Mincarone, Michael Maia Mincarone, Rayssa Siqueira Lima, Maria Fernanda da Silva Morais, Bastien Mérigot

“…To overcome these constraints, mesopelagic fishes have developed several adaptations that enable them to participate in crucial ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling, carbon transport, and provisioning of harvestable fish stocks. …”
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Nutrient Dynamics Assessment of Coarse Wood Debris Subjected to Successional Decay Levels of Three Forests Types in Northeast, China by Kashif Khan, Tran Thi Tuyen, Lixin Chen, Wenbiao Duan, Anwaar Hussain, Muhammad Atif Jamil, Changzhun Li, Qiwen Guo, Meixue Qu, Yafei Wang, Attaullah Khan

“…Coarse wood debris (CWD) plays a critical role in forest productivity, nutrient cycling, decomposition, and carbon sequestration, and shapes the carbon pool in the forest ecosystem. …”
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Improved representation of phosphorus exchange on soil mineral surfaces reduces estimates of phosphorus limitation in temperate forest ecosystems by L. Yu, L. Yu, S. Caldararu, S. Caldararu, B. Ahrens, T. Wutzler, M. Schrumpf, M. Schrumpf, J. Helfenstein, J. Helfenstein, C. Pistocchi, S. Zaehle

“…We finally tested the conventional and new models of P sorption at five beech forest sites in Germany along a soil P stock gradient using the QUINCY (QUantifying Interactions between terrestrial Nutrient CYcles and the climate system) TBM.</p> <p>We found that the conventional (single-surface) Langmuir isotherm approach in most TBMs largely differed from P sorption experiments regarding the sorption capacities and Langmuir coefficients, and it simulated an overly low soil P-buffering capacity. …”
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Seasonality regulates the taxonomic and functional compositions of protists responding to climate warming in forest ecosystems by Fangfang Li, Anqi Sun, Xiaofei Liu, Peixin Ren, Bing‐Xue Wu, Ju‐Pei Shen, Li Bi, Ji‐Zheng He, Yusheng Yang, Hang‐Wei Hu

“…Abstract Introduction Protists are unicellular eukaryotes including important predators, parasites and phototrophs, and play pivotal roles in organic matter decomposition, biogeochemical nutrient cycling and various ecosystem functions. Unravelling the impact of climate warming on soil protists is paramount in predicting how these microorganisms will continue to provide essential ecosystem services in the face of changing climatic conditions. …”
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Nutrient turnover by large sulfur bacteria on the Namibian mud belt during the low productivity season by Pei-Chuan Chuang, Chloe H. Anderson, Michael Kossack, Jenny Fabian, Chih-Chieh Su, Paul Vosteen, Matthias Zabel, Florian Scholz, Heide N. Schulz-Vogt, Stefan Sommer, Andrew W. Dale

“…Given the extensive coverage of LSB on the shelf (&gt;30,000 km2), more accurate forecasts of nutrient cycling and primary production in the BUS necessitate a closer inspection of benthic P sources and sinks in the mud belt and a clearer understanding of the controls on the end product of nitrate reduction by LSB.…”
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Lasting effect of Urochloa brizantha on a common bean-wheat-maize rotation in a medium-term no-till system by Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol, João Henrique Santos Ferreira, Letusa Momesso, José Roberto Portugal, Murilo de Campos, Marcelo Raphael Volf, Emerson Borghi, Rogério Peres Soratto, Juliano Carlos Calonego

“…These findings indicate that intercropping maize and U. brizantha provides medium-term benefits for subsequent common bean, wheat, and maize crops, and improves nutrient cycling to increase soil P; exchangeable K, Ca, and Mg; S–SO42−; and organic matter content.…”
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Divergent patterns of experimental and model-derived permafrost ecosystem carbon dynamics in response to Arctic warming by Christina Schädel, Charles D Koven, David M Lawrence, Gerardo Celis, Anthony J Garnello, Jack Hutchings, Marguerite Mauritz, Susan M Natali, Elaine Pegoraro, Heidi Rodenhizer, Verity G Salmon, Meghan A Taylor, Elizabeth E Webb, William R Wieder, Edward AG Schuur

“…The divergence of model results from field experiments reveals the role subsidence, hydrology, and nutrient cycling play in influencing the C flux responses to permafrost thaw, a complexity that the models are not structurally able to predict, and highlight challenges associated with projecting C cycle dynamics across the Arctic.…”
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Diversity and functional traits of indigenous soil microbial flora associated with salinity and heavy metal concentrations in agricultural fields within the Indus Basin region, Pak... by Muhammad Usama Marghoob, Muhammad Usama Marghoob, Alejandro Rodriguez-Sanchez, Asma Imran, Fathia Mubeen, Lori Hoagland

“…Changes in soil microbial communities and their potential functional capabilities are also likely to affect several critical agroecosystem services related to nutrient cycling, pathogen suppression, and plant stress tolerance. …”
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Relationships between Soil Tillage Systems, Nematode Communities and Weed Seed Predation by Koon-Hui Wang, Philip Waisen, Alan W. Leslie, Roshan Paudel, Susan L. F. Meyer, Cerruti R. R. Hooks

“…Weed pressure was consistently negatively related to (1) the SI, indicating soil disturbance would lead to more weed pressure; (2) the EI, indicating soil with higher weed pressure was linked to poor soil nutrient cycling, (3) cover crop residues left in the field from conservation tillage, or (4) how well the living mulch of red clover covered the ground. …”
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Diverse Xylaria in the Ecuadorian Amazon and their mode of wood degradation by Nickolas N. Rajtar, Joshua C. Kielsmeier-Cook, Benjamin W. Held, Cristina E. Toapanta-Alban, Maria E. Ordonez, Charles W. Barnes, Robert A. Blanchette

“…Our study demonstrated that the Xylaria species tested can cause a soft rot type of wood decay and with the significant amount of biomass loss that occurred within a short incubation time, it indicates these fungi likely play a significant role in nutrient cycling in the Amazonian rainforest.…”
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Soil Microorganisms Mediated the Responses of the Plant–Soil Systems of <i>Neotrinia splendens</i> to Nitrogen Addition and Warming in a Desert Ecosystem by Zhuxin Mao, Ming Yue, Yuchao Wang, Lijuan Li, Yang Li

“…Furthermore, warming or N addition not only decreased soil microbial diversity, but also inhibited microbial genera associated with nutrient cycling, such as that of <i>Tumebacillus</i> spp., <i>Bacillus</i> spp., and <i>Mortierella</i> spp.; it additionally influenced important bacterial functions, such as nitrate reduction and ureolysis. …”
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Uncertainties in Projections of the Baltic Sea Ecosystem Driven by an Ensemble of Global Climate Models by Sofia Saraiva, Sofia Saraiva, H. E. Markus Meier, H. E. Markus Meier, Helén Andersson, Anders Höglund, Christian Dieterich, Matthias Gröger, Robinson Hordoir, Robinson Hordoir, Robinson Hordoir, Kari Eilola

“…Depending on the region, global warming may reinforce these environmental changes by reducing air-sea oxygen fluxes, intensifying internal nutrient cycling, and increasing river-borne nutrient loads. …”
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Soil microbial diversity in organic and non-organic pasture systems by Mohan Acharya, Amanda J. Ashworth, Yichao Yang, Joan M. Burke, Jung Ae Lee, Roshani Sharma Acharya

“…Understanding the effects of organic pasture management on the soil microbiome is important for sustainable forage production since soil microbiome diversity contributes to improved nutrient cycling, soil structure, plant growth, and environmental resiliency; however, the soil microbiome response to pasture management is largely unknown. …”
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Geo‐ecological functions provided by coral reef fishes vary among regions and impact reef carbonate cycling regimes by Chris T. Perry, Michael A. Salter, Ines D. Lange, David P. Kochan, Alastair R. Harborne, Nicholas A. J. Graham

“…While additional species‐level rate data are urgently needed to better constrain function rates, these transitions align with ideas about the progressive shutdown of carbonate production regimes on ecologically perturbed reefs, with important implications for reef‐building, shoreline sediment supply, and sediment carbon and nutrient cycling.…”
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Responses of Soil Labile Organic Carbon on Aggregate Stability across Different Collapsing-Gully Erosion Positions from Acric Ferralsols of South China by Xian Tang, Yousef Alhaj Hamoud, Hiba Shaghaleh, Jianrong Zhao, Hong Wang, Jiajia Wang, Tao Zhao, Bo Li, Ying Lu

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Characterizing a subtropical hypereutrophic lake: From physicochemical variables to shotgun metagenomic data by Osiris Díaz-Torres, Ofelia Yadira Lugo-Melchor, José de Anda, Danielle A. Orozco-Nunnelly, Misael Sebastián Gradilla-Hernández, Carolina Senés-Guerrero

“…In addition, there are few studies that have coupled the metabolism of aquatic ecosystems with nutrient cycles.…”
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Land use change alters carbon composition and degree of decomposition of tropical peat soils by Adi Kunarso, Ryan Farquharson, Dony Rachmanadi, Kyle Hearn, Ewan W. Blanch, Samantha Grover

“…This more nuanced understanding of the different types of carbon that make up tropical peat soils under different land uses can be applied to support peatland restoration. In particular, nutrient cycling and water availability are likely to be influenced by carbon functional group and degree of decomposition. …”
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Constraining Carbon and Nutrient Flows in Soil With Ecological Stoichiometry by Robert W. Buchkowski, Alanna N. Shaw, Debjani Sihi, Gabriel R. Smith, Ashley D. Keiser, Ashley D. Keiser

“…Soil organic matter (SOM) is central to soil carbon (C) storage and terrestrial nutrient cycling. New data have upended the traditional model of stabilization, which held that stable SOM was mostly made of undecomposed plant molecules. …”
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Regional biogeography versus intra-annual dynamics of the root and soil microbiome by Lukas P. Bell-Dereske, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci, Pedro Beschoren da Costa, Gregory Bonito, Maren L. Friesen, Lisa K. Tiemann, Sarah E. Evans

“…Abstract Background Root and soil microbial communities constitute the below-ground plant microbiome, are drivers of nutrient cycling, and affect plant productivity. However, our understanding of their spatiotemporal patterns is confounded by exogenous factors that covary spatially, such as changes in host plant species, climate, and edaphic factors. …”
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Spatial Variability in Streambed Microbial Community Structure across Two Watersheds by Philips O. Akinwole, Jinjun Kan, Louis A. Kaplan, Robert H. Findlay

“…IMPORTANCE Microorganisms in streams drive many biogeochemical reactions of global significance, including nutrient cycling and energy flow; yet, the mechanisms responsible for the distribution and composition of streambed microbial communities are not well known. …”
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