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Dans cette region, l'eclaircie selective pour la production du bois de chauffage est la forme la plus commune de gestion des forets. L'eclaircie a augmente l'accroissement de diametre des tiges de 83% par rapport aux placettes non eclaircies entre 6 et 9 ans et de 48% entre 9 et 12 ans apres le traitement. L'accroissement absolu de diametre est correle positivement avec le diametre initial a 1,30 m. 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However, many of these high-elevation stands are thinned for a number of perceived benefits.* We explored the effects of forest stand density on ecosystem properties in subalpine forests in Colorado, USA, 17-18 y after forests were managed for timber.* Forest structure significantly altered the composition and chemical signature of plant communities. Previously managed stands contained lower density of overstory trees and higher ground cover compared to paired reference stands. Foliar phenolic concentration of several species was negatively related to basal area of overstory trees. Furthermore, reductions in stand density increased total foliar phenolic:nitrogen ratios in some species, suggesting that gap formation may drive long-term changes in litter quality. Despite significant changes in forest structure, reductions in stand density did not leave a strong legacy in surface soil properties, likely due to the integrity of soil organic matter reserves.* Changes in forest structure associated with past management has left a long-term impact on plant communities but has only subtly altered soil nutrient cycling, possibly due to trade offs between litter decomposability and microclimate associated with reductions in canopy cover.", "keywords": ["cycle de l'azote du sol", "0106 biological sciences", "biog\u00e9ochimie", "biogeochemistry<br>---<br>chimie foliaire", "densit\u00e9 du peuplement", "foliar chemistry", "soil nitrogen cycling", "stand density", "phenolic", "[SDV.SA.SF] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture", " forestry", "15. 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There was a positive correlation between the annual evapotranspiration and the precipitation in the May-August period, but not with annual precipitation. From all water fluxes within the ecosystems, deep drainage represented the most important difference between plots. An excess of water in the soil is produced in winter, resulting in nutrient leaching of the soil and a consequent loss of fertility, which becomes greater as the pluviometry gradient increases. This was confirmed by the net balance of several bioelements, the Cation Denudation Rate, the Ca/Al ratio and pH of the soil solution and canopy leaching values.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Water consumption (plants)", "Quercus pyrenaica", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "[SDV.SA.SF] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture", " forestry", "Nutrient balance (plants)", "Soil fertility", "Water balance", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/forest:19960241"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annales%20des%20Sciences%20Foresti%C3%A8res", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/forest:19960241", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/forest:19960241", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/forest:19960241"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1996-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1051/forest:2004017", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-06-24", "title": "Growth Response To Thinning In Quercus Pyrenaica Willd. Coppice Stands In Spanish Central Mountain", "description": "This paper presents the growth response of coppice forest of Quercus pyrenaica Willd. to thinnings of different intensities. Four treatments were tested light, moderate and heavy thinning with respectively 25, 35 and 50% of basal area removed, and no thinning (control). The results obtained show significant differences between treatments for diameter and biomass of the mean tree and for current diameter increment, for the three inventories carried out (1994, 1998, 2002). The largest values for the mean tree were observed with the heaviest thinning treatment. No differences were found between treatments for stand yield (total basal area and biomass). Stand structure appears more regular in thinned plots, reducing the risk of forest fires and increasing the landscape and recreation values and the possibility of silvopastoral use.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "structure du peuplement", "growth", "thinning", "\u00e9claircie", "Growth", "Coppice", "15. Life on land", "Mediterranean oak", "01 natural sciences", "Stand structure", "ch\u00eane tauzin", "coppice<br>---<br>croissance", "taillis", "stand structure", "[SDV.SA.SF] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture", " forestry", "Thinning"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Ca\u00f1ellas, Isabel, R\u00edo, Miren del, Roig-G\u00f3mez, S., Montero, Gregorio,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/forest:2004017"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annals%20of%20Forest%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/forest:2004017", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/forest:2004017", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/forest:2004017"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1051/forest:2008017", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-05-29", "title": "Decomposition Responses Of Pine (Pinus Massoniana) Needles With Two Different Nutrient-Status To N Deposition In A Tropical Pine Plantation In Southern China", "description": "\u2022 The effect of nitrogen (N) deposition on the decomposition of pine (Pinus massoniana) needles in a tropical pine plantation was studied. The pine needles with two different nutrient status (nutrient-rich and nutrient-poor) were used, followed by 3-levels of N treatments (Control: no N addition, Low- N: 5 g N m\u22122 y\u22121, and Medium-N: 10 g N m\u22122 y\u22121 experimental inputs), which had been applied for 26 months continuously before this experiment and continued throughout the decomposition measurement.      \u2022 The main objective was to test the hypothesis that decomposition of nutrient-rich needles would be more sensitive to cumulative N deposition than the decomposition of nutrient-poor needles.      \u2022 Nitrogen addition had negative effect on mass loss, and the release of N and P from decomposing nutrient-rich needles but little or no effect on the decomposition of nutrient-poor needles. In addition, a negative effect in the initial decomposition phase and a positive effect in later decay stages were found on C release. The negative effect was stronger on nutrient-rich needles than on nutrient-poor needles, but the reverse was true for the positive effect.      \u2022 Our results suggest that response of litter decomposition to N deposition may vary depending on the nutrient status of the litter.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "[SDV.SA.SF] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Silviculture", " forestry", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/forest:2008017"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Annals%20of%20Forest%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/forest:2008017", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/forest:2008017", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/forest:2008017"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1055/s-2001-17730", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2002-07-26", "title": "The Impact Of Sheep Grazing On Net Nitrogen Mineralization Rate In Two Temperate Salt Marshes", "description": "<p>Abstract:  Nitrogen mineralization rate was studied in grazing trials with three different stocking rates (0, 3, 10 sheep ha\uffe2\uff80\uff901) in two man\uffe2\uff80\uff90made salt marshes, viz. a Puccinellia maritima\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated low salt marsh and a high salt marsh dominated by Festuca rubra. Mineralization rates were derived from the amounts of mineral N which accumulated in situ during six\uffe2\uff80\uff90week incubation periods in tubes containing undisturbed soil cores from the upper 10 cm soil layer. The annual rates of net N mineralization were significantly higher in the better drained, high salt marsh (71 \uffe2\uff80\uff90 81 kg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff901 yr\uffe2\uff80\uff901) than in the low salt marsh (39 \uffe2\uff80\uff90 49 kg ha\uffe2\uff80\uff901 yr\uffe2\uff80\uff901). High amounts of belowground litter accumulated in the low salt marsh due to frequent water logging. Both N mineralization and nitrification rate were negatively correlated with soil water content. In the Puccinellia maritima salt marsh, grazing had neither an effect on N mineralization rates during any of the incubation periods nor on annual mineralization rates. In the Festuca rubra salt marsh, N mineralization rates increased earlier during spring at the intensively grazed site than at the moderately grazed and the ungrazed site. N mineralization and nitrification rates were significantly higher at the ungrazed site than at the intensively grazed site during the period of peak net N mineralization from the end of April until mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90June. Although sheep grazing affected the seasonal pattern of N mineralization in the high marsh, grazing did not affect the annual rate of net N mineralization.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "LIMITATION", "seasonality", "SUCCESSION", "MICROBIAL BIOMASS", "15. Life on land", "grazing experiment", "01 natural sciences", "nitrification", "salt marsh", "zonation", "PSEUDOREPLICATION", "vegetation", "PLANT-GROWTH", "HERBIVORES", "ECOSYSTEM", "VEGETATION", "nitrogen mineralization"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2001-17730"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1055/s-2001-17730", "name": "item", "description": "10.1055/s-2001-17730", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1055/s-2001-17730"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2001-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1080/01904167.2015.1087032", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-09-12", "title": "Phosphorus Fertilization Of A Grass-Legume Mixture: Effect On Plant Growth, Nutrients Acquisition And Symbiotic Associations With Soil Microorganisms", "description": "Fil: Mendoza, Rodolfo Ernesto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'bernardino Rivadavia'; Argentina", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "Arbuscular Mycorrhizae-Rhizobia-Dark Septate Endophyte", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Lotus-Festuca Mix", "15. Life on land", "N-P Limited Environment", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Mendoza, Rodolfo Ernesto, Bailleres, Mat\u00edas Andres, Garc\u00eda, Ileana Vanesa, Ruiz, Oscar Adolfo,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/01904167.2015.1087032"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Plant%20Nutrition", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/01904167.2015.1087032", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/01904167.2015.1087032", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/01904167.2015.1087032"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-09-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ar02116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-08-20", "title": "Screening Wheat Genotypes For Tolerance Of Soil Acidity", "description": "<p>A soil-based screening method was used to test tolerance of wheat genotypes to acidity. Plants were grown for 6 days in an acid soil with the pH adjusted to 3.9\uffe2\uff80\uff935.8. The number and length of roots were measured. To validate the method, 12 wheat cultivars of known acidity tolerance and one acid-sensitive barley cultivar were grown on an acid soil in the field with or without amelioration of subsoil acidity. The relative yields of these wheat genotypes on the soil with subsoil acidity ranged from 50 to 89% of yields on soil without subsoil acidity, and were correlated with root growth parameters obtained in the glasshouse. The best correlation was obtained between relative yields in the field (y) and root length per plant (x) at pH 3.9 in the glasshouse (y = \uffe2\uff80\uff9343 + 52*log x, r = 0.95) or root length per plant at pH 3.9 as a percentage of root length at pH 4.8 (y = 1.2 + 46*log x, r = 0.94). Following validation of the glasshouse screening method in the field, 115 wheat genotypes, including cultivars and breeding lines, were screened in the glasshouse. A substantial genotypic variation in acidity tolerance was found, with root length per plant at pH 3.9 ranging from 66 to &gt; 350 mm. Many Western Australian breeding lines displayed better tolerance than existing tolerant wheat cultivars. The screening system can be instrumental in breeding wheat for increased tolerance to acid soils. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "070306 Crop and Pasture Nutrition", "0703 (four-digit-FOR)", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "300103 Soil Chemistry", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Rengel, Z., Nuruzzaman, M., Tang, Caixian.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ar02116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Agricultural%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ar02116", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ar02116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ar02116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ar05408", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-09-27", "title": "Effects Of Pasture Treatments On Detached Pasture Litter Mass, Quality, Litter Loss, Decomposition Rates, And Residence Time In Northern New South Wales", "description": "<p>      Few data are available on litter quantity and quality and decomposition rates over time and what effects stocking rate, grazing method, legume introduction, and fertiliser application may have. Studies were conducted from spring 1997 to 2001 at 3 pasture sites in northern New South Wales to provide such data by examining the effects of pasture treatments on detached litter mass (kg DM/ha) and quality data (percent carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and C\uffe2\uff80\uff89:\uffe2\uff80\uff89N ratio) collected at 9 sampling times in 2 replicates of 5 (native pasture) or 4 (sown pasture) treatments and examined for differences over time using cubic spline analyses. For each site, decomposition bags were also used to assess differences among treatments for initial and final detached litter mass, organic matter (OM), N values, the relative rate of decomposition (g/g.day), and residence time (days) for periods March to June 1998, June to September 1998, and September to November 1998. Initial and final data were also collected for detached resident and subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum) litter for 6 sampling times from September 1998 to January 1999 for a reduced range of treatments at each site. Similar data were collected at each site for resident litter and grass green leaf material from January to April 1999.     Detached litter mass declined (P &lt; 0.05) in unfertilised continuously grazed treatments (Barraba native pasture) and with high continuous stocking rate in the Nundle sown pasture. Litter quality was only significantly affected by grazing treatment at the Barraba native pasture site where the fertilised treatment oversown with subterranean clover tended to have low percent C and a lower C\uffe2\uff80\uff89:\uffe2\uff80\uff89N ratio and higher percent N and microbial biomass C than other treatments.     From autumn to spring 1998, the fertilised, oversown treatment at both native pasture sites generally had high litter DM, OM, and N losses and relative rates of decomposition compared with continuously grazed, unfertilised pasture. For the same period, at the Nundle sown pasture site, OM and N losses and the relative rate of decomposition were consistently higher, and residence time lower, in the continuously grazed, high stocking rate treatment compared with all other treatments. Compared with resident detached litter, both subterranean clover litter and green leaf material at the native pasture sites had higher relative decomposition rates and lower residence times. The implications of these data for the management of both native and sown pastures are discussed.    </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ar05408"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Agricultural%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ar05408", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ar05408", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ar05408"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/bt14137", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-02-19", "title": "Are Shrubs Really A Sign Of Declining Ecosystem Function? Disentangling The Myths And Truths Of Woody Encroachment In Australia", "description": "<p>Since European settlement, there has been a dramatic increase in the density, cover and distribution of woody plants in former grassland and open woodland. There is a widespread belief that shrub encroachment is synonymous with declines in ecosystem functions, and often it is associated with landscape degradation or desertification. Indeed, this decline in ecosystem functioning is considered to be driven largely by the presence of the shrubs themselves. This prevailing paradigm has been the basis for an extensive program of shrub removal, based on the view that it is necessary to reinstate the original open woodland or grassland structure from which shrublands are thought to have been derived. We review existing scientific evidence, particularly focussed on eastern Australia, to question the notion that shrub encroachment leads to declines in ecosystem functions. We then summarise this scientific evidence into two conceptual models aimed at optimising landscape management to maximise the services provided by shrub-encroached areas. The first model seeks to reconcile the apparent conflicts between the patch- and landscape-level effects of shrubs. The second model identifies the ecosystem services derived from different stages of shrub encroachment. We also examined six ecosystem services provided by shrublands (biodiversity, soil C, hydrology, nutrient provision, grass growth and soil fertility) by using published and unpublished data. We demonstrated the following: (1) shrub effects on ecosystems are strongly scale-, species- and environment-dependent and, therefore, no standardised management should be applied to every case; (2) overgrazing dampens the generally positive effect of shrubs, leading to the misleading relationship between encroachment and degradation; (3) woody encroachment per se does not hinder any of the functions or services described above, rather it enhances many of them; (4) no single shrub-encroachment state (including grasslands without shrubs) will maximise all services; rather, the provision of ecosystem goods and services by shrublands requires a mixture of different states; and (5) there has been little rigorous assessment of the long-term effectiveness of removal and no evidence that this improves land condition in most cases. Our review provides the basis for an improved, scientifically based understanding and management of shrublands, so as to balance the competing goals of providing functional habitats, maintaining soil processes and sustaining pastoral livelihoods.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/bt14137"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Botany", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/bt14137", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/bt14137", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/bt14137"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ar9710707", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-11-17", "title": "Effects Of Lime On The Growth Of Five Species, On Aluminium Toxicity, And On Phosphorus Availability", "description": "<p>Preliminary pot culture experiments indicated that the yield of phalaris relative to that of perennial ryegrass was poor on the less productive soils, particularly on some of the soils of pH &lt;5.0 as measured in 115 soil/water suspensions. On an infertile acid soil with a high content of exchangeable aluminium, lucerne and phalaris plants responded to lime in pot experiments while subterranean clover, white clover, and perennial ryegrass were depressed by liming. The evidence, including that based on chemical analyses of extracted soil solutions and of lucerne plants, indicates that where adequate nitrogen had been applied, aluminium toxicity depressed the growth of lucerne and phalaris on this acid soil. The plant roots did not show the stunting which is obvious in cases of more severe aluminium toxicity. Subterranean clover, white clover, and perennial ryegrass resisted the toxicity. There was little evidence of a negative interaction between lime and phosphate on yields through their effects on aluminium toxicity. In general, responses to phosphate increased as the level of lime increased. Where suboptimal levels of nitrogen were applied there were responses to lime which were not clearly attributable to the alleviation of aluminium toxicity. Where nitrogen was adequate and there was no effect of lime in counteracting aluminium toxicity, in most cases lime caused a decrease in the concentration of phosphorus in the plants as well as a decrease in the yield. Lime also caused a decrease in the phosphorus level in the extracted soil solutions. However, in some cases where lime counteracted aluminium toxicity it increased the concentration of phosphorus in the tops of the plants. The significance of the results in relation to the problem of the diagnosis of aluminium toxicity is discussed.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "KR Helyar, AJ Anderson,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ar9710707"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Agricultural%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ar9710707", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ar9710707", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ar9710707"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1971-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ea01083", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-03-06", "title": "Sustaining Productivity Of A Vertisol At Warra, Queensland, With Fertilisers, No-Tillage Or Legumes. 6. Production And Nitrogen Benefits From Annual Medic In Rotation With Wheat", "description": "<p>Continuous cereal production in the summer-dominant rainfall region of north-eastern Australia has depleted native soil nitrogen fertility to a level where corrective strategies are required to sustain wheat grain yields and high protein levels for domestic and export markets. Annual medic pastures, along with other strategies, were evaluated from 1986 to 1998 on a Vertisol at Warra, southern Queensland, for their benefit to subsequent grain yield and protein content of wheat.Annual medic production and nitrogen yields were closely correlated with the growing season rainfall (March\uffe2\uff80\uff93September). Each 100 mm of growing season rainfall resulted in 1.39 t/ha of dry matter and 40 kg/ha of N yield. There were significant increases in soil mineralisable nitrogen following annual medic leys compared with continuous wheat in most years, but increases in total soil nitrogen were only observed in 1990, 1991 and 1992. However, pre-plant nitrate-nitrogen following an annual medic ley was always higher than that of continuous wheat without nitrogen fertiliser. This resulted in significant increases in wheat yield (6 of 9 seasons) and grain protein (in all seasons) compared with continuous wheat. The overall responses in yield and protein were similar to those of 50\uffef\uffbf\uffbd kg/ha of fertiliser nitrogen applied to continuous wheat crops. A nitrogen harvest budget for the annual medic\uffe2\uff80\uff93wheat rotation over 11 years showed that it contributed 131 kg N/ha more than continuous wheat. Thus, using the seasonal conditions experienced from 1987 to 1998 as a reasonable representation of the rainfall range in the region, sustainable productivity can be maintained where annual medics are grown in short rotations with wheat. </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "571", "0402 animal and dairy science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soils. Soil science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Agricultural meteorology. Crops and climate", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ea01083"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ea01083", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ea01083", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ea01083"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2002-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ea05274", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-04-13", "title": "Yield Components Of Nodulated Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata) And Maize (Zea Mays) Plants Grown With Exogenous Phosphorus In Different Cropping Systems", "description": "<p>  A 2-factorial experiment, involving three levels of phosphorus (0, 40, and 80 kg/ha) and four cropping systems (mono crop, maize\uffe2\uff80\uff93cowpea inter-row, maize\uffe2\uff80\uff93cowpea intra-row, and maize\uffe2\uff80\uff93cowpea intra-hole cropping) was conducted in the field for two consecutive years in 2003 and 2004 at Nietvoorbij (33\uffc2\uffb054\uffe2\uff80\uffb2S, 18\uffc2\uffb014\uffe2\uff80\uffb2E), Stellenbosch, South Africa. Plant density (number of plants per hectare) was 166\uffe2\uff80\uff89666 for sole cowpea, 111\uffe2\uff80\uff89111 for maize\uffe2\uff80\uff93cowpea inter-row, 55\uffe2\uff80\uff89555 for maize\uffe2\uff80\uff93cowpea intra-row and 55\uffe2\uff80\uff89555 for maize\uffe2\uff80\uff93cowpea intra-hole cropping. Applying 40 or 80 kg phosphorus (P)/ha significantly increased cowpea grain yields by 59\uffe2\uff80\uff9365% in 2003 and 44\uffe2\uff80\uff9355% in 2004. With maize, the increases in grain yield were 20\uffe2\uff80\uff9337% in 2003 and 48\uffe2\uff80\uff9355% in 2004 relative to the zero-P control. In both cropping seasons, the number of pod-bearing peduncles per plant, the number of pods per plant, the number of seeds per pod, and grain yield per cowpea plant were significantly increased with the application of exogenous P. In contrast, the number of pod-bearing peduncles per plant, the number of pods per plant, the number of seeds per pod, and the grain yield per plant were all significantly depressed by mixed culture relative to mono crop cowpea. There was also a significant interactive effect of P and cropping system on cowpea, such that, all cowpea yield components were generally lower in intercrop relative to mono crop. In all instances, the yield component of mono crop cowpea and, to some extent, inter-row cowpea, were markedly increased by the provision of 40 or 80 kg P/ha relative to the zero-P control. Intercropping maize with cowpea produced higher total yields per unit land area than the mono crop counterpart. </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ea05274"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ea05274", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ea05274", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ea05274"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/cp11093", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-11-09", "title": "Seedling Validation Of Acid Soil Tolerance Of Lucerne Populations Selected In Solution Culture High In Aluminium", "description": "<p>  This study tested the hypothesis that lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) populations selected in solution culture high in aluminium (Al) would increase seedling root growth when grown in an acid soil high in exchangeable Al. Root growth of six elite populations (Aurora C2, UQL-1\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2, T02-011\uffe2\uff80\uff89C1, T02-011\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2, A513\uffe2\uff80\uff89C3 and Sardi 7\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2) selected in high-Al solution culture (SHASC) was compared with that of corresponding parent as well as the Georgia acid soil-tolerant populations in an acid soil in pots grown for 8 days under controlled environmental conditions. Lime was added to the soil to provide contrasts in the severity of stress imposed by low pH and high Al. Averaged across six SHASC populations, total root length increased 19% at pH 4.34 in CaCl2 (35% exchangeable Al) and 26% at pH 5.26 (&lt;1% exchangeable Al) compared with the control populations. At all pH levels SHASC populations showed increased tap root length, total root length (includes lateral roots), root weight and root surface area, but decreased average root diameter compared with the six control populations. A large amount of variability was observed both between and within lucerne populations with three SHASC populations (Aurora C2, UQL-1\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2 and Sardi 7\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2) exhibiting increased root growth at lower pH levels, but little increase in root length at higher pH, consistent with increased tolerance to Al toxicity. This was in contrast to three other SHASC populations (T02-011\uffe2\uff80\uff89C1, T02-011\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2 and A513\uffe2\uff80\uff89C3), which exhibited increased root length at all pH levels, consistent with increased seedling vigour. The Sardi 7\uffe2\uff80\uff89C2 population exhibited the greatest increase in tap root growth with tap root length increasing by 40 and 30% at pH 4.34 and 4.48, respectively, compared with its parent population Sardi 7. This study provides evidence that seedlings of lucerne populations selected in high-Al solution culture can confer significantly improved root and shoot growth in acid soil. It is recommended that such screening be incorporated into lucerne breeding programs to reduce costs in space and time. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/cp11093"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Crop%20and%20Pasture%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/cp11093", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/cp11093", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/cp11093"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ea9921061", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-03-31", "title": "Yield Responses To Lime Of Phalaris, Cocksfoot, And Annual Pastures In North-Eastern Victoria", "description": "<p> Yield responses of 3 mixed grass-clover pastures [Phalaris aquatica L. cv. Sirosa (phalaris), Dactylis glomerata cv. Porto (cocksfoot), and annual grass based Trifolium subterraneum L. cv. Trikkala (subterranean clover) pastures] were measured over 5 soil pH treatments at 2 sites in Victoria. One site (Beechworth) was strongly acidic [pH(CaCl2) &lt; 4.21 to a depth of 40 cm and contained high concentrations of soil aluminium (Al). At the other site (Lake Rowan), yield responses to lime application had been measured previously, but only in Al-sensitive wheat cultivars. At Beechworth, pasture yield responses to lime were not consistent but. when observed. occurred in autumn and winter in all 3 pasture types. Phalaris pastures showed yield increases more often than cocksfoot and annual pastures. Low magnesium and calcium concentrations may have limited dry matter production, although yields were reasonable on all treatments. Where lime was applied, growth responses may have been due to alleviation of Al toxicity. At Beechworth, pasture yield was increased where lime increased pH from 4.2 to 4.6 and decreased soil Al (measured in 10 mmol CaCl2/L) from 11 to &lt;3 \uffef\uffbf\uffbdg/g soil. Herbage manganese concentrations were not high in phalaris and subterranean clover, and cocksfoot manganese standards were not available. At Lake Rowan (pH 4.7, Al &lt;1 \uffef\uffbf\uffbdg/g), no growth responses to lime were seen in any pasture treatment, and annual grass based pastures sometimes had higher yields than phalaris and cocksfoot pastures. On strongly acidic soils such as at Beechworth, incorporation of lime prior to pasture establishment should be considered. Perennial grasses may reduce further soil degradation through acidification. Soil A1 concentrations are commonly lower in ley-cropping areas, and the inclusion of perennial grasses in ley pastures requires further evaluation. </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "AM Ridley, DR Coventry,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ea9921061"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ea9921061", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ea9921061", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ea9921061"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1992-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/fp12206", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-11-23", "title": "Can Elevated Co2 Combined With High Temperature Ameliorate The Effect Of Terminal Drought In Wheat?", "description": "<p>Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production may be affected by the future climate, but the impact of the combined increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration, temperature and incidence of drought that are predicted has not been evaluated. The combined effect of elevated CO2, high temperature and terminal drought on biomass accumulation and grain yield was evaluated in vigorous (38\uffe2\uff80\uff9319) and nonvigorous (Janz) wheat genotypes grown under elevated CO2 (700\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb5L\uffe2\uff80\uff89L\uffe2\uff80\uff931) combined with temperatures 2\uffc2\uffb0C, 4\uffc2\uffb0C and 6\uffc2\uffb0C above the current ambient temperature. Terminal drought was induced in all combinations at anthesis in a split-plot design to test whether the effect of elevated CO2 combined with high temperature ameliorates the negative effects of terminal drought on biomass accumulation and grain yield. Biomass and grain yield were enhanced under elevated CO2 with 2\uffc2\uffb0C above the ambient temperature, regardless of the watering regimen. The combinations of elevated CO2 plus 4\uffc2\uffb0C or 6\uffc2\uffb0C above the ambient temperature did not enhance biomass and grain yield, but tended to decrease them. The reductions in biomass and grain yield (45\uffe2\uff80\uff9350%) caused by terminal drought were less severe (21\uffe2\uff80\uff9328%) under elevated CO2 with 2\uffc2\uffb0C above the ambient temperature. The amelioration resulted from a 63% increase in the rate of leaf net photosynthesis in 38\uffe2\uff80\uff9319 and a 39% increase in tillering and leaf area in Janz. The contrasting responses and phenological development of these two genotypes to the combination of elevated CO2, temperature and terminal drought, and the possible influences on their source\uffe2\uff80\uff93sink relationships are discussed.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/fp12206"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Functional%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/fp12206", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/fp12206", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/fp12206"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/ea9950903", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-03-31", "title": "Sustaining Productivity Of A Vertisol At Warra, Queensland, With Fertilisers, No-Tillage, Or Legumes .1. Organic Matter Status", "description": "<p>Management practices involving legume leys, grain legumes, and no-tillage and stubble retention, along with nitrogen (N) fertiliser application for wheat cropping, were examined for their effectiveness in increasing soil organic matter (0-10 cm depth) from 1986 to 1993 in a field experiment on a Vertisol at Warra, Queensland. The treatments were (i) grass + legume leys (purple pigeon grass, Setaria incrassata; Rhodes grass, Chloris gayana; lucerne, Medicago sativa; annual medics, M. scutellata and M. truncatula) of 4 years duration followed by continuous wheat; (ii) 2-year rotation of annual medics and wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Hartog); (iii) 2-year rotation of lucerne and wheat; (iv) 2-year rotation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum cv. Barwon) and wheat; (v) no-tillage (NT) wheat; and (vi) conventional tillage (CT) wheat. Fertiliser N as urea was applied to both NT wheat and CT wheat at 0,25, and 75 kg N/ha. year. The CT wheat also received N at 12.5 and 25kg N/ha. year. After 4 years, soil organic carbon (C) concentration under grass + legume leys increased by 20% (650 kg C/ha. year) relative to that under continuous CT wheat. Soil total N increased by 11, 18, and 22% after 2, 3, and 4 years, respectively, under grass + legume leys relative to continuous CT wheat. These increases in soil organic matter were mostly confined to the 0-2.5 cm layer. After the start of wheat cropping, organic C and total N levels declined steadily but were still higher than under CT wheat and higher than initial values in December 1985. Although 2-year rotations of lucerne-wheat and medic-wheat had a small effect on soil organic C, soil total N concentrations were higher than in the chickpea-wheat rotation and continuous CT wheat from November 1990 to November 1992. Soil under chickpea-wheat rotation had organic C and total N concentrations similar to continuous CT wheat, although from the former, about 70 kg/ha. year of extra N was removed in the grain from 1989 to 1993. No-tillage practice had a small effect on soil organic C, although total N concentration was higher than under CT wheat in November 1993. These effects were mainly confined to the surface 0-2.5 cm depth. The C to N ratio was only affected in soil under grass + legume leys, and no-tillage treatments. These data show that restoration of soil organic matter in Vertisol requires grass + legume leys, primarily due to increased root biomass, although soil total N can be enhanced by including legume leys for longer duration in cropping systems in the semi-arid and subtropical environment.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil and crops. Soil-plant relationships. Soil productivity", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil conservation and protection", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/ea9950903"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Australian%20Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/ea9950903", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/ea9950903", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/ea9950903"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1995-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/fp13117", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-09-04", "title": "Root Growth And N Dynamics In Response To Multi-Year Experimental Warming, Summer Drought And Elevated Co2 In A Mixed Heathland-Grass Ecosystem", "description": "<p>Ecosystems exposed to elevated CO2 are often found to sequester more atmospheric carbon due to increased plant growth. We exposed a Danish heath ecosystem to elevated CO2, elevated temperature and extended summer drought alone and in all combinations in order to study whether the expected increased growth would be matched by an increase in root nutrient uptake of NH4+-N and NO3\uffe2\uff80\uff93 -N. Root growth was significantly increased by elevated CO2. The roots, however, did not fully compensate for the higher growth with a similar increase in nitrogen uptake per unit of root mass. Hence the nitrogen concentration in roots was decreased in elevated CO2, whereas the biomass N pool was unchanged or even increased. The higher net root production in elevated CO2 might be a strategy for the plants to cope with increased nutrient demand leading to a long-term increase in N uptake on a whole-plant basis. Drought reduced grass root biomass and N uptake, especially when combined with warming, but CO2 was the most pronounced main factor effect. Several significant interactions of the treatments were found, which indicates that the responses were nonadditive and that changes to multiple environmental changes cannot be predicted from single-factor responses alone.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/fp13117"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Functional%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/fp13117", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/fp13117", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/fp13117"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/mu13028", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-02-02", "title": "Avian Responses To Varying Intensity Of Cattle Production In Spartina Densiflora Saltmarshes Of South-Eastern South America", "description": "Saltmarshes of Spartina densiflora in south-eastern South America have been modified by anthropogenic activities, mainly production of livestock. We examined the effect of the intensity of cattle production on the structure of saltmarsh vegetation and the effect of these changes to vegetation on the richness, composition and size of the avian populations and the abundance of nests. The levels of cattle production were based on the combined intensity of prescribed burning and cattle grazing, classed as: (1) High grazing \u2013 High burning (HH), (2) Low grazing \u2013 Low burning (LL) and (3) No grazing \u2013 No burning (NN). Cattle production altered the vegetation structure of saltmarshes and indirectly modified the richness, composition and size of their avian populations and the abundance of nests. Saltmarshes with either LL or NN production levels were inhabited by tall grassland specialists and generalists and by species specialised to live in a mosaic of short and tall grassland patches. Conversely, saltmarshes with HH production levels were inhabited by short-grassland specialists. That avian species diversity does not differ between S. densiflora saltmarsh subject to low or no human impacts has several potential interpretations, which are discussed. These findings have implications for management of grasslands to maintain avian diversity.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Grassland Birds", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "Argentina", "Cattle Grazing", "Conservation", "Pampas", "15. Life on land", "Fire", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Cardoni, Daniel Augusto, Isacch, Juan Pablo, Iribarne, Oscar Osvaldo,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/mu13028"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Emu%20-%20Austral%20Ornithology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/mu13028", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/mu13028", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/mu13028"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/fp14125", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-03", "title": "Intraspecific Variation In Leaf Growth Of Wheat (Triticum Aestivum) Under Australian Grain Free Air Co2 Enrichment (Agface): Is It Regulated Through Carbon And/Or Nitrogen Supply?", "description": "<p> Underlying physiological mechanisms of intraspecific variation in growth response to elevated CO2 concentration [CO2] were investigated using two spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars: Yitpi and H45. Leaf blade elongation rate (LER), leaf carbon (C), nitrogen (N) in the expanding leaf blade (ELB, sink) and photosynthesis (A) and C and N status in the last fully expanded leaf blade (LFELB, source) were measured. Plants were grown at ambient [CO2] (~384\uffc2\uffb5molmol\uffe2\uff80\uff931) and elevated [CO2] (~550\uffc2\uffb5molmol\uffe2\uff80\uff931) in the Australian Grains Free Air CO2 Enrichment facility. Elevated [CO2] increased leaf area and total dry mass production, respectively, by 42 and 53% for Yitpi compared with 2 and 13% for H45. Elevated [CO2] also stimulated the LER by 36% for Yitpi compared with 5% for H45. Yitpi showed a 99% increase in A at elevated [CO2] but no A stimulation was found for H45. There was a strong correlation (r2=0.807) between LER of the ELB and soluble carbohydrate concentration in LFELB. In ELB, the highest spatial N concentration was observed in the cell division zone, where N concentrations were 67.3 and 60.6mg g\uffe2\uff80\uff931 for Yitpi compared with 51.1 and 39.2mg g\uffe2\uff80\uff931 for H45 at ambient and elevated [CO2]. In contrast, C concentration increased only in the cell division and cell expansion zone of the ELB of Yitpi. These findings suggest that C supply from the source (LFELB) is cultivar dependent and well correlated with LER, leaf area expansion and whole-plant growth response to elevated [CO2]. </p>", "keywords": ["Diurnal regulation of LER", "580", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "070303 Crop and Pasture Biochemistry and Physiology", "leaf blade elongation rate", "diurnal regulation of LER", "gas exchange", "Growth analysis", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Leaf blade elongation rate", "03 medical and health sciences", "Elevated (CO2)", "elevated [CO2]", "Gas exchange", "growth analysis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/fp14125"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Functional%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/fp14125", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/fp14125", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/fp14125"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/is19047", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-08", "title": "Conflict and congruence between morphological and molecular data: revision of the Merodon constans group (Diptera\u2009:\u2009Syrphidae)", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>We revise the Merodon constans species group of the genus Merodon Meigen, 1803 (Diptera: Syrphidae), provide morphological diagnoses\u00a0and descriptions, as well as an illustrated key and a discussion on the different taxonomic characters used. In total, 15 species were studied, their geographic distributions are presented on maps, and nine new species are described. Two species are redefined and neotypes are designated, lectotypes are designated for five species, and one\u00a0species\u00a0is reinstated as valid. Following a detailed study of type material in different entomological collections, the status of several species is revised and three new synonymies are proposed. The M. constans species group was resolved as being monophyletic within the M. albifrons lineage based on molecular analyses using COI and 28S rRNA gene sequences. Three species morphologically similar to M. constans (Rossi, 1794) but occurring outside its distributional range\u00a0were supported as being valid and distinct species on the basis of molecular data, but they were not distinguishable based on morphological characters. By contrast, continental populations of M. analis Meigen, 1822 could not be separated from Mediterranean M. constans based on differences in COI or 28S rRNA genes. The same molecular markers could not discriminate between two other species pairs. We conclude that these molecular markers only partially resolve species within the M. constans group. Geometric morphometry of wing shape successfully separated M. analis and M. constans, as well as M. spineus Vuji\u0107, \u0160a\u0161i\u0107 Zori\u0107 &amp; Likov, sp. nov. in both species and population analyses.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "15. Life on land", "10. No inequality", "01 natural sciences", "3. Good health"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.publish.csiro.au/IS/pdf/IS19047"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/is19047"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Invertebrate%20Systematics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/is19047", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/is19047", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/is19047"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/rj08051", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-08-30", "title": "Effects Of Grazing Intensity, Soil Variables, And Topography On Vegetation Diversity In The Subalpine Meadows Of The Zhongtiao Mountains, China", "description": "<p>  Montane meadows in the Zhongtiao Mountains (located at 111\uffc2\uffb015\uffe2\uff80\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff93112\uffc2\uffb037\uffe2\uff80\uffb2E, 34\uffc2\uffb036\uffe2\uff80\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff9335\uffc2\uffb053\uffe2\uff80\uffb2N) of North China are important for local animal husbandry and the provision of ecosystem services. However, owing to poor management, serious degradation has occurred on these subalpine meadows. The aim of this paper is to present a quantitative analysis of effects of stocking rate, grazing intensity, soil and topography on the status and diversity of montane meadow communities and to provide direction for improved management. Three regions in the Zhongtiao Mountain meadows were selected for monitoring the impacts of stocking rates and different grazing intensities on the meadow plant communities. Forty-one plots of 10\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc3\uff97\uffe2\uff80\uff8910\uffe2\uff80\uff89m and quadrats of 1\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc3\uff97\uffe2\uff80\uff891\uffe2\uff80\uff89m in each plot were set up to collect data on site characteristics and vegetation status in the three regions. The relationships between community composition and structure, species diversity, and grazing intensity, soil and topographic variables were analysed by multivariate methods (TWINSPAN, DCA and CCA). The results showed that nine meadow communities were identified by TWINSPAN. The first DCA and CCA axis identified a grazing intensity gradient, which illustrated that grazing intensity was an important factor influencing meadow types, composition and structure. Soil and topographic variables were also important to meadow vegetation, although most soil variables were sensitive to grazing intensity. Species richness, diversity and evenness were closely related to grazing intensity. It is concluded that grazing intensity and grazing method must be changed from the current heavy continuous grazing to rotational grazing to enable grassland rehabilitation to occur in the meadows of the Zhongtiao Mountains. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/rj08051"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20Rangeland%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/rj08051", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/rj08051", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/rj08051"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/rj10022", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-03-23", "title": "Temporary Cropping In Semi-Arid Shrublands Increases Native Perennial Grasses", "description": "<p>  Thickening of native shrubs is a major problem in many \uffe2\uff80\uff98semi-arid woodlands\uffe2\uff80\uff99 as significant increase in shrub density is often negatively correlated with herbaceous vegetation and leads to reduced pasture production and soil erosion. This project aimed to test the hypothesis that temporary cropping (up to three crops in 15 years) consistently increases the density of native perennial grasses following the removal of shrubs. A total of 30 paddocks that had been cropped during the last 20 years were randomly selected using a satellite-based database that documented annual clearing and cropping history from 1987 to 2003. Paddocks were classified into four types based on clearing and cropping history and grazing management \uffe2\uff80\uff93 not cleared (shrubs), regrowth (re-invaded by shrubs), set stocked (cropped and grazed), light/rotationally grazed (cropped and grazed). The responses of vegetation and soil (chemical and physical) properties to clearing and cropping were evaluated. Results indicated that ground cover, native perennial grass cover and standing dry matter were highest under light/rotationally grazed conditions. The shrub state represents a stable state within the Cobar pediplain brought about due to land-use change in the form of overgrazing and/or the removal of fire from the system. An alternative stable state was achieved as a result of disturbance in the form of clearing, cropping and grazing management thereby directly altering the shrub population. The resilience of this state is largely dependent on the grazing management system used and on the prevention of shrub from re-establishing while failure to control shrubs could lead to the re-emergence of the Shrub State. We conclude that native grasslands do regenerate following cropping after removal of shrubs. The importance of grazing management for restoring perennial ground cover following removal of shrubs and temporary cropping has been clearly demonstrated by the study. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Ronald B. Hacker, Warren J. Smith, Gavin J. Melville, Y. Alemseged,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/rj10022"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20Rangeland%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/rj10022", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/rj10022", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/rj10022"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/rj14077", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-03", "title": "Changes In Vegetation Composition And Plant Diversity With Rangeland Degradation In The Alpine Region Of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", "description": "<p>  The changes in vegetation composition and plant diversity of three different alpine ecosystems: alpine meadow, alpine steppe and alpine desert, impacted by different levels of degradation (healthy, lightly degraded and moderately degraded) were examined across a large-scale transect on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The alpine meadow was dominated by sedges, the alpine steppe was dominated by grasses and the alpine desert was dominated by shrubs. The alpine meadow had the highest species diversity, whereas the alpine steppe had the lowest and tended to be dominated by a few species. Forbs were the dominant and most diverse functional group in the alpine meadow and the alpine steppe, which was different from the alpine desert. The importance values of the dominant species and levels of diversity measured by various vegetation indices were only slightly different in the degraded sites as compared with the non-degraded alpine meadow and steppe, whereas the alpine desert showed large changes in the composition and diversity of the plant community in response to degradation. In conclusion, the plant composition of the alpine meadow and alpine steppe ecosystems was more stable and appeared more resistant to disturbance than that of the alpine desert ecosystem. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/rj14077"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20Rangeland%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/rj14077", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/rj14077", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/rj14077"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/s98081", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-01-08", "title": "The Influence Of Pinus Radiata, Quercus Suber, And Improved Pasture On Soil Chemical Properties", "description": "<p> Soil acidification and related land degradation issues are assuming increasing importance in Australia and challenging the concept of sustainability of current land management systems. In this study, the impacts of tree plantations of 2 species and permanent pasture on soil chemical properties are compared. Soil samples were collected from the top 50 cm (0\uffe2\uff80\uff935, 5\uffe2\uff80\uff9310, 10\uffe2\uff80\uff9315, 15\uffe2\uff80\uff9320, 20\uffe2\uff80\uff9330, and 30\uffe2\uff80\uff9350 cm depths) from 3 adjacent sites carrying pasture and monocultures of Pinus radiata (radiata pine) and Quercus suber (cork oak) on a deep-surfaced yellow podzolic soil, and differences in soil pH and other soil chemical properties were examined. In the surface 0\uffe2\uff80\uff935 cm, pH was similar at all 3 sites. Below that depth, soil pH was significantly lower and exchangeable Al greater under the cork oak stand than at the other 2 sites. Consistent with a decrease in soil pH there was significantly less exchangeable Ca under cork oak. Also, less clay was observed under the cork oak stand and this is taken as evidence of the degradational impact of soil acidification. An estimate of Ca in the top 50 cm of the soil implies considerable loss of Ca under oak, probably by leaching and loss of litter down the slope. Evidence is presented to show that there has been more Fe and Al movement under oak than under pasture and pine, this being ascribed in part to the greater Al and Fe mobilising capacity of the water-soluble component extracted from freshly fallen leaf litter of oak. The Fe and Al composition of the oxalate extract from concretionary material at 10\uffe2\uff80\uff9330 cm under oak is consistent with a process similar to podzolisation. Pseudogleying of Fe and Al may have accompanied the leaching of bases from the system and a reduction of pH. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "I. P. Little, A. D. Noble, P. J. Randall,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/s98081"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/s98081", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/s98081", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/s98081"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1999-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/sr05139", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-03-26", "title": "Spatial And Time-Dependent Patterns Of Selenium (Se) Release From Selected Se Fertiliser Granules", "description": "<p>      The spatial and time-dependent patterns of selenium (Se) release from similar-sized granules of 4 Se fertilisers, 3 containing sodium selenate (Unitech Agsel, Ravensdown A, and Ravensdown B) and the fourth containing sodium selenate and barium selenate (Selcote Ultra), were evaluated using ryegrass grown on a Se-deficient soil under glasshouse conditions. Four granules (2\uffe2\uff80\uff933\uffe2\uff80\uff89mm diameter) from each of the 4 fertiliser types having uniform shape and similar weight were placed on the soil surface of trays (0.51\uffe2\uff80\uff89m length, 0.42\uffe2\uff80\uff89m width, 0.15\uffe2\uff80\uff89m depth) at a distance 0.10\uffe2\uff80\uff89m from 2 adjacent sides of the trays, and the Se content of herbage in concentric rings around each granule was periodically measured over 1 year. The amount of Se applied to the trays, calculated by adding herbage Se to the residual fertiliser Se in soil at the end of the trial, was 12\uffe2\uff80\uff9331\uffe2\uff80\uff89g\uffe2\uff80\uff89Se/ha.     Soil Se concentration at the end of the trial for the Selcote Ultra and Ravensdown A treatments and herbage Se concentration at 10 harvests for all fertiliser treatments decreased exponentially with increased distance from the granules. Herbage Se concentration reached the level considered deficient to animals (0.05\uffe2\uff80\uff89mg/kg) at the centre of the tray (0.12\uffe2\uff80\uff89m from the granules) 4 months after Unitech Agsel application (7% of paddock area). By 9 months all plants in this treatment became deficient in Se. In contrast, 7% of the sward area in the Ravensdown A treatment, and 41% of the sward area in the Ravensdown B and Selcote Ultra treatments, were deficient in Se at this time, but the average herbage Se concentration for the entire tray was above the deficiency level for these 3 fertiliser treatments.     The efficiency of the fertilisers in increasing herbage Se concentration per unit weight of Se applied for the first 3 months was: Unitech Agsel \uffe2\uff89\uffa5 Ravensdown B \uffe2\uff89\uffa5 Ravensdown A &gt; Selcote Ultra. During the last 3 months, this order was: Selcote Ultra = Ravensdown A &gt; Ravensdown B &gt; Unitech Agsel.    </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/sr05139"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/sr05139", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/sr05139", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/sr05139"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/sr07220", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-06-23", "title": "Comparing The Effects Of Continuous And Time-Controlled Grazing Systems On Soil Characteristics In Southeast Queensland", "description": "<p>  Grazing by livestock has a great influence on soil characteristics with major effects on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in grazing lands. Grazing practices affect soil properties in different ways depending on the prescribed stocking rate and grazing periods. The new grazing system of short, intensive grazing followed by a long period of rest, referred to as time-controlled grazing (TC grazing), has become popular among many graziers in Australia and elsewhere. However, little research has been carried out on the impacts of this grazing system on the physical and chemical health of the soil. To address this issue, a comprehensive field study was carried out on a sheep-grazing property in the south-eastern region of Queensland, Australia, where the 2 grazing systems of continuous and TC grazing were compared. Results over the period 2001\uffe2\uff80\uff932006 showed an increase in soil organic carbon and nitrogen in the areas with favourable soil condition compared with continuous grazing. There was also an increase in ground-litter accumulation over time and no compaction in TC grazing. Nitrate and extractable P concentrations were reduced by increased grass growth under TC grazing, which in turn decreased the contamination potential for downstream water bodies. This reduction was much more pronounced on a historical sheep aggregation camp, where a large amount of faecal material had been deposited prior to conversion to TC grazing. The smaller size of the paddocks, along with the long rest period provided by TC grazing in this area, are recognised to be the major contributors to both physical and chemical recovery of the soil after each grazing operation. </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/sr07220"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/sr07220", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/sr07220", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/sr07220"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0706518104", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-08-21", "title": "Increases In Nitrogen Uptake Rather Than Nitrogen-Use Efficiency Support Higher Rates Of Temperate Forest Productivity Under Elevated Co2", "description": "<p>             Forest ecosystems are important sinks for rising concentrations of atmospheric CO             2             . In previous research, we showed that net primary production (NPP) increased by 23 \uffc2\uffb1 2% when four experimental forests were grown under atmospheric concentrations of CO             2             predicted for the latter half of this century. Because nitrogen (N) availability commonly limits forest productivity, some combination of increased N uptake from the soil and more efficient use of the N already assimilated by trees is necessary to sustain the high rates of forest NPP under free-air CO             2             enrichment (FACE). In this study, experimental evidence demonstrates that the uptake of N increased under elevated CO             2             at the Rhinelander, Duke, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory FACE sites, yet fertilization studies at the Duke and Oak Ridge National Laboratory FACE sites showed that tree growth and forest NPP were strongly limited by N availability. By contrast, nitrogen-use efficiency increased under elevated CO             2             at the POP-EUROFACE site, where fertilization studies showed that N was not limiting to tree growth. Some combination of increasing fine root production, increased rates of soil organic matter decomposition, and increased allocation of carbon (C) to mycorrhizal fungi is likely to account for greater N uptake under elevated CO             2             . Regardless of the specific mechanism, this analysis shows that the larger quantities of C entering the below-ground system under elevated CO             2             result in greater N uptake, even in N-limited ecosystems. Biogeochemical models must be reformulated to allow C transfers below ground that result in additional N uptake under elevated CO             2             .           </p>", "keywords": ["rotation poplar plantation", "0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "atmospheric carbon-dioxide", "enrichment face", "organic nitrogen", "Biological Transport", "deciduous forest", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Trees", "Kinetics", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "populus-tremuloides", "community composition", "soil-n availability", "fine-root production", "Ecosystem", "ecosystem responses"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706518104"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0706518104", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0706518104", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0706518104"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-08-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/sr11203", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-11-11", "title": "Relationships Between Soil Organic Matter And The Soil Microbial Biomass (Size, Functional Diversity, And Community Structure) In Crop And Pasture Systems In A Semi-Arid Environment", "description": "<p>The quantity and/or quality of soil organic matter (SOM) and its fractions regulate microbial community composition and associated function. In this study an established, replicated agricultural systems trial in a semi-arid environment was used to test: (i) whether agricultural systems which have increased plant residue inputs increase the amount of labile SOM relative to total SOM, or change the quality of SOM fractions; and (ii) whether the size or quality of OM fractions is most strongly linked to the size, activity, functional diversity, and community structure of the soil microbial biomass. Soil (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9350\uffe2\uff80\uff89mm) was collected following 5 years of continuous wheat, crop rotation, crop\uffe2\uff80\uff93pasture rotation, annual pasture, or perennial pasture. Pastures were grazed by sheep. Direct drilling and non-inversion tillage techniques were compared in some cropping systems. Total carbon (C) increased with the proportion of pasture as a result of increased SOM inputs into these systems; land use also significantly affected SOM fractions and their chemical and physical nature. While the size, function, and structure of the soil microbial community were somewhat related to total soil C, they were better correlated with SOM fractions. The C\uffe2\uff80\uff89:\uffe2\uff80\uff89nitrogen (N) ratio of light fraction organic matter could be used to predict the amount of potentially mineralisable N in soil, while the C\uffe2\uff80\uff89:\uffe2\uff80\uff89N ratio of total SOM could not. Measurement of bacterial community structure (using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) significantly discriminated between land uses, while community-level physiological profiles revealed fewer differences. Overall, our findings support the premise that labile fractions of SOM are more strongly related to microbial community structure and function than is total SOM.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "zero-tillage", "labile carbon", "bacterial diversity", "soil nitrogen supply", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "carbon sequestration", "soil biology", "630"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/sr11203"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/sr11203", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/sr11203", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/sr11203"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/sr12274", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-05-13", "title": "Simulation Of N2o Emissions And Mitigation Options For Rainfed Wheat Cropping On A Vertosol In The Subtropics", "description": "<p>The Water and Nitrogen Management Model (WNMM) was applied to simulate nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from a wheat-cropped Vertosol under long-term management of no-till, crop residue retention, and nitrogen (N) fertiliser application in southern Queensland, Australia, from July 2006 to June 2009. For the simulation study, eight treatments of combinations of conventional tillage (CT) or no-till (NT), stubble burning (SB) or stubble retention (SR), and N fertiliser application at nil (0N) or 90 (90N) kg N/ha.year were used. The results indicated that WNMM satisfactorily simulated the soil water content of the topsoil, mineral N content of the entire soil profile (0\uffe2\uff80\uff931.5\uffe2\uff80\uff89m), and N2O emissions from the soil under the eight treatments, compared with the corresponding field measurements. For simulating daily N2O emissions from soil, WNMM performed best for the treatment CT-SB-90N (R2\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.48, P\uffe2\uff80\uff89&lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.001; RMSE\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff8910.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89g N/ha.day) and worst for the treatment CT-SB-0N (R2\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.03, P\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.174; RMSE\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff891.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89g N/ha.day). WNMM predicted N2O emissions from the soil more accurately for the fertilised treatments (i.e. 90N v. 0N), and for the residue retained treatments (SR v. SB). To reduce N2O emissions from the no-till and fertilised treatments, three scenarios were examined: application of nitrification inhibitor, application of controlled-release fertiliser, and deep placement of liquid fertiliser (UAN32). Only the deep placement of UAN32 below the 35\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm depth was effective, and could reduce the N2O emissions from the soil by almost 40%.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "N2O emissions", "Vertosol", "Mitigation", "Soil biology", "WNMM simulation", "13. Climate action", "Wheat cropping", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Land capability and soil productivity", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/sr12274"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/sr12274", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/sr12274", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/sr12274"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1905912116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-08-06", "title": "Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency", "description": "<p>             Multiple lines of evidence suggest that plant water-use efficiency (WUE)\uffe2\uff80\uff94the ratio of carbon assimilation to water loss\uffe2\uff80\uff94has increased in recent decades. Although rising atmospheric CO             2             has been proposed as the principal cause, the underlying physiological mechanisms are still being debated, and implications for the global water cycle remain uncertain. Here, we addressed this gap using 30-y tree ring records of carbon and oxygen isotope measurements and basal area increment from 12 species in 8 North American mature temperate forests. Our goal was to separate the contributions of enhanced photosynthesis and reduced stomatal conductance to WUE trends and to assess consistency between multiple commonly used methods for estimating WUE. Our results show that tree ring-derived estimates of increases in WUE are consistent with estimates from atmospheric measurements and predictions based on an optimal balancing of carbon gains and water costs, but are lower than those based on ecosystem-scale flux observations. Although both physiological mechanisms contributed to rising WUE, enhanced photosynthesis was widespread, while reductions in stomatal conductance were modest and restricted to species that experienced moisture limitations. This finding challenges the hypothesis that rising WUE in forests is primarily the result of widespread, CO             2             -induced reductions in stomatal conductance.           </p", "keywords": ["Water-use efficiency", "Tree rings", "Water", "AmeriFlux", "Biological Sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "United States", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "Plant Stomata", "Photosynthesis", "CO2 fertilization", "AmeriFlux; CO2; fertilization; Stable isotopes; Tree rings; Water-use efficiency", "Stable isotopes", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/704613/4/Guerrieri%20et%20al%20PNAS%202019.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905912116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1905912116", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1905912116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1905912116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-08-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/wf9930149", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-10-18", "title": "Wildfire Effects On Forest Floor And Surface Soil In A Table Mountain Pine-Pitch Pine Forest", "description": "<p>Wildfire plays a dominant role in creating die environmental and biological conditions necessary for the natural regeneration of mixed Pinus pungens Lamb. (Table Mountain pine)-Pinus rigida Mill. (pitch pine) forests. This study of forest floor and surface soil properties following a mid-July wildfire in these forests in the Shenandoah National Park revealed significant reductions in nutrient contents. Prolific regeneration of the pines occurred following the fire, with over 9,000 seedling/ha tallied in high severity areas, compared with less than 800 seedlings/ha in unburned areas. It is hypothesized that fire degrades site quality and sets back the site succession process so that the pines are better able to compete with invasive, xeric-site deciduous species like oaks and maples. Adjacent, unburned xeric-site oak forests dominate on more moist and fertile sites.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "DA Groeschl, JE Johnson, DW Smith,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/wf9930149"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/International%20Journal%20of%20Wildland%20Fire", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/wf9930149", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/wf9930149", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/wf9930149"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1993-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0503198103", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-01-21", "title": "Plant Community Responses To Experimental Warming Across The Tundra Biome", "description": "<p>Recent observations of changes in some tundra ecosystems appear to be responses to a warming climate. Several experimental studies have shown that tundra plants and ecosystems can respond strongly to environmental change, including warming; however, most studies were limited to a single location and were of short duration and based on a variety of experimental designs. In addition, comparisons among studies are difficult because a variety of techniques have been used to achieve experimental warming and different measurements have been used to assess responses. We used metaanalysis on plant community measurements from standardized warming experiments at 11 locations across the tundra biome involved in the International Tundra Experiment. The passive warming treatment increased plant-level air temperature by 1-3\uffc2\uffb0C, which is in the range of predicted and observed warming for tundra regions. Responses were rapid and detected in whole plant communities after only two growing seasons. Overall, warming increased height and cover of deciduous shrubs and graminoids, decreased cover of mosses and lichens, and decreased species diversity and evenness. These results predict that warming will cause a decline in biodiversity across a wide variety of tundra, at least in the short term. They also provide rigorous experimental evidence that recently observed increases in shrub cover in many tundra regions are in response to climate warming. These changes have important implications for processes and interactions within tundra ecosystems and between tundra and the atmosphere.</p>", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "0106 biological sciences", "570", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Hot Temperature", "Climate", "Environment", "01 natural sciences", "333", "Climatic changes Environmental aspects", "Effects of global warming on", "Climate change", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Plant Physiological Phenomena", "Arctic and alpine ecosystems", "Arctic Regions", "Temperature", "500", "Genetic Variation", "Biodiversity", "Models", " Theoretical", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "0503 (four-digit-FOR)", "Tundra ecology", "13. Climate action", "Vegetation change", "Plants", " Effects of global warming on", "Software", "Environmental Monitoring"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/884/1/ITEX_PNAS%20%282006%29%20hi%20res.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503198103"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0503198103", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0503198103", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0503198103"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-01-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0403491101", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-06-22", "title": "Fine-Root Production Dominates Response Of A Deciduous Forest To Atmospheric Co2 Enrichment", "description": "<p>             Fine-root production and turnover are important regulators of the biogeochemical cycles of ecosystems and key components of their response to global change. We present a nearly continuous 6-year record of fine-root production and mortality from minirhizotron analysis of a closed-canopy, deciduous sweetgum forest in a free-air CO             2             enrichment experiment. Annual production of fine roots was more than doubled in plots with 550 ppm CO             2             compared with plots in ambient air. This response was the primary component of the sustained 22% increase in net primary productivity. Annual fine-root mortality matched annual production, and the mean residence time of roots was not altered by elevated CO             2             , but peak fine-root standing crop in midsummer was significantly higher in CO             2             -enriched plots, especially deeper in the soil profile. The preferential allocation of additional carbon to fine roots, which have a fast turnover rate in this species, rather than to stemwood reduces the possibility of long-term enhancement by elevated CO             2             of carbon sequestration in biomass. However, sequestration of some of the fine-root carbon in soil pools is not precluded, and there may be other benefits to the tree from a seasonally larger and deeper fine-root system. Root-system dynamics can explain differences among ecosystems in their response to elevated atmospheric CO             2             ; hence, accurate assessments of carbon flux and storage in forests in a globally changing atmosphere must account for this unseen and difficult-to-measure component.           </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Time Factors", "Atmosphere", "Nitrogen", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "Tennessee", "01 natural sciences", "Trees", "Soil", "Liquidambar", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Seasons", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403491101"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0403491101", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0403491101", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0403491101"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-06-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0509038103", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-04-14", "title": "Element interactions limit soil carbon storage", "description": "<p>             Rising levels of atmospheric CO             2             are thought to increase C sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. The potential of these sinks to mitigate CO             2             emissions, however, may be constrained by nutrients. By using metaanalysis, we found that elevated CO             2             only causes accumulation of soil C when N is added at rates well above typical atmospheric N inputs. Similarly, elevated CO             2             only enhances N             2             fixation, the major natural process providing soil N input, when other nutrients (e.g., phosphorus, molybdenum, and potassium) are added. Hence, soil C sequestration under elevated CO             2             is constrained both directly by N availability and indirectly by nutrients needed to support N             2             fixation.           </p>", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "Nitrogen", "cycles", "fine roots", "Plant Development", "01 natural sciences", "forest", "Soil", "Nitrogen Fixation", "elevated atmospheric co2", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "model", "biological nitrogen-fixation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "climate-change", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grassland", "ecosystem responses", "metaanalysis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0509038103"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0509038103", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0509038103", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0509038103"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-04-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.17863/cam.81466", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-19", "title": "Multimodal correlative imaging and modelling of phosphorus uptake from soil by hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi", "description": "Summary<p>   <p>Phosphorus (P) is essential for plant growth. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) aid its uptake by acquiring P from sources distant from roots in return for carbon. Little is known about how AMF colonise soil pore\uffe2\uff80\uff90space, and models of AMF\uffe2\uff80\uff90enhanced P\uffe2\uff80\uff90uptake are poorly validated.</p>  <p>We used synchrotron X\uffe2\uff80\uff90ray computed tomography to visualize mycorrhizas in soil and synchrotron X\uffe2\uff80\uff90ray fluorescence/X\uffe2\uff80\uff90ray absorption near edge structure (XRF/XANES) elemental mapping for P, sulphur (S) and aluminium (Al) in combination with modelling.</p>  <p>We found that AMF inoculation had a suppressive effect on colonisation by other soil fungi and identified differences in structure and growth rate between hyphae of AMF and nonmycorrhizal fungi. Our results showed that AMF co\uffe2\uff80\uff90locate with areas of high P and low Al, and preferentially associate with organic\uffe2\uff80\uff90type P species over Al\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich inorganic P.</p>  <p>We discovered that AMF avoid Al\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich areas as a source of P. Sulphur\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich regions were found to be correlated with higher hyphal density and an increased organic\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated P\uffe2\uff80\uff90pool, whilst oxidized S\uffe2\uff80\uff90species were found close to AMF hyphae. Increased S oxidation close to AMF suggested the observed changes were microbiome\uffe2\uff80\uff90related. Our experimentally\uffe2\uff80\uff90validated model led to an estimate of P\uffe2\uff80\uff90uptake by AMF hyphae that is an order of magnitude lower than rates previously estimated \uffe2\uff80\uff93 a result with significant implications for the modelling of plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil\uffe2\uff80\uff93AMF interactions.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["580", "X-ray computed tomography", "570", "Research", "X-ray fluorescence", "Fungi", "Hyphae", "500", "Phosphorus", "mycorrhizas", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "plant phosphorus uptake", "Plant Roots", "Soil", "rhizosphere modelling", "Mycorrhizae", "synchrotron", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/454110/1/Keyes_et_al_Myco_Paper_TR_04_01_2022_unmarked.pdf"}, {"href": "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/454110/2/Figures_TR_22_12_2021.pdf"}, {"href": "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/454110/3/SI_1_TR_22_12_2021_no_markup.pdf"}, {"href": "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/454110/4/SI_2_TR_22_12_2021.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.81466"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/New%20Phytologist", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.17863/cam.81466", "name": "item", "description": "10.17863/cam.81466", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.17863/cam.81466"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-02-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0932734100", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-06-24", "title": "Additive Effects Of Simulated Climate Changes, Elevated Co2, And Nitrogen Deposition On Grassland Diversity", "description": "<p>             Biodiversity responses to ongoing climate and atmospheric changes will  affect both ecosystem processes and the delivery of ecosystem goods and  services. Combined effects of co-occurring global changes on diversity,  however, are poorly understood. We examined plant diversity responses in a  California annual grassland to manipulations of four global environmental  changes, singly and in combination: elevated CO             2             , warming,  precipitation, and nitrogen deposition. After 3 years, elevated CO             2             and nitrogen deposition each reduced plant diversity, whereas elevated  precipitation increased it and warming had no significant effect. Diversity  responses to both single and combined global change treatments were driven  overwhelmingly by gains and losses of forb species, which make up most of the  native plant diversity in California grasslands. Diversity responses across  treatments also showed no consistent relationship to net primary production  responses, illustrating that the diversity effects of these environmental  changes could not be explained simply by changes in productivity. In two- to  four-way combinations, simulated global changes did not interact in any of  their effects on diversity. Our results show that climate and atmospheric  changes can rapidly alter biological diversity, with combined effects that, at  least in some settings, are simple, additive combinations of single-factor  effects.           </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Time Factors", "Ecology", "Atmosphere", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "California", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ecosystem"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Nona R. Chiariello, M. Rebecca Shaw, Christopher B. Field, Harold A. Mooney, Erika S. Zavaleta,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0932734100"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0932734100", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0932734100", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0932734100"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-06-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1006463107", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-10-26", "title": "Co2 Enhancement Of Forest Productivity Constrained By Limited Nitrogen Availability", "description": "<p>             Stimulation of terrestrial plant production by rising CO             2             concentration is projected to reduce the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO             2             emissions. Coupled climate\uffe2\uff80\uff93carbon cycle models are sensitive to this negative feedback on atmospheric CO             2             , but model projections are uncertain because of the expectation that feedbacks through the nitrogen (N) cycle will reduce this so-called CO             2             fertilization effect. We assessed whether N limitation caused a reduced stimulation of net primary productivity (NPP) by elevated atmospheric CO             2             concentration over 11 y in a free-air CO             2             enrichment (FACE) experiment in a deciduous             Liquidambar styraciflua             (sweetgum) forest stand in Tennessee. During the first 6 y of the experiment, NPP was significantly enhanced in forest plots exposed to 550 ppm CO             2             compared with NPP in plots in current ambient CO             2             , and this was a consistent and sustained response. However, the enhancement of NPP under elevated CO             2             declined from 24% in 2001\uffe2\uff80\uff932003 to 9% in 2008. Global analyses that assume a sustained CO             2             fertilization effect are no longer supported by this FACE experiment. N budget analysis supports the premise that N availability was limiting to tree growth and declining over time \uffe2\uff80\uff94an expected consequence of stand development, which was exacerbated by elevated CO             2             . Leaf- and stand-level observations provide mechanistic evidence that declining N availability constrained the tree response to elevated CO             2             ; these observations are consistent with stand-level model projections. This FACE experiment provides strong rationale and process understanding for incorporating N limitation and N feedback effects in ecosystem and global models used in climate change assessments.           </p>", "keywords": ["580", "0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen", "carbon dioxide", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Tennessee", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "climatic changes", "Trees", "forests and forestry", "13. Climate action", "Fertilization", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1006463107"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1006463107", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1006463107", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1006463107"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-10-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1018189108", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-24", "title": "Soil Warming, Carbon-Nitrogen Interactions, And Forest Carbon Budgets", "description": "<p>Soil warming has the potential to alter both soil and plant processes that affect carbon storage in forest ecosystems. We have quantified these effects in a large, long-term (7-y) soil-warming study in a deciduous forest in New England. Soil warming has resulted in carbon losses from the soil and stimulated carbon gains in the woody tissue of trees. The warming-enhanced decay of soil organic matter also released enough additional inorganic nitrogen into the soil solution to support the observed increases in plant carbon storage. Although soil warming has resulted in a cumulative net loss of carbon from a New England forest relative to a control area over the 7-y study, the annual net losses generally decreased over time as plant carbon storage increased. In the seventh year, warming-induced soil carbon losses were almost totally compensated for by plant carbon gains in response to warming. We attribute the plant gains primarily to warming-induced increases in nitrogen availability. This study underscores the importance of incorporating carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff93nitrogen interactions in atmosphere\uffe2\uff80\uff93ocean\uffe2\uff80\uff93land earth system models to accurately simulate land feedbacks to the climate system.</p>", "keywords": ["Atmosphere", "Nitrogen", "Temperature", "Plant Development", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Models", " Biological", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Trees", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018189108"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1018189108", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1018189108", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1018189108"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-05-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1220608110", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-12-28", "title": "Conversion Of The Amazon Rainforest To Agriculture Results In Biotic Homogenization Of Soil Bacterial Communities", "description": "<p>The Amazon rainforest is the Earth\uffe2\uff80\uff99s largest reservoir of plant and animal diversity, and it has been subjected to especially high rates of land use change, primarily to cattle pasture. This conversion has had a strongly negative effect on biological diversity, reducing the number of plant and animal species and homogenizing communities. We report here that microbial biodiversity also responds strongly to conversion of the Amazon rainforest, but in a manner different from plants and animals. Local taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of soil bacteria increases after conversion, but communities become more similar across space. This homogenization is driven by the loss of forest soil bacteria with restricted ranges (endemics) and results in a net loss of diversity. This study shows homogenization of microbial communities in response to human activities. Given that soil microbes represent the majority of biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems and are intimately involved in ecosystem functions, we argue that microbial biodiversity loss should be taken into account when assessing the impact of land use change in tropical forests.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Tropical Climate", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Rain", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Trees", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "Humans", "Cattle", "Brazil", "Ecosystem", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220608110"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1220608110", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1220608110", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1220608110"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-12-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1320585111", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-08-19", "title": "Effect Of Woody-Plant Encroachment On Livestock Production In North And South America", "description": "Significance           <p>Grasslands all over the world are undergoing a rapid shift from herbaceous to woody-plant dominance, a phenomenon known as woody-plant encroachment. The impact of this global phenomenon on livestock production (LP), the main ecosystem service provided by grasslands, remains largely unexplored. We quantified, for the first time, the impact of woody-plant encroachment on LP at a large scale, finding a reduction of between 0.6 and 1.6 reproductive cows per square kilometer for each 1% increase in tree cover. By comparing the largest rangelands of the Americas (United States and Argentina), we also showed how the impact of woody-plant encroachment is mediated by social\uffe2\uff80\uff93economic factors. Our paper represents a significant advance in our understanding of grasslands as complex social\uffe2\uff80\uff93ecological systems.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Livestock", "Climate", "Argentina", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "333", "United States", "Trees", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "Cattle", "Ecosystem", "Environmental Monitoring", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320585111"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1320585111", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1320585111", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1320585111"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-08-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1807354116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-03-09", "title": "Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Increasing plant diversity can increase ecosystem functioning, stability, and services in both natural and managed grasslands, but the effects of herbivore diversity, and especially of livestock diversity, remain underexplored. Given that managed grazing is the most extensive land use worldwide, and that land managers can readily change livestock diversity, we experimentally tested how livestock diversification (sheep, cattle, or both) influenced multidiversity (the diversity of plants, insects, soil microbes, and nematodes) and ecosystem multifunctionality (including plant biomass production, plant leaf N and P, above-ground insect abundance, nutrient cycling, soil C stocks, water regulation, and plant\u2013microbe symbiosis) in the world\u2019s largest remaining grassland. We also considered the potential dependence of ecosystem multifunctionality on multidiversity. We found that livestock diversification substantially increased ecosystem multifunctionality by increasing multidiversity. The link between multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality was always stronger than the link between single diversity components and functions. Our work provides insights into the importance of multitrophic diversity to maintain multifunctionality in managed ecosystems and suggests that diversifying livestock could promote both multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in an increasingly managed world.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Livestock", "Sheep", "Biodiversity", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Animals", "Cattle", "Animal Husbandry", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807354116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1807354116", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1807354116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1807354116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1809276115", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-10", "title": "High Nitrous Oxide Fluxes From Rice Indicate The Need To Manage Water For Both Long- And Short-Term Climate Impacts", "description": "Significance           <p>             Methane from global rice cultivation currently accounts for one-half of all crop-related greenhouse gas emissions. Several international organizations are advocating reductions in methane emissions from rice by promoting intermittent flooding without accounting for the possibility of large emissions of nitrous oxide (N             2             O), a long-lived greenhouse gas. Our experimental results suggest that the Indian subcontinent\uffe2\uff80\uff99s N             2             O emissions from intermittently flooded rice fields could be 30\uffe2\uff80\uff9345 times higher than reported under continuous flooding. Net climate impacts of rice cultivation could be reduced by up to 90% through comanagement of water, nitrogen, and carbon. To do this effectively will require a careful ongoing global assessment of N             2             O emissions from rice, or we will risk ignoring a very large source of climate impact.           </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrous oxide", "550", "Climate Change", "Nitrous Oxide", "Water", "India", "Oryza", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "Crop Production", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Greenhouse Gases", "Alternate wetting and drying", "Water Supply", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Rice", "Methane"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809276115"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1809276115", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1809276115", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1809276115"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1812668115", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-11-30", "title": "Poplar phyllosphere harbors disparate isoprene-degrading bacteria", "description": "<p>             The climate-active gas isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) is released to the atmosphere in huge quantities, almost equaling that of methane, yet we know little about the biological cycling of isoprene in the environment. Although bacteria capable of growth on isoprene as the sole source of carbon and energy have previously been isolated from soils and sediments, no microbiological studies have targeted the major source of isoprene and examined the phyllosphere of isoprene-emitting trees for the presence of degraders of this abundant carbon source. Here, we identified isoprene-degrading bacteria in poplar tree-derived microcosms by DNA stable isotope probing. The genomes of isoprene-degrading taxa were reconstructed, putative isoprene metabolic genes were identified, and isoprene-related gene transcription was analyzed by shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomics. Gram-positive bacteria of the genus             Rhodococcus             proved to be the dominant isoprene degraders, as previously found in soil. However, a wider diversity of isoprene utilizers was also revealed, notably             Variovorax             , a genus not previously associated with this trait. This finding was confirmed by expression of the isoprene monooxygenase from             Variovorax             in a heterologous host. A             Variovorax             strain that could grow on isoprene as the sole carbon and energy source was isolated. Analysis of its genome confirmed that it contained isoprene metabolic genes with an identical layout and high similarity to those identified by DNA-stable isotope probing and metagenomics. This study provides evidence of a wide diversity of isoprene-degrading bacteria in the isoprene-emitting tree phyllosphere and greatly enhances our understanding of the biodegradation of this important metabolite and climate-active gas.           </p>", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "0303 health sciences", "QH301 Biology", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Mixed Function Oxygenases", "Comamonadaceae", "03 medical and health sciences", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "Hemiterpenes", "Populus", "13. Climate action", "Butadienes", "Rhodococcus", "Metagenomics", "Genome", " Bacterial", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69197/1/Published_manuscript.pdf"}, {"href": "https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1812668115"}, {"href": "https://repository.essex.ac.uk/23631/1/1812668115.full.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812668115"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1812668115", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1812668115", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1812668115"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-11-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1904326116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-21", "title": "Microbial biospherics: The experimental study of ecosystem function and evolution", "description": "<p>Awareness that our planet is a self-supporting biosphere with sunlight as its major source of energy for life has resulted in a long-term historical fascination with the workings of self-supporting ecological systems. However, the studies of such systems have never entered the canon of ecological or evolutionary tools and instead, have led a fringe existence connected to life support system engineering and space travel. We here introduce a framework for a renaissance in biospherics based on the study of matter-closed, energy-open ecosystems at a microbial level (microbial biospherics). Recent progress in genomics, robotics, and sensor technology makes the study of closed systems now much more tractable than in the past, and we argue that the time has come to emancipate the study of closed systems from this fringe context and bring them into a mainstream approach for studying ecosystem processes. By permitting highly replicated long-term studies, especially on predetermined and simplified systems, microbial biospheres offer the opportunity to test and develop strong hypotheses about ecosystem function and the ecological and evolutionary determinants of long-term system failure or persistence. Unlike many sciences, ecosystem ecology has never fully embraced a reductionist approach and has remained focused on the natural world in all its complexity. We argue that a reductionist approach to ecosystem ecology, using microbial biospheres, based on a combination of theory and the replicated study of much simpler self-enclosed microsystems could pay huge dividends.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Ecology", "Atmosphere", "Earth", " Planet", "Microbiota", "Space Flight", "15. Life on land", "Biological Evolution", "03 medical and health sciences", "Engineering", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "Sunlight", "Ecological Systems", " Closed", "Ecosystem", "Life Support Systems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1904326116"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904326116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1904326116", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1904326116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1904326116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1913688117", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-03-17", "title": "ENO regulates tomato fruit size through the floral meristem development network", "description": "<p>A dramatic evolution of fruit size has accompanied the domestication and improvement of fruit-bearing crop species. In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), naturally occurring cis-regulatory mutations in the genes of the CLAVATA-WUSCHEL signaling pathway have led to a significant increase in fruit size generating enlarged meristems that lead to flowers with extra organs and bigger fruits. In this work, by combining mapping-by-sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing methods, we isolatedEXCESSIVE NUMBER OF FLORAL ORGANS(ENO), an AP2/ERF transcription factor which regulates floral meristem activity. Thus, theENOgene mutation gives rise to plants that yield larger multilocular fruits due to an increased size of the floral meristem. Genetic analyses indicate thatenoexhibits synergistic effects with mutations at theLOCULE NUMBER(encodingSlWUS) andFASCIATED(encodingSlCLV3) loci, two central players in the evolution of fruit size in the domestication of cultivated tomatoes. Our findings reveal that anenomutation causes a substantial expansion ofSlWUSexpression domains in a flower-specific manner. In vitro binding results show that ENO is able to interact with the GGC-box cis-regulatory element within theSlWUSpromoter region, suggesting that ENO directly regulatesSlWUSexpression domains to maintain floral stem-cell homeostasis. Furthermore, the study of natural allelic variation of theENOlocus proved that a cis-regulatory mutation in the promoter ofENOhad been targeted by positive selection during the domestication process, setting up the background for significant increases in fruit locule number and fruit size in modern tomatoes.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Floral meristem", "[SPI] Engineering Sciences [physics]", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Meristem", "Quantitative Trait Loci", "Genes", " Plant", "CLAVATA/WUSCHEL regulatory network", "Domestication", "[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics]", "03 medical and health sciences", "Solanum lycopersicum", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "AP2/ERF transcription factor", "Promoter Regions", " Genetic", "Cell Proliferation", "Plant Proteins", "580", "Homeodomain Proteins", "2. Zero hunger", "Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)", "0303 health sciences", "Stem Cells", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "fruit size", "Crop Production", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "CLAVATA-WUSCHEL regulatory network", "GENETICA", "Fruit", "Mutation", "Fruit size", "floral meristem", "Transcription Factors"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1913688117"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913688117"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1913688117", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1913688117", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1913688117"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-03-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.2107668118", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-11-19", "title": "Energetic scaling in microbial growth", "description": "Significance           <p>Understanding the principles underlying microbial growth is paramount to the cycle of carbon and nutrients in the biosphere, bioremediation technologies, and biochemical engineering, as well as to natural selection and evolution. Yet, fundamental questions remain on the links between mass and energy balances in microbial metabolism and growth. Guided by a nonequilibrium thermodynamics framework, we interpret extensive literature data on microbial growth. The analysis reveals how mass and energy conversion are tightly coupled by scaling laws relating the thermodynamic efficiency to the electron donor uptake rate and the growth yield. Most importantly, these results appear to be universal, in that they apply across microbial species and metabolic pathways, and pave the way for a general thermodynamic theory of microbiological systems.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "energy dissipation", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "energy scaling", "Entropy", "microbial growth", "thermodynamic efficiency", "Condensed Matter Physics", "Models", " Biological", "thermodynamics", "03 medical and health sciences", "Thermodynamics", "Biomass", "Den kondenserade materiens fysik"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2107668118"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107668118"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.2107668118", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.2107668118", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.2107668118"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.12318", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:19:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-07-11", "title": "Soil-Plant N Processes In A High Arctic Ecosystem, Nw Greenland Are Altered By Long-Term Experimental Warming And Higher Rainfall", "description": "Abstract<p>Rapid temperature and precipitation changes in High Arctic tundra ecosystems are altering the biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), but in ways that are difficult to predict. The challenge grows from the uncertainty of N cycle responses and the extent to which shifts in soil N are coupled with the C cycle and productivity of tundra systems. We used a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (since 2003) experiment of summer warming and supplemental summer water additions to a High Arctic ecosystem in NW Greenland, and applied a combination of discrete sampling and in situ soil core incubations to measure C and N pools and seasonal microbial processes that might control plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90available N. We hypothesized that elevated temperature and increased precipitation would stimulate microbial activity and net inorganic N mineralization, thereby increasing plant N\uffe2\uff80\uff90availability through the growing season. While we did find increased N mineralization rates under both global change scenarios, water addition also significantly increased net nitrification rates, loss of NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffe2\uff80\uff90N via leaching, and lowered rates of labile organic N production. We also expected the chronic warming and watering would lead to long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term changes in soil N\uffe2\uff80\uff90cycling that would be reflected in soil \uffce\uffb415N values. We found that soil \uffce\uffb415N decreased under the different climate change scenarios. Our results suggest that temperature accelerates biological processes and existing C and N transformations, but moisture increases soil hydraulic connectivity and so alters the pathways, and changes the fate of the products of C and N transformations. In addition, our findings indicate that warmer, wetter High Arctic tundra will be cycling N and C in ways that may transform these landscapes in part leading to greater C sequestration, but simultaneously, N losses from the upper soil profile that may be transported to depth dissolved in water and or transported off site in lateral flow.</p>", "keywords": ["Arctic Regions", "Nitrogen", "Rain", "Greenland", "Temperature", "Water", "Salix", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Plant Leaves", "Soil", "13. 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Here, we present the development of 3D live microscopy for resolving plant-microbe interactions across the environment of an entire seedling growing in a transparent soil in tailor-made mesocosms, maintaining physical conditions for the culture of both plants and microorganisms. A tailor made dual-illumination light-sheet system acquired scattering signals from the plant whilst fluorescence signals were captured from transparent soil particles and labelled microorganisms, allowing the generation of quantitative data on samples approximately 3600 mm3in size with as good as 5 \uffce\uffbcm resolution at a rate of up to one scan every 30 minutes. The system tracked the movement ofBacillus subtilispopulations in the rhizosphere of lettuce plants in real time, revealing previously unseen patterns of activity. Motile bacteria favoured small pore spaces over the surface of soil particles, colonising the root in a pulsatile manner. Migrations appeared to be directed towards the root cap, the point \uffe2\uff80\uff9cfirst contact\uffe2\uff80\uff9d, before subsequent colonisation of mature epidermis cells. Our findings show that microscopes dedicated to live environmental studies present an invaluable tool to understand plant-microbe interactions.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Microscopy", "Silicon", "0303 health sciences", "Temperature", "root-microbe interactions", "Equipment Design", "Biological Sciences", "Environment", "15. 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