{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.3390/rs13020305", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:22:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-01-20", "title": "Soil Salinity Mapping Using Machine Learning Algorithms with the Sentinel-2 MSI in Arid Areas, China", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Accurate monitoring of soil salinization plays a key role in the ecological security and sustainable agricultural development of arid regions. As a branch of artificial intelligence, machine learning acquires new knowledge through self-learning and continuously improves its own performance. The purpose of this study is to combine Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imager (MSI) data and MSI-derived covariates with measured soil salinity data and to apply three machine learning algorithms in modeling to estimate and map the soil salinity in the study sample area. According to the convenient transportation conditions, the study area and sampling quadrat were set up, and the 5-point method was used to collect the soil mixed samples, and 160 soil mixed samples were collected. Kennard\u2013Stone (K\u2013S) algorithm was used for sample classification, 70% for modeling and 30% for verification. The machine learning algorithm uses Support Vector Machines (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Random Forest (RF). The results showed that (1) the average reflectance of each band of the MSI data ranged from 0.21\u20130.28. According to the spectral characteristics corresponding to different soil electrical conductivity (EC) levels (1.07\u201379.6 dS m\u22121), the spectral reflectance of salinized soil in the MSI data ranged from 0.09\u20130.35. (2) The correlation coefficient between the MSI data and MSI-derived covariates and soil EC was moderate, and the correlation between certain MSI data sets and soil EC was not significant. (3) The SVM soil EC estimation model established with the MSI data set attained a higher performance and accuracy (R2 = 0.88, root mean square error (RMSE) = 4.89 dS m\u22121, and ratio of the performance to the interquartile range (RPIQ) = 1.96, standard error of the laboratory measurements to the standard error of the predictions (SEL/SEP) = 1.11) than those attained with the soil EC estimation models established with the RF and ANN models. (4) We applied the SVM soil EC estimation model to map the soil salinity in the study area, which showed that the farmland with higher altitudes discharged a large amount of salt to the surroundings due to long-term irrigation, and the secondary salinization of the farmland also caused a large amount of salt accumulation. This research provides a scientific basis for the simulation of soil salinization scenarios in arid areas in the future.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. 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Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/2/305/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13020305"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13020305", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13020305", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13020305"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/08-1330.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-03-23", "title": "Soil Development And Establishment Of Carbon-Based Properties In Created Freshwater Marshes", "description": "<p>The current U.S. wetland mitigation policy of \uffe2\uff80\uff9cno net loss\uffe2\uff80\uff9d requires that a new wetland be created to replace any natural wetland destroyed under development pressures. This policy, however, may be resulting in a net loss of carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff90based wetland functions. We evaluated the ability of created wetlands to accumulate carbon and to mitigate loss of carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff90based functions in natural wetlands with variable hydrology. Potential limiting factors to carbon accumulation within created systems included soil aggregation, texture, and bulk density. Rates of soil development and the time required for created wetlands to accumulate the amount of carbon found in natural wetlands were estimated by an exponential model.</p><p>Soils collected from five created (ages 3\uffe2\uff80\uff938 years) and four natural freshwater marshes, located in central Ohio, USA, were analyzed for soil organic carbon (SOC), mineralizable soil carbon (Cmin), water\uffe2\uff80\uff90stable aggregates (WSA), particle\uffe2\uff80\uff90size fractions (PSD), and bulk density. Peak\uffe2\uff80\uff90standing aboveground plant biomass was also quantified. Created wetlands contained significantly less plant biomass, SOC, and Cmin than natural wetlands (\uffce\uffb1 \uffe2\uff89\uffa4 0.05; false discovery rate). Soil physical properties also differed significantly between created and natural wetlands, with fewer macroaggregates, more microaggregates, more silt\uffe2\uff80\uff93clay (0\uffe2\uff80\uff935 cm only), and higher bulk density in created wetlands (\uffce\uffb1 \uffe2\uff89\uffa4 0.05; false discovery rate). Carbon content was positively correlated with macroaggregate content and negatively correlated with microaggregate content, silt\uffe2\uff80\uff90clay fraction, and bulk density.</p><p>Fit of SOC data to the exponential model indicated that a newly created wetland would require 300 years to sequester the amount of SOC contained in a natural wetland. At this rate of carbon accumulation, a mitigation ratio of 2.7:1 (area) would be necessary for successful mitigation over a 50\uffe2\uff80\uff90year time period. However, other trajectories fit the data equally well and suggested area mitigation ratios of 2.2:1 (logistic) to 4.4:1 (linear regression) to 5.1:1 (exponential regression). Whether created wetlands are on a trajectory toward natural wetland carbon function, however, remains uncertain. Until gaps in the data are filled and a trajectory verified, the best mitigation policy will be a conservative one, with a restrictive permitting process and high mitigation ratios (5.1:1 minimum).</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Wetlands", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Fresh Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "6. 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Assessing crop yields is key to optimising on-field decisions and defining sustainable agricultural strategies. Remote sensing applications have greatly enhanced our ability to monitor and manage farming operation. The main objective of this research was to evaluate machine learning system for within-field soya yield prediction trained on Sentinel-2 multispectral images and soil parameters. Multispectral images used in the study came from ESA\u2019s Sentinel-2 satellites. A total of 3 cloud-free Sentinel-2 multispectral images per year from specific periods of vegetation were used to obtain the time-series necessary for crop yield prediction. Yield monitor data were collected in three crop seasons (2018, 2019 and 2020) from a number of farms located in Upper Austria. The ground-truth database consisted of information about the location of the fields and crop yield monitor data on 411 ha of farmland. A novel method, namely the Polygon-Pixel Interpolation, for optimal fitting yield monitor data with satellite images is introduced. Several machine learning algorithms, such as Multiple Linear Regression, Support Vector Machine, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Stochastic Gradient Descent and Random Forest, were compared for their performance in soya yield prediction. Among the tested machine learning algorithms, Stochastic Gradient Descent regression model performed better than the others, with a mean absolute error of 4.36 kg/pixel (0.436 t/ha) and a correlation coefficient of 0.83%.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "precision agriculture", "stochastic gradient descent (SGD)", "polygon-pixel intersection (PPI)", "Science", "Q", "710", "high performance computing (HPC)", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "620", "remote sensing", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/9/2256/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-12581"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.18419/opus-12581", "name": "item", "description": "10.18419/opus-12581", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.18419/opus-12581"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.18710/FJWV6X", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:20Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Replication Data for: Spatial variation in amount of carbon in boreal forest surface soil \u2013 the role of historical fires, hydro-topography, and contemporary vegetation", "description": "This dataset contains data on soil C and N stocks (from soil samples), charcoal weight, historical fire frequencies, year of last fire, bottom layer vegetation cover, topography, and woody cover from Trillemarka Nature reserve.", "keywords": ["Earth and Environmental Science", "History", "Humanities", "Hydro-topography", "Hydro topography", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Organic surface carbon stocks", "15. Life on land", "Forest fire history", "Environmental Research", "Natural Sciences", "Geosciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Haukenes, Vilde L., \u00c5sg\u00e5rd, Lisa, Asplund, Johan, Nybakken, Line, Rolstad, J\u00f8rund, Storaunet, Ken Olaf, Ohlson, Mikael,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.18710/FJWV6X"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.18710/FJWV6X", "name": "item", "description": "10.18710/FJWV6X", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.18710/FJWV6X"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/14-2228.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-04-15", "title": "Fresh carbon input differentially impacts soil carbon decomposition across natural and managed systems", "description": "<p>The amount of fresh carbon input into soil is experiencing substantial changes under global change. It is unclear what will be the consequences of such input changes on native soil carbon decomposition across ecosystems. By synthesizing data from 143 experimental comparisons, we show that, on average, fresh carbon input stimulates soil carbon decomposition by 14%. The response was lower in forest soils (1%) compared with soils from other ecosystems (&gt;24%), and higher following inputs of plant residue\uffe2\uff80\uff90like substrates (31%) compared to root exudate\uffe2\uff80\uff90like substrates (9%). The responses decrease with the baseline soil carbon decomposition rate under no additional carbon input, but increase with the fresh carbon input rate. The rates of these changes vary significantly across ecosystems and with the carbon substrates being added. These findings can be applied to provide robust estimates of soil carbon balance across ecosystems under changing aboveground and belowground inputs as consequence of climate and land management changes.</p>", "keywords": ["Carbon Isotopes", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Environmental Monitoring"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Caleb Smith, Zhongkui Luo, Enli Wang,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/14-2228.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/14-2228.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/14-2228.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/14-2228.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.18739/a2cv4bt4j", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:20Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Arctic-boreal fire atlas: 12-hourly perimeters of individual fires in the Arctic-boreal domain from 2012 to 2023", "description": "Open AccessData is provided per calendar year. Each year's directory contains a subdirectory 'Snapshot' with 12-hourly fire perimeters (all active fire perimeters of a time step) and active fire lines (files ending on *_FL.gpkg), and a subdirectory 'NFP' with text files containing the original active fire location information associated with each fire at each time step. The two additional folders 'final_perims' and 'ignitions' contain annual summary vector files of all ignitions and final perimeters. The attributes of all types of outputs (snapshots, new fire pixel files, final perimeters and ignitions) are described in detail in the provided pdf.", "keywords": ["History", "Arctic Report Card 2024", "fire behaviour", "Binary Object", "Binary Object (File Size)", "fire ignitions", "Humanities", "DATE/TIME", "Arctic", "fire history", "Fire mapping", "File content", "DATE TIME", "boreal forest", "fire regimes", "Tundra", "Binary Object File Size", "fire"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Scholten, Rebecca, Chen, Yang, Veraverbeke, Sander, Randerson, James,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.18739/a2cv4bt4j"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.18739/a2cv4bt4j", "name": "item", "description": "10.18739/a2cv4bt4j", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.18739/a2cv4bt4j"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/02-0046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Insect Herbivory Increases Litter Quality And Decomposition: An Extension Of The Acceleration Hypothesis", "description": "Herbivore alteration of litter inputs may change litter decomposition rates and influence ecosystem nutrient cycling. In a semiarid woodland at Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona, long-term insect herbivore removal experiments and the presence of herbivore resistant and susceptible pinyon pines (Pinus edulis) have allowed characterization of the population- and community-level effects of herbivory. Here we report how these same two herbivores, the mesophyll-feeding scale insect Matsucoccus acalyptus and the stem-boring moth Dioryctria albovittella alter litter quality, dynamics, and decomposition in this ecosystem. We measured aboveground litterfall, litter chemical composition, and first-year litter decomposition rates for trees resistant and susceptible to both herbivores and for susceptible trees from which herbivores had been experimentally removed for 16\u201318 years. Both herbivores significantly increased nitrogen concentration and decreased lignin:nitrogen and carbon:nitrogen ratios of abovegrou...", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Chapman, Samantha K., Hart, Stephen C., Cobb, Neil S., Whitham, Thomas G., Koch, George W.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/02-0046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/02-0046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/02-0046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/02-0046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/02-5139", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "The Effects Of Elevated Co2on Nutrient Distribution In A Fire-Adapted Scrub Oak Forest", "description": "<p>Elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) caused greater accumulation of carbon (C) and nutrients in both vegetation and O horizons over a 5\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr sampling period in a scrub oak ecosystem in Florida. Elevated CO2 had no effect on any measured soil property except extractable phosphorus (P), which was lower with elevated CO2 after five years. Anion and cation exchange membranes showed lower available nitrogen (N) and zinc (Zn) with elevated CO2. Soils in both elevated and ambient CO2 showed decreases in total C, N, sulfur (S), and cation exchange capacity, and increases in base saturation, exchangeable Ca2+, and Mg2+ over the 5\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr sampling period. We hypothesize that these soil changes were a delayed response to prescribed fire, which was applied to the site just before the initiation of the experiment. In the ambient CO2 treatment, the increases in vegetation and O horizon C, N, and S were offset by the losses of soil total C, N, and S, resulting in no statistically significant net changes in ecosystem C, N, or S over time. In the elevated CO2 treatment, the increases in vegetation and O horizon C content outweighed the losses in soil C, resulting in a statistically significant net increase in ecosystem C content. Nitrogen and S contents showed no statistically significant change over time in the elevated CO2 treatment, however. Comparisons of vegetation contents and soil pools of potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg) suggest that a substantial proportion of these nutrients were taken up from either groundwater or deep soil horizons. This study demonstrates that changes in ecosystem C sequestration due elevated CO2 or any other factor cannot be accurately assessed in the absence of data on changes in soils.</p>", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/02-5139"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/02-5139", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/02-5139", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/02-5139"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/01-6016", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Nutrient Loss And Redistribution After Forest Clearing On A Highly Weathered Soil In Amazonia", "description": "<p>Over the past three decades, tropical forest clearing and burning have greatly altered the Amazonian landscape by increasing the cover of pastures and secondary forests. The alteration of biogeochemical processes on these lands is of particular interest on highly weathered Oxisols that cover large areas in the region because of concerns regarding possible nutrient limitation in agricultural land uses and during forest regrowth. The objectives of this study were to quantify (1) the reaccumulation of nutrients in biomass of secondary land uses, (2) changes in soil nutrient contents, (3) internal nutrient cycles, and (4) input\uffe2\uff80\uff93output budgets for the landscape mosaic.</p><p>Nutrient stocks and fluxes were quantified from 1996 to 1998 in mature forest, 19\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old secondary forest, degraded pastureland, and managed pastureland in the Brazilian state of Par\uffc3\uffa1. Mature forests contain 130 Mg C/ha in aboveground biomass while secondary forest, degraded pasture, and managed pasture contain 34, 4, and 3 Mg C/ha, respectively. Reaccumulation of N, P, K, Ca, and Mg in aboveground biomass of secondary forest was 20%, 21%, 42%, 50%, and 27% of that present in mature forest, while degraded pasture contained 2%, 4%, 15%, 11%, and 6%. Managed pasture had similar accumulations as degraded pasture except for Ca (3%).</p><p>Changes in soil stocks of C, N, and P were not detected among land uses, except in fertilized managed pastures, where total soil P (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9310 cm) was elevated. Conversely, Mehlich\uffe2\uff80\uff90III\uffe2\uff80\uff90extractable P of all secondary lands were very low (&lt;1 \uffce\uffbcg/g) and were 1 kg/ha less than contents (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9310 cm) in mature forest. NaOH\uffe2\uff80\uff90extractable P was present in 100\uffe2\uff80\uff90fold higher concentrations and may gradually contribute to meeting plant demands over decadal time scales. Soil cation contents (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9320 cm) were elevated in secondary lands with increases of \uffe2\uff88\uffbc85, 500, and 75 kg/ha for K, Ca, and Mg, respectively. These increases could account for a substantial portion of cation contents originally in the aboveground biomass of mature forest.</p><p>The recycling of nutrients through \uffe2\uff88\uffbc9.0 Mg\uffc2\uffb7ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 of litterfall in secondary forest of 132, 2.8, 32, 106, and 23 kg\uffc2\uffb7ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for N, P, K, Ca, and Mg, respectively, is similar to mature forest. Nutrient returns in both pasturelands were smaller for all elements except K, which was similar to the forested sites. In these pasture ecosystems, grass turnover has replaced litterfall return as the predominate mechanism of nutrient recycling.</p><p>Soil solution fluxes of total N were higher in mature forest (12 kg\uffc2\uffb7ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 at 25 cm depth) compared to secondary lands (&lt;4 kg\uffc2\uffb7ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921), indicating that cycling of available forms of N has diminished. Conversely, fluxes of cationic elements appear elevated in secondary lands and are charge balanced in solution by HCO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 derived from biological activity in the soil surface. Despite detectable increases in soil cation fluxes, rainwater inputs and stream water outputs of these elements across the watershed were not significantly different.</p><p>The aggregate picture for this landscape is one in which the secondary forest, although still of smaller stature and lower in species diversity compared to mature forest, is recuperating important nutrient cycling functions. Conversely, pasturelands, which dominate the landscape, are not only of smaller stature, but are also accumulating and cycling a smaller total mass of nutrients. This ecosystem conversion has released C and N from biomass mostly to the atmosphere and has redistributed K, Ca, and Mg from biomass mostly to the soil. Presently, base cation enriched soils are slowly re\uffe2\uff80\uff90equilibrating to an acidic condition through decadal\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale processes of plant uptake and biogenically driven soil leaching. Our mass balance approach has revealed low soil available N and P, diminished rates of cycling of these elements in secondary lands, and low precipitation inputs of P, which may constrain long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term recuperation of ecosystem carbon.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Here, we provide evidence from a long-term field manipulation of plant diversity that soil microbial communities, and the key ecosystem processes that they mediate, are significantly altered by plant species richness. After seven years of plant growth, we determined the composition and function of soil microbial communities beneath experimental plant diversity treatments containing 1-16 species. Microbial community bio- mass, respiration, and fungal abundance significantly increased with greater plant diversity, as did N mineralization rates. However, changes in microbial community biomass, activity, and composition largely resulted from the higher levels of plant production associated with greater diversity, rather than from plant diversity per se. Nonetheless, greater plant pro- duction could not explain more rapid N mineralization, indicating that plant diversity affected this microbial process, which controls rates of ecosystem N cycling. Greater N availability probably contributed to the positive relationship between plant diversity and productivity in the N-limited soils of our experiment, suggesting that plant-microbe in- teractions in soil are an integral component of plant diversity's influence on ecosystem", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil C and N cycling", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "microbial communities", "phospholipid fatty acid analysis", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "plant communities", "gross N mineralization", "soil microbes", "ecosystem function", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "species richness", "gross N immobilization", "biodiversity"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Zak, Donald R., Holmes, William E., White, David C., Peacock, Aaron D., Tilman, David,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/02-0433"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/02-0433", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/02-0433", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/02-0433"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/02-5213", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Co2enhances Productivity, Alters Species Composition, And Reduces Digestibility Of Shortgrass Steppe Vegetation", "description": "The impact of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations has been studied in a number of field experiments, but little information exists on the response of semiarid rangelands to CO2, or on the consequences for forage quality. This study was initiated to study the CO2 response of the shortgrass steppe, an important semiarid grassland on the western edge of the North American Great Plains, used extensively for livestock grazing. The experiment was conducted for five years on native vegetation at the USDA-ARS Central Plains Experimental Range in northeastern Colorado, USA. Three perennial grasses dominate the study site, Bouteloua gracilis, a C4 grass, and two C3 grasses, Pascopyrum smithii and Stipa comata. The three species comprise 88% of the aboveground phytomass. To evaluate responses to rising atmospheric CO2, we utilized six open-top chambers, three with ambient air and three with air CO2 enriched to 720 \u03bcmol/mol, as well as three unchambered controls. We found that elevated CO2 enhanced production o...", "keywords": ["Pascopyrum smithii", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "Stipa comata", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Bouteloua gracilis", "recruitment", "digestibility", "13. Climate action", "carbon dioxide (CO2)", "forage quality", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grassland", "C3", "global change", "C4"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Morgan, Jack A., author, Mosier, Arvin R., author, Milchunas, Daniel G., author, LeCain, Daniel R., author, Nelson, Jim A., author, Parton, William J., author, Ecological Society of America, publisher,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/02-5213"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/02-5213", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/02-5213", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/02-5213"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/02-5391", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Carbon Dynamics Along A Chronosequence Of Slash Pine Plantations In North Florida", "description": "<p>To determine factors controlling the carbon dynamics of an intensively managed landscape, we measured net CO2exchange with the atmosphere using eddy covariance and soil CO2fluxes using static chambers along a chronosequence of slash pine (Pinus elliottiivar.elliottii) plantations consisting of a recent clearcut, a mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90rotation (10\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old) stand, and a rotation\uffe2\uff80\uff90aged (24\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old) stand. Daytime net ecosystem exchange of CO2(NEEday) at the clearcut was not significantly different than zero during the growing season of the first year following harvest and reached levels that were \uffe2\uff88\uffbc40% of those at the older stands during the second growing season. NEEdaywas similar at the mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90rotation and rotation\uffe2\uff80\uff90aged sites, reflecting the similar leaf areas of these stands. Nighttime net ecosystem exchange of CO2(NEEnight) was an exponential function of air or soil temperature at all sites. However, low decomposition rates of litter and flooding of the site following harvest likely constrained NEEnightat the clearcut, and drought affected rates at the mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90rotation site. Annual net ecosystem exchange of CO2(NEEyr) was estimated at \uffe2\uff88\uff921269 and \uffe2\uff88\uff92882 g C\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921at the clearcut, and 576 and 603 g C\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921at the mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90rotation stand in 1998 and 1999, respectively. For comparison, NEEyrwas 741 and 610 g C\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921at the rotation\uffe2\uff80\uff90aged stand in 1996 and 1997, respectively. In contrast, annual ecosystem respiration (Reco) was similar in magnitude at all sites during all years. AlthoughRecois similar in magnitude, NEEyris highly dynamic across this intensively managed landscape, with a maximum range of \uffe2\uff88\uffbc2000 g C\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921. This range exceeds that across all the sites in both the Ameriflux and Euroflux networks and illustrates the need to include the range of stand ages and disturbance histories in landscape\uffe2\uff80\uff90 to regional\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale flux estimates.</p>", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kenneth L. Clark, Mark S. Castro, Henry L. Gholz,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/02-5391"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/02-5391", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/02-5391", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/02-5391"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-0475", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Effects Of Past Land Use On Spatial Heterogeneity Of Soil Nutrients In Southern Appalachian Forests", "description": "<p>We examined patterns of nutrient heterogeneity in the mineral soil (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9315 cm depth) of 13 southern Appalachian forest stands in western North Carolina &gt;60 yr after abandonment from pasture or timber harvest to investigate the long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term effects of land use on the spatial distribution and supply of soil resources. We measured soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), acid\uffe2\uff80\uff90extractable phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg) concentrations and pools, and potential net N mineralization and nitrification rates to evaluate differences in mean values, variance at multiple scales, and fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale spatial structure.</p><p>While comparisons of averaged values rarely indicated that historical land use had an enduring effect on mineral soil or N cycling, differences in variance and spatial structure suggested that former activities continue to influence nutrient distributions by altering their spatial heterogeneity. Patterns differed by element, but generally variance of soil C, N, and Ca decreased and variance of soil P, K, and Mg increased with intensive past land use. Changes in variance were most conspicuous and consistent locally (&lt;28 m), but C, Ca, P, and Mg also exhibited appreciable differences in variance at coarser scales (&gt;150 m). High variability in soil compaction resulted in some changes in scale\uffe2\uff80\uff90dependent patterns of nutrient pool variance compared with nutrient concentration variance. It also affected the variance of N cycling rates, such that mass\uffe2\uff80\uff90based rates varied less and area\uffe2\uff80\uff90based rates varied more in intensively used areas than in reference stands. Geostatistical analysis suggested that past land use homogenized the spatial structure of soil C, K, and P in former pastures. In contrast, logged stands had highly variable spatial patterning for Ca.</p><p>These results suggest that land use has persistent, multi\uffe2\uff80\uff90decadal effects on the spatial heterogeneity of soil resources, which may not be detectable when values are averaged across sites. By interacting with patterns of variability in the plant and heterotrophic biota, differences in nutrient distribution and supply could alter the composition and diversity of forest ecosystems. Scale\uffe2\uff80\uff90dependent changes in nutrient heterogeneity could also complicate efforts to determine biogeochemical budgets and cycling rates.</p>", "keywords": ["Statistics and Probability", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "land-use history", "550", "carbon", "forest ecosystem recovery", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "cations", "logging", "nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grazing", "phosphorus", "semivariograms", "Biology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0475"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Monographs", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-0475", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-0475", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-0475"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-4047", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Synthesis Of A Six-Year Study Of Calcareous Grassland Responses To In Situ Co2enrichment", "description": "<p>We exposed species\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich temperate calcareous grassland to elevated CO2(600 \uffce\uffbcL/L) for six growing seasons and studied carbon (C) and nutrient (nitrogen [N] and phosphorus [P]) cycling, water relations, and plant community structure and diversity. CO2enrichment stimulated leaf\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level daytime CO2uptake and increased plant community productivity; relative CO2effects on aboveground biomass were predicted withr&lt;\uffe2\uff88\uff920.98 (r2&gt; 0.95) by precipitation prior to biomass harvests. The underlying mechanisms were water savings due to reduced leaf conductance under elevated CO2, allowing for more growth in this temporarily water\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited ecosystem; this effect was more important in dry years. At the plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90species level, no effects of [CO2] were found except for the subdominant sedgesCarex flaccaandC. caryophyllea, which responded positively to elevated CO2, mainly due to increased soil moisture. Bryophytes also responded to CO2enrichment for the same reason. At a more aggregate level, elevated CO2increased species evenness (but not richness). Community productivity was N\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited; legumes derived &gt;90% of their N from atmospheric N2, but did not respond to elevated CO2because they were limited by low P availability. This ultimately also prevented larger community\uffe2\uff80\uff90level responses to elevated CO2because eventually extra legume N would have been transferred to nonlegumes, resulting in extra biomass. Higher biomass in elevated CO2was attained by increasing C:N and C:P ratios; total N and P in plant biomass remained unaffected by [CO2]. N retention, legume dinitrogen fixation (both assessed with15N), and microbial net N immobilization did not change. Based on our findings, our main conclusions are: (1) The effect of elevated CO2is mainly indirect via effects on the hydrological cycle in this water\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited ecosystem; (2) the C cycle responds more than mineral nutrient cycles; (3) low available P ultimately limited community productivity and responses to CO2, and this limitation may not be atypical for many natural ecosystems in which N inventories often are controlled by biologically available P; and (4) that interactions with variable environmental conditions critically co\uffe2\uff80\uff90determine CO2responses, which contrasts with greenhouse studies and emphasizes the importance of field studies in predicting long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term effects of increasing [CO2] on natural ecosystems.</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/10.1890/03-4047"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Monographs", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-4047", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-4047", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-4047"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-5120", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Nitrogen Deposition Modifies Soil Carbon Storage Through Changes In Microbial Enzymatic Activity", "description": "<p>Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition derived from fossil\uffe2\uff80\uff90fuel combustion, land clearing, and biomass burning is occurring over large geographical regions on nearly every continent. Greater ecosystem N availability can result in greater aboveground carbon (C) sequestration, but little is understood as to how soil C storage could be altered by N deposition. High concentrations of inorganic N accelerate the degradation of easily decomposable litter and slow the decomposition of recalcitrant litter containing large amounts of lignin. This pattern has been attributed to stimulation or repression of different sets of microbial extracellular enzymes. We hypothesized that soil C cycling in forest ecosystems with markedly different litter chemistry and decomposition rates would respond to anthropogenic N deposition in a manner consistent with the biochemical composition of the dominant vegetation. Specifically, oak\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated ecosystems with low litter quality should gain soil C, and sugar maple ecosystems with high litter quality should lose soil C in response to high levels of N deposition (80 kg N\uffc2\uffb7ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Consistent with this hypothesis, we observed over a three\uffe2\uff80\uff90year period a significant loss of soil C (20%) from a sugar maple\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated ecosystem and a significant gain (10%) in soil C in an oak\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated ecosystem, a result that appears to be mediated by the regulation of the microbial extracellular enzyme phenol oxidase. Elevated N deposition resulted in changes in soil carbon that were ecosystem specific and resulted from the divergent regulatory control of microbial extracellular enzymes by soil N availability.</p>", "keywords": ["forests", "13. Climate action", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "soil enzyme activities", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "northern temperate", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Michigan (USA)", "carbon sequestration", "N deposition"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Waldrop, Mark P., Zak, Donald R., Sinsabaugh, Robert L., Gallo, Marcy, Lauber, Chris,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5120"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-5120", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-5120", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-5120"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-5133", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Relationships Among Fires, Fungi, And Soil Dynamics In Alaskan Boreal Forests", "description": "Fires are critical pathways of carbon loss from boreal forest soils, whereas microbial communities form equally critical controls over carbon accumulation between fires. We used a chronosequence in Alaska to test Read's hypothesis that arbuscular my- corrhizal fungi should dominate ecosystems with low accumulation of surface litter, and ectomycorrhizal fungi should proliferate where organic horizons are well-developed. This pattern is expected because ectomycorrhizal fungi display a greater capacity to mineralize organic compounds than do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The sites were located in upland forests near Delta Junction, Alaska, and represent stages at 3, 15, 45, and 80 years following fire. Soil organic matter accumulated 2.8-fold over time. Fire did not noticeably reduce the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In contrast, ectomycorrhizal colonization re- quired up to 15 years to return to pre-fire levels. As a result, dominant mycorrhizal groups shifted from arbuscular to ectomycorrhizal fungi as succession progressed. Bacterial func- tional diversity was greatest in the oldest sites. Altogether, microbes that can mineralize organic compounds (i.e., ectomycorrhizae and bacteria) recovered more slowly than those that cannot (i.e., arbuscular mycorrhizae). Potential net N mineralization and standing pools of ammonium-N were relatively low in the youngest site. In addition, glomalin stocks were positively correlated with arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphal length, peaking early in the chron- osequence. Our results indicate that microbial succession may influence soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the first several years following fire, by augmenting carbon storage in glomalin while inhibiting mineralization of organic compounds.", "keywords": ["external hyphae", "soil carbon and nitrogen", "biolog", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "chronosequence", "fire and soil microbes", "succession", "Alaskan boreal forest", "mycorrhizal fungi", "organic material", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "mineralization", "microbial community", "glomalin"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt3wc775gm/qt3wc775gm.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5133"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-5133", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-5133", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-5133"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-0423", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Reversal Of Nitrogen Saturation After Long-Term Deposition Reduction: Impact On Soil Nitrogen Cycling", "description": "An ongoing roof experiment, where N and acid inputs were reduced to the recommended critical load levels, has been conducted since 1991 in an N-saturated spruce stand in Solling, Germany. Our study was aimed at (1) quantifying the changes in gross rates of microbial N cycling under ambient and reduced N conditions, and (2) relating the soil N dynamics to the changes in N leaching and N status of trees. Two roofs were used, one to achieve \u201cambient\u201d and the other reduced (\u201cclean rain\u201d) inputs, with a roofless plot as a control for possible roof effects. In 2001, the ambient roof and ambient no-roof plots showed an apparent decrease in gross N mineralization rates and significantly lower microbial NH4+ immobilization rates and turnover rates of NH4+ and microbial N pools. The microbial NO3\u2212 immobilization rates and NO3\u2212 pool turnover rates were lower than the microbial NH4+ immobilization rates and NH4+ pool turnover rates, showing that less NO3\u2212 cycled through microorganisms than NH4+. There was also low abiotic NO3\u2212 immobilization. High NO3\u2212 input from throughfall and low microbial turnover rates of the NO3\u2212 pool, combined with low abiotic NO3\u2212 retention, may have contributed to the high NO3\u2212 leaching losses in these ambient plots.    The clean rain plot showed a slight increase in gross N mineralization rates and significantly higher microbial NH4+ immobilization rates and turnover rates of NH4+ and microbial N pools. Neither nitrification nor soil NO3\u2212 was detectable. There was an increase in abiotic NO3\u2212 immobilization. Foliar N concentration had decreased but was still adequate. An efficient cycling of NH4+ through microorganisms, combined with the high abiotic NO3\u2212 immobilization, indicated efficient mineral N retention in the clean rain plot. These results indicated that long-term reduction of throughfall N and acid inputs had induced high but tightly coupled microbial NH4+ cycling and an increase in abiotic NO3\u2212 retention, which contributed to the reversal of N saturation.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0423"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-0423", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-0423", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-0423"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-0645", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Soil Respiration And Nutrient Cycling In Wooded Communities Developing In Grassland", "description": "Grasslands and savannas worldwide are experiencing increases in woody plant abundance. In the subtropical Rio Grande Plains of southern Texas and northern Mexico, this change in physiognomy typically results in soil C and N accumulation. The extent to which this accumulation is the result of increased C and N inputs vs. decreased losses is not known. To address this issue, we compared soil C and N pools, soil respiration, soil microbial biomass, and potential C and N mineralization and nitrification rates in remnant grassland communities and adjacent woody plant communities known to have developed on grassland within the past 100 years. Mean soil organic C (SOC) and total N pools in the upper 20 cm of the profile were 2 larger in wooded communities (3382 and 273 g/m 2 for C and N, respectively) than in remnant grasslands (1737 and 150 g/m 2 ). The larger pool sizes in the wooded communities supported higher annual soil respiration (SR; 745 vs. 611 g C\u00b7m 2 \u00b7yr 1 for woodlands and grasslands, respectively) and greater soil microbial biomass C (444 vs. 311 mg C/kg soil), potential rates of N mineralization (0.9 vs. 0.6 mg N\u00b7kg 1 \u00b7d 1 ) and nitrification (0.9 vs. 0.4 mg N\u00b7kg 1 \u00b7d 1 ). However, despite higher SR rates, mean residence time of near-surface SOC in wooded communities (11 years) exceeded that of remnant grassland communities (6 years). The fact that increased fluxes of soil C and N were accompanied by increases in SOC and N pools and total SOC mean residence time suggests that shifts from grass to woody plant dominance have increased both labile and recalcitrant pools of SOC and total N, the latter to a greater extent than the former. Given the widespread increase in woody plant abundance in drylands in recent history, the observed net increase in soil C storage that potentially accompanies this change could have global implications for C and N cycling and the climate system.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-0645"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-0645", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-0645", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-0645"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-5055", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Soil Nitrogen Cycling Under Elevated Co2: A Synthesis Of Forest Face Experiments", "description": "<p>The extent to which greater net primary productivity (NPP) will be sustained as the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases will depend, in part, on the long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term supply of N for plant growth. Over a two\uffe2\uff80\uff90year period, we used common field and laboratory methods to quantify microbial N, gross N mineralization, microbial N immobilization, and specific microbial N immobilization in three free\uffe2\uff80\uff90air CO2 enrichment experiments (Duke Forest, Oak Ridge, Rhinelander). In these experiments, elevated atmospheric CO2 has increased the input of above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground litter production, which fuels heterotrophic metabolism in soil. Nonetheless, we found no effect of atmospheric CO2 concentration on any microbial N cycling pool or process, indicating that greater litter production had not initially altered the microbial supply of N for plant growth. Thus, we have no evidence that changes in plant litter production under elevated CO2 will initially slow soil N availability and produce a negative feedback on NPP. Understanding the time scale over which greater plant production modifies microbial N demand lies at the heart of our ability to predict long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term changes in soil N availability and hence whether greater NPP will be sustained in a CO2\uffe2\uff80\uff90enriched atmosphere.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "elevated CO2", "soil microorganisms", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "microbial immobilization", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "soil N cycling", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "climate change", "gross N mineralization", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "forest FACE experiments", "Forest Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5055"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-5055", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-5055", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-5055"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/05-0685", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Experimental Warming, Not Grazing, Decreases Rangeland Quality On The Tibetan Plateau", "description": "We investigated experimental warming and simulated grazing (clipping) effects on rangeland quality, as indicated by vegetation production and nutritive quality, in winter-grazed meadows and summer-grazed shrublands on the Tibetan Plateau, a rangeland system experiencing climatic and pastoral land use changes. Warming decreased total aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) by 40 g x m(-2) x yr(-1) at the meadow habitats and decreased palatable ANPP (total ANPP minus non-palatable forb ANPP) by 10 g x m(-2) x yr(-1) at both habitats. The decreased production of the medicinal forb Gentiana straminea and the increased production of the non-palatable forb Stellera chamaejasme with warming also reduced rangeland quality. At the shrubland habitats, warming resulted in less digestible shrubs, whose foliage contains 25% digestible dry matter (DDM), replacing more digestible graminoids, whose foliage contains 60% DDM. This shift from graminoids to shrubs not only results in lower-quality forage, but could also have important consequences for future domestic herd composition. Although warming extended the growing season in non-clipped plots, the reduced rangeland quality due to decreased vegetative production and nutritive quality will likely overwhelm the improved rangeland quality associated with an extended growing season. Grazing maintained or improved rangeland quality by increasing total ANPP by 20-40 g x m(-2) x yr(-1) with no effect on palatable ANPP. Grazing effects on forage nutritive quality, as measured by foliar nitrogen and carbon content and by shifts in plant group ANPP, resulted in improved forage quality. Grazing extended the growing season at both habitats, and it advanced the growing season at the meadows. Synergistic interactions between warming and grazing were present, such that grazing mediated the warming-induced declines in vegetation production and nutritive quality. Moreover, combined treatment effects were nonadditive, suggesting that we cannot predict the combined effect of global changes and human activities from single-factor studies. Our findings suggest that the rangelands on the Tibetan Plateau, and the pastoralists who depend on them, may be vulnerable to future climate changes. Grazing can mitigate the negative warming effects on rangeland quality. For example, grazing management may be an important tool to keep warming-induced shrub expansion in check. Moreover, flexible and opportunistic grazing management will be required in a warmer future.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Hot Temperature", "Time Factors", "Population Dynamics", "Agriculture", "Feeding Behavior", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Tibet", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "Animals", " Domestic", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Julia A. Klein, John Harte, Xinquan Zhao,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0685"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/05-0685", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/05-0685", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/05-0685"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/04-0788", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Patterns Of Litter Disappearance In A Northern Hardwood Forest Invaded By Exotic Earthworms", "description": "A field study was conducted to evaluate the effects of exotic earthworm invasions on the rates of leaf litter disappearance in a northern hardwood forest in southcentral New York, USA. Specifically, we assessed whether differences in litter quality and the species composition of exotic earthworm communities affected leaf litter disappearance rates. Two forest sites with contrasting communities of exotic earthworms were selected, and disappearance rates of sugar maple and red oak litter were estimated in litter boxes in adjacent earthworm-free, transition, and earthworm-invaded plots within each site. After 540 days in the field, 1.7-3 times more litter remained in the reference plots than in the earthworm-invaded plots. In the earthworm-invaded plots, rates of disappearance of sugar maple litter were higher than for oak litter during the first year, but by the end of the experiment, the amount of sugar maple and oak litter remaining in the earthworm-invaded plots was identical within each site. The composition of the earthworm communities significantly affected the patterns of litter disappearance. In the site dominated by the anecic earthworm Lumbricus terrestris and the endogeic Aporrectodea tuberculata, the percentage of litter remaining after 540 days (approximately 17%) was significantly less than at the site dominated by L. rubellus and Octolasion tyrtaeum (approximately 27%). This difference may be attributed to the differences in feeding behavior of the two litter-feeding species: L. terrestris buries entire leaves in vertical burrows, whereas L. rubellus usually feeds on litter at the soil surface, leaving behind leaf petioles and veins. Our results showed that earthworms not only accelerate litter disappearance rates, but also may reduce the differences in decomposition rates that result from different litter qualities at later stages of decay. Similarly, our results indicate that earthworm effects on decomposition vary with earthworm community composition. Furthermore, because earthworm invasion can involve a predictable shift in community structure along invasion fronts or through time, the community dynamics of invasion are important in predicting the spatial and temporal effects of earthworm invasion on litter decomposition, especially at later stages of decay.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Time Factors", "Geography", "Climate", "Population Dynamics", "New York", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Trees", "Plant Leaves", "Soil", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Oligochaeta", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/04-0788"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/04-0788", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/04-0788", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/04-0788"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/04-1205", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Soil Carbon Sequestration And Turnover In A Pine Forest After Six Years Of Atmospheric Co2enrichment", "description": "During the first six years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment at the Duke Forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment, an additional sink of 52 +_ 16 g C-m-2.yr-1 accumulated in the forest floor (O-horizon) of the elevated CO2 treatment relative to the ambient CO2 control in an aggrading loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) forest near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. The experiment maintained an atmospheric CO, concentration 200 pIL/L above ambient levels in replicated (n = 3) FACE rings throughout the six-year period. This CO2-induced C sink was associated with greater inputs of organic matter in litterfall and fine-root turnover. There was no evidence that microbial decomposition was altered by the elevated CO2 treatment. Consistent with ecosystem recovery following decades of intensive agriculture, the C and N content of the mineral soil increased under both the elevated CO2 treatment and the ambient CO2 control during the six-year period. This increase is attributed to accumulation of plant residues derived from fine roots with relatively high turnover rates rather than accumulation of refractory or physically protected soil organic matter (SOM). The elevated CO2 treatment produced no detectable effect on the C and N content of the bulk mineral soils or of any particulate organic matter size fraction. Because the fumigation gas was strongly depleted in '3C, the incorporation of new C could be traced within the ecosystem. Significant decreases in 683C of soil organic carbon (SOC) under the elevated CO2 treatment were used to estimate the mean residence times of intra-aggregate particulate organic matter and mineral-associated organic matter as well as the annual C inputs required to produce the observed changes in 8'3C. Our results indicate that forest soils such as these will not significantly mitigate anthropogenic C inputs to the atmosphere. The organic matter pools receiving large annual C inputs have short mean residence times, while those with slow turnover rates receive small annual inputs.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1205"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/04-1205", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/04-1205", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/04-1205"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/04-0868", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Initial Carbon, Nitrogen, And Phosphorus Fluxes Following Ponderosa Pine Restoration Treatments", "description": "Southwestern ponderosa pine forests were dramatically altered by fire regime disruption that accompanied Euro-American settlement in the 1800s. Major changes include increased tree density, diminished herbaceous cover, and a shift from a frequent low- intensity fire regime to a stand-replacing fire regime. Ecological restoration via thinning and prescribed burning is being widely applied to return forests to the pre-settlement condition, but the effects of restoration on ecosystem function are unknown. We measured carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) fluxes during the first two years after the implementation of a replicated field experiment comparing thinning and composite (thin- ning, forest floor fuel reduction, and prescribed burning) restoration treatments to untreated controls in a ponderosa pine forest in northern Arizona, USA. Total net primary productivity (260 g C\u00b7m 22 \u00b7yr 21 ) was similar among treatments because a 30-50% decrease in pine foliage and fine-root production in restored ecosystems was balanced by greater wood, coarse root, and herbaceous production. Herbaceous plants accounted for ,20% of total plant C, N, and P uptake in the controls but from 25% to 70% in restored plots. Total plant N uptake was ;3 g N\u00b7m 22 \u00b7yr 21 in all treatments, but net N mineralization was just one-half and two- thirds of this value in the control and composite restoration, respectively. Element flux rates in controls generally declined more in a drought year than rates in restoration treat- ments. In this ponderosa pine forest, ecological restoration that emulated pre-settlement stand structure and fire characteristics had a small effect on plant C, N, and P fluxes at the whole ecosystem level because lower pine foliage and fine-root fluxes in treated plots (compared to controls) were approximately balanced by higher fluxes in wood and her-", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "SD Forestry", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "GE Environmental Sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kaye, Jason P., Hart, Stephen C., Fule, Peter Z., Covington, W. Wallace, Moore, Margaret M., Kaye, Margot W.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/04-0868"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/04-0868", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/04-0868", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/04-0868"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/04-1322", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Nitrogen Cycling In Tropical Plantation Forests: Potential Controls On Nitrogen Retention", "description": "The establishment and management of tropical plantations has the potential to significantly alter patterns in nitrogen (N) cycling relative to old-growth tropical forests, which are generally characterized by high N availability and large fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), an important greenhouse gas. We used 15 N tracer additions to examine the effects of plantation establishment and management on gross N-cycling rates, N retention via microbial assimilation and dissimilatory nitrate (NO 3 2 ) reduction to ammonium (NH4 1 ) (DNRA), and N losses via N2O emissions. In general, plantations had lower rates of N cycling and increased potential for N losses compared to old-growth forests, but there were few differences between very short (one-year) rotation and 10-yr-old uncut plantations. Gross N mineralization declined by almost 50% in the plantations compared to the old- growth forests, and much of the mineralized N was nitrified at all sites. Gross nitrification rates were more variable and did not differ between old-growth forests and unfertilized plantations; however, fertilization increased gross nitrification by a factor of 6 in short- rotation forests, signaling a potential mechanism for increased N losses via leaching and gaseous emissions. Old-growth forests had significantly higher microbial biomass N and NH4 1 assimilation rates. No microbial N assimilation was measured in the plantation soils, nor was there evidence of gross NH4 1 immobilization from estimates of NH4 1 consumption and nitrification. Plantations and old-growth forests had similar DNRA rates (0.23 mg\u00b7g 21 \u00b7d 21 ), which retains N in the ecosystem, and plantations had lower N2O emissions. Nitrous oxide fluxes from plantations were highly sensitive to reducing conditions, high- lighting the potential for high rates of N 2O losses. Our results show that plantation estab- lishment can decrease rates of N cycling, but once forests are converted to plantations, internal N-cycling pathways and N2O fluxes are relatively resistant to disturbance associated with short rotation length.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1322"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/04-1322", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/04-1322", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/04-1322"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/04-1748", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Progressive Nitrogen Limitation Of Ecosystem Processes Under Elevated Co2in A Warm-Temperate Forest", "description": "A hypothesis for progressive nitrogen limitation (PNL) proposes that net primary production (NPP) will decline through time in ecosystems subjected to a step-function increase in atmospheric CO2. The primary mechanism driving this response is a rapid rate of N immobilization by plants and microbes under elevated CO2 that depletes soils of N, causing slower rates of N mineralization. Under this hypothesis, there is little long-term stimulation of NPP by elevated CO2 in the absence of exogenous inputs of N. We tested this hypothesis using data on the pools and fluxes of C and N in tree biomass, microbes, and soils from 1997 through 2002 collected at the Duke Forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment. Elevated CO2 stimulated NPP by 18-24% during the first six years of this experiment. Consistent with the hypothesis for PNL, significantly more N was immobilized in tree biomass and in the O horizon under elevated CO2. In contrast to the PNL hypothesis, microbial-N immobilization did not increase under elevated CO2, and although the rate of net N mineralization declined through time, the decline was not significantly more rapid under elevated CO2. Ecosystem C-to-N ratios widened more rapidly under elevated CO2 than ambient CO2 indicating a more rapid rate of C fixation per unit of N, a processes that could delay PNL in this ecosystem. Mass balance calculations demonstrated a large accrual of ecosystem N capital. Is PNL occurring in this ecosystem and will NPP decline to levels under ambient CO2? The answer depends on the relative strength of tree biomass and O-horizon N immobilization vs. widening C-to-N ratios and ecosystem-N accrual as processes that drive and delay PNL, respectively. Only direct observations through time will definitively answer this question.", "keywords": ["570", "Time Factors", "Bacteria", "Nitrogen", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Wood", "Trees", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1748"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/04-1748", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/04-1748", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/04-1748"}, {"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": "10.1890/04-1724", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Elevated CO2 stimulates net accumulations of carbon and nitrogen in land ecosystems: A meta-analysis", "description": "The capability of terrestrial ecosystems to sequester carbon (C) plays a critical role in regulating future climatic change yet depends on nitrogen (N) availability. To predict long-term ecosystem C storage, it is essential to examine whether soil N becomes progressively limiting as C and N are sequestered in long-lived plant biomass and soil organic matter. A critical parameter to indicate the long-term progressive N limitation (PNL) is net change in ecosystem N content in association with C accumulation in plant and soil pools under elevated CO2. We compiled data from 104 published papers that study C and N dynamics at ambient and elevated CO2. The compiled database contains C contents, N contents, and C:N ratio in various plant and soil pools, and root:shoot ratio. Averaged C and N pool sizes in plant and soil all significantly increase at elevated CO2 in comparison to those at ambient CO2, ranging from a 5% increase in shoot N content to a 32% increase in root C content. The C and N contents in litter pools are consistently higher in elevated than ambient CO2 among all the surveyed studies whereas C and N contents in the other pools increase in some studies and decrease in other studies. The high variability in CO2-induced changes in C and N pool sizes results from diverse responses of various C and N processes to elevated CO2. Averaged C:N ratios are higher by 3% in litter and soil pools and 11% in root and shoot pools at elevated relative to ambient CO2. Elevated CO2 slightly increases root:shoot ratio. The net N accumulation in plant and soil pools at least helps prevent complete down-regulation of, and likely supports, long-term CO2 stimulation of C sequestration. The concomitant C and N accumulations in response to rising atmospheric CO2 may reflect intrinsic nature of ecosystem development as revealed before by studies of succession over hundreds to millions of years.", "keywords": ["Soil", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "Carbon", "Ecosystem", "Plant Physiological Phenomena", "Plant Shoots"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1724"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/04-1724", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/04-1724", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/04-1724"}, {"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": "10.1890/05-0836", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-04", "title": "Bromus Tectorum Invasion Alters Nitrogen Dynamics In An Undisturbed Arid Grassland Ecosystem", "description": "The nonnative annual grass Bromus tectorum has successfully replaced native vegetation in many arid and semiarid ecosystems. Initial introductions accompanied grazing and agriculture, making it difficult to separate the effects of invasion from physical disturbance. This study examined N dynamics in two recently invaded, undisturbed vegetation associations (C3 and C4). The response of these communities was compared to an invaded/ disturbed grassland. The invaded/disturbed communities had higher surface NH4+ input in spring, whereas there were no differences for surface input of NO3-. Soil inorganic N was dominated by NH4+, but invaded sites had greater subsurface soil NO3-. Invaded sites had greater total soil N at the surface four years post-invasion in undisturbed communities, but total N was lower in the invaded/disturbed communities. Soil delta15N increased with depth in the noninvaded and recently invaded communities, whereas the invaded/disturbed communities exhibited the opposite pattern. Enriched foliar delta15N values suggest that Bromus assimilated subsurface NO3-, whereas the native grasses were restricted to surface N. A Rayleigh distillation model accurately described decomposition patterns in the noninvaded communities where soil N loss is accompanied by increasing soil delta15N; however, the invaded/ disturbed communities exhibited the opposite pattern, suggesting redistribution of N within the soil profile. This study suggests that invasion has altered the mechanisms driving nitrogen dynamics. Bromus litter decomposition and soil NO3- concentrations were greater in the invaded communities during periods of ample precipitation, and NO3- leached from the surface litter, where it was assimilated by Bromus. The primary source of N input in these communities is a biological soil crust that is removed with disturbance, and the lack of N input by the biological soil crust did not balance N loss, resulting in reduced total N in the invaded/disturbed communities. Bromus produced a positive feedback loop by leaching NO3- from decomposing Bromus litter to subsurface soil layers, accessing that deepsoil N pool with deep roots and returning that N to the surface as biomass and subsequent litter. Lack of new inputs combined with continued loss will result in lower total soil N, evidenced by the lower total soil N in the invaded/disturbed communities.", "keywords": ["ecosystem", "0106 biological sciences", "Nitrates", "550", "Nitrogen Isotopes", "Bromus", "Nitrogen", "Rain", "Population Dynamics", "arid", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Soil", "Natural Resources and Conservation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Seasons", "grassland", "bromus tectorum invasion", "Environmental Sciences", "Ecosystem"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Sperry, L. J., Belnap, J., Evans, R. D.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/05-0836"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/05-0836", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/05-0836", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/05-0836"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/07-1767.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-02-25", "title": "Impacts Of Fire And Fire Surrogate Treatments On Forest Soil Properties: A Meta-Analytical Approach", "description": "<p>The soils underlying the 12 Fire and Fire Surrogates Network include six soil orders and &gt;50 named soil series. Across the network, pretreatment soils varied from 3.7 to 7.1 in pH, and exhibited ranges of twofold in bulk density, fourfold in soil organic C (SOC) content, 10\uffe2\uff80\uff90fold in total inorganic N (TIN), and 200\uffe2\uff80\uff931000\uffe2\uff80\uff90fold in extractable Ca and K. Nonmetric multidimensional (NMS) ordination of pretreatment soil conditions arrayed the FFS sites along gradients of pH/base cation status, net N transformation rates, bulk density, and SOC. At the network scale, mineral soil exposure was significantly greater in fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90only (mean of 9.2%) and mechanical + fire (5.0%) treatments than in the controls (1.5%) during the first posttreatment year, and this persisted through the later sampling year (second through fourth year, depending on site) in the fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90only treatment (fire 4.1%, control 1.1%). Bulk density was not affected significantly at the network scale. TIN concentrations during the first posttreatment year increased after all three manipulative treatments, but this effect did not persist to the later sampling year. Neither SOC content nor soil C:N ratio was affected by any of the treatments at the network scale. At the individual site scale, the combined mechanical + fire treatment produced more significant site \uffc3\uff97 treatment \uffc3\uff97 year effects than did the fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90only or mechanical\uffe2\uff80\uff90only treatments, though in most cases even the statistically significant differences produced by the manipulative treatments were modest in magnitude. Ordination of first\uffe2\uff80\uff90year standardized effect sizes produced no discernable separation of the three manipulative treatments but did separate the three sites with the greatest fire severity (based on proportional fuel consumption) from the majority of the network sites, with changes in pH, TIN, SOC content, and soil C:N ratio correlating most strongly with this separation. Ordination of the effect sizes from the later sampling year produced somewhat clearer separation of treatments than did the first\uffe2\uff80\uff90year ordination, though fewer sites were represented in this second ordination. Overall, the network\uffe2\uff80\uff90wide effects of the FFS treatments on soil properties appear to have been modest and transient.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Forestry", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Fires", "6. Clean water", "Trees", "Soil", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Jianjun Huang, Ralph E. J. Boerner, Stephen C. Hart,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1767.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/07-1767.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/07-1767.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/07-1767.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/08-0069.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-11-18", "title": "Prairie Restoration And Carbon Sequestration: Difficulties Quantifying C Sources And Sinks Using A Biometric Approach", "description": "<p>We investigated carbon cycling and ecosystem characteristics among two prairie restoration treatments established in 1987 and adjacent cropland, all part of the Conservation Reserve Program in southwestern Wisconsin, USA. We hypothesized that different plant functional groups (cool\uffe2\uff80\uff90season C3vs. warm\uffe2\uff80\uff90season C4grasses) between the two prairie restoration treatments would lead to differences in soil and vegetation characteristics and amount of sequestered carbon, compared to the crop system.</p><p>We found significant (P&lt; 0.05) differences between the two prairie restoration treatments in soil CO2respiration and above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground productivity, but no significant differences in long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (~16\uffe2\uff80\uff90year) carbon sequestration. We used a biometric approach aggregating short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term observations of above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground productivity and CO2respiration to estimate total net primary production (NPP) and net ecosystem production (NEP) using varied methods suggested in the literature. Net ecosystem production is important because it represents the ecosystem carbon sequestration, which is of interest to land managers and policymakers seeking or regulating credits for ecosystem carbon storage. Such a biometric approach would be attractive because it might offer the ability to rapidly assess the carbon source/sink status of an ecosystem.</p><p>We concluded that large uncertainties in (1) estimating aboveground NPP, (2) determining belowground NPP, and (3) partitioning soil respiration into microbial and plant components strongly affect the magnitude, and even the sign, of NEP estimates made from aggregating its components. A comparison of these estimates across treatments could not distinguish differences in NEP, nor the absolute sign of the overall carbon balance. Longer\uffe2\uff80\uff90term quantification of carbon stocks in the soil, periodically linked to measurements of individual processes, may offer a more reliable measure of the carbon balance in grassland systems, suitable for assigning credits.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Biometry", "Time Factors", "Glycine max", "Nitrogen", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Carbon", "Soil", "Oxygen Consumption", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0069.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/08-0069.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/08-0069.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/08-0069.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-03-07", "title": "Nitrogen Limitation Of Net Primary Productivity In Terrestrial Ecosystems Is Globally Distributed", "description": "Our meta-analysis of 126 nitrogen addition experiments evaluated nitrogen (N) limitation of net primary production (NPP) in terrestrial ecosystems. We tested the hypothesis that N limitation is widespread among biomes and influenced by geography and climate. We used the response ratio (R approximately equal ANPP(N)/ANPP(ctrl)) of aboveground plant growth in fertilized to control plots and found that most ecosystems are nitrogen limited with an average 29% growth response to nitrogen (i.e., R = 1.29). The response ratio was significant within temperate forests (R = 1.19), tropical forests (R = 1.60), temperate grasslands (R = 1.53), tropical grasslands (R = 1.26), wetlands (R = 1.16), and tundra (R = 1.35), but not deserts. Eight tropical forest studies had been conducted on very young volcanic soils in Hawaii, and this subgroup was strongly N limited (R = 2.13), which resulted in a negative correlation between forest R and latitude. The degree of N limitation in the remainder of the tropical forest studies (R = 1.20) was comparable to that of temperate forests, and when the young Hawaiian subgroup was excluded, forest R did not vary with latitude. Grassland response increased with latitude, but was independent of temperature and precipitation. These results suggest that the global N and C cycles interact strongly and that geography can mediate ecosystem response to N within certain biome types.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Evolutionary Biology", "Ecology", "Nitrogen", "carbon", "Climate", "net primary production", "Plant Development", "nitrogen fertilization", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Carbon", "Trees", "meta-analysis", "nitrogen deposition", "13. Climate action", "Ecological Applications", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "resource limitation", "Biomass", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt998412zp/qt998412zp.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-2057.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-2057.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/06-2113.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-12-12", "title": "Effects Of Restoration And Reflooding On Soil Denitrification In A Leveed Midwestern Floodplain", "description": "<p>River floodplains have the potential to remove nitrate from water through denitrification, the anaerobic microbial conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas. An important factor in this process is the interaction of river water with floodplain soil; however, many rivers have been disconnected from their historic floodplains by levees. To test the effect of reflooding a degraded floodplain on nitrate removal, we studied changes in soil denitrification rates on the Baraboo River floodplain in Wisconsin, USA, as it underwent restoration. Prior to this study, the site had been leveed, drained, and farmed for more than 50 years. In late fall 2002, the field drainage system was removed, and a gate structure was installed to allow controlled flooding of this site with river water. Soil moisture was extremely variable among zones and months and reflected local weather. Soil organic matter was stable over the study period with differences occurring along the elevation gradient. High soil nitrate concentrations occurred in dry, relatively organic\uffe2\uff80\uff90poor soil samples and, conversely, all samples with high moisture soils characterized by low nitrate. We measured denitrification in static cores and potential denitrification in bulk samples amended with carbon and nitrogen, one year before and two years following the manipulation. Denitrification rates showed high temporal and spatial variability. Static core rates of individual sites ranged widely (from 0.00 to 16.7 \uffce\uffbcg N2O\uffe2\uff80\uff90N\uffc2\uffb7[kg soil]\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7h\uffe2\uff88\uff921, mean \uffc2\uffb1 SD = 1.10 \uffc2\uffb1 3.02), and denitrification enzyme activity (DEA) rates were similar with a slightly higher mean (from 0.00 to 15.0 \uffce\uffbcg N2O\uffe2\uff80\uff90N\uffc2\uffb7[kg soil]\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7h\uffe2\uff88\uff921, 1.41 \uffc2\uffb1 1.98). Denitrification was not well\uffe2\uff80\uff90correlated with soil nitrate, organic matter content, or moisture levels, the three parameters typically thought to control denitrification. Static core denitrification rates were not significantly different across years, and DEA rates decreased slightly the second year after restoration. These results demonstrate that restored agricultural soil has the potential for denitrification, but that floodplain restoration did not immediately improve this potential. Future floodplain restorations should be designed to test alternative methods of increasing denitrification.</p>", "keywords": ["floodplain", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "riparian", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "wetland", "6. Clean water", "Midwestern United States", "Disasters", "Soil", "soil denitrification", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "river restoration", "Environmental Sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-2113.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-2113.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-2113.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-2113.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/07-0588.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-08-18", "title": "Fifty-Five Years Of Soil Development In Restored Freshwater Depressional Wetlands", "description": "<p>Wetland restoration is increasingly used as a strategy both to address historical wetland losses and to mitigate new wetland impacts. Research has examined the success of restored wetlands for avifaunal habitat, plant biodiversity, and plant cover; however, less is known about soil development in these systems. Soil processes are particularly important as soil organic matter (SOM), cation exchange capacity (CEC), and other properties are directly linked to wetland functions such as water quality improvement. This research compared soil development processes and properties of 30 palustrine depressional wetlands of four different age classes (\uffe2\uff88\uffbc5, 14, 35, and 55 years since restoration) located in central New York (USA). Five natural wetlands were used as references. This chronosequence included wetlands 27 years older than previously conducted studies, making it the longest reported database available. Replicated soil cores from each site were analyzed for SOM, bulk density (Db), CEC, and concentrations of nutrients and other chemical constituents. Decomposition rate and aboveground plant and litter biomass were measured as key contributors to soil development. The results indicate that some soil properties critical for water quality functions take decades or centuries to reach natural reference levels. Of particular importance, in the top five centimeters of soil, SOM,Db, and CEC achieved&lt;50% of reference levels 55 years after restoration. Soil development processes in these depressional wetlands appear to be driven by autochthonous inputs and by internal processes such as litter decomposition and are not accelerated in the initial phase of development by allochthonous inputs as has been documented in coastal salt marshes and riverine floodplains. While monitoring generally focuses on the initial establishment phase of restored ecosystems, our findings indicate that the later autogenic phase strongly influences development trajectories for important wetland soil properties. Therefore, the role of different successional phases in determining long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term trajectories of ecosystem development should be considered in restoration design, research, and monitoring. This research highlights areas for improving the field of restoration through understanding of successional processes, increased efforts to jump\uffe2\uff80\uff90start soil development, longer\uffe2\uff80\uff90term monitoring programs, and greater focus on soil components of restored wetlands.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Soil", "Time Factors", "Wetlands", "New York", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental Restoration and Remediation", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kate A. Ballantine, Rebecca L. Schneider,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0588.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/07-0588.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/07-0588.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/07-0588.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/07-1117.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-02-21", "title": "Forest To Reclaimed Mine Land Use Change Leads To Altered Ecosystem Structure And Function", "description": "The United States' use of coal results in many environmental alterations. In the Appalachian coal belt region, one widespread alteration is conversion of forest to reclaimed mineland. The goal of this study was to quantify the changes to ecosystem structure and function associated with a conversion from forest to reclaimed mine grassland by comparing a small watershed containing a 15-year-old reclaimed mine with a forested, reference watershed in western Maryland. Major differences were apparent between the two watersheds in terms of biogeochemistry. Total C, N, and P pools were all substantially lower at the mined site, mainly due to the removal of woody biomass but also, in the case of P, to reductions in soil pools. Mineral soil C, N, and P pools were 96%, 79%, and 69% of native soils, respectively. Although annual runoff from the watersheds was similar, the mined watershed exhibited taller, narrower storm peaks as a result of a higher soil bulk density and decreased infiltration rates. Stream export of N was much lower in the mined watershed due to lower net nitrification rates and nitrate concentrations in soil. However, stream export of sediment and P and summer stream temperature were much higher. Stream leaf decomposition was reduced and macroinvertebrate community structure was altered as a result of these changes to the stream environment. This land use change leads to substantial, long-term changes in ecosystem capital and function.", "keywords": ["Soil", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Ecosystem", "Mining", "6. Clean water", "Trees"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1117.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/07-1117.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/07-1117.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/07-1117.1"}, {"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": "10.1890/06-1187.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-07-19", "title": "Soil Responses To Management, Increased Precipitation, And Added Nitrogen In Ponderosa Pine Forests", "description": "Forest management, climatic change, and atmospheric N deposition can affect soil biogeochemistry, but their combined effects are not well understood. We examined the effects of water and N amendments and forest thinning and burning on soil N pools and fluxes in ponderosa pine forests near Flagstaff, Arizona (USA). Using a 15N-depleted fertilizer, we also documented the distribution of added N into soil N pools. Because thinning and burning can increase soil water content and N availability, we hypothesized that these changes would alleviate water and N limitation of soil processes, causing smaller responses to added N and water in the restored stand. We found little support for this hypothesis. Responses of fine root biomass, potential net N mineralization, and the soil microbial N to water and N amendments were mostly unaffected by stand management. Most of the soil processes we examined were limited by N and water, and the increased N and soil water availability caused by forest restoration was insufficient to alleviate these limitations. For example, N addition caused a larger increase in potential net nitrification in the restored stand, and at a given level of soil N availability, N addition had a larger effect on soil microbial N in the restored stand. Possibly, forest restoration increased the availability of some other limiting resource, amplifying responses to added N and water. Tracer N recoveries in roots and in the forest floor were lower in the restored stand. Natural abundance delta15N of labile soil N pools were higher in the restored stand, consistent with a more open N cycle. We conclude that thinning and burning open up the N cycle, at least in the short-term, and that these changes are amplified by enhanced precipitation and N additions. Our results suggest that thinning and burning in ponderosa pine forests will not increase their resistance to changes in soil N dynamics resulting from increased atmospheric N deposition or increased precipitation due to climatic change. Restoration plans should consider the potential impact on long-term forest productivity of greater N losses from a more open N cycle, especially during the period immediately after thinning and burning.", "keywords": ["Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "Arizona", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Fires", "Pinus ponderosa", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Chemical Precipitation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ecosystem", "Nitrites"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-1187.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-1187.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-1187.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-1187.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/06-1819.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-10-23", "title": "Atmospheric Co2 And O-3 Alter The Flow Of N-15 In Developing Forest Ecosystems", "description": "Anthropogenic O3 and CO2-induced declines in soil N availability could counteract greater plant growth in a CO2-enriched atmosphere, thereby reducing net primary productivity (NPP) and the potential of terrestrial ecosystems to sequester anthropogenic CO2. Presently, it is uncertain how increasing atmospheric CO2 and O3 will alter plant N demand and the acquisition of soil N by plants as well as the microbial supply of N from soil organic matter. To address this uncertainty, we initiated an ecosystem-level 15N tracer experiment at the Rhinelander (Wisconsin, USA) free air CO2-O3 enrichment (FACE) facility to understand how projected increases in atmospheric CO2 and 03 alter the distribution and flow of N in developing northern temperate forests. Tracer amounts of 15NH4+ were applied to the forest floor of developing Populus tremuloides and P. tremuloides-Betula papyrifera communities that have been exposed to factorial CO2 and O3 treatments for seven years. One year after isotope addition, both forest communities exposed to elevated CO2 obtained greater amounts of 15N (29%) and N (40%) from soil, despite no change in soil N availability or plant N-use efficiency. As such, elevated CO2 increased the ability of plants to exploit soil for N, through the development of a larger root system. Conversely, elevated O3 decreased the amount of 15N (-15%) and N (-29%) in both communities, a response resulting from lower rates of photosynthesis, decreases in growth, and smaller root systems that acquired less soil N. Neither CO2 nor 03 altered the amount of N or 15N recovery in the forest floor, microbial biomass, or soil organic matter. Moreover, we observed no interaction between CO2 and 03 on the amount of N or 15N in any ecosystem pool, suggesting that 03 could exert a negative effect regardless of CO2 concentration. In a CO2-enriched atmosphere, greater belowground growth and a more thorough exploitation of soil for growth-limiting N is an important mechanism sustaining the enhancement of NPP in developing forests (0-8 years following establishment). However, as CO2 accumulates in the Earth's atmosphere, future O3 concentrations threaten to diminish the enhancement of plant growth, decrease plant N acquisition, and lessen the storage of anthropogenic C in temperate forests.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "forest floor", "Soil", "developing forest", "Wisconsin", "atmospheric O3", "Ozone", "soil organic matter", "Populus tremuloides", "Biomass", "USA", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "atmospheric CO2", "Nitrogen Isotopes", "15N", "plant N uptake", "microbial immobilization", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "root system size", "Populus", "N cycling", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Betula papyrifera"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-1819.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-1819.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-1819.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-1819.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/06-2100.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-12-11", "title": "Interactive Effects Of Plant Species Diversity And Elevated Co2 On Soil Biota And Nutrient Cycling", "description": "Terrestrial ecosystems consist of mutually dependent producer and decomposer subsystems, but not much is known on how their interactions are modified by plant diversity and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Factorially manipulating grassland plant species diversity and atmospheric CO2 concentrations for five years, we tested whether high diversity or elevated CO2 sustain larger or more active soil communities, affect soil aggregation, water dynamics, or nutrient cycling, and whether plant diversity and elevated CO2 interact. Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) pools, symbiotic N2 fixation, plant litter quality, soil moisture, soil physical structure, soil nematode, collembola and acari communities, soil microbial biomass and microflora community structure (phospholipid fatty acid [PLFA] profiles), soil enzyme activities, and rates of C fluxes to soils were measured. No increases in soil C fluxes or the biomass, number, or activity of soil organisms were detected at high plant diversity; soil H2O and aggregation remained unaltered. Elevated CO2 affected the ecosystem primarily by improving plant and soil water status by reducing leaf conductance, whereas changes in C cycling appeared to be of subordinate importance. Slowed-down soil drying cycles resulted in lower soil aggregation under elevated CO2. Collembola benefited from extra soil moisture under elevated CO2, whereas other faunal groups did not respond. Diversity effects and interactions with elevated CO2 may have been absent because soil responses were mainly driven by community-level processes such as rates of organic C input and water use; these drivers were not changed by plant diversity manipulations, possibly because our species diversity gradient did not extend below five species and because functional type composition remained unaltered. Our findings demonstrate that global change can affect soil aggregation, and we advocate that soil aggregation should be considered as a dynamic property that may respond to environmental changes and feed back on other ecosystem functions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Evolution", "Nitrogen", "Water", "Phosphorus", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "10127 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies", "Soil", "1105 Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "Oxygen Consumption", "Behavior and Systematics", "Species Specificity", "13. Climate action", "570 Life sciences; biology", "590 Animals (Zoology)", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-2100.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-2100.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-2100.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-2100.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/07-1609.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-08-13", "title": "Temporal Changes In C And N Stocks Of Restored Prairie: Implications For C Sequestration Strategies", "description": "<p>The recovery of ecosystem C and N dynamics after disturbance can be a slow process. Chronosequence approaches offer unique opportunities to use space\uffe2\uff80\uff90for\uffe2\uff80\uff90time substitution to quantify the recovery of ecosystem C and N stocks and estimate the potential of restoration practices for C sequestration. We studied the distribution of C and N stocks in two chronosequences that included long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term cultivated lands, 3\uffe2\uff80\uff90 to 26\uffe2\uff80\uff90year\uffe2\uff80\uff90old prairie restorations, and remnant prairie on two related soil series. Results from the two chronosequences did not vary significantly and were combined. Based on modeling predictions, the recovery rates of different ecosystem components varied greatly. Overall, C stocks recovered faster than N stocks, but both C and N stocks recovered more rapidly for aboveground vegetation than for any other ecosystem component. Aboveground C and N reached 95% of remnant levels in only 13 years and 21 years, respectively, after planting to native vegetation. Belowground plant C and N recovered several decades later, while microbial biomass C, soil organic C (SOC), and total soil N recovered on a century timescale. In the cultivated fields, SOC concentrations were depleted within the surface 25 cm, coinciding with the depth of plowing, but cultivation apparently led to redistribution of soil C, increasing SOC stocks deeper in the soil profile. The restoration of prairie vegetation was effective at rebuilding soil organic matter (SOM) in the surface soil. Accrual rates were maintained at 43 g C\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921and 3 g N\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921in the surface 0.16 Mg/m2soil mass during the first 26 years of restoration and were predicted to reach 50% of their storage potential (3500 g C/m2) in the first 100 years. We conclude that restoration of tallgrass prairie vegetation can restore SOM lost through cultivation and has the potential to sequester relatively large amounts of SOC over a sustained period of time. Whether restored prairies can retain the C apparently transferred to the subsoil by cultivation practices remains to be seen.</p>", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Soil", "Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Illinois", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Carbon", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1609.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/07-1609.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/07-1609.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/07-1609.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/07-1739.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-02-26", "title": "Climate And Soil-Age Constraints On Nutrient Uplift And Retention By Plants", "description": "<p>Plants and soils represent coevolving components of ecosystems, and while the effects of soils (e.g., nutrient availability) on plants have been extensively documented, the effect of plants on soils has received less attention. Furthermore there has been no systematic investigation of how plant effects vary across important ecological gradients in climate or soil age, which leaves a substantial gap in our understanding of how plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil systems develop. In this context, we analyzed changes in nutrient availability and elemental losses from the entire weathering zone at 35 sites arrayed across climatic and soil\uffe2\uff80\uff90age gradients on the island of Hawai\uffe2\uff80\uff98i. The sites are located on three basaltic lava flows (ages 10, 170, and 350 kyr) each of which crosses a precipitation gradient from \uffe2\uff88\uffbc500 to 2500 mm/yr. By comparing the loss of nutrient (potassium, phosphorus) and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90nutrient (e.g., sodium) rock\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived elements, we identify a climatic zone at intermediate rainfall where the retention of plant nutrients in the upper soil is most pronounced. We further show that there are several abiotic constraints on plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven retention of nutrients. At the dry sites (\uffe2\uff89\uffa4750 mm/yr on all three flows), plants slow the loss of nutrients, but the effect (as measured by the difference between K and Na losses) is small, perhaps because of low plant cover and productivity. At intermediate rainfall (750\uffe2\uff80\uff931400 mm/yr) but negative water balance, plants substantially enrich both nutrient cations and P relative to Na in the surface horizons, an effect that remains strong even after 350 kyr of soil development. In contrast, at high rainfall (\uffe2\uff89\uffa51500 mm/yr) and positive water balance, the effect of plants on nutrient distributions diminishes with soil age as leaching losses overwhelm the uplift and retention of nutrients by plants after 350 kyr of soil development. The effect of plants on soil nutrient distributions can also be mediated by the movement of iron (Fe), and substantial Fe losses at high rainfall on the older flows are highly correlated with P losses. Thus redox\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven redistribution of Fe may place a further abiotic constraint on nutrient retention by plants. In combination, these data indicate that the effects of soil aging on plant uplift and retention of nutrients differ markedly with precipitation, and we view this as a potentially fruitful area for future research.</p>", "keywords": ["Nitrogen", "Climate", "Rain", "Plant Development", "Phosphorus", "Volcanic Eruptions", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Hawaii", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Potassium", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Plant Physiological Phenomena", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Oliver A. Chadwick, Stephen Porder,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1739.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/07-1739.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/07-1739.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/07-1739.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/070070", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-10-12", "title": "Charcoal And Carbon Storage In Forest Soils Of The Rocky Mountain West", "description": "Charcoal represents a super-passive form of carbon (C) that is generated during fire events and is one of the few legacies of fire recorded in the soil profile; however, the importance of this material as a form of C storage has received only limited scientific attention. Here, we review the formation of charcoal in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems, discuss some of its desirable properties, and estimate the potential contribution charcoal to long-term C sequestration in forest ecosystems. Charcoal deposition over the course of several mil lennia probably accounts for a substantial proportion of the total soil C pool in fire-maintained forest ecosystems. Forest management processes that interfere with natural fire processes eliminate the formation of this passive form of C. We recommend that charcoal be considered in C storage budgets and modeling of forest ecosystems, especially in light of climate change and increasing occurrence of wildfire.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/070070"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Ecology%20and%20the%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/070070", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/070070", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/070070"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/08-0127.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-02-23", "title": "Terrestrial Phosphorus Limitation: Mechanisms, Implications, And Nitrogen-Phosphorus Interactions", "description": "<p>Nutrient limitation to primary productivity and other biological processes is widespread in terrestrial ecosystems, and nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are the most common limiting elements, both individually and in combination. Mechanisms that drive P limitation, and their interactions with the N cycle, have received less attention than mechanisms causing N limitation. We identify and discuss six mechanisms that could drive P limitation in terrestrial ecosystems. The best known of these is depletion\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven limitation, in which accumulated P losses during long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term soil and ecosystem development contribute to what Walker and Syers termed a \uffe2\uff80\uff9cterminal steady state\uffe2\uff80\uff9d of profound P depletion and limitation. The other mechanisms are soil barriers that prevent access to P; transactional limitation, in which weathering of P\uffe2\uff80\uff90containing minerals does not keep pace with the supply of other resources; low\uffe2\uff80\uff90P parent materials; P sinks; and anthropogenic changes that increase the supply of other resources (often N) relative to P. We distinguish proximate nutrient limitation (which occurs where additions of a nutrient stimulate biological processes, especially productivity) from ultimate nutrient limitation (where additions of a nutrient can transform ecosystems). Of the mechanisms that drive P limitation, we suggest that depletion, soil barriers, and low\uffe2\uff80\uff90P parent material often cause ultimate limitation because they control the ecosystem mass balance of P. Similarly, demand\uffe2\uff80\uff90independent losses and constraints to N fixation can control the ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level mass balance of N and cause it to be an ultimate limiting nutrient.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "Climate Change", "Nitrogen Fixation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0127.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/08-0127.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/08-0127.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/08-0127.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/08-0501.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-03-18", "title": "Forest Fuel Reduction Alters Fire Severity And Long-Term Carbon Storage In Three Pacific Northwest Ecosystems", "description": "<p>Two forest management objectives being debated in the context of federally managed landscapes in the U.S. Pacific Northwest involve a perceived trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90off between fire restoration and carbon sequestration. The former strategy would reduce fuel (and therefore C) that has accumulated through a century of fire suppression and exclusion which has led to extreme fire risk in some areas. The latter strategy would manage forests for enhanced C sequestration as a method of reducing atmospheric CO2and associated threats from global climate change. We explored the trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90off between these two strategies by employing a forest ecosystem simulation model, STANDCARB, to examine the effects of fuel reduction on fire severity and the resulting long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term C dynamics among three Pacific Northwest ecosystems: the east Cascades ponderosa pine forests, the west Cascades western hemlock\uffe2\uff80\uff93Douglas\uffe2\uff80\uff90fir forests, and the Coast Range western hemlock\uffe2\uff80\uff93Sitka spruce forests. Our simulations indicate that fuel reduction treatments in these ecosystems consistently reduced fire severity. However, reducing the fraction by which C is lost in a wildfire requires the removal of a much greater amount of C, since most of the C stored in forest biomass (stem wood, branches, coarse woody debris) remains unconsumed even by high\uffe2\uff80\uff90severity wildfires. For this reason, all of the fuel reduction treatments simulated for the west Cascades and Coast Range ecosystems as well as most of the treatments simulated for the east Cascades resulted in a reduced mean stand C storage. One suggested method of compensating for such losses in C storage is to utilize C harvested in fuel reduction treatments as biofuels. Our analysis indicates that this will not be an effective strategy in the west Cascades and Coast Range over the next 100 years. We suggest that forest management plans aimed solely at ameliorating increases in atmospheric CO2should forgo fuel reduction treatments in these ecosystems, with the possible exception of some east Cascades ponderosa pine stands with uncharacteristic levels of understory fuel accumulation. Balancing a demand for maximal landscape C storage with the demand for reduced wildfire severity will likely require treatments to be applied strategically throughout the landscape rather than indiscriminately treating all stands.</p>", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "0106 biological sciences", "Bioelectric Energy Sources", "Forestry", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "16. Peace & justice", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Carbon", "Fires", "Pseudotsuga", "Pinus ponderosa", "Oregon", "13. Climate action", "Computer Simulation", "Picea", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0501.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/08-0501.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/08-0501.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/08-0501.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/08-2338.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-03-05", "title": "Plant Diversity Effects On Soil Microorganisms Support The Singular Hypothesis", "description": "<p>The global decline in biodiversity has generated concern over the consequences for ecosystem functioning and services. Although ecosystem functions driven by soil microorganisms such as plant productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling are of particular importance, interrelationships between plant diversity and soil microorganisms are poorly understood. We analyzed the response of soil microorganisms to variations in plant species richness (1\uffe2\uff80\uff9360) and plant functional group richness (1\uffe2\uff80\uff934) in an experimental grassland system over a period of six years. Major abiotic and biotic factors were considered for exploring the mechanisms responsible for diversity effects. Further, microbial growth characteristics were assessed following the addition of macronutrients. Effects of plant diversity on soil microorganisms were most pronounced in the most diverse plant communities though differences only became established after a time lag of four years. Differences in microbial growth characteristics indicate successional changes from a disturbed (zymogeneous) to an established (autochthonous) microbial community four years after establishment of the experiment. Supporting the singular hypothesis for plant diversity, the results suggest that plant species are unique, each contributing to the functioning of the belowground system. The results reinforce the need for long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term biodiversity experiments to fully appreciate consequences of current biodiversity loss for ecosystem functioning.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Population", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/08-2338.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/08-2338.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/08-2338.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/08-2338.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0064.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-04-09", "title": "Scaling Plant Nitrogen Use And Uptake Efficiencies In Response To Nutrient Addition In Peatlands", "description": "<p>Nitrogen (N) is the primary growth\uffe2\uff80\uff90limiting nutrient in many terrestrial ecosystems, and therefore plant production per unit N taken up (i.e., N use efficiency, NUE) is a fundamentally important component of ecosystem function. Nitrogen use efficiency comprises two components: N productivity (AN, plant production per peak biomass N content) and the mean residence time of N in plant biomass (MRTN). We utilized a five\uffe2\uff80\uff90year fertilization experiment to examine the manner in which increases in N and phosphorus (P) availability affected plant NUE at multiple biological scales (i.e., from leaf to community level). We fertilized a natural gradient of nutrient\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited peatland ecosystems in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, with 6 g N\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, 2 g P\uffc2\uffb7m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, or a combination of N and P. Our objectives were to determine how changes in carbon and N allocation within a plant to leaf and woody tissue and changes in species composition within a community, both above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground, would affect (1) NUE; (2) the adaptive trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90off between the components of NUE; (3) the efficiency with which plants acquired N from the soil (N uptake efficiency); and (4) plant community production per unit soil N availability (N response efficiency, NRE). As expected, N and P addition generally increased aboveground production and N uptake. In particular, P availability strongly affected the way in which plants took up and used N. Nitrogen use efficiency response to nutrient addition was not straightforward. Nitrogen use efficiency differed between leaf and woody tissue, among species, and across the ombrotrophic\uffe2\uff80\uff93minerotrophic gradient because plants and communities were adapted to maximize eitherANor MRTN, but not both concurrently. Increased N availability strongly decreased plant and community N uptake efficiency, while increased P availability increased N uptake efficiency, particularly in a nitrogen\uffe2\uff80\uff90fixing shrub. Nitrogen uptake efficiency was more important in controlling overall plant community response to soil N availability than was NUE, and above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground community N uptake efficiencies responded to nutrient addition in a similar manner. Our results demonstrate that plants respond to nutrient availability at multiple biological scales, and we suggest that N uptake efficiency may be a more representative measurement of plant responses to nutrient availability gradients than plant NUE.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Michigan", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Wetlands", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Fertilizers"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0064.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0064.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0064.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0064.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0135.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-04-09", "title": "Soil Ecosystem Functioning Under Climate Change: Plant Species And Community Effects", "description": "<p>Feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems to atmospheric and climate change depend on soil ecosystem dynamics. Soil ecosystems can directly and indirectly respond to climate change. For example, warming directly alters microbial communities by increasing their activity. Climate change may also alter plant community composition, thus indirectly altering the soil communities that depend on their inputs. To better understand how climate change may directly and indirectly alter soil ecosystem functioning, we investigated old\uffe2\uff80\uff90field plant community and soil ecosystem responses to single and combined effects of elevated [CO2], warming, and precipitation in Tennessee (USA). Specifically, we collected soils at the plot level (plant community soils) and beneath dominant plant species (plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific soils). We used microbial enzyme activities and soil nematodes as indicators for soil ecosystem functioning.</p><p>Our study resulted in two main findings: (1) Overall, while there were some interactions, water, relative to increases in [CO2] and warming, had the largest impact on plant community composition, soil enzyme activity, and soil nematodes. Multiple climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90change factors can interact to shape ecosystems, but in our study, those interactions were largely driven by changes in water. (2) Indirect effects of climate change, via changes in plant communities, had a significant impact on soil ecosystem functioning, and this impact was not obvious when looking at plant community soils. Climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90change effects on enzyme activities and soil nematode abundance and community structure strongly differed between plant community soils and plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific soils, but also within plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific soils.</p><p>These results indicate that accurate assessments of climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90change impacts on soil ecosystem functioning require incorporating the concurrent changes in plant function and plant community composition. Climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90change\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced shifts in plant community composition will likely modify or counteract the direct impact of atmospheric and climate change on soil ecosystem functioning, and hence, these indirect effects should be taken into account when predicting the manner in which global change will alter ecosystem functioning.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Time Factors", "Bacteria", "Nematoda", "Climate Change", "Fungi", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Enzymes", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0135.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0135.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0135.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0135.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/15-0337", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-01", "title": "Restoring Forest Structure And Process Stabilizes Forest Carbon In Wildfire-Prone Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Changing climate and a legacy of fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90exclusion have increased the probability of high\uffe2\uff80\uff90severity wildfire, leading to an increased risk of forest carbon loss in ponderosa pine forests in the southwesternUSA. Efforts to reduce high\uffe2\uff80\uff90severity fire risk through forest thinning and prescribed burning require both the removal and emission of carbon from these forests, and any potential carbon benefits from treatment may depend on the occurrence of wildfire. We sought to determine how forest treatments alter the effects of stochastic wildfire events on the forest carbon balance. We modeled three treatments (control, thin\uffe2\uff80\uff90only, and thin and burn) with and without the occurrence of wildfire. We evaluated how two different probabilities of wildfire occurrence, 1% and 2% per year, might alter the carbon balance of treatments. In the absence of wildfire, we found that thinning and burning treatments initially reduced total ecosystem carbon (TEC) and increased net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB). In the presence of wildfire, the thin and burn treatmentTECsurpassed that of the control in year 40 at 2%/yr wildfire probability, and in year 51 at 1%/yr wildfire probability.NECBin the presence of wildfire showed a similar response to the no\uffe2\uff80\uff90wildfire scenarios: both thin\uffe2\uff80\uff90only and thin and burn treatments increased the C sink. Treatments increasedTECby reducing both mean wildfire severity and its variability. While the carbon balance of treatments may differ in more productive forest types, the carbon balance benefits from restoring forest structure and fire in southwestern ponderosa pine forests are clear.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "13. Climate action", "Arizona", "Computer Simulation", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Fires", "Pinus ponderosa", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0337"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/15-0337", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/15-0337", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/15-0337"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/080049", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-08-27", "title": "Fuel Treatment Effects On Tree-Based Forest Carbon Storage And Emissions Under Modeled Wildfire Scenarios", "description": "<p>Forests are viewed as a potential sink for carbon (C) that might otherwise contribute to climate change. It is unclear, however, how to manage forests with frequent fire regimes to maximize C storage while reducing C emissions from prescribed burns or wildfire. We modeled the effects of eight different fuel treatments on tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90based C storage and release over a century, with and without wildfire. Model runs show that, after a century of growth without wildfire, the control stored the most C. However, when wildfire was included in the model, the control had the largest total C emission and largest reduction in live\uffe2\uff80\uff90tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90based C stocks. In model runs including wildfire, the final amount of tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90based C sequestered was most affected by the stand structure initially produced by the different fuel treatments. In wildfire\uffe2\uff80\uff90prone forests, tree\uffe2\uff80\uff90based C stocks were best protected by fuel treatments that produced a low\uffe2\uff80\uff90density stand structure dominated by large, fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90resistant pines.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "13. Climate action", "SD Forestry", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "GE Environmental Sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/080049"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Ecology%20and%20the%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/080049", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/080049", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/080049"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-08-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0077.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-04-09", "title": "Use Of N Immobilization To Tighten The N Cycle In Conventional Agroecosystems", "description": "<p>Soils in conventional agroecosystems are purposely held in a nitrogen (N)\uffe2\uff80\uff90saturated state to maximize crop yields. Planting winter annual cover crops when fields are usually fallow has been proposed to ameliorate N losses from soils. In this study we introduced winter annual cover crops into an N rate study with plots fertilized at 0, 34, 67, 101, 134, 168, and 202 kg N/ha in maize (Zea mays L.) to determine how winter annual cover crops affect yields, N2O and NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 fluxes, and N pools. At the six\uffe2\uff80\uff90leaf stage and during flowering, incorporation of cover crop into soil resulted in a 30% reduction in maize biomass. Three weeks after fertilization, KCl\uffe2\uff80\uff90extractable soil mineral N was 75\uffe2\uff80\uff9387% lower in cover\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropped soils than in no\uffe2\uff80\uff90cover soils, indicating that N had been immobilized in the cover\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropped soils. At physiological maturity, there was no difference between cover and no\uffe2\uff80\uff90cover treatments in crop yield, which was maximized at 9 Mg/ha in 2006 and 7 Mg/ha in 2007. Where N rates exceed crop requirements, cover crop incorporation may reduce N exports as NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 and N2O. Tighter N cycling in conventional agroecosystems could be fostered by matching N rates to the amount of N removed with grain and using N immobilization to retain N and support yields. If N immobilization is viewed as a means for efficient fertilizer N use rather than a process that decreases crop productivity, growers might be more willing to adopt cover\uffe2\uff80\uff90cropping practices.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Nitrates", "Nitrogen", "Nitrous Oxide", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Agriculture", "Biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Weather", "Zea mays"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0077.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0077.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0077.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0077.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0140.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-04-09", "title": "Plant-Available Organic And Mineral Nitrogen Shift In Dominance With Forest Stand Age", "description": "<p>Studies of soil nitrogen (N) availability over stand development have almost exclusively focused on mineral N, yet we increasingly recognize that plants can take up organic N in the form of free amino acids at biologically important rates. We investigated amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid and mineral N availability along a 10\uffe2\uff80\uff90site chronosequence of jack pine stands, varying in age from 4 to 60 yr following wildfire. We measured free amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N and mineral N in soil extracts; native proteolytic rates; net N mineralization rates; and microbial amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid consumption via a 15N leucine tracer assay in 6 of the 10 sites (4, 10, 18, 22, 46, and 55\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old). Amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N was consistently low in the youngest sites (4\uffe2\uff80\uff9310 yr), increased rapidly in mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90aged sites (15\uffe2\uff80\uff9322 yr), and was highest in stand age 46. In contrast, mineral N exhibited a parabolic shape (R2 = 0.499; P &lt; 0.0001), with the youngest site and the four oldest sites containing the highest amounts of mineral N. As a result, amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N as a percentage of amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N + mineral N was greatest in mid\uffe2\uff80\uff90aged stands (e.g., 67% in the 22\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old stand). We observed no trend in proteolytic rates across the chronosequence (P = 0.632). Percentage 15N tracer recovery was lowest in the extractable organic N pool for the 4, 10, and 18\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old sites, though only site age 10 was significantly different from the older sites. Percentage of recovery in the organic N pool was significantly positively related (R2 = 0.798; P &lt; 0.05) to standing pools of amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N. Overall, our results suggest that heterotrophic consumption, not production via proteolysis, controls soil free amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid availability. Higher microbial demand for free amino acids in younger vs. older sites likely results from greater microbial C and N limitation early in stand development due to the lack of fresh litter inputs. Since amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N exceeds mineral N in a time period of stand development where jack pine growth rates and N demand are highest, we speculate that amino\uffe2\uff80\uff90acid N may be important to the N economy of these forests.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Aging", "Soil", "Nitrogen", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Amino Acids", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Trees"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0140.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0140.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0140.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0140.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-0795.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-06-01", "title": "Earthworms And Litter Management Contributions To Ecosystem Services In A Tropical Agroforestry System", "description": "<p>The development of sustainable agricultural systems depends in part upon improved management of non\uffe2\uff80\uff90crop species to enhance the overall functioning and provision of services by agroecosystems. To address this need, our research examined the role of earthworms and litter management on nutrient dynamics, soil organic matter (SOM) stabilization, and crop growth in the Quesungual agroforestry system of western Honduras. Field mesocosms were established with two earthworm treatments (0 vs. 8Pontoscolex corethrurusindividuals per mesocosm) and four litter quality treatments: (1) low\uffe2\uff80\uff90qualityZea mays, (2) high\uffe2\uff80\uff90qualityDiphysa robinioides, (3) a mixture of low\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and high\uffe2\uff80\uff90quality litters, and (4) a control with no organic residues applied. Mesocosms included a singleZ. maysplant and additions of15N\uffe2\uff80\uff90labeled inorganic nitrogen. At maize harvest, surface soils (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9315 cm) in the mesocosms were sampled to determine total and available P as well as the distribution of C, N, and15N among different aggregate\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated SOM pools. Maize plants were divided into grain and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90grain components and analyzed for total P, N, and15N. Earthworm additions improved soil structure as demonstrated by a 10% increase in mean weight diameter and higher C and N storage within large macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90aggregates (&gt;2000 \uffce\uffbcm). A corresponding 17% increase in C contained in micro\uffe2\uff80\uff90aggregates within the macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90aggregates indicates that earthworms enhance the stabilization of SOM in these soils; however, this effect only occurred when organic residues were applied. Earthworms also decreased available P and total soil P, indicating that earthworms may facilitate the loss of labile P added to this system. Earthworms decreased the recovery of fertilizer\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived N in the soil but increased the uptake of15N by maize by 7%. Litter treatments yielded minimal effects on soil properties and plant growth. Our results indicate that the application of litter inputs and proper management of earthworm populations can have important implications for the provision of ecosystem services (e.g., C sequestration, soil fertility, and plant production) by tropical agroforestry systems.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Tropical Climate", "Nitrogen", "Agriculture", "Fabaceae", "Forestry", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Zea mays", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Honduras", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Oligochaeta", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://ciat-library.ciat.cgiar.org/Articulos_Ciat/2010_Fonte-Earthworms_and_litter_manag.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/09-0795.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/09-0795.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/09-0795.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/09-0795.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/09-1365.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-06-22", "title": "Tropical Forest Soil Microbial Communities Couple Iron And Carbon Biogeochemistry", "description": "<p>We report that iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90reducing bacteria are primary mediators of anaerobic carbon oxidation in upland tropical soils spanning a rainfall gradient (3500\uffe2\uff80\uff935000 mm/yr) in northeast Puerto Rico. The abundant rainfall and high net primary productivity of these tropical forests provide optimal soil habitat for iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90reducing and iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90oxidizing bacteria. Spatially and temporally dynamic redox conditions make iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90transforming microbial communities central to the belowground carbon cycle in these wet tropical forests. The exceedingly high abundance of iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90reducing bacteria (up to 1.2 \uffc3\uff97 109 cells per gram soil) indicated that they possess extensive metabolic capacity to catalyze the reduction of iron minerals. In soils from the higher rainfall sites, measured rates of ferric iron reduction could account for up to 44% of organic carbon oxidation. Iron reducers appeared to compete with methanogens when labile carbon availability was limited. We found large numbers of bacteria that oxidize reduced iron at sites with high rates of iron reduction and large numbers of iron reducers. The coexistence of large populations of iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90reducing and iron\uffe2\uff80\uff90oxidizing bacteria is evidence for rapid iron cycling between its reduced and oxidized states and suggests that mutualistic interactions among these bacteria ultimately fuel organic carbon oxidation and inhibit CH4 production in these upland tropical forests.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Tropical Climate", "Bacteria", "Iron", "Puerto Rico", "Communities", "58", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Forests", "Biogeochemistry", "15. Life on land", "Methyl Methanesulfonate", "54", "Carbon", "Carbon Cycle", "Trees", "Soil", "13. 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