{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.034", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:16:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-04-18", "title": "Microbial Enzymatic Responses To Drought And To Nitrogen Addition In A Southern California Grassland", "description": "Microbial enzymes play a fundamental role in ecosystem processes and nutrient mineralization. Therefore understanding enzyme responses to anthropogenic environmental change is important for predicting ecosystem function in the future. In a previous study, we used a reciprocal transplant design to examine the direct and indirect effects of drought and nitrogen (N) fertilization on litter decomposition in a southern California grassland. This work showed direct and indirect negative effects of drought on decomposition, and faster decomposition by N-adapted microbial communities in N-fertilized plots than in non-fertilized plots. Here we measured microbial biomass and the activities of nine extracellular enzymes to examine the microbial and enzymatic mechanisms underlying litter decomposition responses to drought and N. We hypothesized that changes in fungal biomass and potential extracellular enzyme activity (EEA) would relate directly to litter decomposition responses. We also predicted that fungal biomass would dominate the microbial community in our semi-arid study site. However, we found that the microbial community was dominated by bacterial biomass, and that bacteria responded negatively to drought treatment. In contrast to patterns in decomposition, fungal biomass and most potential EEA increased in direct response to drought treatment. Potential EEA was also decoupled from the decomposition response to N treatment. These results suggest that drought and N alter the efficiencies of EEA, defined as the mass of target substrate lost per unit potential EEA. Enzyme efficiencies declined with drought treatment, possibly because reduced water availability increased enzyme immobilization and reduced diffusion rates. In the N experiment, the efficiencies of \u03b2-glucosidase, \u03b2-xylosidase, and polyphenol oxidase were greater when microbes were transplanted into environments from which they originated. This increase in enzymatic efficiency suggests that microbial enzymes may adapt to their local environment. Overall, our results indicate that drought and N addition may have predictable impacts on the efficiencies of extracellular enzymes, providing a means of linking enzyme potentials with in-situ activities.", "keywords": ["Bacteria", "Drought", "Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences", "Fungi", "Litter decomposition", "Agronomy & Agriculture", "Precipitation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Enzyme efficiency", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Glucosidase", "Oxidase", "Environmental Sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt8fw4q1cf/qt8fw4q1cf.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.034"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Biology%20and%20Biochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.034", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.034", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.03.034"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.07.023", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-08-03", "title": "Response Of Microbial Functional Groups Involved In Soil N Cycle To N, P And Np Fertilization In Tibetan Alpine Meadows", "description": "The nitrogen (N) cycle is an important part of earth's biogeochemical cycles and N is a critical element for all life. Whereas the response to N - and more rarely phosphorus, P - fertilization of some microbial groups involved in soil N cycling has been studied, a comprehensive view of how the major microbial groups involved in soil N dynamics respond to combined N and P fertilization is lacking, which restricts our understanding of ecosystem responses to fertilization. Here we investigated the effects of different N, P and NP fertilizer levels (4 N levels without P; 4 P levels without N; and 4 P levels with constant N addition) on the abundances of 9 microbial groups involved in N dynamics. Real time PCR was used to target free N2 fixers, nitrifiers (bacterial and archaea ammonia oxidizers, AOB and AOA, respectively; and the nitrite oxidizers Nitrobacter and Nitrospira), nitrate reducers, nirK- and nirS-nitrite reducers, and nitrous oxide reducers. Soil physical-chemical characteristics and potential nitrification, PNR, were also measured. N fertilization increased the abundances of AOB and Nitrobacter but did not affect the abundances of the other groups. P fertilization decreased the abundances of N2 fixers, nitrate reducers and AOA, and increased the abundances of Nitrobacter and nitrous oxide reducers. NP fertilization decreased the abundances of AOA and nirK-nitrite reducers. Using a correlation network analysis, we demonstrate the strong coupling generally observed in these grasslands between N2 fixers, AOA, Nitrospira, narG-nitrate reducers and nirK-denitrifiers (most of them responding to N/P availability, and being known to be favored by low oxygen availability); and between AOB and Nitrobacter (known to be favored by high oxygen and high N levels) that controlled changes in PNR. The observed (de)coupling between the responses of the different microbial groups may have major consequences for N cycling and N losses from fertilized Tibetan alpine meadows.", "keywords": ["580", "2. 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Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Denitrifiers"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.07.023"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Biology%20and%20Biochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.07.023", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.07.023", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.07.023"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.08.024", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-08-28", "title": "Soil Microbial Community Resistance To Drought And Links To C Stabilization In An Australian Grassland", "description": "Abstract   Drought is predicted to increase in many areas of the world, which can greatly influence soil microbial community structure and C stabilization. Increasing soil carbon (C) stabilization is an important strategy to mitigate climate change effects, but the underlying processes promoting C stabilization are still unclear. Microbes are an important contributor of C stabilization through the adsorption of microbial-derived compounds on organo-mineral complexes. Management practices, such as addition of organic amendments might increase soil C stock and mitigate drought impacts, especially in agro-ecosystems where large losses of C have been reported.  Here, we conducted a drought experiment where we tested whether the addition of organic amendments mitigates drought effects on soil C stabilization and its links to microbial community changes. In a semi-natural grassland system of eastern Australia, we combined a management treatment (compost vs. inorganic fertilizer addition) and a drought treatment using rainout shelters (half vs. ambient precipitation). We measured soil moisture, soil nitrogen and phosphorus, particulate organic C (Pom-C) and organo-mineral C (Min-C). Microbial community composition and biomass were assessed with PLFA analyses. A structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used to examine the controls of soil moisture, Pom-C and nutrients on soil microbial biomass and community structure and changes in Min-C.  Overall, the drought treatment did not affect microbial community structure and Min-C, while fertilizer only marginally increased Min-C, highlighting the resistance to these treatments in this grassland soil. In the surface soil (0\u20135\u00a0cm) Min-C was strongly associated with fungi that may have been stimulated by root exudates, and by gram-negative bacteria in the deep soil (5\u201315\u00a0cm) that were more affected by Pom-C and soil moisture. .  We conclude that the grassland microbial community and its effect on Min-C at our field-site were non-responsive to our drought treatment, but sensitive to variability in soil moisture and microbial community structure. Our findings also show that surface compost application can moderately increase soil C stabilization under drought, representing a useful tool for improving soil C stability.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "grassland ecology", "droughts", "carbon", "grasslands", "Australia", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Soil biogeochemistry; Ecology", "15. Life on land", "soil microbiology", "6. Clean water", "13. 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In Brazil, significant changes in land use result from the conversion of native vegetation to pasture and agriculture, conversion of pasture to agriculture and, more recently, the conversion of pasture and agriculture to integrated crop-livestock systems (ICL). The ICL system proposes a diversity of activities that include the strategic incorporation of pastures to agriculture so as to benefit both. In agricultural areas, for example, the implementation of ICL requires the production of quality forage for animals between crops as well as the production of straw to facilitate the sustainability of the no-tillage (NT) management system. The objective of this study was to evaluate the modifications in soil C stocks resulting from the main processes involved in the changes of land use in Amazonia and Cerrado biomes. For comparison purposes, areas under native vegetation, pastures, crop succession and ICL under different edapho-climatic conditions in Amazonia and Cerrado biomes were evaluated. This study demonstrated that the conversion of native vegetation to pasture can cause the soil to function either as a source or a sink of atmospheric CO2, depending on the land management applied. Non-degraded pasture under fertile soil showed a mean accumulation rate of 0.46\u00a0g\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121. Carbon losses from pastures implemented in naturally low fertile soil ranged from 0.15 to 1.53\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121, respectively, for non-degraded and degraded pasture. The conversion of native vegetation to agriculture in areas under the ICL system, even when cultivated under NT, resulted in C losses of 1.31 in six years and of 0.69\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 in 21 years. The conversion of a non-degraded pasture to cropland (soybean/sorghum) released, in average, 1.44 Mg of C ha\u22121year\u22121to the atmosphere.  The ICL system in agricultural areas has shown evidences that it always functions as a sink of C with accumulation rates ranging from 0.82 to 2.58\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121. The ICL produces soil C accumulation and, as a consequence, reduces atmospheric CO2 in areas formerly cultivated under crop succession. However, the magnitude of C accumulation in soil depends on factors such as the types of crops, the edapho-climatic conditions and the amount of time the area is under ICL.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "550", "limiting water range", "01 natural sciences", "630", "atlantic forest", "Amazonia", "Crop-livestock systems", "Land use change", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. 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Climate action", "tillage", "systems", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2010.07.011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20and%20Tillage%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.still.2010.07.011", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.still.2010.07.011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.still.2010.07.011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1017/s0376892916000199", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-07-14", "title": "Changes In Carbon Storage With Land Management Promoted By Payment For Ecosystem Services", "description": "SUMMARY<p>Andean grasslands (p\uffc3\uffa1ramos) are highly valued for their role in regional water supply as well as for their biodiversity and large soil carbon stocks. Several Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes promote either afforestation or alteration of traditional burning regimes under the assumption that these land management strategies will maximize p\uffc3\uffa1ramo ecosystem services, including carbon storage. However, knowledge of the effects of incentivized land uses is limited. In an evaluation of how afforestation and elimination of burning affect carbon storage at a site in southern Ecuador, we found the highest above-ground biomass carbon levels at afforested sites (99.3\uffe2\uff80\uff93122.0 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921), while grassland sites reached 23.9 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921after 45 years of burn exclusion. Soil carbon storage from 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9320 cm was high across all sites (172.8\uffe2\uff80\uff93201.9 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921), but was significantly lower with afforestation than with burn exclusion. These findings suggest that, although afforestation is generally favoured when carbon is the primary ecosystem service of interest, grasslands with infrequent burning have important potential as a land management strategy when both above-ground biomass and soil carbon are considered. These results are relevant to the development and adaptation of PES programmes focused on carbon as well as those focused on multiple ecosystem services.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Life on Land", "carbon", "conservation", "Andes", "paramo", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "grassland", "payment for ecosystem services", "Environmental Sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt5n93t3t5/qt5n93t3t5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892916000199"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Conservation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1017/s0376892916000199", "name": "item", "description": "10.1017/s0376892916000199", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1017/s0376892916000199"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-07-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1021/acs.est.0c01051", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-14", "title": "Effects of Microplastic Fibers and Drought on Plant Communities", "description": "Microplastics in soils can affect plant performance, as shown in studies using individual plants. However, we currently have no information about potential effects on plant community productivity and structure. In a plant community consisting of seven plant species that co-occur in temperate grassland ecosystems, we thus investigated the effect of microplastics (i.e., microfibers) and drought, a factor with which microfibers might interact, on plant productivity and community structure. Our results showed that at the community level, shoot and root mass decreased with drought but increased with microfibers, an effect likely linked to reduced soil bulk density, improved aeration, and better penetration of roots in the soil. Additionally, we observed that microfibers affected plant community structure. Species such as Calamagrostis, invasive in Europe, and the allelophatic Hieracium, became more dominant with microfibers, while species that potentially have the ability to facilitate the establishment of other plant species (e.g., Holcus), decreased in biomass. As microfibers affect plant species dominance, the examination of cascade effects on ecosystem functions should be a high priority for future research.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Microplastics", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "Europe", "Soil", "Biomass", "Plastics", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.0c01051"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c01051"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Science%20%26amp%3B%20Technology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1021/acs.est.0c01051", "name": "item", "description": "10.1021/acs.est.0c01051", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1021/acs.est.0c01051"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1023/a:1009727804007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:27Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2002-12-22", "description": "<p>Micropatterns induced by sheep grazing, were studied in three consecutive years in a Festuca rubra-dominated salt marsh in a grazing trial with five different stocking rates (0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 10 sheep ha(-1)). The micropatterns were formed by a mosaic of short and tall F. rubra stands on a scale of square decimeters. Permanent transects of 2 m x 10 m were used to study the stability of these patterns, and to analyze interactions between the vegetation, the marsh elevation and the sheep. Micropatterns occurred only in the lightly to moderately grazed paddocks (1.5-4.5 sheep ha(-1)) with the highest spatial diversity in the 3 sheep ha(-1) transect. When grazing was excluded, micropatterns did not develop; nor did they develop in the traditionally and most intensively grazed paddock (10 sheep ha(-1)). Detailed observations in one year showed that crude-protein content did not differ between green leaves from the short and tall stands, whereas in vitro digestibility was slightly higher in the short stands. In the same year, tiller density and length of full-grown leaves increased substantially in both stands from May to September. At the same time, sheep preference shifted from tall to short stands, which suggests an interplay between intake rate and digestibility in the sheep selectivity.</p><p>Seven years after establishment of the grazing trial, the 10 sheep ha(-1) transect still showed a smooth relief typical of the starting point of the other transects. These transects developed a more hummocky topography, with the highest spatial diversity occurring on the 1.5 sheep ha(-1) transect. Marsh elevations were on average up to 3 cm lower in the short than in the tall stands, which indicates that the somewhat lower-elevated patches were grazed more intensively than the higher-elevated patches.</p><p>In most cases, micropatterns changed from one year to the other, probably due to weather fluctuations. The incidence of tall stands was influenced by the rainfall balance. If the incidences of both the short and the tall stands were around 50%, however, the micropatterns showed a clear correlation with the marsh elevation. The rainfall balance seemed therefore a decisive factor for a possible correspondence between micropatterns in two consecutive years. Elevation differences were so subtle that greater than average sedimentation during a winter season could change the elevation pattern. Hence both rainfall balance and winter sedimentation counteracted the stability of the micropatterns. During our three-year study period, micropatterns were only stable in one out of six possible paired comparisons. This low micropattern stability contrasts with other studies in inland environments, which shows that in more dynamic environments, abiotic processes are likely to overrule summer grazing in determining vegetation patterns.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Festuca rubra", "GRASSLAND", "GEESE", "CATTLE", "grazing pattern", "AFFECTING DIET SELECTION", "micropattern", "15. Life on land", "BIOMASS", "GRASSES", "salt marsh", "herbivore selectivity", "PATCH CHOICE", "sheep grazing", "EARLY ESTABLISHMENT", "COMMUNITIES", "GERMINATION"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009727804007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1023/a:1009727804007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1023/a:1009727804007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1023/a:1009727804007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1997-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00362.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-03-11", "title": "Plant Species And Nitrogen Effects On Soil Biological Properties Of Temperate Upland Grasslands", "description": "<p> 1. The aim was to assess the extent to which the microbial biomass and activity, and community structure of fertilized upland grasslands are directly related to changes in soil N availability or indirectly related to individual plant species effects caused by changes in plant species composition and dominance. We investigated the short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term interactive effects of dominant plant species (Lolium perenne, Agrostis capillaris, Holcus lanatus and Festuca rubra) and nitrogen (N) amendment using an N\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited upland grassland soil.</p><p> 2. In soils planted with different grass species, soil microbial biomass, and to some extent microbial activity, were determined by temporal changes in plant productivity. Variations in the way that individual plants influenced soil microbial biomass and activity were highly inconsistent over time, and largely independent of N\uffe2\uff80\uff90additions and differences in plant productivity. At the final sample date, those grass species which co\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominate the total plant biomass of intermediate fertility (H. lanatus) and semi\uffe2\uff80\uff90improved grasslands (A. capillaris and F. rubra) had a beneficial effect on the soil microbial biomass. In contrast, the dominant plant species of improved grasslands, L. perenne, had zero or a negative effect on soil microbial biomass. Two plant species (A. capillaris and H. lanatus) increased the proportion of fungi relative to bacteria in the soil microbial community, relative to the unplanted control soil and the other plant species. Lolium perenne and A. capillaris reduced the evenness of microbial PLFAs, suggesting negative effects of these plant species on the diversity of the soil microbial community.</p><p> 3. The addition of N had no consistent effect on measures of soil microbial biomass or activity, but significantly altered the structure of the microbial community in favour of fungi. The lack of effects of N\uffe2\uff80\uff90addition on microbial biomass and activity were despite the finding that nitrogen addition reduced root biomass in all plant species and increased rhizosphere acidity.</p><p> 4. The results suggest that in the short term, the abundance and activity of soil micro\uffe2\uff80\uff90organisms in upland grasslands are regulated more by plant species traits than by a direct effect of nitrogen. These effects are likely to be related to variations amongst plant species in root exudation patterns and/or efficiency of nutrient aquisition.</p><p> 5. Our study provides evidence that the functional characteristics of dominant plant species are important determinants of soil biological properties, and hence ecosystem functioning in temperate upland grasslands.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Microcosm", "Nitrogen", "Soil microbial biomass", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "microcosm", "Upland", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "upland", "Grasslands", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00362.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Functional%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00362.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00362.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00362.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1999-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0111965", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:19:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-06-08", "title": "The Effect Of Chemical Amendments Used For Phosphorus Abatement On Greenhouse Gas And Ammonia Emissions From Dairy Cattle Slurry: Synergies And Pollution", "description": "Land application of cattle slurry can result in incidental and chronic phosphorus (P) loss to waterbodies, leading to eutrophication. Chemical amendment of slurry has been proposed as a management practice, allowing slurry nutrients to remain available to plants whilst mitigating P losses in runoff. The effectiveness of amendments is well understood but their impacts on other loss pathways (so-called 'pollution swapping' potential) and therefore the feasibility of using such amendments has not been examined to date. The aim of this laboratory scale study was to determine how the chemical amendment of slurry affects losses of NH3, CH4, N2O, and CO2. Alum, FeCl2, Polyaluminium chloride (PAC)-and biochar reduced NH3 emissions by 92, 54, 65 and 77% compared to the slurry control, while lime increased emissions by 114%. Cumulative N2O emissions of cattle slurry increased when amended with alum and FeCl2 by 202% and 154% compared to the slurry only treatment. Lime, PAC and biochar resulted in a reduction of 44, 29 and 63% in cumulative N2O loss compared to the slurry only treatment. Addition of amendments to slurry did not significantly affect soil CO2 release during the study while CH4 emissions followed a similar trend for all of the amended slurries applied, with an initial increase in losses followed by a rapid decrease for the duration of the study. All of the amendments examined reduced the initial peak in CH4 emissions compared to the slurry only treatment. There was no significant effect of slurry amendments on global warming potential (GWP) caused by slurry land application, with the exception of biochar. After considering pollution swapping in conjunction with amendment effectiveness, the amendments recommended for further field study are PAC, alum and lime. This study has also shown that biochar has potential to reduce GHG losses arising from slurry application.", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "Time Factors", "Science", "methane emissions", "Nitrous Oxide", "n2o emissions", "Environment", "Global Warming", "soil", "12. Responsible consumption", "Ammonia", "Air Pollution", "Animals", "volatilization", "2. Zero hunger", "Air Pollutants", "Sewage", "Q", "Pollution swapping", "R", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Greenhouse Gas", "field", "6. Clean water", "livestock slurry", "Dairying", "Slurries", "13. Climate action", "manure", "nitrous-oxide emission", "Medicine", "Feasibility Studies", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Cattle", "grassland", "Methane", "charcoal", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111965"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0111965", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0111965", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0111965"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2007gb003168", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-04-03", "title": "Grazing Effects On Belowground C And N Stocks Along A Network Of Cattle Exclosures In Temperate And Subtropical Grasslands Of South America", "description": "<p>We evaluated the effects of grazing on C and N belowground pools by comparing 15 grazing\uffe2\uff80\uff90exclosure pairs across the R\uffc3\uffado de la Plata grasslands of Uruguay and Argentina. We measured C and N pools of belowground biomass, particulate organic matter (POM), and the mineral associated organic matter (MAOM) in the top meter of the soil. Grazing exclusion in the R\uffc3\uffado de la Plata grasslands promoted (1) decreased belowground biomass stocks across all sites, (2) increased soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic nitrogen (SON) stocks in upland soils, and (3) decreased stocks in shallow and lowland soils. In all cases, SOC and SON variations were largely derived by changes in MAOM stocks that maintained their C:N ratios unchanged. In contrast, stocks of the labile POM fractions changed little, but C:N ratios of these fractions decreased after grazing removal. We hypothesize that changes in soil organic matter (SOM) contents between grazed and ungrazed stands result from the balance between changes in belowground N allocation patterns (root N retention hypothesis) and the ability of the soil to retain the extra N available after the exclusion of herbivores and the cessation of volatilization and leaching from urine and dung patches (N loss hypothesis). On the basis of our results we suggest that the relative importance of these two cooccurring mechanisms will shape grazing effects on SOM stocks, depending on soil properties, including texture, pH and soil depth, and vegetation type, particularly allocation patterns and C:N ratios of different plant species.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "ARGENTINA", "GRAZING", "AGRICULTURE", "SOIL SCIENCES", "SOIL ORGANIC MATTER", "RANGE MANAGEMENT", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "carbono", "pastoreo", "nitrogeno", "13. 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However, uncertainty about how ecosystems respond to decadal changes in fire frequency makes it difficult to predict the effects of altered fire regimes on the carbon cycle; for instance, we do not fully understand the long-term effects of fire on soil carbon and nutrient storage, or whether fire-driven nutrient losses limit plant productivity. Here we analyse data from 48 sites in savanna grasslands, broadleaf forests and needleleaf forests spanning up to 65 years, during which time the frequency of fires was altered at each site. We find that frequently burned plots experienced a decline in surface soil carbon and nitrogen that was non-saturating through time, having 36 per cent (\u00b113 per cent) less carbon and 38 per cent (\u00b116 per cent) less nitrogen after 64 years than plots that were protected from fire. Fire-driven carbon and nitrogen losses were substantial in savanna grasslands and broadleaf forests, but not in temperate and boreal needleleaf forests. We also observe comparable soil carbon and nitrogen losses in an independent field dataset and in dynamic model simulations of global vegetation. The model study predicts that the long-term losses of soil nitrogen that result from more frequent burning may in turn decrease the carbon that is sequestered by net primary productivity by about 20 per cent of the total carbon that is emitted from burning biomass over the same period. Furthermore, we estimate that the effects of changes in fire frequency on ecosystem carbon storage may be 30 per cent too low if they do not include multidecadal changes in soil carbon, especially in drier savanna grasslands. Future changes in fire frequency may shift ecosystem carbon storage by changing soil carbon pools and nitrogen limitations on plant growth, altering the carbon sink capacity of frequently burning savanna grasslands and broadleaf forests.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Sequestration", "Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "carbon", "Geographic Mapping", "Phosphorus", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Carbon", "Wildfires", "Soil", "Spatio-Temporal Analysis", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Potassium", "carbon cycle (biogeochemistry)", "Calcium", "ecosystems", "soils", "fire", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24668"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/nature24668", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/nature24668", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/nature24668"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-12-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41396-019-0405-0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-03-29", "title": "Obscure soil microbes and where to find them", "description": "Abstract                <p>Many soil bacteria and fungi remain unclassified at the highest taxonomic ranks (e.g. phyla level), which hampers our ability to assess the ecology and functional capabilities of these soil organisms in terrestrial ecosystems globally. The first logical step toward the classification of these unknown soil taxa is to identify potential locations on Earth where these unclassified bacteria and fungi are feasibly most prevalent. To do this, here I used data from a global soil survey across 235 locations, including amplicon sequencing information for fungal and bacterial communities, and generated global atlases highlighting those soils where the percentages of taxa of bacteria and fungi with an unknown phyla are expected to be more prevalent. Results indicate that soil samples with the largest percentage of fungal taxa with an unknown phyla can be found in dry forests and grasslands, while those with the largest percentage of bacterial taxa with an unknown phyla are found in boreal and tropical forests. This information can be used by taxonomists and microbiologists to target these potentially new soil taxa.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Geography", "Fungi", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0405-0"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/The%20ISME%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41396-019-0405-0", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41396-019-0405-0", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41396-019-0405-0"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-08-29", "title": "Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes", "description": "Abstract<p>Soil microorganisms act as gatekeepers for soil\uffe2\uff80\uff93atmosphere carbon exchange by balancing the accumulation and release of soil organic matter. However, poor understanding of the mechanisms responsible hinders the development of effective land management strategies to enhance soil carbon storage. Here we empirically test the link between microbial ecophysiological traits and topsoil carbon content across geographically distributed soils and land use contrasts. We discovered distinct pH controls on microbial mechanisms of carbon accumulation. Land use intensification in low-pH soils that increased the pH above a threshold (~6.2) leads to carbon loss through increased decomposition, following alleviation of acid retardation of microbial growth. However, loss of carbon with intensification in near-neutral pH soils was linked to decreased microbial biomass and reduced growth efficiency that was, in turn, related to trade-offs with stress alleviation and resource acquisition. Thus, less-intensive management practices in near-neutral pH soils have more potential for carbon storage through increased microbial growth efficiency, whereas in acidic soils, microbial growth is a bigger constraint on decomposition rates.</p", "keywords": ["572 Biochemistry", "BACTERIAL", "ILLUMINA SEQUENCING PLATFORM", "550", "Supplementary Data", "QH301 Biology", "General Physics and Astronomy", "microbial ecology", "Soil", "Biomass", "Soil Microbiology", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "FUNGAL", "2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Isotopes", "Environmental microbiology", "Ecology", "Q", "ecosystem ecology", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "Grassland", "soil microbiology", "6. 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Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/78980/8/s41467-018-05980-1.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Communications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41559-017-0325-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-09-29", "title": "Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems", "description": "The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning generally increase over time, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Using 26 long-term grassland and forest experimental ecosystems, we demonstrate that biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships strengthen mainly by greater increases in functioning in high-diversity communities in grasslands and forests. In grasslands, biodiversity effects also strengthen due to decreases in functioning in low-diversity communities. Contrasting trends across grasslands are associated with differences in soil characteristics.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "570", "grassland ecology", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Plant Sciences", "577", "soil biodiversity", "Biodiversity", "Forests", "15. 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Here we examined the responses of 128\u2009components of a subarctic grassland to either 5-8 or >50\u2009years of soil warming. Warming of >50\u2009years drove the ecosystem to a new steady state possessing a distinct biotic composition and reduced species richness, biomass and soil organic matter. However, the warmed state was preceded by an overreaction to warming, which was related to organism physiology and was evident after 5-8\u2009years. Ignoring this overreaction yielded errors of >100% for 83\u2009variables when predicting their responses to a realistic warming scenario of 1\u2009\u00b0C over 50\u2009years, although some, including soil carbon content, remained stable after 5-8\u2009years. This study challenges long-term ecosystem predictions made from short-term observations, and provides a framework for characterization of ecosystem responses to sustained climate change.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Environmental management", "INCREASES", "Ecosystem ecology", "Climate Change", "Evolutionary biology", "TERM", "630", "Article", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "106026 Ecosystem research", "Life Below Water", "Ecosystem", "106022 Mikrobiologie", "0303 health sciences", "Ecology", "Climate-change ecology", "SHIFTS", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "106026 \u00d6kosystemforschung", "13. 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However, whether soil health is linked to primary productivity across environmental gradients and land-use types remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we conducted a pan-European field study including 588 sites from 27 countries to investigate the link between soil health and primary productivity across three major land-use types: woodlands, grasslands and croplands. We found that mean soil health (a composite index based on soil properties, biodiversity and plant disease control) in woodlands was 31.4% higher than in grasslands and 76.1% higher than in croplands. Soil health was positively linked to cropland and grassland productivity at the continental scale, whereas climate best explained woodland productivity. Among microbial diversity indicators, we observed a positive association between the richness of Acidobacteria, Firmicutes and Proteobacteria and primary productivity. Among microbial functional groups, we found that primary productivity in croplands and grasslands was positively related to nitrogen-fixing bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi and negatively related to plant pathogens. Together, our results point to the importance of soil biodiversity and soil health for maintaining primary productivity across contrasting land-use types.", "keywords": ["Europe", "Soil", "Bacteria", "Biodiversity", "Forests", "Grassland", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02511-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Ecology%20%26amp%3B%20Evolution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41559-024-02511-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41559-024-02511-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41559-024-02511-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-08-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41561-018-0212-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-08-22", "title": "Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO2 uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale", "description": "Severe droughts in the Northern Hemisphere cause widespread decline of agricultural yield, reduction of forest carbon uptake, and increased CO2 growth rates in the atmosphere. Plants respond to droughts by partially closing their stomata to limit their evaporative water loss, at the expense of carbon uptake by photosynthesis. This trade-off maximizes their water-use efficiency, as measured for many individual plants under laboratory conditions and field experiments. Here we analyze the 13C/12C stable isotope ratio in atmospheric CO2 (reported as \u03b413C) to provide new observational evidence of the impact of droughts on the water-use efficiency across areas of millions of km2 and spanning one decade of recent climate variability. We find strong and spatially coherent increases in water-use efficiency along with widespread reductions of net carbon uptake over the Northern Hemisphere during severe droughts that affected Europe, Russia, and the United States in 2001-2011. The impact of those droughts on water-use efficiency and carbon uptake by vegetation is substantially larger than simulated by the land-surface schemes of six state-of-the-art climate models. This suggests that drought induced carbon-climate feedbacks may be too small in these models and improvements to their vegetation dynamics using stable isotope observations can help to improve their drought response.", "keywords": ["FLUXES", "330", "GRASSLAND", "MODELS", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "CARBON-ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION", "01 natural sciences", "DIOXIDE EXCHANGE", "LEAF", "Life Science", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", "PRODUCTIVITY", "Atmosphere", "[SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", " Atmosphere", "PHOTOSYNTHESIS", "15. Life on land", "ATMOSPHERE", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "REDUCTION", "13. Climate action", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/78233/1/manuscript_WUE_v20_maintext.pdf"}, {"href": "http://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0212-7.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0212-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Geoscience", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41561-018-0212-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41561-018-0212-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41561-018-0212-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-08-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41598-018-26835-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-08", "title": "Large Herbivores Influence Plant Litter Decomposition By Altering Soil Properties And Plant Quality In A Meadow Steppe", "description": "Abstract<p>Large herbivores act as a major driver of plant litter decomposition in grasslands. The modifications of soil biotic and abiotic properties, as well as the changes in quality (C/N ratio) of plant litter, are two key pathways by which large herbivores can affect litter decomposition. Yet we know little about the relative role of these two mechanisms in mediating decomposition. Here, by combining a large-scale and a small-scale field manipulative experiment, we examined how livestock (cattle and sheep) grazing affects standing litter decomposition of a dominant grass,Leymus chinensisin grasslands in northeast China. We found that livestock grazing affected litter decay rate both by its influences on soil property (soil moisture, nutrient content, and microbial communities) and on plant litter quality (C/N ratio). Due to their distinct body size and diet preference, cattle and sheep affected soil property and litter quality, thus litter decay rate, differently by causing varying disturbance regimes and by feeding on different dominant species. Our study provides evidence that herbivore grazing can influence litter decomposition by modifying soil conditions and litter quality independently. Therefore, choosing the proper large herbivore(s) in grazing regimes may be important in maintaining nutrient cycling in grassland ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "China", "Sheep", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Soil", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Cattle", "Herbivory", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26835-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41598-018-26835-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41598-018-26835-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41598-018-26835-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep15949", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-10-30", "title": "Light-Intensity Grazing Improves Alpine Meadow Productivity And Adaption To Climate Change On The Tibetan Plateau", "description": "Abstract<p>To explore grazing effects on carbon fluxes in alpine meadow ecosystems, we used a paired eddy-covariance (EC) system to measure carbon fluxes in adjacent fenced (FM) and grazed (GM) meadows on the Tibetan plateau. Gross primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (Re) were greater at GM than FM for the first two years of fencing. In the third year, the productivity at FM increased to a level similar to the GM site. The higher productivity at GM was mainly caused by its higher photosynthetic capacity. Grazing exclusion did not increase carbon sequestration capacity for this alpine grassland system. The higher optimal photosynthetic temperature and the weakened ecosystem response to climatic factors at GM may help to facilitate the adaption of alpine meadow ecosystems to changing climate.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Climate Change", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Tibet", "16. Peace & justice", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Photosynthesis", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep15949"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep15949", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep15949", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep15949"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-10-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep18654", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-12-21", "title": "Responses Of Community-Level Plant-Insect Interactions To Climate Warming In A Meadow Steppe", "description": "Abstract<p>Climate warming may disrupt trophic interactions, consequently influencing ecosystem functioning. Most studies have concentrated on the temperature-effects on plant-insect interactions at individual and population levels, with a particular emphasis on changes in phenology and distribution. Nevertheless, the available evidence from the community level is limited. A 3-year field manipulative experiment was performed to test potential responses of plant and insect communities and plant-insect interactions, to elevated temperature in a meadow steppe. Warming increased the biomass of plant community and forbs and decreased grass biomass, indicating a shift from grass-dominant to grass-forb mixed plant community. Reduced abundance of the insect community under warming, particularly the herbivorous insects, was attributed to lower abundance ofEuchorthippus unicolorand a Cicadellidae species resulting from lower food availability and higher defensive herbivory. Lower herbivore abundance caused lower predator species richness because of reduced prey resources and contributed to an overall decrease in insect species richness. Interestingly, warming enhanced the positive relationship between insect and plant species richness, implying that the strength of the plant-insect interactions was altered by warming. Our results suggest that alterations to plant-insect interactions at a community level under climate warming in grasslands may be more important and complex than previously thought.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Insecta", "Climate Change", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Global Warming", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Hemiptera", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "Animals", "Herbivory", "14. Life underwater", "Ecosystem", "Plant Physiological Phenomena"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18654"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep18654", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep18654", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep18654"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-12-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep24317", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-04-14", "title": "Soil Microbial Community Composition And Respiration Along An Experimental Precipitation Gradient In A Semiarid Steppe", "description": "Abstract<p>As a primary limiting factor in arid and semiarid regions, precipitation strongly influences soil microbial properties. However, the patterns and mechanisms of soil microbial responses to precipitation have not been well documented. In this study, changes in soil microorganisms along an experimental precipitation gradient with seven levels of precipitation manipulation (i.e., ambient precipitation as a control and \uffc2\uffb120%, \uffc2\uffb140% and \uffc2\uffb160% of ambient precipitation) were explored in a semiarid temperate steppe in northern China. Soil microbial biomass carbon and respiration as well as the ratio of fungal to bacterial biomass varied along the experimental precipitation gradient and peaked under the +40% precipitation treatment. The shifts in microbial community composition could be largely attributable to the changes in soil water and nutrient availability. The metabolic quotient increased (indicating reduced carbon use efficiency) with increasing precipitation due to the leaching of dissolved organic carbon. The relative contributions of microbial respiration to soil and ecosystem respiration increased with increasing precipitation, suggesting that heterotrophic respiration will be more sensitive than autotrophic respiration if precipitation increases in the temperate steppe as predicted under future climate-change scenarios.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "China", "Bacteria", "Rain", "Fungi", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Biota", "Grassland", "Article", "Carbon", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Desert Climate", "Energy Metabolism", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24317"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep24317", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep24317", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep24317"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-04-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep28974", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-07-08", "title": "Effects of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon in global grasslands", "description": "Abstract<p>This study aimed to evaluate the effect of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon (SOC) content at broad scales and its controls. We conducted a meta-analysis using paired control data of shrub-encroached grassland (SEG) vs. non-SEG collected from 142 studies worldwide. SOC contents (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9350\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm) were altered by shrub encroachment, with changes ranging from \uffe2\uff88\uff9250% to\uffe2\uff80\uff89+\uffe2\uff80\uff89300%, with an effect size of 0.15 (p\uffe2\uff80\uff89&lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.01). The SOC contents increased in semi-arid and humid regions, and showed a greater rate of increase in grassland encroached by leguminous shrubs than by non-legumes. The SOC content decreased in silty and clay soils but increased in sand, sandy loam and sandy clay loam. The SOC content increment was significantly positively correlated with precipitation and temperature as well as with soil bulk density but significantly negatively correlated with soil total nitrogen. We conclude the main effects of shrub encroachment would be to increase topsoil organic carbon content. As structural equation model revealed, soils properties seem to be the primary factors responsible for the extent of the changes, coarse textured soils having a greater capacity than fine textured soils to increase the SOC content. This increased effect appears to be secondarily enhanced by climate and plant elements.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "Climate", "Temperature", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Article", "Carbon"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Jingyun Fang, Jingyun Fang, Xia Zhao, He Li, P. Zhang, Luhong Zhou, Huifeng Hu, Leiyi Chen, Taoyu Liu, Haihua Shen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28974"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep28974", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep28974", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep28974"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-07-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep32791", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-09-06", "title": "Responses Of Soil Hydrolytic Enzymes, Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria And Archaea To Nitrogen Applications In A Temperate Grassland In Inner Mongolia", "description": "Abstract<p>We used a seven-year urea gradient applied field experiment to investigate the effects of nitrogen (N) applications on soil N hydrolytic enzyme activity and ammonia-oxidizing microbial abundance in a typical steppe ecosystem in Inner Mongolia. The results showed that N additions inhibited the soil N-related hydrolytic enzyme activities, especially in 392\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff89yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 treatment. As N additions increased, the amoA gene copy ratios of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) to ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) decreased from 1.13 to 0.65. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the AOA gene copies were negatively related with NH4+-N content. However, the AOB gene copies were positively correlated with NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92-N content. Moderate N application rates (56\uffe2\uff80\uff93224\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff89yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) accompanied by P additions are beneficial to maintaining the abundance of AOB, as opposed to the inhibition of highest N application rate (392\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff89yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921) on the abundance of AOB. This study suggests that the abundance of AOB and AOA would not decrease unless N applications exceed 224\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg N ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffe2\uff80\uff89yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 in temperate grasslands in Inner Mongolia.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "China", "Bacteria", "Nitrogen", "Hydrolysis", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Archaea", "Grassland", "Nitrification", "Article", "Soil", "Ammonia", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Fertilizers", "Oxidation-Reduction", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32791"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep32791", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep32791", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep32791"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-09-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep33190", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-09-12", "title": "Grazing improves C and N cycling in the Northern Great Plains: a meta-analysis", "description": "Abstract<p>Grazing potentially alters grassland ecosystem carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage and cycles, however, the overall direction and magnitude of such alterations are poorly understood on the Northern Great Plains (NGP). By synthesizing data from multiple studies on grazed NGP ecosystems, we quantified the response of 30 variables to C and N pools and fluxes to grazing using a comprehensive meta-analysis method. Results showed that grazing enhanced soil C (5.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff894.6% relative) and N (11.3\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff899.1%) pools in the top layer, stimulated litter decomposition (26.8\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8918.4%) and soil N mineralization (22.3\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8918.4%) and enhanced soil NH4+(51.5\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8942.9%) and NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92(47.5\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8920.7%) concentrations. Our results indicate that the NGP grasslands have sequestered C and N in the past 70 to 80 years, recovering C and N lost during a period of widespread grassland deterioration that occurred in the first half of the 20thcentury. Sustainable grazing management employed after this deterioration has acted as a critical factor for C and N amelioration of degraded NGP grasslands and about 5.84\uffe2\uff80\uff89Mg C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921CO2-equivalent of anthropogenic CO2emissions has been offset by these grassland soils.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Nitrogen Cycle", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "United States", "Carbon Cycle", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Herbivory"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33190"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep33190", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep33190", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep33190"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-09-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/srep34786", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-10-10", "title": "Contrasting Effects Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus Addition On Soil Respiration In An Alpine Grassland On The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau", "description": "Abstract<p>High soil organic carbon content, extensive root biomass, and low nutrient availability make alpine grasslands an important ecosystem for assessing the influence of nutrient enrichment on soil respiration (SR). We conducted a four-year (2009\uffe2\uff80\uff932012) field experiment in an alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau to examine the individual and combined effects of nitrogen (N, 100\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921year\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and phosphorus (P, 50\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921year\uffe2\uff88\uff921) addition on SR. We found that both N and P addition did not affect the overall growing-season SR but effects varied by year: with N addition SR increased in the first year but decreased during the last two years. However, while P addition did not affect SR during the first two years, SR increased during the last two years. No interactive effects of N and P addition were observed, and both N addition and P addition reduced heterotrophic respiration during the last year of the experiment. N and P addition affected SR via different processes: N mainly affected heterotrophic respiration, whereas P largely influenced autotrophic respiration. Our results highlight the divergent effects of N and P addition on SR and address the important potential of P enrichment for regulating SR and the carbon balance in alpine grasslands.</p>", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "0106 biological sciences", "Mechanics and Transport in Unsaturated Soils", "Nitrogen", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Plant Science", "Thermal Effects on Soil", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Engineering", "Soil water", "Genetics", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Civil and Structural Engineering", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil Fertility", "Ecology", "Bacteria", "Respiration", "Botany", "Life Sciences", "Plant Nutrient Uptake and Signaling Pathways", "Phosphorus", "Soil respiration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Soil carbon", "Agronomy", "Chemistry", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Physical Sciences", "Heterotroph", "Growing season", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Animal science", "Nutrient"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34786"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientific%20Reports", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/srep34786", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/srep34786", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/srep34786"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-10-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/mu13028", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:17:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-02-02", "title": "Avian Responses To Varying Intensity Of Cattle Production In Spartina Densiflora Saltmarshes Of South-Eastern South America", "description": "Saltmarshes of Spartina densiflora in south-eastern South America have been modified by anthropogenic activities, mainly production of livestock. We examined the effect of the intensity of cattle production on the structure of saltmarsh vegetation and the effect of these changes to vegetation on the richness, composition and size of the avian populations and the abundance of nests. The levels of cattle production were based on the combined intensity of prescribed burning and cattle grazing, classed as: (1) High grazing \u2013 High burning (HH), (2) Low grazing \u2013 Low burning (LL) and (3) No grazing \u2013 No burning (NN). Cattle production altered the vegetation structure of saltmarshes and indirectly modified the richness, composition and size of their avian populations and the abundance of nests. Saltmarshes with either LL or NN production levels were inhabited by tall grassland specialists and generalists and by species specialised to live in a mosaic of short and tall grassland patches. Conversely, saltmarshes with HH production levels were inhabited by short-grassland specialists. That avian species diversity does not differ between S. densiflora saltmarsh subject to low or no human impacts has several potential interpretations, which are discussed. These findings have implications for management of grasslands to maintain avian diversity.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Grassland Birds", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "Argentina", "Cattle Grazing", "Conservation", "Pampas", "15. Life on land", "Fire", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Cardoni, Daniel Augusto, Isacch, Juan Pablo, Iribarne, Oscar Osvaldo,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/mu13028"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Emu%20-%20Austral%20Ornithology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/mu13028", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/mu13028", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/mu13028"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1071/sr08151", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-09", "title": "Nitrous Oxide And Methane Emissions From Soil Are Reduced Following Afforestation Of Pasture Lands In Three Contrasting Climatic Zones", "description": "<p>Land use change from agriculture to forestry offers potential opportunities for carbon (C) sequestration and thus partial mitigation of increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. The effects of land use change of grazed pastures on in situ fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from soil were examined across 3 forest types in Australian temperate, Mediterranean, and subtropical regions, using a network of paired pasture\uffe2\uff88\uff92forest sites, representing 3 key stages of forest stand development: establishment, canopy-closure, and mid to late rotation. During the 12-month study, soil temperature ranged from \uffe2\uff80\uff936\uffc2\uffb0 to 40\uffc2\uffb0C and total rainfall from 487 to 676\uffe2\uff80\uff89mm. Rates of N2O flux ranged between 1 and 100\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffce\uffbcg/m2.h in pasture soils and from \uffe2\uff80\uff935 to 50\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffce\uffbcg/m2.h in forest soils; magnitudes were generally similar across the 3 climate zones. Rates of CH4 flux varied from \uffe2\uff80\uff931 to \uffe2\uff80\uff9350\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffce\uffbcg/m2.h in forest soil and from +10 to \uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffce\uffbcg/m2.h in pasture soils; CH4 flux was highest at the subtropics sites and lowest at the Mediterranean sites. In general, N2O emissions were lower, and CH4 consumption was higher, under forest than pasture soils, suggesting that land use change from pasture to forest can have a positive effect on mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil as stands become established. The information derived from this study can be used to improve the capacity of models for GHG accounting (e.g. FullCAM, which underpins Australia\uffe2\uff80\uff99s National Carbon Accounting System) to estimate N2O and CH4 fluxes resulting from land use change from pasture to forest in Australia. There is still, however, a need to test model outputs against continuous N2O and CH4 measurements over extended periods of time and across a range of sites with similar land use, to increase confidence in spatial and temporal estimates at regional levels.</p>", "keywords": ["Temperate", "Tropics", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Mediterranean", "15. Life on land", "GHG balance", "Grassland", "Paired sites", "Afforestation", "13. Climate action", "2304 Environmental Chemistry", "Pasture", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Forest", "1111 Soil Science", "Plantation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1071/sr08151"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1071/sr08151", "name": "item", "description": "10.1071/sr08151", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1071/sr08151"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.70084", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-03-11", "title": "Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant\u2013Soil Feedback of a Semi\u2010Arid Grassland", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of severe droughts, but it remains unclear whether soil biotic conditioning by plant communities with varying species richness or functional group diversity moderate plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil feedback (PSF)\uffe2\uff80\uff94an important ecosystem process driving plant community dynamics\uffe2\uff80\uff94under altered rainfall regimes. We conducted a two\uffe2\uff80\uff90phase PSF experiment to test how plant diversity affects biotic PSF under different rainfall regimes. In Phase 1, we set up mesocosms with 15 plant assemblages composed of two grasses, two forbs and two nitrogen\uffe2\uff80\uff90fixing legumes [one, two, three, or six species from one, two, or three functional group(s)] common to the semi\uffe2\uff80\uff90arid eastern Eurasian Steppe. Mesocosms were subjected to two rainfall amounts (ambient, 50% reduction) crossed with two frequencies (ambient, 50% reduction) for a growing season (~3\uffe2\uff80\uff89months). Conditioned soil from each mesocosm was then used in Phase 2 to inoculate (7% v/v) sterilised mesocosms planted with the same species as in Phase 1 and grown for 8\uffe2\uff80\uff89weeks. Simultaneously, the same plant assemblages were grown in sterilised soil to calculate PSF based on plant biomass measured at the end of Phase 2. Feedback effects differed amongst plant assemblages, but were not significantly altered by reduced rainfall treatments within any plant assemblage. This suggests that the examined interactions between plant and soil microbial communities were resistant to simulated rainfall reductions and that increasing plant diversity did not moderate PSF under altered rainfall regimes. Moreover, increasing plant species richness or functional group diversity did not lessen the magnitude of PSF differences between ambient and reduced rainfall treatments. Collectively, these findings advance our understanding of plant diversity's potential to mitigate climate change effects on PSF, showing that in semi\uffe2\uff80\uff90arid grasslands, higher plant diversity may not moderate PSF responses to altered rainfall regimes and highlighting the importance of considering species\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific traits and interaction stability.</p", "keywords": ["580", "570", "plant-soil feedback", "Rain", "Climate Change", "Soil Science", "drought", "Biodiversity", "Plants", "Markvetenskap", "plant functional groups", "Grassland", "plant\u2013soil feedback", "Soil", "climate change", "plant\u2013soil (below-ground) interactions", "Biomass", "species richness", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Xiliang Li, G. Kenny Png, Zhen Zhang, Fenghui Guo, Yuanheng Li, Fang Li, Shan Luo, Nicholas J. Ostle, John N. Quinton, Urs A. Schaffner, Xiangyang Hou, David A. Wardle, Richard D. Bardgett,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70084"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.70084", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.70084", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.70084"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.0509038103", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-04-14", "title": "Element interactions limit soil carbon storage", "description": "<p>             Rising levels of atmospheric CO             2             are thought to increase C sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. The potential of these sinks to mitigate CO             2             emissions, however, may be constrained by nutrients. By using metaanalysis, we found that elevated CO             2             only causes accumulation of soil C when N is added at rates well above typical atmospheric N inputs. Similarly, elevated CO             2             only enhances N             2             fixation, the major natural process providing soil N input, when other nutrients (e.g., phosphorus, molybdenum, and potassium) are added. Hence, soil C sequestration under elevated CO             2             is constrained both directly by N availability and indirectly by nutrients needed to support N             2             fixation.           </p>", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "Nitrogen", "cycles", "fine roots", "Plant Development", "01 natural sciences", "forest", "Soil", "Nitrogen Fixation", "elevated atmospheric co2", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "model", "biological nitrogen-fixation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "climate-change", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grassland", "ecosystem responses", "metaanalysis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0509038103"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.0509038103", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.0509038103", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.0509038103"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-04-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.1807354116", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-03-09", "title": "Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Increasing plant diversity can increase ecosystem functioning, stability, and services in both natural and managed grasslands, but the effects of herbivore diversity, and especially of livestock diversity, remain underexplored. Given that managed grazing is the most extensive land use worldwide, and that land managers can readily change livestock diversity, we experimentally tested how livestock diversification (sheep, cattle, or both) influenced multidiversity (the diversity of plants, insects, soil microbes, and nematodes) and ecosystem multifunctionality (including plant biomass production, plant leaf N and P, above-ground insect abundance, nutrient cycling, soil C stocks, water regulation, and plant\u2013microbe symbiosis) in the world\u2019s largest remaining grassland. We also considered the potential dependence of ecosystem multifunctionality on multidiversity. We found that livestock diversification substantially increased ecosystem multifunctionality by increasing multidiversity. The link between multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality was always stronger than the link between single diversity components and functions. Our work provides insights into the importance of multitrophic diversity to maintain multifunctionality in managed ecosystems and suggests that diversifying livestock could promote both multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in an increasingly managed world.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Livestock", "Sheep", "Biodiversity", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Animals", "Cattle", "Animal Husbandry", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807354116"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.1807354116", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.1807354116", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.1807354116"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1073/pnas.2309881120", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-01-08", "title": "Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of short-term (~1 y) drought events\u2014the most common duration of drought\u2014globally. Yet the impact of this intensification of drought on ecosystem functioning remains poorly resolved. This is due in part to the widely disparate approaches ecologists have employed to study drought, variation in the severity and duration of drought studied, and differences among ecosystems in vegetation, edaphic and climatic attributes that can mediate drought impacts. To overcome these problems and better identify the factors that modulate drought responses, we used a coordinated distributed experiment to quantify the impact of short-term drought on grassland and shrubland ecosystems. With a standardized approach, we imposed ~a single year of drought at 100 sites on six continents. Here we show that loss of a foundational ecosystem function\u2014aboveground net primary production (ANPP)\u2014was 60% greater at sites that experienced statistically extreme drought (1-in-100-y event) vs. those sites where drought was nominal (historically more common) in magnitude (35% vs. 21%, respectively). This reduction in a key carbon cycle process with a single year of extreme drought greatly exceeds previously reported losses for grasslands and shrublands. Our global experiment also revealed high variability in drought response but that relative reductions in ANPP were greater in drier ecosystems and those with fewer plant species. Overall, our results demonstrate with unprecedented rigor that the global impacts of projected increases in drought severity have been significantly underestimated and that drier and less diverse sites are likely to be most vulnerable to extreme drought.</p></article>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Medical Sciences", "Drought Severity", "550", "580 Plants (Botany)", "551", "Tierras de Matorral", "Medical Specialties", "Medicine and Health Sciences", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "climate extreme | Drought-Net | International Drought Experiment | productivity", "Productividad Primaria Neta", "Net Primary Productivity", "Productivity", "2. Zero hunger", "Praderas", "Productividad", "Life Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Grassland", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "Grasslands", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Drought-Net", "Public Health", "International Drought Experiment", "Ciclo del Carbono", "Severidad de la Sequ\u00eda", "Global Impacts", "productivity", "Climate Change", "climate extreme", "333", "Carbon Cycle", "Environmental Public Health", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Impacto Global", "Scrublands", "General", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Experimento internacional de Sequ\u00eda", "500", "Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases", "15. Life on land", "Clima Extremo", "Climate Science", "13. Climate action", "Cambio Clim\u00e1tico", "Extreme Climate", "Climate extreme", "Klimatvetenskap"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://boris.unibe.ch/191349/1/smith-et-al-2024-extreme-drought-impacts-have-been-underestimated-in-grasslands-and-shrublands-globally.pdf"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt9b707158/qt9b707158.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309881120"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1073/pnas.2309881120", "name": "item", "description": "10.1073/pnas.2309881120", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1073/pnas.2309881120"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/femsec/fiab059", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-14", "title": "Fungus-bacterium associations are widespread in fungal cultures isolated from a semi-arid natural grassland in Germany", "description": "ABSTRACT                <p>We report on a study that aimed at establishing a large soil\uffe2\uff80\uff93fungal culture collection spanning a wide taxonomic diversity and systematically screening the collection for bacterial associations. Fungal cultures were isolated from soil samples obtained from a natural grassland in eastern Germany and bacterial associations were assessed by PCR-amplification and sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA. In addition, intraspecies genetic diversities of a subset of the isolated species were estimated by double-digest restriction associated DNA sequencing. A total of 688 fungal cultures, representing at least 106 fungal species from 36 different families, were obtained and even though clonal isolates were identified in almost all fungal species subjected to ddRAD-seq, relatively high genetic diversities could be observed in some of the isolated species. A total of 69% of the fungal isolates in our collection were found to be associated with bacteria and the most commonly identified bacterial genera were Pelomonas, Enterobacter and Burkholderia. Our results indicate that bacterial associations commonly occur in soil fungi, even if antibiotics are being applied during the isolation process, and provide a basis for the use of our culture collection in ecological experiments that want to acknowledge the importance of intraspecies genetic diversity.</p>", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "bepress|Life Sciences|Ecology and Evolutionary Biology|Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology", "0303 health sciences", "Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology", "Bacteria", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Fungi", "Life Sciences", "15. Life on land", "bepress|Life Sciences|Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Grassland", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "bepress|Life Sciences", "Germany", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Humans", "Bacteria ; Fungal-bacterial Interaction ; Soil Fungi ; Ddrad Sequencing", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-pdf/97/5/fiab059/37624504/fiab059.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab059"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/femsec/fiab059", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/femsec/fiab059", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/femsec/fiab059"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-04-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/femsec/fiad080", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-07-21", "title": "Vegetation, topography, and soil depth drive microbial community structure in two Swedish grasslands", "description": "Abstract                <p>Soil microbial diversity and community composition are shaped by various factors linked to land management, topographic position, and vegetation. To study the effects of these drivers, we characterized fungal and bacterial communities from bulk soil at four soil depths ranging from the surface to below the rooting zone of two Swedish grasslands with differing land-use histories, each including both an upper and a lower catenary position. We hypothesized that differences in plant species richness and plant functional group composition between the four study sites would drive the variation in soil microbial community composition and correlate with microbial diversity, and that microbial biomass and diversity would decrease with soil depth following a decline in resource availability. While vegetation was identified as the main driver of microbial community composition, the explained variation was significantly higher for bacteria than for fungi, and the communities differed more between grasslands than between catenary positions. Microbial biomass derived from DNA abundance decreased with depth, but diversity remained relatively stable, indicating diverse microbial communities even below the rooting zone. Finally, plant-microbial diversity correlations were significant only for specific plant and fungal functional groups, emphasizing the importance of functional interactions over general species richness.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Sweden", "Soil", "550", "Bacteria", "Microbiota", "Fungi", "Soil Science", "15. Life on land", "Plants", "Grassland", "Soil Microbiology", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/31577/1/guasconi-d-et-al-20230821.pdf"}, {"href": "https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-pdf/99/8/fiad080/50965337/fiad080.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad080"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/femsec/fiad080", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/femsec/fiad080", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/femsec/fiad080"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/femsec/fiv066", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-06-20", "title": "Effects Of Warming And Drought On Potential N2o Emissions And Denitrifying Bacteria Abundance In Grasslands With Different Land-Use", "description": "Increased warming in spring and prolonged summer drought may alter soil microbial denitrification. We measured potential denitrification activity and denitrifier marker gene abundances (nirK, nirS, nosZ) in grasslands soils in three geographic regions characterized by site-specific land-use indices (LUI) after warming in spring, at an intermediate sampling and after summer drought. Potential denitrification was significantly increased by warming, but did not persist over the intermediate sampling. At the intermediate sampling, the relevance of grassland land-use intensity was reflected by increased potential N2O production at sites with higher LUI. Abundances of total bacteria did not respond to experimental warming or drought treatments, displaying resilience to minor and short-term effects of climate change. In contrast, nirS- and nirK-type denitrifiers were more influenced by drought in combination with LUI and pH, while the nosZ abundance responded to the summer drought manipulation. Land-use was a strong driver for potential denitrification as grasslands with higher LUI also had greater potentials for N2O emissions. We conclude that both warming and drought affected the denitrifying communities and the potential denitrification in grassland soils. However, these effects are overruled by regional and site-specific differences in soil chemical and physical properties which are also related to grassland land-use intensity.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "UFSP13-8 Global Change and Biodiversity", "Climate Change", "Microbial Consortia", "580 Plants (Botany)", "Nitric Oxide", "142-005 142-005", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "potential N2O emissions", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "2402 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology", "use index", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Biodiversity Exploratories", "denitrification", "Bacteria", "2404 Microbiology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "6. 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Economic growth", "Denitrification", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grassland", "microbial community", "2303 Ecology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiv066"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/femsec/fiv066", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/femsec/fiv066", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/femsec/fiv066"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ejss.13051", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-02", "title": "Soil multifunctionality: Synergies and trade\u2010offs across European climatic zones and land uses", "description": "Abstract<p>With increasing societal demands for food security and environmental sustainability on land, the question arises: to what extent do synergies and trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs exist between soil functions and how can they be measured across Europe? To address this challenge, we followed the functional land management approach and assessed five soil functions: primary productivity, water regulation and purification, climate regulation, soil biodiversity and nutrient cycling. Soil, management and climate data were collected from 94 sites covering 13 countries, five climatic zones and two land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use types (arable and grassland). This dataset was analysed using the Soil Navigator, a multicriteria decision support system developed to assess the supply of the five soil functions simultaneously. Most sites scored high for two to three soil functions, demonstrating that managing for multifunctionality in soil is possible but that local constraints and trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs do exist. Nutrient cycling, biodiversity and climate regulation were less frequently delivered at high capacity than the other two soil functions. Using correlation and co\uffe2\uff80\uff90occurrence analyses, we also found that synergies and trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs between soil functions vary among climatic zones and land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use types. This study provides a new framework for monitoring soil quality at the European scale where both the supply of soil functions and their interactions are considered.</p>Highlights<p> <p>Managing and monitoring soil multifunctionality across Europe is possible.</p> <p>Synergies and trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs between soil functions exist, making it difficult to maximize the supply of all five soil functions simultaneously.</p> <p>Synergies and trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs between soil functions vary by climatic zone and land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use type.</p> <p>Climate regulation, biodiversity and nutrient cycling are less frequently delivered at high capacity.</p> </p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "synergies", "trade\u2010offs", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "soil multifunctionality", "6. Clean water", "monitoring", "trade-offs", "arable land", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "grassland", "arable land; climate; grassland; monitoring; soil multifunctionality; synergies; trade\u2010offs", "climate"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13051"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/ejss.13051", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/ejss.13051", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/ejss.13051"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-10-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ele.12634", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-06-25", "title": "Impacts Of Warming And Elevated Co2on A Semi-Arid Grassland Are Non-Additive, Shift With Precipitation, And Reverse Over Time", "description": "Abstract<p>It is unclear how elevated CO2 (eCO2) and the corresponding shifts in temperature and precipitation will interact to impact ecosystems over time. During a 7\uffe2\uff80\uff90year experiment in a semi\uffe2\uff80\uff90arid grassland, the response of plant biomass to eCO2 and warming was largely regulated by interannual precipitation, while the response of plant community composition was more sensitive to experiment duration. The combined effects of eCO2 and warming on aboveground plant biomass were less positive in \uffe2\uff80\uff98wet\uffe2\uff80\uff99 growing seasons, but total plant biomass was consistently stimulated by ~\uffc2\uffa025% due to unique, supra\uffe2\uff80\uff90additive responses of roots. Independent of precipitation, the combined effects of eCO2 and warming on C3 graminoids became increasingly positive and supra\uffe2\uff80\uff90additive over time, reversing an initial shift toward C4 grasses. Soil resources also responded dynamically and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90additively to eCO2 and warming, shaping the plant responses. Our results suggest grasslands are poised for drastic changes in function and highlight the need for long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term, factorial experiments.</p>", "keywords": ["forb", "0106 biological sciences", "Time Factors", "Climate Change", "Rain", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Bouteloua gracilis", "climatic changes", "C3 grass", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "plant productivity", "soils", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "Artemisia frigida", "grasslands", "500", "carbon dioxide", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "C4 grass", "root biomass", "climate change", "13. Climate action", "soil moisture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12634"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/ele.12634", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/ele.12634", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/ele.12634"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-06-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10115/27941", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:24:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-21", "title": "Evidence of functional species sorting by rainfall and biotic interactions: A community monolith experimental approach", "description": "Abstract<p>   <p>Understanding the mechanisms that underlie species assembly is a central concern in community ecology. Abiotic and biotic filters are probabilistic \uffe2\uff80\uff98sieves\uffe2\uff80\uff99 that allow species with certain functional traits to become a part of the community, or not. We manipulated natural plant assemblies in order to identify variations in the timings of biotic and abiotic filters that determine community trait assemblies.</p>  <p>We extracted soil portions when the investigated annual plant community was in its seed phase (\uffe2\uff80\uff98community monolith\uffe2\uff80\uff99), thereby maintaining the structure and similar soil characteristics to the field conditions. Community monoliths were subjected to experimental manipulation in terms of the rainfall timing and amount, and perturbations of the biological soil crust (BSC; intact vs. perturbed). We surveyed the experimental community assembly over time based on the functional diversity by considering important functional traits in different life stages.</p>  <p>We found that autumn droughts acted as abiotic filters by favouring the germination and establishment of species with greater investment in the root biomass. Under severe droughts (66% water reduction), the experimental assemblies were dominated by species with functional traits adapted to water shortage conditions: high leaf dry matter content, low specific leaf area, small individual size, low reproductive ratio and high root:shoot ratio. We identified two roles of BSCs in annual plant species assemblies: (a) as a biotic filter that limited the establishment of species based on seed size, and (b) as a buffer against water stress conditions by reducing soil evapotranspiration.</p>  <p>Synthesis. We demonstrated the importance of the timing and amount of rainfall for shaping annual plant communities, and identified germination filters as the main process that determined community assemblies. Our results suggest that the phenotypic integration of functional traits facilitates resistance to drought during the life cycle. The BSC\uffe2\uff80\uff93annual plant relationship shifted from negative, by acting as a germination filter, to positive, by acting as a buffer in later stages. Climatic fluctuations and fine scale biotic determinants of spatial heterogeneity emerged as sources of changes in the community assembly in time and space to possibly promote species coexistence and trait differences among the communities studied.</p>  </p", "keywords": ["Annual plants", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Drought", "Biotic and abiotic filters", "Community assembly", "Biological soil crusts", "drought", "Functional diversity", "15. Life on land", "functional diversity", "Mediterranean grassland", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "biological soil crust", "gypsum soil", "annual plant", "13. Climate action", "community assembly", "precipitation seasonality", "Coexistence"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.13210"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10115/27941"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10115/27941", "name": "item", "description": "10115/27941", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10115/27941"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1098/rspb.2023.1345", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-11-15", "title": "Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs", "description": "<p>             There is widespread concern that cessation of grazing in historically grazed ecosystems is causing biotic homogenization and biodiversity loss. We used 12 montane grassland sites along an 800 km north\uffe2\uff80\uff93south gradient across the UK, to test whether cessation of grazing affects local             \uffce\uffb1             - and             \uffce\uffb2             -diversity of below-ground food webs. We show cessation of grazing leads to strongly decreased             \uffce\uffb1             -diversity of most groups of soil microbes and fauna, particularly of relatively rare taxa. By contrast, the             \uffce\uffb2             -diversity varied between groups of soil organisms. While most soil microbial communities exhibited increased homogenization after cessation of grazing, we observed decreased homogenization for soil fauna after cessation of grazing. Overall, our results indicate that exclusion of domesticated herbivores from historically grazed montane grasslands has far-ranging negative consequences for diversity of below-ground food webs. This underscores the importance of grazers for maintaining the diversity of below-ground communities, which play a central role in ecosystem functioning.           </p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Global Change and Conservation", "Food Chain", "soil communities", "Microbiota", "land abandonment", "500", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "biotic homogenization", "long-term experiments", "Soil", "soil microbes", "\u03b1-diversity", "Life Science", "grazing", "soil fauna"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1345"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20Royal%20Society%20B%3A%20Biological%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1098/rspb.2023.1345", "name": "item", "description": "10.1098/rspb.2023.1345", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1098/rspb.2023.1345"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-10-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/avsc.12107", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-05-02", "title": "Scale-Dependent Effects Of Grazing And Topographic Heterogeneity On Plant Species Richness In A Dutch Salt Marsh Ecosystem", "description": "AbstractQuestion<p>For over three decades, low\uffe2\uff80\uff90intensity grazing has been used to maintain or increase plant species richness in European natural areas, but the effects are highly variable. Thus far, good predictors of whether grazing will have positive effects on plant species richness are limited. How does the interplay between low\uffe2\uff80\uff90intensity grazing and topographic heterogeneity affect plant species richness at different spatial scales?</p>Location<p>Long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term grazed and ungrazed salt marshes of the Dutch Wadden Sea island of Schiermonnikoog.</p>Methods<p>We selected ten plots of 2200\uffc2\uffa0m2 in grazed and ungrazed areas of our study sites, and recorded and compared plant species richness in 0.1, 1, 10, 100 and 1000\uffc2\uffa0m2 subplots. Topographic heterogeneity was quantified at the plot scale using the standard deviation of the elevation derived from a high\uffe2\uff80\uff90resolution (5\uffc2\uffa0m\uffc2\uffa0\uffc3\uff97\uffc2\uffa05\uffc2\uffa0m) digital elevation model. We calculated species\uffe2\uff80\uff93area relationships to analyse our data.</p>Results<p>We found that large\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale topographic heterogeneity (based on the whole plot of 2200\uffc2\uffa0m2) positively affects plant species richness at all scales (even at the smallest 0.1\uffe2\uff80\uff90m2 scale), and that grazing has a positive additive effect at the small scales (0.1 and 10\uffc2\uffa0m2). While grazing also had a positive effect on species richness at larger scales (1000\uffc2\uffa0m2), the strength of the effect was dependent on the topographic heterogeneity at that scale. The effectiveness of grazing for increased plant species richness was highest at low topographic heterogeneity, and lowest at intermediate topographic heterogeneity. Effects of intermediate heterogeneity were probably counterbalanced by the effects of grazing.</p>Conclusions<p>Our results suggest that the variation in elevation is an important predictor of whether low\uffe2\uff80\uff90intensity grazing has positive effects on plant species richness or not. Grazing appears most beneficial at low topographic heterogeneity, but whether these findings hold for other grazed ecosystems will depend on several factors, most importantly, the relationship between topographic and abiotic heterogeneity. Results of our study are highly relevant for the application of low\uffe2\uff80\uff90intensity grazing as tool for conservation management in salt marshes and other natural areas.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Topography", "Livestock", "IMPACT", "Vascular plants", "Spatial scale", "DIVERSITY", "Nature management", "Biodiversity", "Conservation", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "SOIL", "Grazing lawns", "HERBIVORES", "BIODIVERSITY", "Herbivory", "VEGETATION", "14. Life underwater", "Plant-herbivore interactions", "GRASSLANDS", "RESTORATION", "RESPONSES", "ENVIRONMENTS"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12107"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Vegetation%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/avsc.12107", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/avsc.12107", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/avsc.12107"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-05-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.12323", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-12", "title": "Multi-Nutrient Vs. Nitrogen-Only Effects On Carbon Sequestration In Grassland Soils", "description": "Abstract<p>Human activities have greatly increased the availability of biologically active forms of nutrients [e.g., nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg)] in many soil ecosystems worldwide. Multi\uffe2\uff80\uff90nutrient fertilization strongly increases plant productivity but may also alter the storage of carbon (C) in soil, which represents the largest terrestrial pool of organic C. Despite this issue is important from a global change perspective, key questions remain on how the single addition of N or the combination of N with other nutrients might affect C sequestration in human\uffe2\uff80\uff90managed soils. Here, we use a 19\uffe2\uff80\uff90year old nutrient addition experiment on a permanent grassland to test for nutrient\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced effects on soil C sequestration. We show that combined NPKMg additions to permanent grassland have \uffe2\uff80\uff98constrained\uffe2\uff80\uff99 soil C sequestration to levels similar to unfertilized plots whereas the single addition of N significantly enhanced soil C stocks (N\uffe2\uff80\uff90only fertilized soils store, on average, 11\uffc2\uffa0t C\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 more than unfertilized soils). These results were consistent across grazing and liming treatments suggesting that whilst multi\uffe2\uff80\uff90nutrient additions increase plant productivity, soil C sequestration is increased by N\uffe2\uff80\uff90only additions. The positive N\uffe2\uff80\uff90only effect on soil C content was not related to changes in plant species diversity or to the functional composition of the plant community. N\uffe2\uff80\uff90only fertilized grasslands show, however, increases in total root mass and the accumulation of organic matter detritus in topsoils. Finally, soils receiving any N addition (N only or N in combination with other nutrients) were associated with high N losses. Overall, our results demonstrate that nutrient fertilization remains an important global change driver of ecosystem functioning, which can strongly affect the long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term sustainability of grassland soil ecosystems (e.g., soils ability to deliver multiple ecosystem services).</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Sequestration", "root mass", "Nitrogen", "grasslands", "nitrogen losses", "Phosphorus", "nitrogen fertilization", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "England", "nutrient addition", "13. Climate action", "Potassium", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "plant productivity", "ecosystem services", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12323"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.12323", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.12323", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.12323"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-10-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2745.12593", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-04-22", "title": "Drought History Affects Grassland Plant And Microbial Carbon Turnover During And After A Subsequent Drought Event", "description": "Summary<p>   <p>Drought periods are projected to become more severe and more frequent in many European regions. While effects of single strong droughts on plant and microbial carbon (C) dynamics have been studied in some detail, impacts of recurrent drought events are still little understood.</p>  <p>We tested whether the legacy of extreme experimental drought affects responses of plant and microbial C and nitrogen (N) turnover to further drought and rewetting. In a mountain grassland, we conducted a 13C pulse\uffe2\uff80\uff90chase experiment during a naturally occurring drought and rewetting event in plots previously exposed to experimental droughts and in ambient controls (AC). After labelling, we traced 13C below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground allocation and incorporation into soil microbes using phospholipid fatty acid biomarkers.</p>  <p>Drought history (DH) had no effects on the standing shoot and fine root plant biomass. However, plants with experimental DH displayed decreased shoot N concentrations and increased fine root N concentrations relative to those in AC. During the natural drought, plants with DH assimilated and allocated less 13C below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground; moreover, fine root respiration was reduced and not fuelled by fresh C compared to plants in AC.</p>  <p>Regardless of DH, microbial biomass remained stable during natural drought and rewetting. Although microbial communities initially differed in their composition between soils with and without DH, they responded to the natural drought and rewetting in a similar way: gram\uffe2\uff80\uff90positive bacteria increased, while fungal and gram\uffe2\uff80\uff90negative bacteria remained stable. In soils with DH, a strongly reduced uptake of recent plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived 13C in microbial biomarkers was observed during the natural drought, pointing to a smaller fraction of active microbes or to a microbial community that is less dependent on plant C.</p>  <p>Synthesis. Drought history can induce changes in above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 vs. below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground plant N concentrations and affect the response of plant C turnover to further droughts and rewetting by decreasing plant C uptake and below\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground allocation. DH does not affect the responses of the microbial community to further droughts and rewetting, but alters microbial functioning, particularly the turnover of recent plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived carbon, during and after further drought periods.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "plant-soil (below-ground) interactions", "NITROGEN TURNOVER", "Biomass Allocation", "microbial community composition", "Negibacteria", "drought", "phospholipid fatty acid", "nitrogen", "Microbial community composition", "Plant\u2013Soil (Below\u2010ground) Interactions", "Recovery", "ROOT RESPIRATION", "Plant-soil (below-ground) interactions", "CLIMATE EXTREMES", "C pulse labelling", "Below-ground carbon allocation", "2. Zero hunger", "106022 Mikrobiologie", "0303 health sciences", "SOIL INTERACTIONS", "below-ground carbon allocation", "C-13 pulse labelling", "Grassland", "6. Clean water", "Europe", "Phospholipid", "ORGANIC-MATTER", "Mountain Region", "Posibacteria", "DIOXIDE PULSES", "Phospholipid fatty acid", "106022 Microbiology", "Root/shoot Ratio", "Belowground Biomass", "Ecosystem Resilience", "Nitrogen", "Microbial Community", "Carbon Isotope", "Soil-vegetation Interaction", "recovery", "SUMMER DROUGHT", "03 medical and health sciences", "Rewetting", "Community Composition", "plant\u2013soil (below-ground) interactions", "WATER-STRESS", "resilience", "Drought", "Resilience", "RESILIENCE", "15. Life on land", "Turnover", "Microbial Activity", "13. Climate action", "Fatty Acid", "RESPONSES"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12593"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1365-2745.12593", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1365-2745.12593", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1365-2745.12593"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-05-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.12418", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-12", "title": "Soil Microbial And Nutrient Responses To 7years Of Seasonally Altered Precipitation In A Chihuahuan Desert Grassland", "description": "Abstract<p>Soil microbial communities in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands generally experience highly variable spatiotemporal rainfall patterns. Changes in precipitation regimes can affect belowground ecosystem processes such as decomposition and nutrient cycling by altering soil microbial community structure and function. The objective of this study was to determine if increased seasonal precipitation frequency and magnitude over a 7\uffe2\uff80\uff90year period would generate a persistent shift in microbial community characteristics and soil nutrient availability. We supplemented natural rainfall with large events (one/winter and three/summer) to simulate increased precipitation based on climate model predictions for this region. We observed a 2\uffe2\uff80\uff90year delay in microbial responses to supplemental precipitation treatments. In years 3\uffe2\uff80\uff935, higher microbial biomass, arbuscular mycorrhizae abundance, and soil enzyme C and P acquisition activities were observed in the supplemental water plots even during extended drought periods. In years 5\uffe2\uff80\uff937, available soil P was consistently lower in the watered plots compared to control plots. Shifts in soil P corresponded to higher fungal abundances, microbial C utilization activity, and soilpH. This study demonstrated that 25% shifts in seasonal rainfall can significantly influence soil microbial and nutrient properties, which in turn may have long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term effects on nutrient cycling and plant P uptake in this desert grassland.</p>", "keywords": ["precipitation manipulation", "Climate Change", "Rain", "extreme climate events", "Soil", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Big Bend National Park", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Bacteria", "Microbiota", "Fungi", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Texas", "6. Clean water", "desert ecosystems", "13. Climate action", "soil microbial communities", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "Desert Climate", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt4v79d7f4/qt4v79d7f4.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12418"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.12418", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.12418", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.12418"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-04-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2664.13667", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-16", "title": "Plant community flood resilience in intensively managed grasslands and the role of the plant economic spectrum", "description": "Abstract<p>   <p>The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, such as floods, requires management strategies that promote resilience of grassland productivity. Mixtures of plant species may better resist and recover from flooding than monocultures, as they could combine species with stress\uffe2\uff80\uff90coping and resource acquisition traits. This has not yet been tested in intensively managed grasslands despite its relevance for enhancing agroecosystem resilience.</p>  <p>Using intact soil cores from an 18\uffe2\uff80\uff90month\uffe2\uff80\uff90old field experiment, we tested how 11 plant communities (Festuca arundinacea, Lolium perenne, Poa trivialis and Trifolium repens in monoculture, two\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and four\uffe2\uff80\uff90species mixtures) resist and recover from repeated flooding in a 4\uffe2\uff80\uff90month greenhouse experiment.</p>  <p>We found that plant community composition, not whether the community was a mixture or monoculture, influenced the community's resistance to flooding, although most communities were able to resist and recover from both floods.</p>  <p>The plant community's position on the leaf economic spectrum in flooded conditions was related to its resistance to and recovery from flooding. Resistance to and recovery from a severe flood were related to flood\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced intraspecific trait variation, causing a shift in the community's position on the leaf resource economic spectrum. In flooded conditions, resource\uffe2\uff80\uff90conservative communities (characterized by low specific leaf area, low leaf nitrogen content and high leaf dry matter content) better resisted and recovered from flooding. The community's position on the root resource economic spectrum was less connected to the community's resistance and recovery.</p>  <p>Synthesis and applications. Our study shows that in flooded conditions, resource\uffe2\uff80\uff90conservative plant communities are more resilient to flooding than resource\uffe2\uff80\uff90acquisitive communities in an intensively managed grassland. This suggests that plant community position on the leaf economic spectrum, as well as species\uffe2\uff80\uff99 flood\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced intraspecific variation, should be considered when designing grasslands to withstand increasing flood frequency and severity.</p>  </p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "plant community", "national", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "resistance", "recovery", "flooding", "plant traits", "13. Climate action", "extreme weather event", "resource economic spectrum", "grassland", "SDG 2 - Zero Hunger", "Plan_S-Compliant_TA"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13667"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Applied%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1365-2664.13667", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1365-2664.13667", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1365-2664.13667"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2664.13839", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-01-19", "title": "Effects of microplastics and drought on soil ecosystem functions and multifunctionality", "description": "Abstract<p>   <p>Microplastics in soils have become an important threat for terrestrial systems as they may potentially alter the geochemical/biophysical soil environment and can interact with drought. As microplastics may affect soil water content, this could exacerbate the well\uffe2\uff80\uff90known negative effects of drought on ecosystem functionality. Thus, functions including litter decomposition, soil aggregation or those related with nutrient cycling can be altered. Despite this potential interaction, we know relatively little about how microplastics, under different soil water conditions, affect ecosystem functions and multifunctionality.</p>  <p>To address this gap, we performed an experiment using grassland plant communities growing in microcosms. Microplastic fibres (absent, present) and soil water conditions (well\uffe2\uff80\uff90watered, drought) were applied in a fully factorial design. At harvest, we measured soil ecosystem functions related to nutrient cycling (\uffce\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff90glucosaminidase, \uffce\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff90D\uffe2\uff80\uff90cellobiosidase, phosphatase, \uffce\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff90glucosidase enzymes), respiration, nutrient retention, pH, litter decomposition and soil aggregation (water stable aggregates). As terrestrial systems provide these functions simultaneously, we also assessed ecosystem multifunctionality, an index that encompasses the array of ecosystem functions measured here.</p>  <p>We found that the interaction between microplastic fibres and drought affected ecosystem functions and multifunctionality. Drought had negatively affected nutrient cycling by decreasing enzymatic activities by up to ~39%, while microplastics increased soil aggregation by ~18%, soil pH by ~4% and nutrient retention by up to ~70% by diminishing nutrient leaching. Microplastic fibres also impacted soil enzymes, respiration and ecosystem multifunctionality, but importantly, the direction of these effects depended on soil water status. That is, under well\uffe2\uff80\uff90watered conditions, these functions decreased with microplastic fibres by up to ~34% while under drought they had similar values irrespective of the microplastic presence, or tended to increase with microplastics. Litter decomposition had a contrary pattern increasing with microplastics by ~6% under well\uffe2\uff80\uff90watered conditions while decreasing to a similar percentage under drought.</p>  <p>Synthesis and applications. Single ecosystem functions can be positively or negatively affected by microplastics fibres depending on soil water status. However, our results suggest that microplastic fibres may cause negative effects on ecosystem soil multifunctionality of a similar magnitude as drought. Thus, strategies to counteract this new global change factor are necessary.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "ddc:630", "nutrient cycling", "litter decomposition", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "soil respiration", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "soil aggregation", "soil pH", "grasslands ecosystem", "13. Climate action", "nutrient leaching", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "ddc:570", "Institut f\u00fcr Biochemie und Biologie", "enzymatic activities", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2664.13839"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13839"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Applied%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1365-2664.13839", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1365-2664.13839", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1365-2664.13839"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2745.13210", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-21", "title": "Evidence of functional species sorting by rainfall and biotic interactions: A community monolith experimental approach", "description": "Abstract<p>   <p>Understanding the mechanisms that underlie species assembly is a central concern in community ecology. Abiotic and biotic filters are probabilistic \uffe2\uff80\uff98sieves\uffe2\uff80\uff99 that allow species with certain functional traits to become a part of the community, or not. We manipulated natural plant assemblies in order to identify variations in the timings of biotic and abiotic filters that determine community trait assemblies.</p>  <p>We extracted soil portions when the investigated annual plant community was in its seed phase (\uffe2\uff80\uff98community monolith\uffe2\uff80\uff99), thereby maintaining the structure and similar soil characteristics to the field conditions. Community monoliths were subjected to experimental manipulation in terms of the rainfall timing and amount, and perturbations of the biological soil crust (BSC; intact vs. perturbed). We surveyed the experimental community assembly over time based on the functional diversity by considering important functional traits in different life stages.</p>  <p>We found that autumn droughts acted as abiotic filters by favouring the germination and establishment of species with greater investment in the root biomass. Under severe droughts (66% water reduction), the experimental assemblies were dominated by species with functional traits adapted to water shortage conditions: high leaf dry matter content, low specific leaf area, small individual size, low reproductive ratio and high root:shoot ratio. We identified two roles of BSCs in annual plant species assemblies: (a) as a biotic filter that limited the establishment of species based on seed size, and (b) as a buffer against water stress conditions by reducing soil evapotranspiration.</p>  <p>Synthesis. We demonstrated the importance of the timing and amount of rainfall for shaping annual plant communities, and identified germination filters as the main process that determined community assemblies. Our results suggest that the phenotypic integration of functional traits facilitates resistance to drought during the life cycle. The BSC\uffe2\uff80\uff93annual plant relationship shifted from negative, by acting as a germination filter, to positive, by acting as a buffer in later stages. Climatic fluctuations and fine scale biotic determinants of spatial heterogeneity emerged as sources of changes in the community assembly in time and space to possibly promote species coexistence and trait differences among the communities studied.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["Annual plants", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Drought", "Biotic and abiotic filters", "Community assembly", "annual plant", " biological soil crust", " biotic and abiotic filters", " coexistence", " community assembly", " drought", " functional diversity", " Mediterranean grassland", "Biological soil crusts", "drought", "Functional diversity", "15. Life on land", "functional diversity", "Mediterranean grassland", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "biological soil crust", "gypsum soil", "annual plant", "13. Climate action", "community assembly", "precipitation seasonality", "Coexistence"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.13210"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13210"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1365-2745.13210", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1365-2745.13210", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1365-2745.13210"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2745.14136", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-06-08", "title": "Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities", "description": "Abstract<p>   <p>Grasslands face more frequent and extreme droughts; yet, their responses to increasing drought intensity are poorly understood. Increasing drought intensity likely triggers abrupt shifts (thresholds) in grassland ecosystem functioning which can implicate recovery trajectories.</p>  <p>Here, we determined how drought intensity affects plant productivity, and plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. We exposed model grassland plant communities with contrasting resource acquisition strategies (a fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90 vs a slow\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy plant community), to a gradient of drought intensity. The drought gradient ranged from well\uffe2\uff80\uff90watered to severely water\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited conditions. We identified thresholds of plant community productivity (above\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground biomass) at peak drought and 2\uffe2\uff80\uff89months after re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, and measured net ecosystem exchange and ecosystem respiration of C\uffc2\uffa0throughout the drought and recovery phases. At peak drought and 1\uffe2\uff80\uff89week after re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, we traced recently acquired C from plants to the soil and into microbial biomass and fatty acids using 13C pulse labelling, and measured plant and soil N.</p>  <p>At peak drought, slow\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy plant communities were more drought resistant than fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy communities, as the threshold in plant productivity occurred at a higher drought intensity for the slow\uffe2\uff80\uff90 than the fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy community. Shortly after re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, microbial uptake of recent plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90assimilated C increased with increasing past drought intensity, coinciding with an increase in soil N availability and leaf N. Threshold responses to drought intensity at peak drought translated into non\uffe2\uff80\uff90linear recovery responses, with greater compensatory growth in the fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy community. At peak drought, increasing drought intensity reduced C uptake and increased relative C partitioning to leaves and microbial biomass. Upon re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, plant community strategy mediated drought intensity effects on plant and soil C and N dynamics and plant recovery trajectories. The fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy community recovered quickly, with higher leaf N than the slow community, while the slow community increased C allocation to microbial biomass.</p>  <p>Synthesis. Our findings highlight that C and N dynamics in the plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil system display non\uffe2\uff80\uff90linear responses to increasing drought intensity both during and after drought, which has implications for plant community recovery trajectories.</p>  </p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "BACTERIAL", "EXTRACTION", "CHALLENGES", "STRATEGIES", "drought resistance", "grasslands", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "MEDITERRANEAN RANGELAND", "SOIL", "RECENTLY PHOTOSYNTHESIZED CARBON", "THRESHOLDS", "drought intensity gradient", "FUNCTIONAL TRAITS", "13. Climate action", "carbon allocation", "drought recovery", "ECONOMICS SPECTRUM", "resource acquisition strategy", "13C pulse labelling"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.14136"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14136"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1365-2745.14136", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1365-2745.14136", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1365-2745.14136"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1574-6941.12384", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-21", "title": "Impact Of Long-Term N, P, K, And Npk Fertilization On The Composition And Potential Functions Of The Bacterial Community In Grassland Soil", "description": "Soil abiotic and biotic interactions govern important ecosystem processes. However, the mechanisms behind these interactions are complex, and the links between specific environmental factors, microbial community structures, and functions are not well understood. Here, we applied DNA shotgun metagenomic techniques to investigate the effect of inorganic fertilizers N, P, K, and NPK on the bacterial community composition and potential functions in grassland soils in a 54-year experiment. Differences in total and available nutrients were found in the treatment soils; interestingly, Al, As, Mg, and Mn contents were variable in N, P, K, and NPK treatments. Bacterial community compositions shifted and Actinobacteria were overrepresented under the four fertilization treatments compared to the control. Redundancy analysis of the soil parameters and the bacterial community profiles showed that Mg, total N, Cd, and Al were linked to community variation. Using correlation analysis, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Verrucomicrobia were linked similarly to soil parameters, and Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria were linked separately to different suites of parameters. Surprisingly, we found no fertilizers effect on microbial functional profiles which supports functional redundancy as a mechanism for stabilization of functions during changes in microbial composition. We suggest that functional profiles are more resistant to environmental changes than community compositions in the grassland ecosystem.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "sandy loam", "Nitrogen", "verrucomicrobia", "microbial communities", "nitrogen", "diversity", "Phosphates", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Fertilizers", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "metagenomics", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "national", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "13. Climate action", "genome size", "ammonia-oxidizing bacteria", "Potassium", "Metagenomics", "ecosystems", "management"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12384"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1574-6941.12384", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1574-6941.12384", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1574-6941.12384"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-08-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01597.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-03-27", "title": "Warming And Elevated Co2affect The Relationship Between Seed Mass, Germinability And Seedling Growth In Austrodanthonia Caespitosa, A Dominant Australian Grass", "description": "Abstract<p>While the influence of elevated CO2 on the production, mass and quality of plant seeds has been well studied, the effect of warming on these characters is largely unknown; and there is practically no information on possible interactions between warming and elevated CO2, despite the importance of these characters in population maintenance and recovery. Here, we present the impacts of elevated CO2 and warming, both in isolation and combination, on seed production, mass, quality, germination success and subsequent seedling growth of Austrodanthonia caespitosa, a dominant temperate C3 grass from Australia, using seeds collected from the TasFACE experiment. Mean seed production and mass were not significantly affected by either elevated CO2 or warming, but elevated CO2 more than doubled the proportion of very light, inviable seeds (P &lt; 0.05) and halved mean seed N concentration (P &lt; 0.04) and N content (P &lt; 0.03). The dependence of seed germination success on seed mass was affected by an elevated CO2\uffc3\uff97 warming interaction (P &lt; 0.004), such that maternal exposure to elevated CO2 or warming reduced germination if applied in isolation, but not when applied in combination. Maternal effects were retained when seedlings were grown in a common environment for 6 weeks, with seedlings descended from warmed plants 20% smaller (P &lt; 0.008) with a higher root\uffe2\uff80\uff83:\uffe2\uff80\uff83shoot ratio (P &lt; 0.001) than those from unwarmed plants. Given that both elevated CO2 and warming reduced seed mass, quality, germinability or seedling growth, it is likely that global change will reduce population growth or distribution of this dominant species.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "germination", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "grasslands", "carbon dioxide", "seeds", "15. Life on land", "global warming", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01597.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01597.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01597.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01597.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-03-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.12940", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-04-04", "title": "Plant Community Structure Regulates Responses Of Prairie Soil Respiration To Decadal Experimental Warming", "description": "Abstract<p>Soil respiration is recognized to be influenced by temperature, moisture, and ecosystem production. However, little is known about how plant community structure regulates responses of soil respiration to climate change. Here, we used a 13\uffe2\uff80\uff90year field warming experiment to explore the mechanisms underlying plant community regulation on feedbacks of soil respiration to climate change in a tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma, USA. Infrared heaters were used to elevate temperature about 2\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb0C since November 1999. Annual clipping was used to mimic hay harvest. Our results showed that experimental warming significantly increased soil respiration approximately from 10% in the first 7\uffc2\uffa0years (2000\uffe2\uff80\uff932006) to 30% in the next 6\uffc2\uffa0years (2007\uffe2\uff80\uff932012). The two\uffe2\uff80\uff90stage warming stimulation of soil respiration was closely related to warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increases in ecosystem production over the years. Moreover, we found that across the 13\uffc2\uffa0years, warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increases in soil respiration were positively affected by the proportion of aboveground net primary production (ANPP) contributed by C3 forbs. Functional composition of the plant community regulated warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increases in soil respiration through the quantity and quality of organic matter inputs to soil and the amount of photosynthetic carbon (C) allocated belowground. Clipping, the interaction of clipping with warming, and warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced changes in soil temperature and moisture all had little effect on soil respiration over the years (all P\uffc2\uffa0&gt;\uffc2\uffa00.05). Our results suggest that climate warming may drive an increase in soil respiration through altering composition of plant communities in grassland ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Climate Change", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Oklahoma", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Global Warming", "Grassland"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12940"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.12940", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.12940", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.12940"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.13111", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-01T16:18:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-10-01", "title": "Shifting Grassland Plant Community Structure Drives Positive Interactive Effects Of Warming And Diversity On Aboveground Net Primary Productivity", "description": "Abstract<p>Ecosystems worldwide are increasingly impacted by multiple drivers of environmental change, including climate warming and loss of biodiversity. We show, using a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term factorial experiment, that plant diversity loss alters the effects of warming on productivity. Aboveground primary productivity was increased by both high plant diversity and warming, and, in concert, warming (\uffe2\uff89\uff881.5\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb0C average above and belowground warming over the growing season) and diversity caused a greater than additive increase in aboveground productivity. The aboveground warming effects increased over time, particularly at higher levels of diversity, perhaps because of warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increases in legume and C4 bunch grass abundances, and facilitative feedbacks of these species on productivity. Moreover, higher plant diversity was associated with the amelioration of warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced environmental conditions. This led to cooler temperatures, decreased vapor pressure deficit, and increased surface soil moisture in higher diversity communities. Root biomass (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm) was likewise consistently greater at higher plant diversity and was greater with warming in monocultures and at intermediate diversity, but at high diversity warming had no detectable effect. This may be because warming increased the abundance of legumes, which have lower root\uffc2\uffa0:\uffc2\uffa0shoot ratios than the other types of plants. In addition, legumes increase soil nitrogen (N) supply, which could make N less limiting to other species and potentially decrease their investment in roots. The negative warming\uffc2\uffa0\uffc3\uff97\uffc2\uffa0diversity interaction on root mass led to an overall negative interactive effect of these two global change factors on the sum of above and belowground biomass, and thus likely on total plant carbon stores. In total, plant diversity increased the effect of warming on aboveground net productivity and moderated the effect on root mass. These divergent effects suggest that warming and changes in plant diversity are likely to have both interactive and divergent impacts on various aspects of ecosystem functioning.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Climate Change", "Water", "Fabaceae", "Biodiversity", "Plant Components", " Aerial", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Grassland", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "Biomass", "Seasons"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13111"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.13111", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.13111", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.13111"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-01-06T00:00:00Z"}}], "links": [{"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "This document as GeoJSON", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=Grassland&offset=50&f=json", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "title": "This document as HTML", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=Grassland&offset=50&f=html", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection URL", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"type": "application/geo+json", "rel": "prev", "title": "items (prev)", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=Grassland&offset=0", "hreflang": "en-US"}, {"rel": "next", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "items (next)", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items?keywords=Grassland&offset=100", "hreflang": "en-US"}], "numberMatched": 287, "numberReturned": 50, "distributedFeatures": [], "timeStamp": "2026-05-02T11:13:16.866698Z"}