Despite the global significance of the subsurface biosphere, the degree to which it depends on surface organic carbon (OC) is still poorly understood. Here, we compare stable and radiogenic carbon isotope compositions of microbial phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) with those of in situ potential microbial C sources to assess the major C sources for subsurface microorganisms in biogeochemical distinct shallow aquifers (Critical Zone Exploratory, Thuringia Germany). Despite the presence of younger OC, the microbes assimilated 14C\uffe2\uff80\uff90free OC to varying degrees; ~31% in groundwater within the oxic zone, ~47% in an iron reduction zone, and ~70% in a sulfate reduction/anammox zone. The persistence of trace amounts of mature and partially biodegraded hydrocarbons suggested that autochthonous petroleum\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived hydrocarbons were a potential 14C\uffe2\uff80\uff90free C source for heterotrophs in the oxic zone. In this zone, \uffce\uff9414C values of dissolved inorganic carbon (\uffe2\uff88\uff92366\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa018\uffe2\uff80\uffb0) and 11MeC16:0 (\uffe2\uff88\uff92283\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa032\uffe2\uff80\uffb0), an important component in autotrophic nitrite oxidizers, were similar enough to indicate that autotrophy is an important additional C fixation pathway. In anoxic zones, methane as an important C source was unlikely since the 13C\uffe2\uff80\uff90fractionations between the PLFAs and CH4 were inconsistent with kinetic isotope effects associated with methanotrophy. In the sulfate reduction/anammox zone, the strong 14C\uffe2\uff80\uff90depletion of 10MeC16:0 (\uffe2\uff88\uff92942\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa022\uffe2\uff80\uffb0), a PLFA common in sulfate reducers, indicated that those bacteria were likely to play a critical part in 14C\uffe2\uff80\uff90free sedimentary OC cycling. Results indicated that the 14C\uffe2\uff80\uff90content of microbial biomass in shallow sedimentary aquifers results from complex interactions between abundance and bioavailability of naturally occurring OC, hydrogeology, and specific microbial metabolisms.Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) exhibit outstanding gas barrier properties, which supports their use as a biobased and biodegradable barrier coating on flexible food packaging materials. As highly hydrophilic biopolymers, however, CNCs have a strong sensitivity to water that can be detrimental to applications with fresh foods and in moist conditions due to the loss of barrier properties. In this work, the oxygen and water vapor permeability of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films coated with CNCs obtained from cotton linters were measured at varying levels of relative humidity, both in adsorption and desorption, and from these data, the diffusion and solubility coefficients were estimated. Therefore, the characterization of CNCs was aimed at understanding the fundamentals of the water-CNCs interaction and proposing counteractions. The CNCs\uffe2\uff80\uff99 moisture absorption and desorption isotherms at 25 \uffc2\uffb0C were collected in the range of relative humidity 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9397% using different techniques and analyzed through GAB (Guggenheim-Anderson-de Boer) and Oswin models. The effects of moisture on the water status, following the freezable water index, and on the crystal structure of CNCs were investigated by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and by X-ray Powder Diffraction, respectively. These findings point to the opportunity of coupling CNCs with hydrophobic layers in order to boost their capabilities as barrier packaging materials.
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The paper summarizes the results of trials conducted at Tabora and Shinyanga in northwestern Tanzania on rotational woodlots, to evaluate tree species for wood production and yields of maize grown in association with and after harvest of trees. On acid sandy soils at Tabora, Acacia crassicarpa A. Cunn. ex Benth. grew fast and produced 24 to 77 Mg ha\u22121 of wood in four to five years. On alkaline Vertisols at Shinyanga, seven years old woodlots of Acacia polyacantha Willd. and Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) De Wit. produced 71 and 89 Mg ha\u22121 of wood, respectively. Intercropping of maize between trees was possible for two years without sacrificing its yield. The first maize crop following A. crassicarpa woodlots gave 29 to 113% greater yield than the crop after natural fallow. Acacia polyacantha and L. leucocephala woodlots also increased the subsequent maize yields over a three-year period. The increase in crop yields after woodlots was attributed partly to accumulation of greater amounts of inorganic N in the topsoil compared to the traditional fallow, and partly to other effects. Thus medium-term rotational woodlots are likely to contribute to meet the wood requirements of rural people and thereby help protect the natural woodlands in sub-Saharan Africa.", "keywords": ["fertility", "2. Zero hunger", "fallow", "malawi", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "system", "15. 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The CENTURY element dynamics simulation model was tested and adapted for Northern European agricultural conditions using long-term datasets from Askov experimental farm in southern Denmark. The part of the model dealing with decomposition was tested in isolation using a bare fallow experiment and it could predict soil organic matter levels with high accuracy. In the cropping experiments predictions were less accurate. The crop production was not accurately predicted. Predictions were more accurate on loamy than on sandy soils. The model was used to predict the effect of conversion to organic agriculture on carbon sequestration as soil organic matter. It predicted an increase in soil organic matter during the first 50 years of about 10\u201340 g C m\u22122 y\u22121, and a stable level after about 100 years. The use of grass-clovers in the rotation and as cover crops was particularly important for the increase in organic matter.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. 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Most soils of the West African savanna zones are so poor that the efficiency of mineral fertilizers, if applied, is very low. For this reason and because of their high cost and unavailability, many small-scale farmers are reluctant to apply fertilizer. This work investigates a fertilizer management strategy using integrated soil fertility management with a leguminous cover crop (mucuna) so as to improve the soil fertility and increase the use efficiency of fertilizer. The experiment was conducted in the coastal savanna of Togo at Djaka Kope. The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of mucuna short fallow (MSF) in increasing maize grain yield through an improved use efficiency of mineral fertilizer. A 2-year maize\u2013mucuna relay intercropping system was compared with continuous sole maize cropping. Fertilizer treatments were factorial combinations of 0, 50 and 100 kg nitrogen (N) ha\u20131 and 0, 20 and 40 kg phosphorus (P) ha\u20131. While maize grain yield was significantly increased by N fertilization, P did not show any important effect on grain yield. With no N and P applied, grain yield after MSF was on average 40% (572 kg ha\u20131) higher than without. The response to N was much greater than the response to MSF, indicating that N was undoubtedly the key element for maize yield building. P fertilization and MSF together positively influenced the apparent N recovery fraction (NRF). N uptake alone did not reflect on its own the yield obtained, and the relationship between grain yield and N uptake is shifted by MSF, with the grain yield increase per unit of N uptake being higher with than without MSF. Combining MSF and P fertilization may therefore lead to improved N use efficiency, making the application of fertilizer N (lower rates) more attractive to small-scale farmers.", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "0106 biological sciences", "2. 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We employ the RAMMS (RApid Mass Movement Simulation) debris flow and avalanche model to back-calculate initial and flow conditions of recent flows in three gullies in Hale crater. We infer minimum release depths of 1.0&#8211;1.5 m and initial release volumes of 100&#8211;200 m<sup>3</sup>. Entrainment leads to final flow volumes that are 2.5&#8211;5.5 times larger than initially released, and entrainment is found necessary to match the observed flow deposits. Simulated mean cross-channel flow velocities decrease from 3&#8211;4 m s<sup>-1</sup> to ~1 m s<sup>-1</sup> from release area to flow terminus, while flow depths generally decrease from 0.5&#8211;1 m to 0.1&#8211;0.2 m. The mean cross-channel erosion depth and deposition thicknesses are _0.1&#8211;0.3 m. Back-calculated dry-Coulomb friction ranges from 0.1 to 0.25 and viscous turbulent friction between 100&#8211;200 m s<sup>-2</sup>, which are values similar to those of granular debris flows on Earth. These results suggest that recent flows in gullies are fluidized to a similar degree as are granular debris flows on Earth. Using a novel model for mass-flow fluidization by CO<sub>2</sub> sublimation we are able to show that under Martian atmospheric conditions very small volumetric fractions of CO<sub>2</sub> of ~1% within mass flows may indeed yield sufficiently large gas fluxes to cause fluidization and enhance flow mobility.</p>
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However, little has been done to elucidate the possible contribution of soil microbiological factors to these rotation effects. Therefore a pot trial was conducted using legume rotation and continuous cereal soils each from one site in Burkina Faso and two sites in Togo where cropping system experiments had been conducted over 4 yrs. All soils were planted with seedlings of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench). From 21 days after sowing onwards relative growth rates in rotation soils were higher than in the continuous cereal soils, resulting in between 69 and 500% higher shoot dry matter of rotation sorghum compared to sorghum growing in continuous cereal soils. Across sites rotation soils were characterized by higher pH, higher microbial N and a lower microbial biomass C/N ratio and, with the exception of one site, a higher fungal biomass in the rhizosphere. The bacterial and eukaryal community structure in the soil, assessed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), differed between sites. However, only at one site differed the bacterial and the eukaryal community structure in the rotation soil significantly from that in the continuous cereal soil. Although the results of this study confirmed the marked plant-growth differences between sub-Saharan legume-rotation soils and their continuous cereal counterparts they also showed the difficulties to differentiate possible microbiological causes from their effects.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "microbial biomass", "microbial community structure", "nematodes", "500", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "AM fungi", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "DGGE", "15. 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Yet, the RWPT method has not yet been validated against \uffe2\uff80\uff90 and compared to \uffe2\uff80\uff90 currently used Eulerian solutions for simulating solute transport under a range of typical unsaturated conditions. This paper presents a new implementation of the RWPT approach for advective \uffe2\uff80\uff90 dispersive transport problems under variably saturated conditions. We first show that, as previously demonstrated for a heterogeneous dispersion tensor, using an interpolation scheme in the RWPT algorithm performs well for problems with abrupt changes in the water content. The new model is then compared against a simple 1D uniform transport problem, for which an analytical solution exist, and against a variety of 1D and 3D numerical solutions using the different Eulerian schemes implemented in Hydrus software suite. Results show that, while the Eulerian solutions significantly suffer from numerical dispersion in case of a coarse spatial discretization of the simulation domain, the new Lagrangian model provides accurate solutions for all problems. Furthermore, RWPT reproduces accurately solute transport for typical unsaturated flow conditions (infiltration, evaporation). Moreover, the Lagrangian model appears to be orders of magnitude faster than its Eulerian alternative to solve a 3D heterogeneous problem. Thus, RWPT should be seen as an attractive, stable and efficient alternative for simulating solute transport in the vadose zone, especially in case of complex and large problems.Ongoing permafrost thaw in the Arctic may remobilize large amounts of old organic matter. Upon transport to the Siberian shelf seas, this material may be degraded and released to the atmosphere, exported off\uffe2\uff80\uff90shelf, or buried in the sediments. While our understanding of the fate of permafrost\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived organic matter in shelf waters is improving, poor constraints remain regarding degradation in sediments. Here we use an extensive data set of organic carbon concentrations and isotopes (n\uffc2\uffa0=\uffc2\uffa0109) to inventory terrigenous organic carbon (terrOC) in surficial sediments of the Laptev and East Siberian Seas (LS\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0ESS). Of these ~2.7 Tg terrOC about 55% appear resistant to degradation on a millennial timescale. A first\uffe2\uff80\uff90order degradation rate constant of 1.5\uffc2\uffa0kyr\uffe2\uff88\uff921 is derived by combining a previously established relationship between water depth and cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90shelf sediment\uffe2\uff80\uff90terrOC transport time with mineral\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated terrOC loadings. This yields a terrOC degradation flux of ~1.7\uffc2\uffa0Gg/year from surficial sediments during cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90shelf transport, which is orders of magnitude lower than earlier estimates for degradation fluxes of dissolved and particulate terrOC in the water column of the LS\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0ESS. The difference is mainly due to the low degradation rate constant of sedimentary terrOC, likely caused by a combination of factors: (i) the lower availability of oxygen in the sediments compared to fully oxygenated waters, (ii) the stabilizing role of terrOC\uffe2\uff80\uff90mineral associations, and (iii) the higher proportion of material that is intrinsically recalcitrant due to its chemical/molecular structure in sediments. Sequestration of permafrost\uffe2\uff80\uff90released terrOC in shelf sediments may thereby attenuate the otherwise expected permafrost carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff90climate feedback.Methane fluxes were measured at five sites representing oligotrophic peatlands along a European transect. Five study plots were subjected to elevated CO2 concentration (560 ppm), and five plots to NH4NO3 (3 or 5 g N yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921). The CH4 emissions from the control plots correlated in most cases with the soil temperatures. The depth of the water table, the pH, and the DOC, N and SO4 concentrations were only weakly correlated with the CH4 emissions. The elevated CO2 treatment gave nonsignificantly higher CH4 emissions at three sites and lower at two sites. The N treatment resulted in higher methane emissions at three sites (nonsignificant). At one site, the CH4 fluxes of the N\uffe2\uff80\uff90treatment plots were significantly lower than those of the control plots. These results were not in agreement with our hypotheses, nor with the results obtained in some earlier studies. However, the results are consistent with the results of the vegetation analyses, which showed no significant treatment effects on species relationships or biomass production.
", "keywords": ["northern peatlands", "methane emissions", "atmospheric carbon-dioxide", "temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "forest soils", "nitrogen deposition", "boreal mire", "13. Climate action", "raised co2", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "bog vegetation", "water-table", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2002gb001886"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Biogeochemical%20Cycles", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2002gb001886", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2002gb001886", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2002gb001886"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2002gb001925", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-05-23", "title": "Effects Of Co2and Nutrient Availability On Mineral Weathering In Controlled Tree Growth Experiments", "description": "We sought to determine the effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 on mineral weathering reactions in midlatitude carbonate\uffe2\uff80\uff90bearing forest soils of differing nutrient availability. Increased plant growth and soil respiration under elevated atmospheric CO2 suggest increased rates of carbon cycling, which may affect mineral weathering. A randomized complete block experiment was conducted, where aspen and maple saplings were grown in open top chambers under two levels of atmospheric CO2 and soil N. Soil solution chemistry and soil gas PCO2 profiles beneath aspen were collected from planting (1997) to harvest (1999). Carbonate mineral weathering products (Ca2+, Mg2+, HCO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92) dominated solutions, which were saturated with respect to calcite. Soil PCO2 values at 25 cm depth were 41% higher in high N soils, but CO2 treatment was not significant. An ANOVA model tested treatment effects on spring 1998 solution chemistry. CO2 treatment had a significant effect on DIC, which was 12% higher in elevated than ambient CO2 chambers. Little effect of CO2 treatment was observed in low N soils. In high N soils, solutions had higher concentrations of carbonate weathering products (DIC, 15%; HCO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92, 27%; Ca2+, 3%, not significant; Mg2+, 5%, not significant). Soil N availability had a significant, positive, effect on mean concentrations of Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Na+, NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92, SO42\uffe2\uff88\uff92, and DOC. The soil N treatment difference in solutes may result from differences in PCO2 and, additionally, NO3\uffe2\uff88\uff92 from organic matter decomposition. Our results suggest that increased carbonate weathering may occur under increased atmospheric CO2 and in fertile soils.
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The radiocarbon signature (\uffce\uff9414C) of fatty acid methyl esters derived from microbial phospholipids (PLFA) provides useful information for differentiating microbial C sources and infering microbial metabolism. However, in subsurface environments, those analyses remain challenging. Here we present a method combining large volume groundwater filtration (up to 10,000\uffc2\uffa0L) and PLFA purification for subsequent compound\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific radiocarbon analyses. The analytical method involves conventional chemical extraction of PLFA followed by purification of individual compounds by semipreparative high\uffe2\uff80\uff90performance liquid chromatography. Different saturated PLFA in amounts of up to 10\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcg each can be simultaneously separated on a C18 high\uffe2\uff80\uff90load column using a mixture of MeOH/water and acetonitrile as the mobile phase. Our procedure introduced dead\uffe2\uff80\uff90Cext contaminations of 0.57\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.29 and 0.35\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.18\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcg for the high\uffe2\uff80\uff90performance liquid chromatography and combustion/graphitization steps of the sample preparation, respectively. However, tests on different high\uffe2\uff80\uff90performance liquid chromatography C18 columns revealed a large difference in dead Cext associated with column bleed. Modern Cext in the amount of 0.40\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.20\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcg was introduced by the combustion/graphitization step of the sample preparation, but other steps did not add modern Cext. The entire method recovered \uffe2\uff88\uffbc50% of the purified compounds on average, but this did not affect their 14C content. This method will allow routine analysis of the \uffce\uff9414C of PLFA isolated from groundwaters or other sample types, revealing the relationships between microbial and soil\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived C, sedimentary or dissolved C sources.We evaluated global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and turnover time predictions from a global land model (ELMv1\uffe2\uff80\uff90ECA) integrated in an Earth System Model (E3SM) by comparing them with observed soil bulk and \uffce\uff9414C values around the world. We analyzed observed and simulated SOC stocks and \uffce\uff9414C values using machine learning methods at the Earth System Model grid cell scale (~200\uffc2\uffa0km). In grid cells with sufficient observations, the model provided reasonable estimates of soil carbon stocks across soil depth and \uffce\uff9414C values near the surface but underestimated \uffce\uff9414C at depth. Among many explanatory variables, soil albedo index, soil order, plant function type, air temperature, and SOC content were major factors affecting predicted SOC \uffce\uff9414C values. The influences of soil albedo index, soil order, and air temperature were primarily important in the shallow subsurface (\uffe2\uff89\uffa430\uffc2\uffa0cm). We also performed sensitivity studies using different vertical root distributions and decomposition turnover times and compared to observed SOC stock and \uffce\uff9414C profiles. The analyses support the role of vegetation in affecting soil carbon turnover, particularly in deep soil, possibly through supplying fresh carbon and degrading physical\uffe2\uff80\uff90chemical protection of SOC via root activities. Allowing for grid cell\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific rooting and decomposition rates substantially reduced discrepancies between observed and predicted \uffce\uff9414C values and SOC content. Our results highlight the need for more explicit representation of roots, microbes, and soil physical protection in land models.Future climate change and other anthropogenic activities are likely to increase nutrient availability in many peatlands, and it is important to understand how these additional nutrients will influence peatland carbon cycling. We investigated the effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on aerobic CH4oxidation, anaerobic carbon mineralization (as CO2and CH4production), and anaerobic nutrient mineralization in a bog, an intermediate fen, and a rich fen in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We utilized a 5\uffe2\uff80\uff90week laboratory nutrient amendment experiment in conjunction with a 6\uffe2\uff80\uff90year field nutrient fertilization experiment to consider how the relative response to nitrogen and phosphorus differed among these wetlands over the short and long term. Field fertilizations generally increased nutrient availability in the upper 15 cm of peat and resulted in shifts in the vegetation community in each peatland. High nitrogen concentrations inhibited CH4oxidation in bog peat during short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term incubations; however, long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term fertilization with lower concentrations of nitrogen stimulated rates of CH4oxidation in bog peat. In contrast, no nitrogen effects on CH4oxidation were observed in the intermediate or rich fen peat. Anaerobic carbon mineralization in bog peat was consistently inhibited by increased phosphorus availability, but similar phosphorus additions had few effects in the intermediate fen and stimulated CH4production and nutrient mineralization in the rich fen. Our results demonstrate that nitrogen and phosphorus are important controls of peatland microbial carbon cycling; however, the role of these nutrients can differ over the short and long term and is strongly mediated by peatland type.
", "keywords": ["Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "2. Zero hunger", "Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology", "Nutrients", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Peatlands", "Biochemistry", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Microbial Carbon Cycling", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Methane", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2005jg000152"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Biogeosciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2005jg000152", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2005jg000152", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2005jg000152"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2007jg000522", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-04-01", "title": "Land Use Change Effects On Trace Gas Fluxes In The Forest Margins Of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia", "description": "Land use changes and land use intensification are considered important processes contributing to the increasing concentrations of the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) and of nitric oxide (NO), a precursor of ozone. Studies on the effects of land use changes and land use intensification on soil trace gas emissions were mostly conducted in Latin America and only very few in Asia. Here we present results from Central Sulawesi where profound changes in land use and cultivation practices take place: traditional agricultural practices like shifting cultivation and slash\uffe2\uff80\uff90and\uffe2\uff80\uff90burn agriculture are replaced by permanent cultivation systems and introduction of income\uffe2\uff80\uff90generating cash crops like cacao. Our results showed that N2O emissions were higher from cacao agroforestry (35 \uffc2\uffb1 10 \uffce\uffbcg N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921) than maize (9 \uffc2\uffb1 2 \uffce\uffbcg N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921), whereas intermediate rates were observed from secondary forests (25 \uffc2\uffb1 11 \uffce\uffbcg N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921). NO emissions did not differ among land use systems, ranging from 12 \uffc2\uffb1 2 \uffce\uffbcg N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for cacao agroforestry and secondary forest to 18 \uffc2\uffb1 2 \uffce\uffbcg N m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for maize. CH4 uptake was higher for maize (\uffe2\uff88\uff9230 \uffc2\uffb1 4 \uffce\uffbcg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921) than cacao agroforestry (\uffe2\uff88\uff9218 \uffc2\uffb1 2 \uffce\uffbcg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921) and intermediate rates were measured from secondary forests (\uffe2\uff88\uff9225 \uffc2\uffb1 4 \uffce\uffbcg C m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 h\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Combining these data with results from other studies in this area, we present chronosequence effects of land use change on trace gas emissions from natural forest, through maize cultivation, to cacao agroforestry (with or without fertilizer). Compared to the original forests, this typical land use change in the study area clearly led to higher N2O emissions and lower CH4 uptake with age of cacao agroforestry systems. We conclude that this common land use sequence in the area combined with the increasing use of fertilizer will strongly increase soil trace gas emissions. We suggest that the future hot spot regions of high N2O (and to a lesser extend NO) emissions in the tropics are those areas where climatic and edaphic conditions allow for intensive agriculture. This scenario is probably preferable over the alternative of agriculture extensification, which would imply a dramatic increase in deforestation rates with accompanying CO2 emissions.
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Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "agroforestry", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2007jg000522"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Biogeosciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2007jg000522", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2007jg000522", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2007jg000522"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-04-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2010jg001494", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-02-03", "title": "Nitrous Oxide Emissions And Isotopic Composition In Urban And Agricultural Systems In Southern California", "description": "[1]\u00a0Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a powerful greenhouse gas increasing in atmospheric mixing ratio and linked to increasing amounts of reactive N in the environment, particularly fertilizer use in agriculture. The consequences of urbanization of agricultural land for global and regional N2O emissions are unclear, due to high spatial and temporal variability of fluxes from different ecosystems and relatively few studies of urban ecosystems. We measured fluxes and the stable isotope composition (\u03b415N and \u03b418O) of N2O over 1 year in urban (ornamental lawns and athletic fields) and agricultural (corn and vegetable fields) ecosystems near Los Angeles, California, United States. We found that urban landscapes (lawns and athletic fields) have annual N2O fluxes equal to or greater than agricultural fields. Fertilization rates of urban landscapes were equal to or greater than agricultural fields, with comparable N2O emissions factors. \u03b415N and \u03b418O of N2O varied widely in all ecosystems, and were not consistent with ecosystem type, season, soil moisture, or temperature. There was, however, a consistent response of \u03b415N-N2O to pulses of N2O emission following fertilization, with an initial depletion in \u03b415N relative to prefertilization values, then gradual enrichment to background values within about 1 week. Preliminary scaling calculations indicated that N2O emissions from urban landscapes are approximately equal to or greater than agricultural emissions in urbanized areas of southern California, which further implies that current estimates of regional N2O emissions (based on agricultural land area) may be too low.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "long-term", "denitrification", "variability", "methane", "cycle (with supplement)", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "carbon-dioxide", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "nitrification", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "global n2o budget", "soil-moisture", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "oxygen-exchange", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt7q9586fd/qt7q9586fd.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2010jg001494"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2010jg001494", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2010jg001494", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2010jg001494"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-02-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2010wr009582", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-10", "title": "The Role Of Land Use And Soils In Regulating Water Flow In Small Headwater Catchments Of The Andes", "description": "Land use changes can have a significant impact on the terrestrial component of the water cycle. This study provides a comparison of three small headwater catchments in the Andean mountains of Colombia with different composition of land use. Several methods were used to quantify differences in the hydrological behavior of these catchments such as flow duration curves, stormflow analysis, and the linear reservoir concept. They were combined with an analysis of the characteristics of soils that contribute to understanding the aggregate catchment hydrological behavior. Andisols, which are soils formed in volcanic areas and with a large capacity to hold water, amplify differences in land use and limit the potential impact of land use management activities (conservation or restoration) on the water regulation function of catchments. Of the three studied catchments, less variability of flows was observed from the catchment with a larger percentage of area in forest, and a slower decrease of flows in the dry season was observed for the catchment with a relatively higher percentage of area in wetlands. Evidence is provided for the infiltration trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90off hypothesis for tropical environments, which states that after forest removal, soil infiltration rates are smaller and the water losses through quick flow are larger than the gains by reduced evapotranspiration; this is compatible with the results of the application of the linear reservoir concept showing a faster release of water for the least forested catchment.
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Among these, many are capable not only of assimilating real\uffe2\uff80\uff90time data to correct their predictive shortcomings but also of improving their future performance through self\uffe2\uff80\uff90optimization. In hydrogeology, such techniques harbor great potential for informing sustainable management practices. Simulating the intricacies of groundwater flow requires an adequate representation of unknown, often highly heterogeneous geology. Unfortunately, it is difficult to reconcile the structural complexity demanded by realistic geology with the simplifying assumptions introduced in many calibration methods. The particle filter framework would provide the necessary versatility to retain such complex information but suffers from the curse of dimensionality, a fundamental limitation discouraging its use in systems with many unknowns. Due to the prevalence of such systems in hydrogeology, the particle filter has received little attention in groundwater modeling so far. In this study, we explore the combined use of dimension\uffe2\uff80\uff90reducing techniques and artificial parameter dynamics to enable a particle filter framework for a groundwater model. Exploiting freedom in the design of the dimension\uffe2\uff80\uff90reduction approach, we ensure consistency with a predefined geological pattern. The performance of the resulting optimizer is demonstrated in a synthetic test case for three such geological configurations and compared to two Ensemble Kalman Filter setups. Favorable results even for deliberately misspecified settings make us hopeful that nested particle filters may constitute a useful tool for geologically consistent real\uffe2\uff80\uff90time parameter optimization.Low\uffe2\uff80\uff90frequency (8\uffe2\uff80\uff9328 Hz), long\uffe2\uff80\uff90wavelength electrostatic waves in the ionospheric E region over northern Scandinavia are studied by using data obtained from an instrumented rocket having four probes mounted on two perpendicular booms. Two data sets are available, one for upleg and one for downleg conditions with somewhat different ionospheric parameters. The ionospheric plasma is unstable with respect to the electrostatic Farley\uffe2\uff80\uff90Buneman instability in both cases, but the DC electric field is somewhat enhanced during the downleg part of the flight. We find that the direction of wave propagation as given by the local normalized fluctuating electrostatic field vector varies randomly within an interval of aspect angles. The distribution of the directional change per time unit is determined. The waves propagate predominantly in the electrojet direction, but significant variations in directions can be found, both with respect to the magnetic field (the aspect angle) and with respect to the electrojet direction. Some of our results are in variance with related radar observations in the electrojet near the equator. Indications of significant spatial intermittency of the signal is demonstrated. Large\uffe2\uff80\uff90amplitude electrostatic fluctuations are confined to spatially localized regions and have a narrower aspect angle distribution with reduced directional fluctuations. We introduce an intermittency measure based on average excess time statistics for the record for the absolute value of the detected time\uffe2\uff80\uff90varying electric fields. We thus determine the average of time intervals spent above a prescribed amplitude threshold level. The results are compared with an analytical expression obtained for a reference nonintermittent Gaussian signal. The general analysis requires the joint probability density of signal amplitude and its time derivative to be known. The analytical models for quantifying the intermittency effects were tested by synthetic time series allowing study of the transition from non\uffe2\uff80\uff90Gaussian to Gaussian random signals.Southeast Asia experiences frequent fires in fuel\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich tropical peatlands, leading to extreme episodes of regional haze with high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) impacting human health. In a study published recently, the first field measurements of PM2.5 emission factors for tropical peat fires showed larger emissions than from other fuel types. Here we report even higher PM2.5 emission factors, measured at newly ignited peat fires in Malaysia, suggesting that current estimates of fine particulate emissions from peat fires may be underestimated by a factor of 3 or more. In addition, we use both field and laboratory measurements of burning peat to provide the first mechanistic explanation for the high variability in PM2.5 emission factors, demonstrating that buildup of a surface ash layer causes the emissions of PM2.5 to decrease as the peat fire progresses. This finding implies that peat fires are more hazardous (in terms of aerosol emissions) when first ignited than when still burning many days later. Varying emission factors for PM2.5 also have implications for our ability to correctly model the climate and air quality impacts downwind of the peat fires. For modelers able to implement a time\uffe2\uff80\uff90varying emission factor, we recommend an emission factor for PM2.5 from newly ignited tropical peat fires of 58\uffc2\uffa0g of PM2.5 per kilogram of dry fuel consumed (g/kg), reducing exponentially at a rate of 9%/day. If the age of the fire is unknown or only a single value may be used, we recommend an average value of 24\uffc2\uffa0g/kg.
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", "keywords": ["[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "550", "diamond anvil cell", "13. Climate action", "copper", "metal-silicate partitioning", "modeling", "core formation", "geochemistry"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2019JB017599"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb017599"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Solid%20Earth", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2019jb017599", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2019jb017599", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2019jb017599"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2019ms001776", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-20", "title": "Mathematical Reconstruction of Land Carbon Models From Their Numerical Output: Computing Soil Radiocarbon From C Dynamics", "description": "AbstractRadiocarbon (14C) is a powerful tracer of the global carbon cycle that is commonly used to assess carbon cycling rates in various Earth system reservoirs and as a benchmark to assess model performance. Therefore, it has been recommended that Earth System Models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 report predicted radiocarbon values for relevant carbon pools. However, a detailed representation of radiocarbon dynamics may be an impractical burden on model developers. Here, we present an alternative approach to compute radiocarbon values from the numerical output of an ESM that does not explicitly represent these dynamics. The approach requires computed 12C stocks and fluxes among all carbon pools for a particular simulation of the model. From this output, a time\uffe2\uff80\uff90dependent linear compartmental system is computed with its respective state\uffe2\uff80\uff90transition matrix. Using transient atmospheric 14C values as inputs, the state\uffe2\uff80\uff90transition matrix is then applied to compute radiocarbon values for each pool, the average value for the entire system, and component fluxes. We demonstrate the approach with ELMv1\uffe2\uff80\uff90ECA, the land component of an ESM model that explicitly represents 12C, and 14C in 7 soil pools and 10 vertical layers. Results from our proposed method are highly accurate (relative error <0.01%) compared with the ELMv1\uffe2\uff80\uff90ECA 12C and 14C predictions, demonstrating the potential to use this approach in CMIP6 and other model simulations that do not explicitly represent 14C.In the majority of existing studies, streams are conceived as static objects that occupy predefined regions of the landscape. However, empirical observations suggest that stream networks are systematically and ubiquitously featured by significant expansion/retraction dynamics produced by hydrologic and climatic variability. This contribution presents novel empirical data about the active drainage network dynamics of a 5\uffc2\uffa0km2 headwater catchment in the Italian Alps. The stream network has been extensively monitored with a biweekly temporal resolution during a field campaign conducted from July to November 2018. Our results reveal that, in spite of the wet climate typical of the study area, more than 70% of the observed river network is temporary, with a significant presence of disconnected reaches during wet periods. Available observations have been used to develop a set of simple statistical models that were able to properly reconstruct the dynamics of the active stream length as a function of antecedent precipitation. The models suggest that rainfall timing and intensity represent major controls on the stream network length, while evapotranspiration has a minor effect on the observed intraseasonal changes of drainage density. Our results also indicate the presence of multiple network expansion and retraction cycles that simultaneously operate at different time scales, in response to distinct hydrological processes. Furthermore, we found that observed spatial patterns of network dynamics and unchanneled lengths are related to the underlying heterogeneity of geological attributes. The study offers novel insights on the physical mechanisms driving stream network dynamics in low\uffe2\uff80\uff90order alpine catchments.
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Data assimilation frameworks tap into such data streams to autonomously update and gradually improve numerical models. In hydrogeology, such methods are relevant in areas of long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term interest in water quality and quantity, for example, in drinking water production. Unfortunately, accurate hydrogeological predictions often demand a degree of geological realism, which is difficult to reconcile with the operational limitations of many data assimilation frameworks. Alluvial aquifers, for example, are sometimes characterized by paleo\uffe2\uff80\uff90channels of unknown extent and properties, which may act as preferential flow paths. Gradually optimizing such fields in real\uffe2\uff80\uff90time or quasi\uffe2\uff80\uff90real\uffe2\uff80\uff90time settings is a formidable task. Besides subsurface properties, ill\uffe2\uff80\uff90specified model forcings are a further source of predictive bias, which an optimizer could learn to compensate. In this study, we explore the use of a quasi\uffe2\uff80\uff90online optimizer based on the iterative batch importance sampling framework for a groundwater model of a field site near Valdobbiadene, Italy. This site is characterized by the presence of paleo\uffe2\uff80\uff90channels and heavily exploited for drinking water production and irrigation. We use Markov chain Monte Carlo steps to explore new parameterizations while maintaining consistency between states and parameters as well as conformance to a multipoint statistics training image. We also optimize a preprocessor designed to compensate for potential bias in the model forcing. We achieve promising and geologically consistent quasi\uffe2\uff80\uff90real\uffe2\uff80\uff90time optimization, albeit at the loss of parameter uncertainty.Permafrost degradation is delivering bioavailable dissolved organic matter (DOM) and inorganic nutrients to surface water networks. While these permafrost subsidies represent a small portion of total fluvial DOM and nutrient fluxes, they could influence food webs and net ecosystem carbon balance via priming or nutrient effects that destabilize background DOM. We investigated how addition of biolabile carbon (acetate) and inorganic nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) affected DOM decomposition with 28\uffe2\uff80\uff90day incubations. We incubated late\uffe2\uff80\uff90summer stream water from 23 locations nested in seven northern or high\uffe2\uff80\uff90altitude regions in Asia, Europe, and North America. DOM loss ranged from 3% to 52%, showing a variety of longitudinal patterns within stream networks. DOM optical properties varied widely, but DOM showed compositional similarity based on Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT\uffe2\uff80\uff90ICR MS) analysis. Addition of acetate and nutrients decreased bulk DOM mineralization (i.e., negative priming), with more negative effects on biodegradable DOM but neutral or positive effects on stable DOM. Unexpectedly, acetate and nutrients triggered breakdown of colored DOM (CDOM), with median decreases of 1.6% in the control and 22% in the amended treatment. Additionally, the uptake of added acetate was strongly limited by nutrient availability across sites. These findings suggest that biolabile DOM and nutrients released from degrading permafrost may decrease background DOM mineralization but alter stoichiometry and light conditions in receiving waterbodies. We conclude that priming and nutrient effects are coupled in northern aquatic ecosystems and that quantifying two\uffe2\uff80\uff90way interactions between DOM properties and environmental conditions could resolve conflicting observations about the drivers of DOM in permafrost zone waterways.
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", "keywords": ["canopy", "550", "turbulence", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "0207 environmental engineering", "stable stratification", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "530", "01 natural sciences", "decoupling", "13. Climate action", "flux", " mixing", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2020GL091615"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl091615"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geophysical%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2020gl091615", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2020gl091615", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2020gl091615"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-11-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2020gl088561", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-07-17", "title": "Nearshore Zone Dynamics Determine Pathway of Organic Carbon From Eroding Permafrost Coasts", "description": "AbstractCollapse of permafrost coasts delivers large quantities of particulate organic carbon (POC) to Arctic coastal areas. With rapidly changing environmental conditions, sediment and organic carbon (OC) mobilization and transport pathways are also changing. Here, we assess the sources and sinks of POC in the highly dynamic nearshore zone of Herschel Island\uffe2\uff80\uff90Qikiqtaruk (Yukon, Canada). Our results show that POC concentrations sharply decrease, from 15.9 to 0.3\uffc2\uffa0mg\uffc2\uffa0L\uffe2\uff88\uff921, within the first 100\uffe2\uff80\uff93300\uffc2\uffa0m offshore. Simultaneously, radiocarbon ages of POC drop from 16,400 to 3,600 14C years, indicating rapid settling of old permafrost POC to underlying sediments. This suggests that permafrost OC is, apart from a very narrow resuspension zone (<5\uffc2\uffa0m water depth), predominantly deposited in nearshore sediments. While long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term storage of permafrost OC in marine sediments potentially limits biodegradation and its subsequent release as greenhouse gas, resuspension of fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90grained, OC\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich sediments in the nearshore zone potentially enhances OC turnover.In the morning, the nocturnal stable boundary layer, SBL, transitions into its daytime convective counterpart substantially impacting the distribution of temperature, humidity, and pollutants. Applying distributed temperature sensing (DTS) below a tethered balloon (2\uffe2\uff80\uff93200\uffc2\uffa0m) and along a tower (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9311\uffc2\uffa0m), for the first time we observed three morning transitions (MTs) in a mountain boundary layer with high temporal (<10\uffc2\uffa0s) and spatial (<0.25\uffc2\uffa0m) resolutions. We show that MTs are best derived from a change in static stability from synchronous DTS observations. Our findings confirm that the MT occurs at the SBL top and bottom simultaneously, and identify horizontal heat advection as a main driver aiding solar surface heating in this midrange mountain valley. We conclude that heterogenous land use and mountainous topography cause complex interactions between valley\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale and local airflows leading to thermal signatures characterized by strong, small\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale variability. Our study highlights DTS as a crucial tool for investigating complex thermodynamic processes.
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", "keywords": ["Atmospheric Science", "CLIMATE-CHANGE", "IMPACT", "PREDICTION", "SNOW SCHEME", "ASSIMILATION", "MODELS", "15. Life on land", "SOIL-MOISTURE", "01 natural sciences", "PREDICTABILITY", "VARIABILITY", "Geophysics", "Space and Planetary Science", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)", "SENSITIVITY", "Research Article", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jd034163"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Atmospheres", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2020jd034163", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2020jd034163", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2020jd034163"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-08-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2020wr027282", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-07-17", "title": "The Stream Length Duration Curve: A Tool for Characterizing the Time Variability of the Flowing Stream Length", "description": "AbstractIn spite of the importance of stream network dynamics for hydrology, ecology, and biogeochemistry, there is limited availability of analytical tools suitable for characterizing the temporal variability of the active fraction of river networks. To fill this gap, we introduce the concept of Stream Length Duration Curve (SLDC), the inverse of the exceedance probability of the total length of active streams. SLDCs summarize efficiently the effect of hydrological variability on the length of the flowing streams under a variety of settings. A set of stochastic network models is developed to link the features of the local hydrological status of the network nodes with the shape of the SLDC. We show that the mean network length is dictated by the mean persistency of the nodes, whereas the shape of the SLDC is driven by the spatial distribution of the local persistencies and their network\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale spatial correlation. Ten field surveys performed in 2018 were used to estimate the empirical SLDC of the Valfredda river (Italy), which was found to be steep and regular\uffe2\uff80\uff94indicating a pronounced sensitivity of the active stream length to the underlying hydrological conditions. Available observations also suggest that the activation of temporary reaches during network expansion is hierarchical, from the most to the least persistent stretches. Under these circumstances, the SLDC corresponds to the spatial Cumulative Distribution Function of the nodes persistencies. The study provides a sound theoretical basis for the analyses of network dynamics in temporary rivers.
", "keywords": ["0208 environmental biotechnology", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "Research Articles"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2020WR027282"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr027282"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Water%20Resources%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2020wr027282", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2020wr027282", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2020wr027282"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2020rg000726", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-04-11", "title": "Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change", "description": "AbstractRecent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating climate change. Here, we review current understanding of the impacts of climate change on fire weather (weather conditions conducive to the ignition and spread of wildfires) and the consequences for regional fire activity as mediated by a range of other bioclimatic factors (including vegetation biogeography, productivity and lightning) and human factors (including ignition, suppression, and land use). Through supplemental analyses, we present a stocktake of regional trends in fire weather and burned area (BA) during recent decades, and we examine how fire activity relates to its bioclimatic and human drivers. Fire weather controls the annual timing of fires in most world regions and also drives inter\uffe2\uff80\uff90annual variability in BA in the Mediterranean, the Pacific US and high latitude forests. Increases in the frequency and extremity of fire weather have been globally pervasive due to climate change during 1979\uffe2\uff80\uff932019, meaning that landscapes are primed to burn more frequently. Correspondingly, increases in BA of \uffe2\uff88\uffbc50% or higher have been seen in some extratropical forest ecoregions including in the Pacific US and high\uffe2\uff80\uff90latitude forests during 2001\uffe2\uff80\uff932019, though interannual variability remains large in these regions. Nonetheless, other bioclimatic and human factors can override the relationship between BA and fire weather. For example, BA in savannahs relates more strongly to patterns of fuel production or to the fragmentation of naturally fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90prone landscapes by agriculture. Similarly, BA trends in tropical forests relate more strongly to deforestation rates and forest degradation than to changing fire weather. Overall, BA has reduced by 27% globally in the past two decades, due in large part to a decline in BA in\uffc2\uffa0African savannahs. According to climate models, the prevalence and extremity of fire weather has already emerged beyond its pre\uffe2\uff80\uff90industrial variability in the Mediterranean due to climate change, and emergence will become increasingly widespread at additional levels of warming. Moreover, several of the major wildfires experienced in recent years, including the Australian bushfires of 2019/2020, have occurred amidst fire weather conditions that were considerably more likely due to climate change. Current fire models incompletely reproduce the observed spatial patterns of BA based on their existing representations of the relationships between fire and its bioclimatic and human controls, and historical trends in BA also vary considerably across models. Advances in the observation of fire and understanding of its controlling factors are supporting the addition or optimization of a range of processes in models. Overall, climate change is exerting a pervasive upwards pressure on fire globally by increasing the frequency and intensity of fire weather, and this upwards pressure will escalate with each increment of global warming. Improvements to fire models and a better understanding of the interactions between climate, climate extremes, humans and fire are required to predict future fire activity and to mitigate against its consequences.Evaporation is the phenomenon by which a substance is converted from its liquid into its vapor phase, independently of where it lies in nature. However, language is alive, and just like regular speech, scientific terminology changes. Frequently, those changes are grounded on a solid rationale, but sometimes these semantic transitions have a fragile foundation. That is the case with \uffe2\uff80\uff9cevapotranspiration.\uffe2\uff80\uff9d A growing generation of scientists have been educated on using this terminology and are unaware of the historical controversy and physical inconsistency that surrounds it. Here, we present what may appear to some as an esoteric linguistic discussion, yet it was originally triggered by the increasing time some of us have devoted to justifying our word choice to reviewers, editors, and peers. By clarifying our arguments for using the term \uffe2\uff80\uff9cevaporation,\uffe2\uff80\uff9d we also seek to prevent having to revive this discussion every time a new article is submitted, so that we can move directly on to more scientifically relevant matters.
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", "keywords": ["ATMOSPHERE WATER FLUX", "550", "VEGETATION INDEX", "Penman-Monteith", "RIPARIAN EVAPOTRANSPIRATION", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "SURFACE-TEMPERATURE", "01 natural sciences", "transpiration", "SEMIARID ENVIRONMENT", "CARBON-DIOXIDE", "ENERGY-BALANCE CLOSURE", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "Water Science and Technology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "RAINFALL INTERCEPTION", "PRIESTLEY-TAYLOR", "WACMOS-ET PROJECT", "TRANSPIRATION", "15. Life on land", "EDDY COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS", "name=Water and Environmental Engineering", "MODIS", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Priestley-Taylor", "PENMAN-MONTEITH", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/water_and_environmental_engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/101236/1/agujournaltemplateDinizetal.pdf"}, {"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2020WR028752"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2020wr028752"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Water%20Resources%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2020wr028752", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2020wr028752", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2020wr028752"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2020wr029509", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:18:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-21", "title": "Hydrogeological Uncertainty Estimation With the Analytic Element Method", "description": "AbstractUncertainty estimation plays an important part in practical hydrogeology. With most of the subsurface unobservable, attempts at system characterization will invariably be incomplete. Uncertainty estimation, then, must quantify the influence of unknown parameters, forcings, and structural deficiencies. In this endeavor, numerical modeling frameworks can resolve a high degree of subsurface complexity and its associated uncertainty. Where boundary uncertainty is concerned, however, numerical frameworks can be restrictive. The interdependence of grid discretization and its enclosing boundaries render exploration of uncertainties in their extent or nature challenging. The analytic element method (AEM) may be an interesting complement, as it is computationally efficient, economic with its parameter count, and does not require enclosure through finite boundaries. These properties make AEM well suited for uncertainty estimation, particularly in data\uffe2\uff80\uff90scarce settings or exploratory studies. In this study, we explore the use of AEM for flow field uncertainty estimation, with a particular focus on boundary uncertainty. To induce diverse, uncertain regional flow more easily, we propose a new element based on a M\uffc3\uffb6bius transformation. We include this element in a simple Python\uffe2\uff80\uff90based AEM toolbox and benchmark it against MODFLOW. Coupling AEM with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo routine using adaptive proposals, we explore its use in a synthetic case study. We find that AEM permits efficient uncertainty estimation for groundwater flow fields, which may form a basis for stochastic Lagrangian transport modeling or can support advanced model design by informing the placement of numerical model boundaries.The water\uffe2\uff80\uff90energy\uffe2\uff80\uff90food (WEF) nexus is a prominent approach for addressing today's sustainable development challenges. In our critical appraisal of the WEF, covering different approaches, drivers, enablers, and applications, we emphasize the situation across the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean). Here, WEF research covers at least 23 focal domains. We find that the nexus is still a maturing paradigm primarily rooted in a physical and natural sciences framing, which is itself embedded in a neoliberal securities narrative. While providing insights and tools to address the systemic interdependencies between resource sectors whose exploitation, degradation, and sub\uffe2\uff80\uff90optimal management contribute to (un)sustainable development, there is still insufficient engagement with social, political, and economic dimensions. Progress related to climate, urbanization, and resource consumption is encouraging, but while governance and finance are central enablers of current and future nexus systems, gaps remain in relation to implementation and operationalization. Harnessing the nexus for sustainable development across the Global South means recognizing that it is more than a biophysical system, but also a multi\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale complex of people, institutions, and infrastructure, affected by history and context. Addressing this complexity requires alternative and possibly challenging perspectives to counter dominant narratives, and manage problems associated with policy integration, trade\uffe2\uff80\uff90offs, and winners and losers. We outline 10 emergent research areas that we think can contribute to this endeavor and enable the nexus to be a stronger policy force.Lagrangian methods, such as the random\uffe2\uff80\uff90walk particle\uffe2\uff80\uff90tracking (RWPT), are often qualified as a potentially valuable alternative to error\uffe2\uff80\uff90prone Eulerian methods for simulating solute transport in unsaturated porous media. Yet, the RWPT method has not yet been validated against \uffe2\uff80\uff90 and compared to \uffe2\uff80\uff90 currently used Eulerian solutions for simulating solute transport under a range of typical unsaturated conditions. This paper presents a new implementation of the RWPT approach for advective \uffe2\uff80\uff90 dispersive transport problems under variably saturated conditions. We first show that, as previously demonstrated for a heterogeneous dispersion tensor, using an interpolation scheme in the RWPT algorithm performs well for problems with abrupt changes in the water content. The new model is then compared against a simple 1D uniform transport problem, for which an analytical solution exist, and against a variety of 1D and 3D numerical solutions using the different Eulerian schemes implemented in Hydrus software suite. Results show that, while the Eulerian solutions significantly suffer from numerical dispersion in case of a coarse spatial discretization of the simulation domain, the new Lagrangian model provides accurate solutions for all problems. Furthermore, RWPT reproduces accurately solute transport for typical unsaturated flow conditions (infiltration, evaporation). Moreover, the Lagrangian model appears to be orders of magnitude faster than its Eulerian alternative to solve a 3D heterogeneous problem. Thus, RWPT should be seen as an attractive, stable and efficient alternative for simulating solute transport in the vadose zone, especially in case of complex and large problems.In active volcanic regions, high\uffe2\uff80\uff90temperature chemical reactions in the hydrothermal system consume CO2 sourced from magma or from the deep crust, whereas reactions with silicates at shallow depths mainly consume atmospheric CO2. Numerous studies have quantified the load of dissolved solids in rivers that drain volcanic regions to determine chemical weathering rates and atmospheric CO2 consumption rates. However, the balance between thermal and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90thermal components to riverine fluxes in these areas remains poorly constrained, hindering accurate estimates of atmospheric CO2 consumption rates. Here we use the Ge/Si ratio and the stable silicon isotopes (\uffce\uffb430Si) as tracers for quantifying non\uffe2\uff80\uff90thermal silicon contributions in rivers draining the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field, USA. The Ge/Si ratio (\uffc2\uffb5mol.mol\uffe2\uff88\uff921) was determined for seven thermal water samples (183\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa022), eight rivers (35\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa023) and six creeks flowing into Yellowstone Lake (5\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa03) during base flow and during peak water discharge following snowmelt. The \uffce\uffb430Si value (\uffe2\uff80\uffb0) was determined for thermal waters (\uffe2\uff88\uff920.09\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.04), Yellowstone River at Yellowstone Lake outlet (1.91\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.23) and creek samples (0.82\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.29). The calculated atmospheric CO2 consumption associated with non\uffe2\uff80\uff90thermal waters flowing through Yellowstone's rivers during peak discharge is \uffe2\uff88\uffbc3.03 ton.km\uffe2\uff88\uff922.yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, which is \uffe2\uff88\uffbc2% of the annual mean atmospheric CO2 consumption in other volcanic regions. This study highlights the significance of quantifying seasonal variations in chemical weathering rates for improving estimates of atmospheric CO2 consumption rates in active volcanic regions.Approximately 40% of earth's carbon (C) stored in land vegetation and soil is within the boreal region. This large C pool is subjected to substantial removals and transformations during periodic wildfire. Fire\uffe2\uff80\uff90altered C, commonly known as pyrogenic carbon (PyC), plays a significant role in forest ecosystem functioning and composes a considerable fraction of C transport to limnic and oceanic sediments. While PyC stores are beginning to be quantified globally, knowledge is lacking regarding the drivers of their production and transport across ecosystems. This study used the chemo\uffe2\uff80\uff90thermal oxidation at 375\uffc2\uffb0C (CTO\uffe2\uff80\uff90375) method to isolate a particularly refractory subset of PyC compounds, here called black carbon (BC), finding an average increase of 11.6\uffc2\uffa0g BC m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 at 1\uffc2\uffa0year postfire in 50 separate wildfires occurring in Sweden during 2018. These increases could not be linked to proposed drivers, however BC storage in 50 additional nearby unburnt soils related strongly to soil mass while its proportion of the larger C pool related negatively to soil C:N. Fire approximately doubled BC stocks in the mineral layer but had no significant effect on BC in the organic layer where it was likely produced. Suppressed decomposition rates and low heating during fire in mineral subsoil relative to upper layers suggests potential removals of the doubled mineral layer BC are more likely transported out of the soil system than degraded in situ. Therefore, mineral soils are suggested to be an important storage pool for BC that can buffer short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (production in fire) and long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90ecosystem transport) BC cycling.On\uffe2\uff80\uff90going shrinkage of Greenland's icecap, permafrost thaw, and changes in precipitation are exposing its landscapes to erosion and remobilization of ancient organic carbon (OC) held in soils and sedimentary rocks. The fate of this OC and potential feedbacks to climate are still unclear. Here, we show that the glacial Zackenberg river (Northeastern Greenland) exports aged particulate OC (POC, uncalibrated radiocarbon ages of \uffe2\uff88\uffbc4,000\uffc2\uffa0years). Many of the smaller periglacial streams affected by abrupt permafrost thaw transport substantially older POC (up to 32,000\uffc2\uffa0years), especially with enhanced discharge following intense precipitation. Mineralogical analysis, and density and size fractionation of soils and both glacial and nonglacial river sediments reveal that OC is largely associated with phyllosilicate minerals, suggesting stabilization against microbial processing. Enhanced export of ancient, mineral\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated OC as a consequence of summer rainfall may accelerate translocation of OC from terrestrial to marine environments, but could have limited consequences for climate.Previous studies found that plant communities on infertile soils are relatively resistant to climatic variation due to stress tolerance adaptations. However, the species assemblies in gypsum soil habitats require further investigation. Thus, we considered the following questions. (1) Do harsher arid conditions determine the characteristics of the species that form plant assemblages? (2) Is the selection of the species that assemble in arid conditions mediated by their ability to grow on gypsum soils? (3) Is the selection of species that assemble in harsher conditions related to phylogenetically conserved functional traits? Perennial plant communities were analysed in 89 gypsum-soil sites along a 400 km climate gradient from the central to southeastern Iberian Peninsula. Each local assemblage was analysed in 30 \uffc3\uff97 30 m plots and described based on taxonomic, functional (soil plant affinity) and phylogenetic parameters. The mean maximum temperatures in the hottest month, mean annual precipitation and their interaction terms were used as surrogates for the aridity conditions in generalized linear models. In the hottest locations, the gypsophily range narrowed and the mean gypsophily increased at the community level, thereby suggesting the filtering of species and the dominance of soil specialists in the actual plant assemblies. Drier sites had higher taxonomic diversity. The species that formed the perennial communities were close in evolutionary terms at the two ends of the aridity gradient. The mean maximum temperatures in the hottest month had the main abiotic filtering effect on perennial plant communities, which was mediated by the ability of species to grow on gypsum soils, and thus gypsum specialists dominated the species assemblies in the hottest locations. In contrast, the perennial communities on gypsum soils were relatively resistant to changes in precipitation. Our findings suggest that the warmer environmental conditions predicted by global change models will favour gypsum specialists over generalists.Dust emission fluxes during wind soil erosion are usually estimated using a dust concentration vertical gradient, by assuming a constant dust flux layer between the surface and the dust measurement levels. Here, we investigate the existence of this layer during erosion events recorded in Iceland and Jordan. Size\uffe2\uff80\uff90resolved dust fluxes were estimated at three levels between 2 and 4\uffc2\uffa0m using the eddy\uffe2\uff80\uff90covariance method. Dust fluxes were found mainly constant only between the two upper levels in Iceland, the lower dust flux being often stronger and richer in coarse particles, while dust fluxes in Jordan were nearly constant across all levels. The wind dynamics could not explain the absence of a constant dust flux layer in Iceland. We show that the presence of stationary dust source patches in Iceland, related to surface humidity, created a non\uffe2\uff80\uff90uniform dust layer near the surface, named dust roughness sublayer (DRSL), where individual plumes behind each patch interact but do not fully mix. The lowest dust measurement level was probably located within this sublayer while the upper ones were located above, such that there the emitted dust became spatially well\uffe2\uff80\uff90mixed. This explains near the surface in Iceland, the more intermittent dust concentration, its low correlation with the dust concentrations above, and the richer dust flux in coarse particles due to their lower deposition contribution. Our findings highlight the importance of estimating dust fluxes above a dust blending height whose characteristics depend on the dust source patchiness caused by surface humidity or the presence of sparse non\uffe2\uff80\uff90erosive elements.The Arctic is warming and significant changes to the landscape, including increased vegetative cover (\uffe2\uff80\uff9cgreening\uffe2\uff80\uff9d), are expected in the near future. These landscape changes may alter nitrogen (N) availability in terrestrial, stream, and coastal ecosystems, where production is often N limited, but the exact changes in nutrient cycling are uncertain. Here, we analyzed the relationship between vegetation greenness (i.e., NDVI) and dissolved inorganic (DIN) and organic (DON) concentrations in streams draining 14 headwater catchments (mean 3.6\uffc2\uffa0km2, range 0.4\uffe2\uff80\uff9311\uffc2\uffa0km2) across three samplings in the Zackenberg area, Northeast Greenland. We found large variation in DIN and DON concentrations across the sampled streams. We further show that this variation is correlated to water temperature and catchment NDVI, such that increased vegetation greenness and temperature correlated with lower DIN, and increased greenness also correlated with higher DON concentrations in streams. The results suggest that increased terrestrial vegetation due to rising air temperature could substantially alter dissolved N concentrations and form in streams, with potentially cascading impacts on coastal areas.Erosion of permafrost coasts due to climate warming releases large quantities of organic carbon (OC) into the Arctic Ocean. While burial of permafrost OC in marine sediments potentially limits degradation, resuspension of sediments in the nearshore zone potentially enhances degradation and greenhouse gas production, adding to the \uffe2\uff80\uff9cpermafrost carbon feedback.\uffe2\uff80\uff9d Recent studies, focusing on bulk sediments, suggest that permafrost OC derived from coastal erosion is predominantly deposited close to shore. However, bulk approaches disregard sorting processes in the coastal zone, which strongly influence the OC distribution and fate. We studied soils and sediments along a transect from the fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90eroding shoreline of Herschel Island\uffe2\uff80\uff94Qikiqtaruk (Yukon, Canada) to a depositional basin offshore. Sample material was fractionated by density (1.8\uffc2\uffa0g\uffc2\uffa0cm\uffe2\uff88\uff923) and size (63\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcm), separating loose OC from mineral\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated OC. Each fraction was analyzed for element content (TOC, TN), carbon isotopes (\uffce\uffb413C, \uffce\uff9414C), molecular biomarkers (n\uffe2\uff80\uff90alkanes, n\uffe2\uff80\uff90alkanoic acids, lignin phenols, cutin acids), and mineral surface area. The OC partitioning between fractions changes considerably along the transect, highlighting the importance of hydrodynamic sorting in the nearshore zone. Additionally, OC and biomarker loadings decrease along the land\uffe2\uff80\uff90ocean transect, indicating significant loss of OC during transport. However, molecular proxies for degradation show contrasting trends, suggesting that OC losses are not always well reflected in its degradation state. This study, using fraction partitioning that crosses land\uffe2\uff80\uff90ocean boundaries in a way not done before, aids to disentangle sorting processes from degradation patterns, and provides quantitative insight into losses of thawed and eroded permafrost OC.The Arctic is warming and significant changes to the landscape, including increased vegetative cover (\uffe2\uff80\uff9cgreening\uffe2\uff80\uff9d), are expected in the near future. These landscape changes may alter nitrogen (N) availability in terrestrial, stream, and coastal ecosystems, where production is often N limited, but the exact changes in nutrient cycling are uncertain. Here, we analyzed the relationship between vegetation greenness (i.e., NDVI) and dissolved inorganic (DIN) and organic (DON) concentrations in streams draining 14 headwater catchments (mean 3.6\uffc2\uffa0km2, range 0.4\uffe2\uff80\uff9311\uffc2\uffa0km2) across three samplings in the Zackenberg area, Northeast Greenland. We found large variation in DIN and DON concentrations across the sampled streams. We further show that this variation is correlated to water temperature and catchment NDVI, such that increased vegetation greenness and temperature correlated with lower DIN, and increased greenness also correlated with higher DON concentrations in streams. The results suggest that increased terrestrial vegetation due to rising air temperature could substantially alter dissolved N concentrations and form in streams, with potentially cascading impacts on coastal areas.