Numerous drivers such as farming practices, erosion, land-use change, and soil biogeochemical background, determine the global spatial distribution of phosphorus (P) in agricultural soils. Here, we revised an approach published earlier (called here GPASOIL-v0), in which several global datasets describing these drivers were combined with a process model for soil P dynamics to reconstruct the past and current distribution of P in cropland and grassland soils. The objective of the present update, called GPASOIL-v1, is to incorporate recent advances in process understanding about soil inorganic P dynamics, in datasets to describe the different drivers, and in regional soil P measurements for benchmarking. We trace the impact of the update on the reconstructed soil P. After the update we estimate a global averaged inorganic labile P of 187 kgP ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for cropland and 91 kgP ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for grassland in 2018 for the top 0\uffe2\uff80\uff930.3\uffe2\uff80\uff89m soil layer, but these values are sensitive to the mineralization rates chosen for the organic P pools. Uncertainty in the driver estimates lead to coefficients of variation of 0.22 and 0.54 for cropland and grassland, respectively. This work makes the methods for simulating the agricultural soil P maps more transparent and reproducible than previous estimates, and increases the confidence in the new estimates, while the evaluation against regional dataset still suggests rooms for further improvement.The Northern Hemisphere boreal region is undergoing rapid warming, leading to an upsurge in biomass burning. Previous studies have primarily focused on greenhouse gas emissions from these fires, whereas the associated biomass burning aerosols (BBAs) have received less attention. Here we use satellite-constrained modelling to assess the radiative effect of aerosols from boreal fires on the climate in the Arctic region. We find a substantial increase in boreal BBA emissions associated with warming over the past two decades, causing pronounced positive radiative effects during Arctic summer mostly due to increased solar absorption. At a global warming level of 1 \u00b0C above current temperatures, boreal BBA emissions are projected to increase 6-fold, further warming the Arctic and potentially negating the benefits of ambitious anthropogenic black carbon mitigation. Given the high sensitivity of boreal and Arctic fires to climate change, our results underscore the increasingly relevant role of BBAs in Arctic climate.
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E.G. acknowledges funding from Generalitat Valenciana and Europen Social Fund (grant number APOSTD/2021/188). F.T.M. also acknowledges support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the KAUST Climate and Livability Initiative. T.S.-S., A.G. and M.D.-B. are supported by grant number TED2021-130908B-C41 (URBANCHANGE). M.D.-B. was also supported by the European Research Council (ERC) grant number 647038 (BIODESERT), BES grant agreement number LRB17 1019 (MUSGONET), the innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 702057 (CLIMIFUN), Ram\u00f3n y Cajal grant number RYC2018-025483-I, a project from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant number PID2020-115813RA-I00; SOIL4GROWTH) and project PAIDI 2020 from the Junta de Andaluc\u00eda (grant number P20_00879). C.W.M. acknowledges funding for the research provided by the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Polar Regions Research (grant number 0852036), the German Science Foundation (DFG) for financial support in the frame of the \u201cInitiation of International Collaboration\u201d (grant number MU 3021/2-1) and funding within the DFG Priority Programme 1158 \u201cAntarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas\u201d (grant number MU 3021/8-1). 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In the Southern Ocean, fossil fuel emissions primarily control SFe deposition, as reductions in anthropogenic fires counterbalance climate-driven increases.", "keywords": ["Fire emissions", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament hum\u00e0 i sostenible::Degradaci\u00f3 ambiental::Canvi clim\u00e0tic", "Climate change", "Carbon cycle", "Iron (Fe)", "Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02356-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nature%20Climate%20Change", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1038/s41558-025-02356-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41558-025-02356-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41558-025-02356-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-06-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41559-017-0259-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:17:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-08-06", "title": "Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities", "description": "The legacy impacts of past climates on the current distribution of soil microbial communities are largely unknown. Here, we use data from more than 1,000 sites from five separate global and regional datasets to identify the importance of palaeoclimatic conditions (Last Glacial Maximum and mid-Holocene) in shaping the current structure of soil bacterial communities in natural and agricultural soils. We show that palaeoclimate explains more of the variation in the richness and composition of bacterial communities than current climate. Moreover, palaeoclimate accounts for a unique fraction of this variation that cannot be predicted from geographical location, current climate, soil properties or plant diversity. Climatic legacies (temperature and precipitation anomalies from the present to ~20\u2009kyr ago) probably shape soil bacterial communities both directly and indirectly through shifts in soil properties and plant communities. The ability to predict the distribution of soil bacteria from either palaeoclimate or current climate declines greatly in agricultural soils, highlighting the fact that anthropogenic activities have a strong influence on soil bacterial diversity. We illustrate how climatic legacies can help to explain the current distribution of soil bacteria in natural ecosystems and advocate that climatic legacies should be considered when predicting microbial responses to climate change.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Climate Change", "Microbiota", "Agriculture", "910", "15. Life on land", "soil microbial ecology", "climatic changes", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Threatened by a rapidly changing world, our soils suffer from degradation and biodiversity loss, making it increasingly important to understand the role of soil biodiversity in soil aggregation-a key parameter for soil sustainability. Here, we provide evidence of the contribution of soil biota to soil aggregation on macro- and microaggregate scales, and evaluate how specific traits, soil biota groups and species interactions contribute to this. We conducted a global meta-analysis comprising 279 soil biota species. Our study shows a clear positive effect of soil biota on soil aggregation, with bacteria and fungi generally appearing to be more important for soil aggregation than soil animals. Bacteria contribute strongly to both macro- and microaggregates while fungi strongly affect macroaggregation. Motility, body size and population density were important traits modulating effect sizes. Investigating species interactions across major taxonomic groups revealed their beneficial impact on soil aggregation. At the broadest level, our results highlight the need to consider biodiversity as a causal factor in soil aggregation. This will require a shift from the current management and physicochemical perspective to an approach that fully embraces the significance of soil organisms, their diversity and interactions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Fungi", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Bacterial Physiological Phenomena", "Biota", "Invertebrates", "Article", "Soil", "13. 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Here we discuss how biodiversity\u2013ecosystem function theory could apply to our bodies and buildings, outline practical applications and call for further research.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/pubmedpublicationtype/D013485", "Water Supply", "Research Support", " Non-U.S. Gov't", "Journal Article", "Humans", "/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/pubmedpublicationtype/D016428", "Built Environment", "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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Environmental thresholds are known to govern global vegetation patterns, but it is still unknown whether they can be used to predict the distribution of soil organisms and functions across global biomes. Using a global field survey of 383 sites across contrasting climatic and vegetation conditions, here we showed that soil biodiversity and functions exhibited pervasive nonlinear patterns worldwide and are mainly governed by water availability (precipitation and potential evapotranspiration). Changes in water availability resulted in drastic shifts in soil biodiversity (bacteria, fungi, protists and invertebrates) and soil functions including plant-microbe interactions, plant productivity, soil biogeochemical cycles and soil carbon sequestration. Our findings highlight that crossing specific water availability thresholds can have critical consequences for the provision of essential ecosystem services needed to sustain our planet.", "keywords": ["2. 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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/s41559-018-0770-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:17:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-12-20", "title": "Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands", "description": "Heterotrophic soil microbial respiration-one of the main processes of carbon loss from the soil to the atmosphere-is sensitive to temperature in the short term. However, how this sensitivity is affected by long-term thermal regimes is uncertain. There is an expectation that soil microbial respiration rates adapt to the ambient thermal regime, but whether this adaptation magnifies or reduces respiration sensitivities to temperature fluctuations remains unresolved. This gap in understanding is particularly pronounced for drylands because most studies conducted so far have focused on mesic systems. Here, we conduct an incubation study using soil samples from 110 global drylands encompassing a wide gradient in mean annual temperature. We test how mean annual temperature affects soil respiration rates at three assay temperatures while controlling for substrate depletion and microbial biomass. Estimated soil respiration rates at the mean microbial biomass were lower in sites with higher mean annual temperatures across the three assayed temperatures. The patterns observed are consistent with expected evolutionary trade-offs in the structure and function of enzymes under different thermal regimes. Therefore, our results suggest that soil microbial respiration adapts to the ambient thermal regime in global drylands.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Soil", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Bacteria", "13. Climate action", "Temperature", "15. 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Here we combined three independent global field surveys of soil fungi with a satellite-derived temporal assessment of plant productivity, and report that phylotype richness within particular fungal functional groups drives the stability of terrestrial ecosystems. The richness of fungal decomposers was consistently and positively associated with ecosystem stability worldwide, while the opposite pattern was found for the richness of fungal plant pathogens, particularly in grasslands. We further demonstrated that the richness of soil decomposers was consistently positively linked with higher resistance of plant productivity in response to extreme drought events, while that of fungal plant pathogens showed a general negative relationship with plant productivity resilience/resistance patterns. Together, our work provides evidence supporting the critical role of soil fungal diversity to secure stable plant production over time in global ecosystems, and to buffer against extreme climate events.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Evolution", "Resistance", "580 Plants (Botany)", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "10126 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology", "Behavior and Systematics", "Soil fungal", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "10211 Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center", "Phylotype diversity", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Productivity", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Ecology", "Biodiversity", "Ecolog\u00eda", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Protect", " restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems", " sustainably manage forests", " combat\u00a0desertification", " and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss", "Droughts", "1105 Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "13. Climate action", "Ecosystem stability", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15", "2303 Ecology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01756-5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01756-5"}, {"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/s41559-022-01756-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41559-022-01756-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41559-022-01756-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41559-024-02501-w", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:17:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-08-07", "title": "Water limitation regulates positive feedback of increased ecosystem respiration", "description": "Terrestrial ecosystem respiration increases exponentially with temperature, constituting a positive feedback loop accelerating global warming. However, the response of ecosystem respiration to temperature strongly depends on water availability, yet where and when the water effects are important, is presently poorly constrained, introducing uncertainties in climate-carbon cycle feedback projections. Here, we disentangle the effects of temperature and precipitation (a proxy for water availability) on ecosystem respiration by analysing eddy covariance CO2 flux measurements across 212 globally distributed sites. We reveal a threshold precipitation function, determined by the balance between precipitation and ecosystem water demand, which separates temperature-limited and water-limited respiration. Respiration is temperature limited for precipitation above that threshold function, whereas in drier areas water limitation reduces the temperature sensitivity of respiration and its positive feedback to global warming. If the trend of expansion of water-limited areas with warming climate over the last decades continues, the positive feedback of ecosystem respiration is likely to be weakened and counteracted by the increasing water limitation.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Naturgeografi", "Climate Change", "Rain", "Temperature", "Water", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Global Warming", "6. Clean water", "Carbon Cycle", "03 medical and health sciences", "Physical Geography", "13. 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We visited overwintering fires in Northwest Territories, Canada, and Interior Alaska, United States, and present field measurements of where overwintering fires are burning in the landscape and their impact on combustion severity and forest regeneration. Combustion severity hotspots did not generate overwintering, but peat and woody biomass smouldering both supported overwintering, leading to wintertime smouldering in both treed peatlands and upland forests. These findings create challenges for fire managers and uncertainty about carbon emissions, but forest regeneration was not compromised.", "keywords": ["Northwest Territories", "Soil", "Climate Change", "Seasons", "Forests", "Alaska", "Fires", "Wildfires"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Jennifer L. Baltzer, Xanthe J. Walker, Sander Veraverbeke, Thomas D. Hessilt, Raquel Alfaro-Sanchez, Max J. van Gerrevink, Michelle C. Mack, Emily L. Ogden, Richard Olsen, Rebecca C. Scholten, Merritt R. Turetsky,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02630-2"}, {"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/s41559-024-02630-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1038/s41559-024-02630-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1038/s41559-024-02630-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-03-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1038/s41561-019-0384-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:17:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-24", "title": "Mobilization of aged and biolabile soil carbon by tropical deforestation", "description": "In the mostly pristine Congo Basin, agricultural land-use change has intensified in recent years. One potential and understudied consequence of this deforestation and conversion to agriculture is the mobilization and loss of organic matter from soils to rivers as dissolved organic matter. Here, we quantify and characterize dissolved organic matter sampled from 19 catchments of varying deforestation extent near Lake Kivu over a two-week period during the wet season. Dissolved organic carbon from deforested, agriculturally-dominated catchments was older (14C age: ~1.5kyr) and more biolabile than from pristine forest catchments. Ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry revealed that this aged organic matter from deforested catchments was energy-rich and chemodiverse, with higher proportions of nitrogen- and sulfur-containing formulae. Given the molecular composition and biolability, we suggest that organic matter from deforested landscapes is preferentially respired upon disturbance, resulting in elevated in-stream concentrations of carbon dioxide. We estimate that while deforestation reduces the overall flux of dissolved organic carbon by ~56%, it does not significantly change the yield of biolabile dissolved organic carbon. Ultimately, the exposure of deeper soil horizons through deforestation and agricultural expansion releases old, previously stable, and biolabile soil organic carbon into the modern carbon cycle via the aquatic pathway.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Life on Land", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "dissolved organic carbon", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "6. Clean water", "soil organic carbon", "Congo", "13. 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An outstanding question in geology is whether the Earth started in a non-plate tectonic regime, and if it did, when the transition to the modern regime occurred. This is a complicated question to address because Archaean rocks lack modern equivalents to anchor interpretations. Here, we present a silicon isotopic study of 4.0\u20132.8-Gyr-old tonalite\u2013trondhjemite\u2013granodiorites, as well as Palaeozoic granites and modern adakites. We show that Archaean granitoids have heavier silicon isotopic compositions than granites and adakites, regardless of melting pressure. This is best explained if Archaean granitoids were formed by melting of subducted basaltic crust enriched in sedimentary silica through interaction with seawater. Before the appearance of silica-forming organisms 0.5\u20130.6\u2009billion years ago, the oceans were close to silicon saturation, which led to extensive precipitation of cherts on the seafloor. This is in contrast to modern oceans, where silica biomineralization maintains dissolved silicon at low concentration. The unique heavy silicon isotope signature of cherts has been transferred to Archaean granitoids during an oceanic subduction process, which was probably responsible for the formation of felsic rocks on Archaean emerged lands. Archaean granitic rocks formed by melting of silica-enriched subducted basaltic crust through interaction with seawater, according to heavy silicon isotopes measured in Archaean samples.", "keywords": ["Geochemistry", "13. Climate action", "Precambrian geology", "[SDU.STU.GC] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry", "14. 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An increased flow of carbon from the atmosphere into soil pools could help mitigate anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and climate change. Yet we do not know how quickly soils might respond because the age distribution of soil carbon is uncertain. Here we used 789 radiocarbon (\u220614C) profiles, along with other geospatial information, to create globally gridded datasets of mineral soil \u220614C and mean age. We found that soil depth is a primary driver of \u220614C, whereas climate (for example, mean annual temperature) is a major control on the spatial pattern of \u220614C in surface soil. Integrated to a depth of 1\u2009m, global soil carbon has a mean age of 4,830\u2009\u00b1\u20091,730\u2009yr, with older carbon in deeper layers and permafrost regions. In contrast, vertically resolved land models simulate \u220614C values that imply younger carbon ages and a more rapid carbon turnover. Our data-derived estimates of older mean soil carbon age suggest that soils will accumulate less carbon than predicted by current Earth system models over the twenty-first century. Reconciling these models with the global distribution of soil radiocarbon will require a better representation of the mechanisms that control carbon persistence in soils. Soils may accumulate less carbon and with a slower turnover than Earth system models predict, according to analysis of the age distribution of global soil carbon, which finds that the mean age of soil carbon is older than that in simulated in models.", "keywords": ["Climate Action", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Earth Sciences", "Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences", "15. 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During such events, the atmospheric circulation is typically governed by persistent anticyclones, enabling cloud-free conditions and advection of hot air. Dry soils in heatwave regions are also known to further contribute to the escalation of air temperatures. However, while local land\u2013atmosphere feedbacks are well studied, the same does not apply to the influence of upwind areas, from where heat is advected. Here we investigate reanalysis data using a Lagrangian heat-tracking model to unravel the role of upwind land\u2013atmosphere feedbacks during the two European mega-heatwaves of this century: the events in 2003 and 2010. Our analysis indicates that advected sensible heat can come in torrents, suddenly and intensely, leading to abrupt increases in air temperatures that further strengthen local land\u2013atmosphere feedbacks via soil desiccation. During both mega-heatwaves, about 30% of the advected sensible heat was caused by the drought upwind. Since subtropical droughts are projected to aggravate during this century, in light of our results, this may be accompanied by consequent intensification of midlatitude mega-heatwaves. We therefore recommend considering not only local, but also upwind land cover and land-use management in the design of adaptation strategies against compound drought\u2013heatwave events. The European mega-heatwaves in 2003 and 2010 were intensified by torrents of hot air that were transported in from desiccated regions upwind, suggests an analysis of observations and reanalysis data together with a Lagrangian heat-tracking framework.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0207 environmental engineering", "Life Science", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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To be effective, such management must account for processes influencing carbon storage and re-emission at different space and time scales. Achieving this requires a conceptual advance in our understanding to link carbon dynamics from the scales at which processes occur to the scales at which decisions are made. Here, we propose that soil carbon persistence can be understood through the lens of decomposers as a result of functional complexity derived from the interplay between spatial and temporal variation of molecular diversity and composition. For example, co-location alone can determine whether a molecule is decomposed, with rapid changes in moisture leading to transport of organic matter and constraining the fitness of the microbial community, while greater molecular diversity may increase the metabolic demand of, and thus potentially limit, decomposition. This conceptual shift accounts for emergent behaviour of the microbial community and would enable soil carbon changes to be predicted without invoking recalcitrant carbon forms that have not been observed experimentally. Functional complexity as a driver of soil carbon persistence suggests soil management should be based on constant care rather than one-time action to lock away carbon in soils.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "DECOMPOSITION", "2. Zero hunger", "106022 Mikrobiologie", "[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "UNCERTAINTY", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "INPUTS", "15. Life on land", "TRANSPORT", "MODEL", "[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "106026 \u00d6kosystemforschung", "13. 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When evaporation is constrained by soil moisture, the atmospheric supply of water is depleted, and this deficit may propagate in time and space. This mechanism could theoretically result in the self-propagation of droughts, but the extent to which this process occurs is unknown. Here we isolate the influence of soil moisture drought on downwind precipitation using Lagrangian moisture tracking constrained by observations from the 40 largest recent droughts worldwide. We show that dryland droughts are particularly prone to self-propagating, because evaporation tends to respond strongly to enhanced soil water stress. In drylands precipitation can decline by more than 15% due to upwind drought in during a single event, and up to 30% during individual months. In light of projected widespread reductions in water availability, this feedback may further exacerbate future droughts.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "6. 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Regional long-term variations in fire frequency and intensity characterize fire regimes. The spatial variability in Arctic\uffe2\uff80\uff93boreal fire regimes and their environmental and anthropogenic drivers, however, remain poorly understood. Here we present a fire tracking system to map the sub-daily evolution of all circumpolar Arctic\uffe2\uff80\uff93boreal fires between 2012 and 2023 using 375\uffe2\uff80\uff89m Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite active fire detections and the resulting dataset of the ignition time, location, size, duration, spread and intensity of individual fires. We use this dataset to classify the Arctic\uffe2\uff80\uff93boreal biomes into seven distinct \uffe2\uff80\uff98pyroregions\uffe2\uff80\uff99 with unique climatic and geographic environments. We find that these pyroregions exhibit varying responses to environmental drivers, with boreal North America, eastern Siberia and northern tundra regions showing the highest sensitivity to climate and lightning density. In addition, anthropogenic factors play an important role in influencing fire number and size, interacting with other factors. Understanding the spatial variability of fire regimes and its interconnected drivers in the Arctic\uffe2\uff80\uff93boreal domain is important for improving future predictions of fire activity and identifying areas at risk for extreme events.Fires can be ignited by people or by natural causes, which are almost exclusively lightning strikes. Discriminating between lightning and anthropogenic fires is paramount when estimating impacts of changing socioeconomic and climatological conditions on fire activity. Here we use reference data of fire ignition locations, cause and burned area from seven world regions in a machine-learning approach to obtain a global attribution of lightning and anthropogenic ignitions as dominant fire ignition sources. We show that 77% (uncertainty expressed as one standard deviation\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff898%) of the burned area in extratropical intact forests currently stems from lightning and that these areas will probably experience 11 to 31% more lightning per degree warming. Extratropical forests are of global importance for carbon storage. They currently experience high fire-related forest losses and have, per unit area, among the largest fire emissions on Earth. Future increases in lightning in intact forest may therefore compound the positive feedback loop between climate change and extratropical wildfires.Soils store more carbon than other terrestrial ecosystems1,2. How soil organic carbon (SOC) forms and persists remains uncertain1,3, which makes it challenging to understand how it will respond to climatic change3,4. It has been suggested that soil microorganisms play an important role in SOC formation, preservation and loss5\uffe2\uff80\uff937. Although microorganisms affect the accumulation and loss of soil organic matter through many pathways4,6,8\uffe2\uff80\uff9311, microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is an integrative metric that can capture the balance of these processes12,13. Although CUE has the potential to act as a predictor of variation in SOC storage, the role of CUE in SOC persistence remains unresolved7,14,15. Here we examine the relationship between CUE and the preservation of SOC, and interactions with climate, vegetation and edaphic properties, using a combination of global-scale datasets, a microbial-process explicit model, data assimilation, deep learning and meta-analysis. We find that CUE is at least four times as important as other evaluated factors, such as carbon input, decomposition or vertical transport, in determining SOC storage and its spatial variation across the globe. In addition, CUE shows a positive correlation with SOC content. Our findings point to microbial CUE as a major determinant of global SOC storage. Understanding the microbial processes underlying CUE and their environmental dependence may help the prediction of SOC feedback to a changing climate.Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems are large reservoirs of organic carbon1,2. Climate warming may stimulate ecosystem respiration and release carbon into the atmosphere3,4. The magnitude and persistency of this stimulation and the environmental mechanisms that drive its variation remain uncertain5\uffe2\uff80\uff937. This hampers the accuracy of global land carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff93climate feedback projections7,8. Here we synthesize 136 datasets from 56 open-top chamber in situ warming experiments located at 28 arctic and alpine tundra sites which have been running for less than 1\uffe2\uff80\uff89year up to 25\uffe2\uff80\uff89years. We show that a mean rise of 1.4\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb0C [confidence interval (CI) 0.9\uffe2\uff80\uff932.0\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb0C] in air and 0.4\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb0C [CI 0.2\uffe2\uff80\uff930.7\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb0C] in soil temperature results in an increase in growing season ecosystem respiration by 30% [CI 22\uffe2\uff80\uff9338%] (n\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff89136). Our findings indicate that the stimulation of ecosystem respiration was due to increases in both plant-related and microbial respiration (n\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff899) and continued for at least 25\uffe2\uff80\uff89years (n\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff89136). The magnitude of the warming effects on respiration was driven by variation in warming-induced changes in local soil conditions, that is, changes in total nitrogen concentration and pH and by context-dependent spatial variation in these conditions, in particular total nitrogen concentration and the carbon:nitrogen ratio. Tundra sites with stronger nitrogen limitations and sites in which warming had stimulated plant and microbial nutrient turnover seemed particularly sensitive in their respiration response to warming. The results highlight the importance of local soil conditions and warming-induced changes therein for future climatic impacts on respiration.The increasing emergence of multi-resistant bacteria in healthcare settings, in the community and in the environment represents a major health threat worldwide. In 2016, we started a pilot project to investigate antimicrobial resistance in surface water. Bacteria were enriched, cultivated on selective chromogenic media and species identification was carried out by MALDI-TOF analysis. From a river in southern Austria a methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was isolated. Whole genome sequence analysis identified the isolate as ST8, spa type t008, SCCmecIV, PVL and ACME positive, which are main features of CA-MRSA USA300. Whole genome based cgMLST of the water isolate and comparison to 18 clinical MRSA USA300 isolates from the Austrian national reference laboratory for coagulase positive staphylococci originating from 2004, 2005 and 2016 and sequences of 146 USA300 isolates arbitrarily retrieved from the Sequence Read Archive revealed a close relatedness to a clinical isolate from Austria. The presence of a CA-MRSA USA300 isolate in an aquatic environment might pose a public health risk by serving as a potential source of infection or a source for emergence of new pathogenic MRSA clones.
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Impacts of plant genotype on microbial assemblage in the phyllosphere (above-ground parts of plants, which predominantly consists of the set of photosynthetic leaves) of Vitis vinifera cultivars have been studied previously but the impact of grape species (under the grape family Vitaceae) was never investigated. Considering the fact, that the phyllosphere microbiome may have profound effects on host plant health and its performance traits, studying the impact of grape species in microbial taxa structuring in the phyllosphere could be of crucial importance. We performed 16S and ITS profiling (for bacteria and fungi respectively) to access genus level characterization of the microflora present in the leaf phyllosphere of five species within this plant family, sampled in two successive years from the repository situated in the Mediterranean. We also performed \uffce\uffb1 and \uffce\uffb2-diversity analyses with robust statistical estimates to test the impacts of grape species and growing year, over a two-year period. Our results indicated the presence of complex microbial diversity and assemblages in the phyllosphere with a significant effect of both factors (grape species and growing year), the latter effect is being more pronounced. We also compared separate normalization methods for high-throughput microbiome data-sets followed by differential taxa abundance analyses. The results suggested the predominance of a particular normalization method over others. This also indicated the need for more robust normalization methods to study the differential taxa abundance among groups in microbiome research.
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