{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.5281/zenodo.13374006", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:22:12Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Microbial biomass and water-extractable carbon on Mt. Kilimanjaro", "description": "This dataset presents the value of microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and water-extractable carbon (WOC) at study plots under KiLi project.  Microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and water-extractable organic carbon (WOC) \u2013 as sensitive and important parameters for soil fertility and C turnover \u2013 are strongly affected by land-use changes all over the world. These effects are particularly distinct upon conversion of natural to agricultural ecosystems due to very fast carbon (C) and nutrient cycles and high vulnerability, especially in the tropics. The objective of this study was to use the unique advantage of Mt. Kilimanjaro \u2013 altitudinal gradient leading to different tropical ecosystems but developed all on the same soil parent material \u2013 to investigate the effects of land-use change and elevation on MBC and WOC contents during a transition phase from dry to wet season. Down to a soil depth of 50\u00a0cm, we compared MBC and WOC contents of 2 natural (Ocotea\u00a0and\u00a0Podocarpus forest), 3 seminatural (lower montane forest, grassland, savannah), 1 sustainably used (homegarden) and 2 intensively used (maize field, coffee plantation) ecosystems on an elevation gradient from 950 to 2850\u00a0m a.s.l.  The KiLi project (2010-2018) is a German Science Foundation (DFG) funded research unit (DFG research unit FOR1246) that focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem processes along altitudinal and disturbance gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa), capitalizing on its world-wide unique range of climatic and vegetation zones. The research unit comprises 2 central projects and 7 subprojects from various disciplines. On a total of 60 study sites in both natural and human-disturbed ecosystems biodiversity (e.g. plants, soil arthropods, ants, bees, frogs, lizards, bats, birds), related ecosystem processes (decomposition, seed dispersal, pollination, herbivory, predation), and biogeochemical processes and properties of ecosystems (climate, soil properties and nutrient status, regulation of water and carbon fluxes, trace gas emissions, primary productivity, functional diversity) are analyzed.", "keywords": ["land-use change", "microbial carbon dynamics", "tropical ecosystem", "andosol", "elevation gradient", "water-extractable carbon"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13374006"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.13374006", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.13374006", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.13374006"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-08-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10021-013-9690-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:14:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-06-28", "title": "Pedogenic Thresholds And Soil Process Domains In Basalt-Derived Soils", "description": "Pedogenic thresholds occur where soil properties change abruptly and/or nonlinearly with a small increment in environmental forcing; soil process domains are the regions between thresholds where soils change much more gradually across a large range of environmental forcing. We evaluated thresholds and domains in basalt-derived soils on two rainfall gradients in Hawaii\u2014one from 260 to 3,540 mm/y precipitation on 150,000-year-old substrate, the other from 600 to 3,760 mm/y on 4,100,000-year-old substrate. We identified thresholds associated with the initiation of biological uplift of nutrients at about 700 mm/y on the younger substrate, the depletion of primary minerals at about 2,100 mm/y on the younger and about 900 mm/y on the older substrate, and the initiation of anoxic conditions and associated Fe mobility at about 2,500 mm/y on the older substrate. These thresholds delineated process domains characterized by pedogenic carbonate accumulation and wind erosion (dry young substrate); by weathering and biological uplift of nutrients (intermediate rainfall young substrate and dry old substrate); by surface Fe enrichment and nutrient depletion (wet young substrate and intermediate rainfall old substrate); and by Fe mobilization and loss (wet old substrate). Soils on the older substrate were more highly weathered, lower in total and available P, and characterized by more crystalline clays than otherwise comparable soils on the younger substrate. Prior to European contact, Hawaiian cultivators developed an intensive rainfed agricultural system in the weathering/biological uplift domain on the younger substrate; we suggest that only this domain could support indigenous agricultural intensification in upland soils.", "keywords": ["2. 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P mobilization processes in the rhizosphere include the release of plant and microbially-derived protons and extracellular phosphatases. We investigated the effect of root hairs and soil texture on the spatial distribution and intensity of P mobilizing processes in the rhizosphere of Zea mays L. root-hair defective mutant (rth3) and wild-type (WT) grown in two substrates (loam, sand). We applied 2D-chemical imaging methods in custom-designed root windows installed in the field to visualize soil pH (optodes), acid phosphatase activity (zymography), and labile P and Mn fluxes (diffusive gradients in thin films, DGT).  The average rhizosphere extent for phosphatase activity and pH was greater in sand than in loam, while the presence of root-hairs had no impact. Acidification was significantly stronger at young root tissue ( 4\u202fcm from root cap) and stronger in WT than rth3. Accompanied with stronger acidification, higher P flux was observed mainly around young, actively growing root tissues for both genotypes. Our results indicate that acidification was linked to root growth and created a pH optimum for acid phosphatase activity, i.e., mineralization of organic P, especially at young root tissues which are major sites of P uptake. Both genotypes grew better in loam than in sand; however, the presence of root hairs generally resulted in higher shoot P concentrations and greater shoot biomass of WT compared to rth3. We conclude that soil substrate had a larger impact on the extent and intensity of P solubilization processes in the rhizosphere of maize than the presence of root hairs. For the first time, we combined 2D-imaging of soil pH, phosphatase activity, and nutrient gradients in the field and demonstrated a novel approach of stepwise data integration revealing the interplay of various P solubilizing processes in situ.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "Soil zymography", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)", "15. 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The trial is a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term field experiment which divides conventional and organic agriculture into component pest\uffe2\uff80\uff90control and soil treatment practices. We hypothesised that management practices would affect soil ecology and used community level physiological profiles, microbial and nematode counts, and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) to characterise soil microbial communities in plots used for onion (Allium cepa L.) cultivation.</p>RESULTS<p>Microbial activity and culturable bacterial counts were significantly higher under fully organic management. Culturable fungi, actinomycete and nematode counts showed a consistent trend towards higher numbers under fully organic management but these data were not statistically significant. No differences were found in the fungal/bacterial ratio. DGGE banding patterns and sequencing of excised bands showed clear differences between treatments. Putative onion fungal pathogens were predominantly sequenced under conventional soil treatment practices whilst putative soil suppressive bacterial species were predominantly sequenced from the organic pest\uffe2\uff80\uff90control treatment plots.</p>CONCLUSION<p>Organic management increased microbial activity and diversity. Sequence data was indicative of differences in functional groups and warrants further investigation. \uffc2\uffa9 2013 Society of Chemical Industry</p>", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "Microbial diversity", "Nematoda", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Onions", "Animals", "DNA", " Fungal", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Organic Agriculture", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis", "0402 animal and dairy science", "Fungi", "Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis", "Agriculture", "Biolog Eco-plates", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Community level physiological profile", "Organic agriculture", "0405 other agricultural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.6206"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20the%20Science%20of%20Food%20and%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/jsfa.6206", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/jsfa.6206", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/jsfa.6206"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-06-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00442-002-1117-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:14:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-22", "title": "Nitrogen Limitation Of Growth And Nutrient Dynamics In A Disturbed Mangrove Forest, Indian River Lagoon, Florida", "description": "The objectives of this study were to determine effects of nutrient enrichment on plant growth, nutrient dynamics, and photosynthesis in a disturbed mangrove forest in an abandoned mosquito impoundment in Florida. Impounding altered the hydrology and soil chemistry of the site. In 1997, we established a factorial experiment along a tree-height gradient with three zones, i.e., fringe, transition, dwarf, and three fertilizer treatment levels, i.e., nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), control, in Mosquito Impoundment 23 on the eastern side of Indian River. Transects traversed the forest perpendicular to the shoreline, from a Rhizophora mangle-dominated fringe through an Avicennia germinans stand of intermediate height, and into a scrub or dwarf stand of A. germinans in the hinterland. Growth rates increased significantly in response to N fertilization. Our growth data indicated that this site is N-limited along the tree-height gradient. After 2 years of N addition, dwarf trees resembled vigorously growing saplings. Addition of N also affected internal dynamics of N and P and caused increases in rates of photosynthesis. These findings contrast with results for a R. mangle-dominated forest in Belize where the fringe is N-limited, but the dwarf zone is P-limited and the transition zone is co-limited by N and P. This study demonstrated that patterns of nutrient limitation in mangrove ecosystems are complex, that not all processes respond similarly to the same nutrient, and that similar habitats are not limited by the same nutrient when different mangrove forests are compared.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Leaves", "Nitrogen", "Fresh-water", "Electron-transport", "01 natural sciences", "Rhizophora-mangle", "Trees", "Sediments", "Random Allocation", "Soil", "Plant-growth", "0502 Environmental Science and Management", "phosphorus", "Photosynthesis", "Vs. Phosphorus Limitation", "Patterns", "Ecosystem", "disturbance", "580", "photosynthesis", "Ecology", "experiment", "Phosphorus", "15. Life on land", "Belize", "Use Efficiency", "Plant Leaves", "fertilization", "Florida", "resorption", "Gradient", "Avicennia"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-002-1117-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Oecologia", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00442-002-1117-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00442-002-1117-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00442-002-1117-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-01-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s00442-005-0249-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:14:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-10-04", "title": "Fungal Community Composition And Metabolism Under Elevated Co2 And O-3", "description": "Atmospheric CO(2) and O(3) concentrations are increasing due to human activity and both trace gases have the potential to alter C cycling in forest ecosystems. Because soil microorganisms depend on plant litter as a source of energy for metabolism, changes in the amount or the biochemistry of plant litter produced under elevated CO(2) and O(3) could alter microbial community function and composition. Previously, we have observed that elevated CO(2) increased the microbial metabolism of cellulose and chitin, whereas elevated O(3) dampened this response. We hypothesized that this change in metabolism under CO(2) and O(3) enrichment would be accompanied by a concomitant change in fungal community composition. We tested our hypothesis at the free-air CO(2) and O(3) enrichment (FACE) experiment at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, in which Populus tremuloides, Betula papyrifera, and Acer saccharum were grown under factorial CO(2) and O(3) treatments. We employed extracellular enzyme analysis to assay microbial metabolism, phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis to determine changes in microbial community composition, and polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) to analyze the fungal community composition. The activities of 1,4-beta-glucosidase (+37%) and 1,4,-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase (+84%) were significantly increased under elevated CO(2), whereas 1,4-beta-glucosidase activity (-25%) was significantly suppressed by elevated O(3). There was no significant main effect of elevated CO(2) or O(3) on fungal relative abundance, as measured by PLFA. We identified 39 fungal taxonomic units from soil using DGGE, and found that O(3) enrichment significantly altered fungal community composition. We conclude that fungal metabolism is altered under elevated CO(2) and O(3), and that there was a concomitant change in fungal community composition under elevated O(3). Thus, changes in plant inputs to soil under elevated CO(2) and O(3) can propagate through the microbial food web to alter the cycling of C in soil.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Food Chain", "Extracellular Enzymes", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Polymerase Chain Reaction\u2013Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis", "Polymerase Chain Reaction", "01 natural sciences", "Soil Microbial Community", "Soil", "Ozone", "Health Sciences", "Acetylglucosaminidase", "Cellular and Developmental Biology", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "beta-Glucosidase", "Fatty Acids", "Fungi", "Natural Resources and Environment", "Molecular", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Fungal Metabolism", "Carbon", "Free-air CO 2 and O 3 Enrichment", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Extracellular Space"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-005-0249-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Oecologia", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s00442-005-0249-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s00442-005-0249-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s00442-005-0249-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-10-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.03.003", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:15:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-04-20", "title": "Effects Of Organic Versus Conventional Management On Chemical And Biological Parameters In Agricultural Soils", "description": "Abstract   A comparative study of organic and conventional arable farming systems was conducted in The Netherlands to determine the effect of management practices on chemical and biological soil properties and soil health. Soils from thirteen accredited organic farms and conventionally managed neighboring farms were analyzed using a polyphasic approach combining traditional soil analysis, culture-dependent and independent microbiological analyses, a nematode community analysis and an enquiry about different management practices among the farmers. Organic management, known primarily for the abstinence of artificial fertilizers and pesticides, resulted in significantly lower levels of both nitrate and total soluble nitrogen in the soil, higher numbers of bacteria of different trophic groups, as well as larger species richness in both bacteria and nematode communities and more resilience to a drying\u2013rewetting disturbance in the soil. The organic farmers plough their fields less deeply and tend to apply more organic carbon to their fields, but this did not result in a significantly higher organic carbon content in their soils. The levels of ammonium, organic nitrogen, phosphate and total phosphorus did not differ, significantly between the soils under different management. Fifty percent of the conventional Dutch farmers also used organic fertilizers and the numbers of farmers using a green crop fertilizer did not differ between the two management types. Soil type \u2013 clayey or sandy soil \u2013 in general had a much stronger effect on the soil characteristics than management type. The soil type influenced pH, nitrate, ammonium, phosphate and organic carbon levels as well as numbers of oligotrophic bacteria and of different groups of nematodes, and different diversity indices. With the collected data set certain soil characteristics could also be attributed to the use of different management practices like plow depth, crop or cover crop type or to the management history of the soil.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "agroecosystems", "microbial-populations", "species composition", "plant", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "maturity index", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "diversity", "communities", "gradient gel-electrophoresis", "low-input", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "farming systems"], "contacts": [{"organization": "van Diepeningen, A.D., de Vos, O.J., Korthals, G.W., van Bruggen, A.H.C.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.03.003"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.03.003", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.03.003", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.03.003"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4gn", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:29Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2024-05-14", "title": "Variable species establishment in response to microhabitat indicates different likelihoods of climate-driven range shifts", "description": "Open Access<b>Abstract</b><br/><p>Climate change is causing geographic range shifts globally, and understanding the factors that influence species\u2019 range expansions is crucial for predicting future biodiversity changes. A common, yet untested, assumption in forecasting approaches is that species will shift beyond current range edges into new habitats as they become macroclimatically suitable, even though microhabitat variability could have overriding effects on local population dynamics. We aim to better understand the role of microhabitat in range shifts in plants through its impacts on establishment by Q1) examining microhabitat variability along large macroclimatic (i.e., elevational) gradients, Q2) testing which of these microhabitat variables explain plant recruitment and seedling survival, and Q3) predicting microhabitat suitability beyond species range limits. We transplanted seeds of 25 common tree, shrub, forb, and graminoid species across and beyond their current elevational ranges in the Washington Cascade Range, USA, along a large elevational gradient spanning a broad range of macroclimates. Over five years, we recorded recruitment, survival, and microhabitat (i.e., high resolution soil, air, and light) characteristics rarely measured in biogeographic studies. We asked whether microhabitat variables correlate with elevation, which variables drive species establishment, and whether microhabitat variables important for establishment are already suitable beyond leading range limits. We found that only 30% of microhabitat parameters covaried with elevation. We further observed extremely low recruitment and moderate seedling survival, and these were generally only weakly explained by microhabitat. Moreover, species and life stages responded in contrasting ways to soil biota, soil moisture, temperature, and snow duration. Microhabitat suitability predictions suggest that distribution shifts are likely to be species-specific, as different species have different suitability and availability of microhabitat beyond their present ranges, thus calling into question low-resolution macroclimatic projections that will miss such complexities. We encourage further research on species responses to microhabitat and including microhabitat in range shift forecasts.</p>", "keywords": ["soil composition", "seed transplant", "Cascades", "recruitment", "seedling survival", "FOS: Biological sciences", "microhabitat suitability", "Other", "Elevational gradient", "range shift"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Chardon, Nathalie Isabelle, McBurnie, Lauren, Goodwin, Katie, Pradhan, Kavya, Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke, Angert, Amy L.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4gn"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4gn", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4gn", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4gn"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.021", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:16:03Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-08-20", "title": "Effects Of Long-Term Grazing On Sediment Deposition And Salt-Marsh Accretion Rates", "description": "<p>Many studies have attempted to predict whether coastal marshes will be able to keep up with future acceleration of sea-level rise by estimating marsh accretion rates. However, there are few studies focussing on the long-term effects of herbivores on vegetation structure and subsequent effects on marsh accretion. Deposition of fine-grained, mineral sediment during tidal inundations, together with organic matter accumulation from the local vegetation, positively affects accretion rates of marsh surfaces. Tall vegetation can enhance sediment deposition by reducing current flow and wave action. Herbivores shorten vegetation height and this could potentially reduce sediment deposition. This study estimated the effects of herbivores on 1) vegetation height, 2) sediment deposition and 3) resulting marsh accretion after long-term (at least 16 years) herbivore exclusion of both small (i.e. hare and goose) and large grazers (i.e. cattle) for marshes of different ages. Our results firstly showed that both small and large herbivores can have a major impact on vegetation height. Secondly, grazing processes did not affect sediment deposition. Finally, trampling by large grazers affected marsh accretion rates by compacting the soil. In many European marshes, grazing is used as a tool in nature management as well as for agricultural purposes. Thus, we propose that soil compaction by large grazers should be taken in account when estimating the ability of coastal systems to cope with an accelerating sea-level rise. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.</p>", "keywords": ["marsh succession", "0106 biological sciences", "Surface elevation change", "Sea-level rise", "FLOW", "Sedimentation rate", "SEA-LEVEL RISE", "SURFACE ELEVATION", "01 natural sciences", "BROWN HARES", "Herbivory", "14. Life underwater", "Marsh succession", "Biology", "Global change", "VEGETATION SUCCESSION", "global change", "COASTAL WETLANDS", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "sedimentation rate", "herbivory", "GEESE", "sea-level rise", "15. Life on land", "PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENT", "surface elevation change", "NORTH-SEA", "13. Climate action", "TIDAL MARSH"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.021"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Estuarine%2C%20Coastal%20and%20Shelf%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.021", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.021", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.08.021"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.03.024", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:16:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-04-08", "title": "Decomposition Of Beech (Fagus Sylvatica) And Pine (Pinus Nigra) Litter Along An Alpine Elevation Gradient: Decay And Nutrient Release", "description": "Litter decomposition is an important process for cycling of nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems. The objective of this study was to evaluate direct and indirect effects of climate on litter decomposition along an altitudinal gradient in a temperate Alpine region. Foliar litter of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Black pine (Pinus nigra) was incubated in litterbags during two years in the Hochschwab massif of the Northern Limestone Alps of Austria. Eight incubation sites were selected following an altitudinal/climatic transect from 1900 to 900\u00a0m\u00a0asl. The average remaining mass after two years of decomposition amounted to 54% (beech) and 50% (pine). Net release of N, P, Na, Al, Fe and Mn was higher in pine than in beech litter due to high immobilization (retention) rates of beech litter. However, pine litter retained more Ca than beech litter. Altitude retarded decay (mass loss and associated C release) in beech litter during the first year only but had a longer lasting effect on decaying pine litter. Altitude comprises a suite of highly auto-correlated characteristics (climate, vegetation, litter, soil chemistry, soil microbiology, snow cover) that influence litter decomposition. Hence, decay and nutrient release of incubated litter is difficult to predict by altitude, except during the early stage of decomposition, which seemed to be controlled by climate. Reciprocal litter transplant along the elevation gradient yielded even relatively higher decay of pine litter on beech forest sites after a two-year adaptation period of the microbial community.", "keywords": ["Pinus nigra", "0106 biological sciences", "Decomposition", "Fagus sylvatica", "Soil Science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Climosequence", "13. Climate action", "Elevation gradient", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Litterbag"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.03.024"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.03.024", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.03.024", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.03.024"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.009", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:16:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-02-05", "title": "Realistic Soil C Sink Estimate In Dry Forests Of Western Argentina Based On Humic Substance Content", "description": "Abstract   Due to high temporal variation of soil organic matter in arid regions, estimates of annual sequestered C might be overestimate. We assessed the soil stable organic matter (humic substances) in the transitional area between Dry Chaco and Monte eco-regions in western Argentina, as an approach to estimate realistic soil C sink. Soil samples were taken during wet and dry seasons in four sites along precipitation gradient. In each site three soil cover situations (under tree, under shrubs and on bare soils) were sampled ( n \u00a0=\u00a05) and the quantity and type of residues (tree and shrub leaves, woody material, grasses and forbs) were recorded. Soil organic matter and humic substances (humic and fulvic acids) content were analyzed and non-humic substances were calculated by the differences between organic matter and humic substances. Soil humic substance proportion respect to SOM was low (20%) in all sites and it did not correspond with the precipitation gradient. Non-humic substances were lower in wet season indicating high C lability. The most important factors that affected soil humic substance content were the type and quantity of organic residues and soil cover type. Our results suggest that previous C sink estimations in Argentina dry forest probably are overestimated.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Dry Chaco Eco-Region", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5", "13. Climate action", "Fulvic Acids", "Monte Eco-Region", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Humic Acids", "Precipitation Gradient", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "Non-Humic Substances"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Abril, Adriana, Merlo, Carolina, Noe, Laura Bel\u00e9n,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.009"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Arid%20Environments", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.009", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.009", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.009"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.120", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:16:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-03-06", "title": "Distribution trend of trace elements in digestate exposed to air: Laboratory-scale investigations using DGT-based fractionation", "description": "The use of digestate as amendment for agricultural soils has already been proposed as an alternative to mineral fertilizers or undigested organic matter. However, little information is available concerning the effect of digestate atmospheric exposure on trace elements speciation and, consequently, on their mobility and bio-accessibility when digestate is stored in open tanks or handled before land spreading. In this study, we investigated at laboratory-scale the effect of digestate aeration on the distribution of Al, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sb, Se and W using the diffusive gradients in thin films technique (DGT)-based fractionation. For this purpose, experiments were performed to assess the variation in distribution between the labile, soluble and particulate fractions over time in digested sewage sludge during passive and forced aeration. Results showed that aeration promoted a dissolution of Al, As, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo and Pb, suggesting a possible increase in their mobility that may likely occur during storage in open tanks or handling before land spreading. Labile elements' fraction increased only during forced aeration (except for Fe and Mn), suggesting that their short-term bio-accessibility can increase only after significant aeration as the one assumed to occur when land spreading takes place.", "keywords": ["550", "[SPI.GPROC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Speciation", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)", "Chemical Fractionation", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Soil", "Digested sewage sludge", "[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Fractionation", "Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT); Digested sewage sludge; Fractionation; Metalloids; Metals; Speciation; Chemical Fractionation; Environmental Monitoring; Sewage; Soil; Trace Elements", "Metalloids", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Sewage", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Peatland GHG emissions are related to soil water-table level (WT), which controls the vertical distribution of aerobic and anaerobic processes and, consequently, sinks and sources of GHGs in soils. On forested peatlands, selection harvesting reduces stand evapotranspiration and it has been suggested that the resulting WT rise decreases soil net emissions, while the tree growth is maintained. We monitored soil concentrations of CO2, CH4, N2O and O2 by depth down to 80\u00a0cm, and CO2 and CH4 fluxes from soil in two nutrient-rich Norway spruce dominated peatlands in Southern Finland to examine the responses of soil GHG dynamics to WT rise. Selection harvesting raised WT by 14\u00a0cm on both sites, on average, mean WTs of the monitoring period being 73\u00a0cm for unharvested control and 59\u00a0cm for selection harvest. All soil gas concentrations were associated with proximity to WT. Both CH4 and CO2 showed remarkable vertical concentration gradients, with high values in the deepest layer, likely due to slow gas transfer in wet peat. CH4 was efficiently consumed in peat layers near and above WT where it reached sub-atmospheric concentrations, indicating sustained oxidation of CH4 from both atmospheric and deeper soil origins also after harvesting. Based on soil gas concentration data, surface peat (top 25/30\u00a0cm layer) contributed most to the soil-atmosphere CO2 fluxes and harvesting slightly increased the CO2 source in deeper soil (below 45/50\u00a0cm), which could explain the small CO2 flux differences between treatments. N2O production occurred above WT, and it was unaffected by harvesting. Overall, the WT rise obtained with selection harvesting was not sufficient to reduce soil GHG emissions, but additional hydrological regulation would have been needed.", "keywords": ["550", "218 Environmental engineering", "Forestry", "216", "15. Life on land", "Soil greenhouse gas emissions", "ta4112", "Continuous cover forestry", "13. Climate action", "218", "Gradient method", "216 Materials engineering", "11. Sustainability", "Peatland hydrology", "Norway spruce mire", "Climate smart forestry"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165421"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165421", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165421", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165421"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.10.020", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:16:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-01-05", "title": "Response Of Microbial Activity And Microbial Community Composition In Soils To Long-Term Arsenic And Cadmium Exposure", "description": "Abstract   Arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) in soils can affect soil microbial function and community composition and, therefore, may have effects on soil ecosystem functioning. The aim of our study was to assess the effects of long-term As and Cd contamination on soil microbial community composition and soil enzyme activities. We analyzed soils that have been contaminated 25 years ago and at present still show enhanced levels of either As, 18 and 39\u00a0mg\u00a0kg\u22121, or Cd, 34 and 134\u00a0mg\u00a0kg\u22121. Soil without heavy metal addition served as control. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) showed that bacterial community composition in As and Cd contaminated soils differed from that in the control soil. The same was true for the microbial community composition assessed by analysis of respiratory quinones. Soil fungi and Proteobacteria appeared to be tolerant towards As and Cd, while other groups of bacteria were reduced. The decline in alkaline phosphatase, arylsulphatase, protease and urease activities in the As- and Cd-contaminated soils was correlated with a decrease of respiratory quinones occuring in Actinobacteria and Firmicutes. Xylanase activity was unaffected or elevated in the contaminated soils which was correlated with a higher abundance of fungal quinones, and quinones found in Proteobacteria.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "quinones", "cadmium", "arsenic", "microbial community composition", "denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "333", "6. Clean water", "enzyme activities", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.10.020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Biology%20and%20Biochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.10.020", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.10.020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.10.020"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.12.023", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:16:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-03-03", "title": "Earthworms (Millsonia Anomala, Megascolecidae) Do Not Increase Rice Growth Through Enhanced Nitrogen Mineralization", "description": "Earthworms have been shown to increase plant growth in 75% of the experiments that have compared plant growth in their presence and absence. However, the relative importance of the different mechanisms advanced to explain such a stimulatory effect has never been tested. In a laboratory experiment, we observed increased growth of rice plants in the presence of earthworms (Millsonia anomala, Megascolecidae) and demonstrated that enhanced nitrogen release (generally considered as the principal mechanism involved in earthworm positive effect on plants) was not responsible for this result: earthworms had the same stimulatory effect on plant growth (+20%) irrespective of whether the soil (provided with different amounts of mineral-N fertilizer) was either N-limited or N-saturated. We discuss alternative explanations for the observed variations in rice production.", "keywords": ["580", "Nitrogen gradient", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Mineralization", "nitrogen gradient", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Mechanisms affecting plant growth", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "Earthworm", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "mineralization", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "earthworm", "mechanisms affecting plant growth"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hal-bioemco.ccsd.cnrs.fr/bioemco-00448744/file/Blouin_et_al.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.12.023"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Biology%20and%20Biochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.12.023", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.12.023", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.12.023"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.still.2005.08.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:17:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-09-09", "title": "Soil Aggregation And Bacterial Community Structure As Affected By Tillage And Cover Cropping In The Brazilian Cerrados", "description": "<p>Microbial-based indicators of soil quality are believed to be more dynamic than those based on physical and chemical properties. Recent developments in molecular biology based techniques have led to rapid and reliable tools to characterize microbial community structures. We determined the effects of conventional and no-tillage in cropping systems with and without cover crops on bacterial community structure, total organic carbon (TOC) and soil aggregation. Tillage and rotation did not affect TOC from bulk soil. However, TOC was greater in the largest aggregate size class (7.98-19 mm), and had greater mean-weight diameter under no-tillage than under conventional tillage in the 0-5 cm soil layer. Soil bacterial community structure, based on denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of polymerase chain reaction amplified DNA (PCR/DGGE) using two different genes as biomarkers, 16S rRNA and rpoB genes, indicated different populations in response to cultivation, tillage and depth, but not due to cover cropping. Soil bacterial community structure and meanweight diameter of soil aggregates indicated alterations in soil conditions due to tillage system. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "GENES", "Cerrados", "16S RIBOSOMAL-RNA", "no-tillage", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "DGGE profiling", "SUSTAINABILITY", "PCR", "16S rDNA", "GRADIENT GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS", "MANAGEMENT", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "NO-TILLAGE", "HETEROGENEITY", "DGGE", "soil structure", "rpoB", "MICROBIAL DIVERSITY"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2005.08.001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20and%20Tillage%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.still.2005.08.001", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.still.2005.08.001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.still.2005.08.001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/aobpla/plaa020", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-18", "title": "Effect of aridity on species assembly in gypsum drylands: a response mediated by the soil affinity of species", "description": "Abstract<p>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.</p", "keywords": ["semiarid", "0106 biological sciences", "Aridity gradient", "assembly rules", "community weighted mean (CWM)", "Mediterranean", "15. Life on land", "functional diversity", "01 natural sciences", "soil affinity", "gypsum soil", "11. Sustainability", "Studies", "phylogenetic diversity", "edaphic endemism"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://academic.oup.com/aobpla/article-pdf/12/3/plaa020/33378429/plaa020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/AoB%20PLANTS", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/aobpla/plaa020", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/aobpla/plaa020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/aobpla/plaa020"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2007gb003168", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:17:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-04-03", "title": "Grazing Effects On Belowground C And N Stocks Along A Network Of Cattle Exclosures In Temperate And Subtropical Grasslands Of South America", "description": "<p>We evaluated the effects of grazing on C and N belowground pools by comparing 15 grazing\uffe2\uff80\uff90exclosure pairs across the R\uffc3\uffado de la Plata grasslands of Uruguay and Argentina. We measured C and N pools of belowground biomass, particulate organic matter (POM), and the mineral associated organic matter (MAOM) in the top meter of the soil. Grazing exclusion in the R\uffc3\uffado de la Plata grasslands promoted (1) decreased belowground biomass stocks across all sites, (2) increased soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic nitrogen (SON) stocks in upland soils, and (3) decreased stocks in shallow and lowland soils. In all cases, SOC and SON variations were largely derived by changes in MAOM stocks that maintained their C:N ratios unchanged. In contrast, stocks of the labile POM fractions changed little, but C:N ratios of these fractions decreased after grazing removal. We hypothesize that changes in soil organic matter (SOM) contents between grazed and ungrazed stands result from the balance between changes in belowground N allocation patterns (root N retention hypothesis) and the ability of the soil to retain the extra N available after the exclusion of herbivores and the cessation of volatilization and leaching from urine and dung patches (N loss hypothesis). On the basis of our results we suggest that the relative importance of these two cooccurring mechanisms will shape grazing effects on SOM stocks, depending on soil properties, including texture, pH and soil depth, and vegetation type, particularly allocation patterns and C:N ratios of different plant species.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "ARGENTINA", "GRAZING", "AGRICULTURE", "SOIL SCIENCES", "SOIL ORGANIC MATTER", "RANGE MANAGEMENT", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "carbono", "pastoreo", "nitrogeno", "13. Climate action", "URUGUAY", "gradientes", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4", "GRASSLANDS", "AGROCHEMICALS"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gb003168"}, {"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": "10.1029/2007gb003168", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2007gb003168", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2007gb003168"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-04-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2022je007190", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:17:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-01-25", "title": "InSight Pressure Data Recalibration, and Its Application to the Study of Long-Term Pressure Changes on Mars", "description": "Abstract<p>Observations of the South Polar Residual Cap suggest a possible erosion of the cap, leading to an increase of the global mass of the atmosphere. We test this assumption by making the first comparison between Viking 1 and InSight surface pressure data, which were recorded 40\uffc2\uffa0years apart. Such a comparison also allows us to determine changes in the dynamics of the seasonal ice caps between these two periods. To do so, we first had to recalibrate the InSight pressure data because of their unexpected sensitivity to the sensor temperature. Then, we had to design a procedure to compare distant pressure measurements. We propose two surface pressure interpolation methods at the local and global scale to do the comparison. The comparison of Viking and InSight seasonal surface pressure variations does not show changes larger than \uffc2\uffb18\uffc2\uffa0Pa in the CO2 cycle. Such conclusions are supported by an analysis of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) pressure data. Further comparisons with images of the south seasonal cap taken by the Viking 2 orbiter and MARCI camera do not display significant changes in the dynamics of this cap over a 40\uffc2\uffa0year period. Only a possible larger extension of the North Cap after the global storm of MY 34 is observed, but the physical mechanisms behind this anomaly are not well determined. Finally, the first comparison of MSL and InSight pressure data suggests a pressure deficit at Gale crater during southern summer, possibly resulting from a large presence of dust suspended within the crater.</p>", "keywords": ["Atmospheric sciences", "550", "Astronomy", "Atmosphere (unit)", "FOS: Mechanical engineering", "Library science", "Oceanography", "01 natural sciences", "CO<SUB>2</SUB> ice", "pressure", "Mars Exploration Program", "Engineering", "Surface pressure", "Storm", "Martian Climate", "Space Suit Design and Ergonomics for EVA", "Martian Atmosphere", "Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)", "Climatology", "Global and Planetary Change", "Geography", "Martian Surface", "Physics", "Geology", "Impact crater", "Condensed matter physics", "Anomaly (physics)", "World Wide Web", "Algorithm", "Satellite Observations", "Residual", "Physical Sciences", "Exploration and Study of Mars", "Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics", "Research Article", "FOS: Physical sciences", "Mars", "Aerospace Engineering", "Pressure gradient", "Environmental science", "[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "atmospheric mass", "Meteorology", "Orbiter", "0103 physical sciences", "Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)", "Formation and Evolution of the Solar System", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Pressure system", "CO 2 ice", "Astronomy and Astrophysics", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Astrobiology", "Computer science", "Physics and Astronomy", "[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]", "13. Climate action", "Global Methane Emissions and Impacts", "Environmental Science", "cap sublimation", "Water on Mars", "Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022JE007190"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2022je007190"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Planets", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2022je007190", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2022je007190", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2022je007190"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2024GB008367", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:17:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-04-05", "title": "Insect Herbivory Releases More Nutrients in Warmer and Drier Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Climate, forest successional stage, and soil substrate age can alter herbivore communities and their effects on biogeochemical cycling, but the size and spatial variability of these effects are poorly quantified. To address this knowledge gap, we established a globally distributed network of 50 broadleaved old\uffe2\uff80\uff90growth forests across six continents, encompassing well\uffe2\uff80\uff90constrained local\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale gradients in mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), succession, and soil substrate age. We used this network to investigate how these variables impact insect foliar herbivory and the associated carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica fluxes in forest ecosystems. Over 1 to 2\uffc2\uffa0years, we measured stand\uffe2\uff80\uff90level foliar biomass production, leaf\uffe2\uff80\uff90level herbivory, and foliar element concentrations. At the global scale, insect herbivores liberated higher amounts of elements from the canopies of warmer and drier sites than those of cooler and wetter sites with patterns for phosphorus being most pronounced. MAT exerted a stronger influence over insect\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated element fluxes than MAP. Foliar biomass production and leaf\uffe2\uff80\uff90level herbivory responses to MAT and MAP were mainly responsible for the observed changes in insect\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated element fluxes; we also observed minor effects of foliar phosphorus concentration on phosphorus fluxes. Local\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale trends were mixed and successional stage or soil substrate age did not appear to influence insect herbivore\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated element fluxes. These results demonstrate that climate effects on plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90herbivore interactions are stronger at large than small scales, at which herbivory rates and nutrient fluxes appear to be more strongly affected by a diversity of non\uffe2\uff80\uff90climate factors.</p", "keywords": ["Skogsvetenskap", "Forest Science", "primary forest", "folivory", "silicon", "elevation gradient", "nutrient cycling", "chronosequence", "Climate Science", "Klimatvetenskap"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Bernice C. Hwang, Christian P. Giardina, M. Noelia Barrios\u2010Garcia, Haoyu Diao, Virginia Gisela Duboscq\u2010Carra, Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp, Mylthon Jim\u00e9nez\u2010Castillo, Paulina Lobos\u2010Catal\u00e1n, Levan Mumladze, Ana C. Palma, Ion Catalin Petritan, Mariano A. Rodriguez\u2010Cabal, Tommi Andersson, Kainana S. Francisco, Shelley A. Gage, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Seana K. Walsh, Daniel B. Metcalfe,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008367"}, {"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": "10.1029/2024GB008367", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2024GB008367", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2024GB008367"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1029/2024gb008367", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:17:40Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-04-04", "title": "Insect Herbivory Releases More Nutrients in Warmer and Drier Forests", "description": "Abstract<p>Climate, forest successional stage, and soil substrate age can alter herbivore communities and their effects on biogeochemical cycling, but the size and spatial variability of these effects are poorly quantified. To address this knowledge gap, we established a globally distributed network of 50 broadleaved old\uffe2\uff80\uff90growth forests across six continents, encompassing well\uffe2\uff80\uff90constrained local\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale gradients in mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), succession, and soil substrate age. We used this network to investigate how these variables impact insect foliar herbivory and the associated carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica fluxes in forest ecosystems. Over 1 to 2\uffc2\uffa0years, we measured stand\uffe2\uff80\uff90level foliar biomass production, leaf\uffe2\uff80\uff90level herbivory, and foliar element concentrations. At the global scale, insect herbivores liberated higher amounts of elements from the canopies of warmer and drier sites than those of cooler and wetter sites with patterns for phosphorus being most pronounced. MAT exerted a stronger influence over insect\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated element fluxes than MAP. Foliar biomass production and leaf\uffe2\uff80\uff90level herbivory responses to MAT and MAP were mainly responsible for the observed changes in insect\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated element fluxes; we also observed minor effects of foliar phosphorus concentration on phosphorus fluxes. Local\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale trends were mixed and successional stage or soil substrate age did not appear to influence insect herbivore\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated element fluxes. These results demonstrate that climate effects on plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90herbivore interactions are stronger at large than small scales, at which herbivory rates and nutrient fluxes appear to be more strongly affected by a diversity of non\uffe2\uff80\uff90climate factors.</p", "keywords": ["Skogsvetenskap", "Forest Science", "primary forest", "folivory", "silicon", "elevation gradient", "nutrient cycling", "chronosequence", "Climate Science", "Klimatvetenskap"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gb008367"}, {"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": "10.1029/2024gb008367", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2024gb008367", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2024gb008367"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1093/jxb/erad421", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-26", "title": "Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations", "description": "Abstract                <p>Root architectural phenotypes are promising targets for crop breeding, but root architectural effects on microbial associations in agricultural fields are not well understood. Architecture determines the location of microbial associations within root systems, which, when integrated with soil vertical gradients, determines the functions and the metabolic capability of rhizosphere microbial communities. We argue that variation in root architecture in crops has important implications for root exudation, microbial recruitment and function, and the decomposition and fate of root tissues and exudates. Recent research has shown that the root microbiome changes along root axes and among root classes, that root tips have a unique microbiome, and that root exudates change within the root system depending on soil physicochemical conditions. Although fresh exudates are produced in larger amounts in root tips, the rhizosphere of mature root segments also plays a role in influencing soil vertical gradients. We argue that more research is needed to understand specific root phenotypes that structure microbial associations and discuss candidate root phenotypes that may determine the location of microbial hotspots within root systems with relevance to agricultural systems.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "root system architecture", "rhizosphere microbiome", "root growth angle", "15. Life on land", "Expert Views", "Plant Roots", "lateral roots", "soil vertical gradients", "number of axial roots", "Carbon rhizodeposition; lateral roots; number of axial roots; rhizosphere microbiome; root growth angle; rooting depth; root system architecture; soil redox potential; soil vertical gradients", "Plant Breeding", "Soil", "rooting depth", "Rhizosphere", "Carbon rhizodeposition", "soil redox potential", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad421"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Botany", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1093/jxb/erad421", "name": "item", "description": "10.1093/jxb/erad421", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1093/jxb/erad421"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-10-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2745.14136", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-06-08", "title": "Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities", "description": "Abstract<p>   <p>Grasslands face more frequent and extreme droughts; yet, their responses to increasing drought intensity are poorly understood. Increasing drought intensity likely triggers abrupt shifts (thresholds) in grassland ecosystem functioning which can implicate recovery trajectories.</p>  <p>Here, we determined how drought intensity affects plant productivity, and plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. We exposed model grassland plant communities with contrasting resource acquisition strategies (a fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90 vs a slow\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy plant community), to a gradient of drought intensity. The drought gradient ranged from well\uffe2\uff80\uff90watered to severely water\uffe2\uff80\uff90limited conditions. We identified thresholds of plant community productivity (above\uffe2\uff80\uff90ground biomass) at peak drought and 2\uffe2\uff80\uff89months after re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, and measured net ecosystem exchange and ecosystem respiration of C\uffc2\uffa0throughout the drought and recovery phases. At peak drought and 1\uffe2\uff80\uff89week after re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, we traced recently acquired C from plants to the soil and into microbial biomass and fatty acids using 13C pulse labelling, and measured plant and soil N.</p>  <p>At peak drought, slow\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy plant communities were more drought resistant than fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy communities, as the threshold in plant productivity occurred at a higher drought intensity for the slow\uffe2\uff80\uff90 than the fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy community. Shortly after re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, microbial uptake of recent plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90assimilated C increased with increasing past drought intensity, coinciding with an increase in soil N availability and leaf N. Threshold responses to drought intensity at peak drought translated into non\uffe2\uff80\uff90linear recovery responses, with greater compensatory growth in the fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy community. At peak drought, increasing drought intensity reduced C uptake and increased relative C partitioning to leaves and microbial biomass. Upon re\uffe2\uff80\uff90wetting, plant community strategy mediated drought intensity effects on plant and soil C and N dynamics and plant recovery trajectories. The fast\uffe2\uff80\uff90strategy community recovered quickly, with higher leaf N than the slow community, while the slow community increased C allocation to microbial biomass.</p>  <p>Synthesis. Our findings highlight that C and N dynamics in the plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93soil system display non\uffe2\uff80\uff90linear responses to increasing drought intensity both during and after drought, which has implications for plant community recovery trajectories.</p>  </p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "BACTERIAL", "EXTRACTION", "CHALLENGES", "STRATEGIES", "drought resistance", "grasslands", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "MEDITERRANEAN RANGELAND", "SOIL", "RECENTLY PHOTOSYNTHESIZED CARBON", "THRESHOLDS", "drought intensity gradient", "FUNCTIONAL TRAITS", "13. Climate action", "carbon allocation", "drought recovery", "ECONOMICS SPECTRUM", "resource acquisition strategy", "13C pulse labelling"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.14136"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14136"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/1365-2745.14136", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/1365-2745.14136", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/1365-2745.14136"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/ejss.70078", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-03-11", "title": "The Effect of Crop Diversification and Season on Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency Across a European Pedoclimatic Gradient", "description": "ABSTRACT<p>Microbial transformation of soil organic matter plays a critical role in carbon (C) cycling making it essential to understand how land use and management practices influence microbial physiology and its connection to C dynamics. One factor that is likely to impact soil microbial physiology is crop diversification via its influence on belowground diversity (e.g., chemical heterogeneity of C inputs, microbial community composition). However, the effect of crop diversification measures on microbial physiology and potential effects on C cycling in agricultural soils is still unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we sampled topsoil from eight experimental sites covering different crop diversification measures across Europe (i.e., cover crops, ley farming, vegetation stripes). We used the 18O\uffe2\uff80\uff90labelling method to analyse microbial C use efficiency (CUE), growth, respiration and biomass C. Additionally, a second sampling at five selected sites examined whether the growing season influenced the impact of crop diversification. Meta\uffe2\uff80\uff90analysis revealed no overall effect of crop diversification on CUE, microbial activity, biomass or soil organic C (SOC). However, the effects varied with the type of diversification measure: cover crops did not affect carbon processing, vegetation stripes increased microbial activity, and ley farming enhanced CUE. The largest variation in CUE was observed between samplings at the same sites, indicating seasonal dynamics. Temperature, precipitation and photosynthetically active radiation predicted seasonal variation in CUE (R2\uffe2\uff80\uff89=\uffe2\uff80\uff890.36). While cover crops did not significantly impact C storage in our study, both ley farming and vegetation stripes increased SOC. The overall effect of crop diversification on SOC seems to be decoupled from highly temporally variable CUE in the bulk soil and rather relate to C\uffe2\uff80\uff90inputs.</p", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "570", "ley farming", "microbial activity", "pedoclimatic gradient", "630", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "O-CUE", "soil organic carbon", "18 O-CUE", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "vegetation stripes", "cover crops", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "EJP-SOIL", "microbial physiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70078"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/ejss.70078", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/ejss.70078", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/ejss.70078"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.13893", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-09-06", "title": "Towards physiologically meaningful water-use efficiency estimates from eddy covariance data", "description": "Abstract<p>Intrinsic water\uffe2\uff80\uff90use efficiency (iWUE) characterizes the physiological control on the simultaneous exchange of water and carbon dioxide in terrestrial ecosystems. Knowledge of iWUE is commonly gained from leaf\uffe2\uff80\uff90level gas exchange measurements, which are inevitably restricted in their spatial and temporal coverage. Flux measurements based on the eddy covariance (EC) technique can overcome these limitations, as they provide continuous and long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term records of carbon and water fluxes at the ecosystem scale. However, vegetation gas exchange parameters derived from EC data are subject to scale\uffe2\uff80\uff90dependent and method\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific uncertainties that compromise their ecophysiological interpretation as well as their comparability among ecosystems and across spatial scales. Here, we use estimates of canopy conductance and gross primary productivity (GPP) derived from EC data to calculate a measure of iWUE (G1, \uffe2\uff80\uff9cstomatal slope\uffe2\uff80\uff9d) at the ecosystem level at six sites comprising tropical, Mediterranean, temperate, and boreal forests. We assess the following six mechanisms potentially causing discrepancies between leaf and ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90level estimates of G1: (i) non\uffe2\uff80\uff90transpirational water fluxes; (ii) aerodynamic conductance; (iii) meteorological deviations between measurement height and canopy surface; (iv) energy balance non\uffe2\uff80\uff90closure; (v) uncertainties in net ecosystem exchange partitioning; and (vi) physiological within\uffe2\uff80\uff90canopy gradients. Our results demonstrate that an unclosed energy balance caused the largest uncertainties, in particular if it was associated with erroneous latent heat flux estimates. The effect of aerodynamic conductance on G1 was sufficiently captured with a simple representation. G1 was found to be less sensitive to meteorological deviations between canopy surface and measurement height and, given that data are appropriately filtered, to non\uffe2\uff80\uff90transpirational water fluxes. Uncertainties in the derived GPP and physiological within\uffe2\uff80\uff90canopy gradients and their implications for parameter estimates at leaf and ecosystem level are discussed. Our results highlight the importance of adequately considering the sources of uncertainty outlined here when EC\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived water\uffe2\uff80\uff90use efficiency is interpreted in an ecophysiological context.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "ecophysiology", "Penman\u2013Monteith equation", "0207 environmental engineering", "577", "slope parameter", "02 engineering and technology", "Forests", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "Trees", "Water Cycle", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "eddy covariance", "energy imbalance", "analysis of covariance", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "intrinsic water-use efficiency", "Water", "eddy flux", "Plant Transpiration", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "aerodynamic conductance", "water efficiency", "Carbon", "6. Clean water", "canopy gradients", "surface conductance", "Plant Leaves", "13. Climate action", "ecosystems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.13893"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13893"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.13893", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.13893", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.13893"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-10-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.537k1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:21Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient", "description": "unspecifiedCombining nutrient dynamics (plant nutrient uptake and soil fertility) can  help uncover mechanisms of shrub-grass interactions and assess the  validity of the stress-gradient hypothesis, which predicts that  facilitation between plants increases in stressful environments. However,  how facilitation via shrub-mediated nutrient increases varies with  precipitation is poorly resolved. We first synthesized a global dataset  from 66 studies and evaluated how shrubs affected soil organic carbon (C)  and nitrogen (N) in grasslands along a precipitation gradient. We then  made new measurements in a single grassland type encroached by leguminous  shrubs from the same genus (Caragana) to constrain the variations caused  by combining different grassland types and shrubs traits in the  meta-analysis. Specifically, we investigated how shrubs mediated N  dynamics and how shrub-grass interactions varied along a precipitation  gradient (147-342 mm) in a temperate steppe of China. At the global scale,  leguminous shrub-mediated effects on soil nutrients increased with  precipitation, while no relationship was found for non-leguminous shrub.  For the field experiment, greater N and lower \u03b415N in Caragana compared to  non-leguminous shrub (reference shrub, Salsola collina) suggested active  N-fixation in Caragana. We found that Caragana enhanced N concentration  and leaf quality (low C:N ratio) in neighbouring plants more on mesic  sites than on xeric sites. Thus, facilitation increased via higher soil N  and with decreasing environmental stress, at least along this relatively  arid precipitation gradient. Our results highlight the importance of  precipitation in determining the nutritional facilitation to neighbouring  grasses from encroaching leguminous shrubs. Conceptual frameworks for  plant facilitation may therefore need to include shrub characteristics  (N-fixers vs. non-fixers) and positive effects of higher precipitation on  this type of facilitation to characterize plant interactions along stress  gradients.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Inner Mongolia", "stress gradient hypothesis", "nurse plant", "dryland", "15. Life on land", "shrub encroachment", "nutrient dynamics"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Zhang, Hai-Yang, L\u00fc, Xiao-Tao, Knapp, Alan K., Hartmann, Henrik, Bai, Edith, Wang, Xiao-Bo, Wang, Zheng-Wen, Wang, Xiao-Guang, Yu, Qiang, Han, Xing-Guo,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.537k1"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.537k1", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.537k1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.537k1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01464.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-10-04", "title": "Response Of Plant Species Richness And Primary Productivity In Shrublands Along A North-South Gradient In Europe To Seven Years Of Experimental Warming And Drought: Reductions In Primary Productivity In The Heat And Drought Year Of 2003", "description": "Abstract<p>We used a nonintrusive field experiment carried out at six sites \uffe2\uff80\uff93 Wales (UK), Denmark (DK), the Netherlands (NL), Hungary (HU), Sardinia (Italy \uffe2\uff80\uff93 IT), and Catalonia (Spain \uffe2\uff80\uff93 SP) \uffe2\uff80\uff93 along a climatic and latitudinal gradient to examine the response of plant species richness and primary productivity to warming and drought in shrubland ecosystems. The warming treatment raised the plot daily temperature by ca. 1 \uffc2\uffb0C, while the drought treatment led to a reduction in soil moisture at the peak of the growing season that ranged from 26% at the SP site to 82% in the NL site. During the 7 years the experiment lasted (1999\uffe2\uff80\uff932005), we used the pin\uffe2\uff80\uff90point method to measure the species composition of plant communities and plant biomass, litterfall, and shoot growth of the dominant plant species at each site. A significantly lower increase in the number of species pin\uffe2\uff80\uff90pointed per transect was found in the drought plots at the SP site, where the plant community was still in a process of recovering from a forest fire in 1994. No changes in species richness were found at the other sites, which were at a more mature and stable state of succession and, thus less liable to recruitment of new species. The relationship between annual biomass accumulation and temperature of the growing season was positive at the coldest site and negative at the warmest site. The warming treatment tended to increase the aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) at the northern sites. The relationship between annual biomass accumulation and soil moisture during the growing season was not significant at the wettest sites, but was positive at the driest sites. The drought treatment tended to reduce the ANPP in the NL, HU, IT, and SP sites. The responses to warming were very strongly related to the Gaussen aridity index (stronger responses the lower the aridity), whereas the responses to drought were not. Changes in the annual aboveground biomass accumulation, litterfall, and, thus, the ANPP, mirrored the interannual variation in climate conditions: the most outstanding change was a decrease in biomass accumulation and an increase in litterfall at most sites during the abnormally hot year of 2003. Species richness also tended to decrease in 2003 at all sites except the cold and wet UK site. Species\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific responses to warming were found in shoot growth: at the SP site, Globularia alypum was not affected, while the other dominant species, Erica multiflora, grew 30% more; at the UK site, Calluna vulgaris tended to grow more in the warming plots, while Empetrum nigrum tended to grow less. Drought treatment decreased plant growth in several studied species, although there were some species such as Pinus halepensis at the SP site or C. vulgaris at the UK site that were not affected. The magnitude of responses to warming and drought thus depended greatly on the differences between sites, years, and species and these multiple plant responses may be expected to have consequences at ecosystem and community level. Decreases in biodiversity and the increase in E. multiflora growth at the SP site as a response to warming challenge the assumption that sensitivity to warming may be less well developed at more southerly latitudes; likewise, the fact that one of the studied shrublands presented negative ANPP as a response to the 2003 heat wave also challenges the hypothesis that future climate warming will lead to an enhancement of plant growth and carbon sequestration in temperate ecosystems. Extreme events may thus change the general trend of increased productivity in response to warming in the colder sites.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Onada de calor", "arctic ecosystems", "Matorral", "drought", "Biomasa vegetal", "heathland", "global warming", "01 natural sciences", "Sequ\u00eda", "Productividad primaria neta", "Forest-steppe", "Gradiente Europea", "Climate change", "Canvi clim\u00e0tic", "Cambio clim\u00e1tico", "net primary productivity", "evergreen mediterranean forest", "species richness", "litterfall", "biodiversity", "European gradient", "Plant growth", "2. Zero hunger", "Global warming", "terrestrial ecosystems", "phillyrea-latifolia", "Biodiversity", "Sequera", "Crecimiento de las plantas", "6. Clean water", "Net primary productivity", "climate change", "Brezal", "Biomassa vegetal", "climate-change", "heat wave", "Bosc-estepa", "environmental-change", "Litterfall", "Shrubland", "Biodiversidad", "soil", "Riquesa d'esp\u00e8cies", "forest-steppe", "Heat wave", "Bruguerar", "carbon-cycle", "Riqueza de especies", "quercus-ilex", "14. Life underwater", "plant biomass", "Hojarasca", "Plant biomass", "Drought", "Escalfament global", "plant growth", "15. Life on land", "biodiversity; climate change; global warming; plant community; primary production; shrubland; species richness", " Benelux; Catalonia; Central Europe; Denmark; Eurasia; Europe; Hungary; Italy; Netherlands; Northern Europe; Sardinia; Scandinavia; Southern Europe; Spain; United Kingdom; Wales; Western Europe", " Calluna; Calluna vulgaris; Empetrum nigrum; Erica multiflora; Globularia alypum; Pinus halepensis; Biodiversity; Climate change; Drought; European gradient; Forest-steppe; Global warming; Heat wave; Heathland; Litterfall; Net primary productivity; Plant biomass; Plant growth; Shrubland; Species richness", "Gradient Europea", "Biodiversitat", "Creixement de les plantes", "Productivitat prim\u00e0ria neta", "13. Climate action", "cistus-albidus", "Calentamiento global", "Bosque-estepa", "shrubland", "Fullaraca", "Heathland", "Species richness", "Ola de calor"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01464.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01464.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01464.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01464.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02657.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-07-10", "title": "Variation In Soil Carbon Stocks And Their Determinants Across A Precipitation Gradient In West Africa", "description": "Abstract<p>We examine the influence of climate, soil properties and vegetation characteristics on soil organic carbon (SOC) along a transect of West African ecosystems sampled across a precipitation gradient on contrasting soil types stretching from Ghana (15\uffc2\uffb0N) to Mali (7\uffc2\uffb0N). Our findings derive from a total of 1108 soil cores sampled over 14 permanent plots. The observed pattern in SOC stocks reflects the very different climatic conditions and contrasting soil properties existing along the latitudinal transect. The combined effects of these factors strongly influence vegetation structure. SOC stocks in the first 2\uffc2\uffa0m of soil ranged from 20\uffc2\uffa0Mg\uffc2\uffa0C\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for a Sahelian savanna in Mali to over 120\uffc2\uffa0Mg\uffc2\uffa0C\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 for a transitional forest in Ghana. The degree of interdependence between soil bulk density (SBD) and soil properties is highlighted by the strong negative relationships observed between SBD and SOC (r2\uffc2\uffa0&gt;\uffc2\uffa00.84). A simple predictive function capable of encompassing the effect of climate, soil properties and vegetation type on SOC stocks showed that available water and sand content taken together could explain 0.84 and 0.86 of the total variability in SOC stocks observed to 0.3 and 1.0\uffc2\uffa0m depth respectively. Used in combination with a suitable climatic parameter, sand content is a good predictor of SOC stored in highly weathered dry tropical ecosystems with arguably less confounding effects than provided by clay content. There was an increased contribution of resistant SOC to the total SOC pool for lower rainfall soils, this likely being the result of more frequent fire events in the grassier savannas of the more arid regions. This work provides new insights into the mechanisms determining the distribution of carbon storage in tropical soils and should contribute significantly to the development of robust predictive models of biogeochemical cycling and vegetation dynamics in tropical regions.</p>", "keywords": ["550", "Tropical ecosystems", "biotic controls", "West africa", "01 natural sciences", "forest soils", "land-use change", "Precipitation gradient", "Soil bulk density", "senegal", "cycle feedback", "Life Science", "Resistant organic carbon", "organic-matter", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "savanna soils", "ddc:550", "Soil organic carbon", "sequestration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "stabilization", "Earth sciences", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "texture", "Soil carbon stocks"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02657.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02657.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02657.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02657.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-03-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01472.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Restricted", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-01-21", "title": "Determinants Of Cryptogam Composition And Diversity In Sphagnum-Dominated Peatlands: The Importance Of Temporal, Spatial And Functional Scales", "description": "Summary<p>  <p>Changing temperature regimes and precipitation patterns in the Subarctic will impact on vegetation composition and diversity including those of bryophyte and lichen communities, which are major drivers of high\uffe2\uff80\uff90latitude carbon and nutrient cycling and hydrology.</p> <p>We investigated the relative importance of such impacts at different temporal, spatial and plant functional scales in subarctic Sphagnum fuscum\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated peatlands, comprising both an in situ warming experiment and natural climatic and topographic gradients in northern Sweden and Norway. We applied multivariate analyses to investigate the relationships among cryptogam and vascular plant species composition and abiotic (temperature, moisture) and biotic (Sphagnum growth) regimes at various scales.</p> <p>At the short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term temporal scale (4\uffe2\uff80\uff90year warming experiment), increased temperature yielded no clear effect on cryptogam or vascular plant species composition. Spatially, direct effects of temperature were decisive for overall species composition across regions (macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale) rather than within one region (meso\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale). Moisture and Sphagnum growth were drivers of species composition at all spatial scales, and Sphagnum growth itself depended on its position on the microtopographic gradient and on temperature.</p> <p>Grouping of bryophytes and lichens at increasing scales of functional aggregation from species, growth form to the major higher taxon level (Sphagnum, other mosses, liverworts, lichens) revealed mostly increasing correlation with climate regimes and Sphagnum growth. Excluding liverworts from the analysis tended to reduce the correlation.</p> <p>Abundances of lichens, liverworts, non\uffe2\uff80\uff90Sphagnum mosses and (to a lesser degree) vascular plants were negatively related to Sphagnum abundance. Few cryptogam and vascular plant species showed a positive relationship with Sphagnum abundance. Correspondingly, cryptogam species richness and Shannon Index on peatlands strongly declined as Sphagnum abundance increased, while indices for vascular plants showed no significant relationship.</p> <p> Synthesis. Scale, be it spatial or functional, strongly determined which environmental drivers showed the clearest relationships with vegetation composition and diversity. Our findings will help to optimize predictions about long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term effects of climate on peatland vegetation composition, and subsequently its feedbacks to carbon and water cycles, at the regional scale.</p>  </p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "simulated environmental-change", "species composition", "western canada", "alaskan arctic tundra", "response surfaces", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "hylocomium-splendens", "13. Climate action", "physical gradients", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "nutrient availability", "community structure", "global change"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01472.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01472.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01472.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01472.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-02-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01759.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:18:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-10-11", "title": "Direct And Indirect Effects Of Climate On Decomposition In Native Ecosystems From Central Argentina", "description": "<p>Abstract\uffe2\uff80\uff83Climate affects litter decomposition directly through temperature and moisture, determining the ecosystem potential decomposition, and indirectly through its effect on plant community composition and litter quality, determining litter potential decomposition. It would be expected that both the direct and indirect effects of climate on decomposition act in the same direction along gradients of actual evapotranspiration (AET). However, studies from semiarid ecosystems challenge this idea, suggesting that the climatic conditions that favour decomposition activity, and the consequent ecosystem potential decomposition, do not necessarily lead to litter being easier to decompose. We explored the decomposition patterns of four arid to subhumid native ecosystems with different AET in central\uffe2\uff80\uff90western Argentina and we analysed if ecosystem potential decomposition (climatic direct effect), nutrient availability and leaf litter potential decomposition (climatic indirect effect) all increased with AET. In general, the direct effect of climate (AET) on decomposition (i.e. ecosystem potential decomposition), showed a similar pattern to nutrient availability in soils (higher for xerophytic and mountain woodlands and lower for the other ecosystems), but different from the pattern of leaf litter potential decomposition. However, the range of variation in the ecosystem potential decomposition was much higher than the range of variation in litter potential decomposition, indicating that the direct effect of climate on decomposition was far stronger than the indirect effect through litter quality. Our results provide additional experimental evidence supporting the direct control of climate over decomposition, and therefore nutrient cycling. For the ecosystems considered, those with the highest AET are the ecosystems with the highest potential decomposition. But what is more interesting is that our results suggest that the indirect control of climate over decomposition through vegetation characteristics and decomposability does not follow the same trend as the direct effect of climate. This finding has important implications in the prediction of the effects of climate change on semiarid ecosystems.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "13. Climate action", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "Gradients", "Arid Ecosystems", "Nutrients", "Litter Quality", "15. Life on land", "Actual Evapotranspiration", "Ionic Exchange Resins", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01759.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Austral%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01759.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01759.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01759.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-10-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01192.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-09-01", "title": "Soil Characteristics More Strongly Influence Soil Bacterial Communities Than Land-Use Type", "description": "To gain insight into the factors driving the structure of bacterial communities in soil, we applied real-time PCR, PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoreses, and phylogenetic microarray approaches targeting the 16S rRNA gene across a range of different land usages in the Netherlands. We observed that the main differences in the bacterial communities were not related to land-use type, but rather to soil factors. An exception was the bacterial community of pine forest soils (PFS), which was clearly different from all other sites. PFS had lowest bacterial abundance, lowest numbers of operational taxonomic units (OTUs), lowest soil pH, and highest C : N ratios. C : N ratio strongly influenced bacterial community structure and was the main factor separating PFS from other fields. For the sites other than PFS, phosphate was the most important factor explaining the differences in bacterial communities across fields. Firmicutes were the most dominant group in almost all fields, except in PFS and deciduous forest soils (DFS). In PFS, Alphaproteobacteria was most represented, while in DFS, Firmicutes and Gammaproteobacteria were both highly represented. Interestingly, Bacillii and Clostridium OTUs correlated with pH and phosphate, which might explain their high abundance across many of the Dutch soils. Numerous bacterial groups were highly correlated with specific soil factors, suggesting that they might be useful as indicators of soil status.", "keywords": ["land use change", "DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "RNA 16S", "polymerase chain reaction", "soil nitrogen", "DNA sequence", "soil microorganism", "electrokinesis", "chemistry", "phylogeny", "Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction", "soil", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "NIOO", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "genetics", "soil carbon", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology", "phosphate", "biodiversity", "Alphaproteobacteria", "Netherlands", "growth", " development and aging", "2. Zero hunger", "abundance", "0303 health sciences", "real time", "Bacteria", "pH", "Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis", "microbiology", "denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis", "Biodiversity", "Sequence Analysis", " DNA", "15. Life on land", "bacterium", "bacterial DNA", "phylogenetics", "classification", "real time polymerase chain reaction", "microbial community", "Gammaproteobacteria"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01192.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/FEMS%20Microbiology%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01192.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01192.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01192.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-09-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/jvs.12317", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:19:06Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-06-24", "title": "Large Herbivores Change The Direction Of Interactions Within Plant Communities Along A Salt Marsh Stress Gradient", "description": "AbstractQuestion<p>How multiple abiotic stress factors combined with herbivory affect interactions within plant communities is poorly understood. We ask how large herbivore grazing affects the direction of plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93plant interactions along an environmental gradient in a salt marsh.</p>Location<p>Grazed (cattle) and ungrazed salt marshes of the Dutch Wadden Sea island Schiermonnikoog. Here, patches of tall plant communities, dominated by the tough, unpalatable species Juncus maritimus Lam., are found alternating with low\uffe2\uff80\uff90statured, intensively grazed plant communities.</p>Methods<p>Along the inundation gradient, we measured plant species composition and plant species traits (specific leaf area, specific root length, maximum height and abundance) inside and outside J.\uffc2\uffa0maritimus patches in grazed and ungrazed areas. In addition, we measured soil structure parameters (bulk density, soil porosity, clay depth), multiple limiting conditions for plant growth (soil salinity, soil redox, plant canopy light interception), plant biomass, presence of herbivores and abundance of soil macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90detritivores.</p>Results<p>Under grazing, the palatable grasses Elytrigia atherica (Link) Kergu\uffc3\uffa9len and Festuca rubra L. were positively associated with J.\uffc2\uffa0maritimus, while shade\uffe2\uff80\uff90intolerant Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Parl. and Juncus gerardii\uffc2\uffa0 Loisel. were negatively associated with this species. Furthermore, macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90detritivore presence was higher inside J.\uffc2\uffa0maritimus patches. In ungrazed areas E.\uffc2\uffa0atherica and F.\uffc2\uffa0rubra were negatively associated with J.\uffc2\uffa0maritimus, while P.\uffc2\uffa0maritima and J.\uffc2\uffa0gerardii were rare. In both grazed and ungrazed conditions the directions of species associations were independent of the inundation gradient. Analysis of species traits and abiotic conditions suggested that associational resistance (a facilitation type) was important in grazed areas. In ungrazed areas, light competition was the likely dominant process.</p>Conclusions<p>The direction of species associations within these salt marsh communities was strongly affected by grazing, not by the underlying stress gradient. Measurement of species traits indicated that plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93plant interactions shifted from competitive to facilitative under grazing. Besides grazing, cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90trophic facilitation of soil disturbing macro\uffe2\uff80\uff90detritivores may play an important \uffe2\uff80\uff93 thus far ignored \uffe2\uff80\uff93 role in structuring plant communities.</p>", "keywords": ["Plant traits", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Salt marsh", "Macro-detritivores", "SUCCESSION", "Stress gradient hypothesis", "PREDICTIONS", "COMPETITION", "HALOPHYTES", "15. Life on land", "ALKALI GRASSLANDS", "FACILITATION", "01 natural sciences", "POSITIVE SPECIES INTERACTIONS", "Grazing", "Plant-plant interactions", "FUNCTIONAL TRAITS", "Trampling", "Orchestia gammarellus Pallas. 1766", "BIOTURBATION", "Facilitation", "Juncus maritimus Lam.", "VEGETATION", "Multiple stressors"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12317"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Vegetation%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/jvs.12317", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/jvs.12317", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/jvs.12317"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0038858", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:19:30Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-06-11", "title": "Decline In Topsoil Microbial Quotient, Fungal Abundance And C Utilization Efficiency Of Rice Paddies Under Heavy Metal Pollution Across South China", "description": "Open AccessLos suelos agr\u00edcolas han estado cada vez m\u00e1s sujetos a la contaminaci\u00f3n por metales pesados en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, los impactos en la estructura y actividad de la comunidad microbiana del suelo de los suelos de campo a\u00fan no se han caracterizado bien. En 2009 se recolectaron muestras de tierra vegetal de campos de arroz contaminados con metales pesados (PS) y sus campos de fondo (BGS) en cuatro sitios del sur de China. Los cambios con la contaminaci\u00f3n met\u00e1lica en relaci\u00f3n con el BGS en el tama\u00f1o y la estructura de la comunidad de los microorganismos del suelo se examinaron con m\u00faltiples ensayos microbiol\u00f3gicos de medici\u00f3n de carbono de biomasa (MBC) y nitr\u00f3geno (MBN), recuento en placa de colonias cultivables y an\u00e1lisis de \u00e1cidos grasos fosfol\u00edpidos (PLFA) junto con el perfil de electroforesis en gel de gradiente desnaturalizante (DGGE) del gen de ARNr 16S y ARNr 18S y ensayo de PCR en tiempo real. Adem\u00e1s, se llev\u00f3 a cabo una incubaci\u00f3n de laboratorio de 7 d\u00edas a una temperatura constante de 25 \u00b0C para realizar un seguimiento adicional de los cambios en la actividad metab\u00f3lica. Si bien la disminuci\u00f3n de la contaminaci\u00f3n por metales en MBC y MBN, as\u00ed como en el tama\u00f1o de la poblaci\u00f3n cultivable, el contenido total de PLFA y el n\u00famero de bandas DGGE de bacterias no se observaron de manera significativa y consistente, de hecho se observ\u00f3 una reducci\u00f3n significativa de la contaminaci\u00f3n por metales en el cociente microbiano, en el tama\u00f1o de la poblaci\u00f3n f\u00fangica cultivable y en la proporci\u00f3n de PLFA f\u00fangicos a bacterianos de manera consistente en todos los sitios en una medida que var\u00eda de 6% a 74%. Adem\u00e1s, se observ\u00f3 un aumento consistentemente significativo en el cociente metab\u00f3lico de hasta un 68% bajo contaminaci\u00f3n en todos los sitios. Estas observaciones apoyaron un cambio de la comunidad microbiana con disminuci\u00f3n en su abundancia, disminuci\u00f3n en la proporci\u00f3n de hongos y, por lo tanto, en la eficiencia de utilizaci\u00f3n de C bajo contaminaci\u00f3n en los suelos. Adem\u00e1s, las proporciones de cociente microbiano, de hongos a bacterias y qCO2 son mejores indicativas de los impactos de los metales pesados en la estructura y actividad de la comunidad microbiana. Los efectos potenciales de estos cambios en el ciclo del carbono y la producci\u00f3n de CO2 en los arrozales contaminados merecen m\u00e1s estudios de campo.", "keywords": ["Microbial population biology", "Colony Count", " Microbial", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Sociology", "Soil water", "Soil Pollutants", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Principal Component Analysis", "Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis", "Ecology", "Q", "Fatty Acids", "R", "Life Sciences", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biota", "Pollution", "6. Clean water", "FOS: Sociology", "Chemistry", "Physical Sciences", "Environmental chemistry", "Medicine", "Research Article", "Environmental Monitoring", "16S ribosomal RNA", "China", "Microorganism", "Environmental Impact of Heavy Metal Contamination", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Population", "Soil Science", "Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction", "Environmental science", "Microbial Ecology", "12. Responsible consumption", "Metals", " Heavy", "Genetics", "Biology", "Demography", "Bacteria", "Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis", "Marine Microbial Diversity and Biogeography", "Oryza", "15. Life on land", "Topsoil", "Carbon", "Agronomy", "RNA", " Ribosomal", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038858"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0038858", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0038858", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0038858"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-06-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0124096", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:19:32Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-04-16", "title": "Effects Of Different Organic Manures On The Biochemical And Microbial Characteristics Of Albic Paddy Soil In A Short-Term Experiment", "description": "Open AccessCette \u00e9tude visait \u00e0 \u00e9valuer les effets des engrais chimiques (NPK), NPK avec du fumier de b\u00e9tail (NPK+M), NPK avec de la paille (NPK+S) et NPK avec du fumier vert (NPK+G) sur les activit\u00e9s enzymatiques du sol et les caract\u00e9ristiques microbiennes du sol de paddy albique, qui est un sol typique avec une faible productivit\u00e9 en Chine. Les r\u00e9ponses des activit\u00e9s enzymatiques extracellulaires et de la diversit\u00e9 des communaut\u00e9s microbiennes (d\u00e9termin\u00e9es par analyse des acides gras phospholipidiques [PLFA] et \u00e9lectrophor\u00e8se sur gel \u00e0 gradient d\u00e9naturant [DGGE]) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mesur\u00e9es. Les r\u00e9sultats ont montr\u00e9 que NPK+M et NPK+S augmentaient significativement le rendement du riz, NPK+M \u00e9tant sup\u00e9rieur d'environ 24\u00a0% \u00e0 NPK. Le NPK+M a significativement augment\u00e9 le carbone organique du sol (SOC) et les phosphates disponibles (P) et am\u00e9lior\u00e9 les activit\u00e9s de la phosphatase, de la \u03b2-cellobiosidase, de la L-leucine aminopeptidase et de l'ur\u00e9ase. Le NPK+S a significativement augment\u00e9 le COS et le potassium disponible (K) et significativement augment\u00e9 les activit\u00e9s de la N-ac\u00e9tyl-glucosamidase, de la \u03b2-xylosidase, de l'ur\u00e9ase et de la ph\u00e9nol oxydase. Le NPK+G a significativement am\u00e9lior\u00e9 l'azote total (N), l'ammonium N, le P disponible et l'activit\u00e9 de la N-ac\u00e9tyl-glucosamidase. La biomasse de PLFA \u00e9tait la plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e sous NPK+S, suivie des traitements NPK+M et NPK+G. L'analyse en composantes principales (ACP) du PLFA a indiqu\u00e9 que les sols avec NPK+M et NPK+S contenaient des proportions plus \u00e9lev\u00e9es d'acides gras insatur\u00e9s et de cyclopropane (biomarqueurs de champignons et de bact\u00e9ries \u00e0 Gram n\u00e9gatif) et que les sols sous NPK+G contenaient plus d'acides gras satur\u00e9s \u00e0 cha\u00eene droite (repr\u00e9sentant des bact\u00e9ries \u00e0 Gram positif). La PCA des patrons DGGE a montr\u00e9 que les amendements organiques avaient une plus grande influence sur la communaut\u00e9 fongique. L'analyse en grappes des profils DGGE fongiques a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que NPK+G \u00e9tait clairement s\u00e9par\u00e9. Pendant ce temps, la communaut\u00e9 bact\u00e9rienne du traitement NPK+M \u00e9tait la plus distincte. L'analyse RDA a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que les changements dans la composition de la communaut\u00e9 microbienne d\u00e9pendaient principalement de la \u03b2-xylosidase, des activit\u00e9s de la \u03b2-cellobiosidase, de l'azote total et des teneurs en K disponibles. Les abondances de PLFA bact\u00e9riens et fongiques gram-n\u00e9gatifs probablement efficaces pour am\u00e9liorer la fertilit\u00e9 des sols de paddy albique \u00e0 faible rendement en raison de leur influence significative sur le profil DGGE.", "keywords": ["China", "Mechanics and Transport in Unsaturated Soils", "Microbial population biology", "Science", "Materials Science", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Thermal Effects on Soil", "Biochemistry", "Gene", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Biomaterials", "Food science", "Soil", "Engineering", "Genetics", "Biology", "Soil Microbiology", "Civil and Structural Engineering", "Applications of Clay Nanotubes in Various Fields", "2. Zero hunger", "Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis", "Bacteria", "Q", "R", "Fungi", "Life Sciences", "Straw", "Oryza", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Urease", "Agronomy", "6. Clean water", "Manure", "Chemistry", "Enzyme", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Physical Sciences", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Animal science", "Research Article", "16S ribosomal RNA"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Qian Zhang, Wei Zhou, Gaofeng Liang, Xiu\u2010Bin Wang, Jingwen Sun, Ping He, LI Lu-jiu,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124096"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0124096", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0124096", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0124096"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-04-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0159680", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:19:32Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-07-28", "title": "Impacts Of Grazing Intensity And Plant Community Composition On Soil Bacterial Community Diversity In A Steppe Grassland", "description": "Soil bacteria play a key role in the ecological and evolutionary responses of agricultural ecosystems. Domestic herbivore grazing is known to influence soil bacterial community. However, the effects of grazing and its major driving factors on soil bacterial community remain unknown for different plant community compositions under increasing grazing intensity. Thus, to investigate soil bacterial community diversity under five plant community compositions (Grass; Leymus chinensis; Forb; L. chinensis & Forb; and Legume), we performed a four-year field experiment with different grazing intensity treatments (no grazing; light grazing, 4 sheep\u00b7ha-1; and heavy grazing, 6 sheep\u00b7ha-1) in a grassland in China. Total DNA was obtained from soil samples collected from the plots in August, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) fingerprinting were used to investigate soil bacterial community. The results showed that light grazing significantly increased indices of soil bacterial community diversity for the Forb and Legume groups but not the Grass and L. chinensis groups. Heavy grazing significantly reduced these soil bacterial diversity indices, except for the Pielou evenness index in the Legume group. Further analyses revealed that the soil N/P ratio, electrical conductivity (EC), total nitrogen (TN) and pH were the major environmental factors affecting the soil bacterial community. Our study suggests that the soil bacterial community diversity was influenced by grazing intensity and plant community composition in a meadow steppe. The present study provides a baseline assessment of the soil bacterial community diversity in a temperate meadow steppe.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Sheep", "Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis", "Science", "Q", "R", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Polymerase Chain Reaction", "7. Clean energy", "3. Good health", "Medicine", "Animals", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Deli Wang, Wei-chao Du, Dong-bo Liu, Tong-bao Qu, Tong-bao Qu, Li-Jun Yu, Zhiming Yang, Xia Yuan,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159680"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0159680", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0159680", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0159680"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-07-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.18419/opus-12581", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:19:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-08", "title": "Soya Yield Prediction on a Within-Field Scale Using Machine Learning Models Trained on Sentinel-2 and Soil Data", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Agriculture is the backbone and the main sector of the industry for many countries in the world. Assessing crop yields is key to optimising on-field decisions and defining sustainable agricultural strategies. Remote sensing applications have greatly enhanced our ability to monitor and manage farming operation. The main objective of this research was to evaluate machine learning system for within-field soya yield prediction trained on Sentinel-2 multispectral images and soil parameters. Multispectral images used in the study came from ESA\u2019s Sentinel-2 satellites. A total of 3 cloud-free Sentinel-2 multispectral images per year from specific periods of vegetation were used to obtain the time-series necessary for crop yield prediction. Yield monitor data were collected in three crop seasons (2018, 2019 and 2020) from a number of farms located in Upper Austria. The ground-truth database consisted of information about the location of the fields and crop yield monitor data on 411 ha of farmland. A novel method, namely the Polygon-Pixel Interpolation, for optimal fitting yield monitor data with satellite images is introduced. Several machine learning algorithms, such as Multiple Linear Regression, Support Vector Machine, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Stochastic Gradient Descent and Random Forest, were compared for their performance in soya yield prediction. Among the tested machine learning algorithms, Stochastic Gradient Descent regression model performed better than the others, with a mean absolute error of 4.36 kg/pixel (0.436 t/ha) and a correlation coefficient of 0.83%.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "precision agriculture", "stochastic gradient descent (SGD)", "polygon-pixel intersection (PPI)", "Science", "Q", "710", "high performance computing (HPC)", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "620", "remote sensing", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/9/2256/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-12581"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.18419/opus-12581", "name": "item", "description": "10.18419/opus-12581", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.18419/opus-12581"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs14092256", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-09", "title": "Soya Yield Prediction on a Within-Field Scale Using Machine Learning Models Trained on Sentinel-2 and Soil Data", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Agriculture is the backbone and the main sector of the industry for many countries in the world. Assessing crop yields is key to optimising on-field decisions and defining sustainable agricultural strategies. Remote sensing applications have greatly enhanced our ability to monitor and manage farming operation. The main objective of this research was to evaluate machine learning system for within-field soya yield prediction trained on Sentinel-2 multispectral images and soil parameters. Multispectral images used in the study came from ESA\u2019s Sentinel-2 satellites. A total of 3 cloud-free Sentinel-2 multispectral images per year from specific periods of vegetation were used to obtain the time-series necessary for crop yield prediction. Yield monitor data were collected in three crop seasons (2018, 2019 and 2020) from a number of farms located in Upper Austria. The ground-truth database consisted of information about the location of the fields and crop yield monitor data on 411 ha of farmland. A novel method, namely the Polygon-Pixel Interpolation, for optimal fitting yield monitor data with satellite images is introduced. Several machine learning algorithms, such as Multiple Linear Regression, Support Vector Machine, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Stochastic Gradient Descent and Random Forest, were compared for their performance in soya yield prediction. Among the tested machine learning algorithms, Stochastic Gradient Descent regression model performed better than the others, with a mean absolute error of 4.36 kg/pixel (0.436 t/ha) and a correlation coefficient of 0.83%.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "precision agriculture", "stochastic gradient descent (SGD)", "polygon-pixel intersection (PPI)", "Science", "Q", "710", "high performance computing (HPC)", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "620", "remote sensing", "precision agriculture; remote sensing; polygon-pixel intersection (PPI); stochastic gradient descent (SGD); high performance computing (HPC)", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/9/2256/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14092256"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs14092256", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs14092256", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs14092256"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.25678/00035v", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:20:35Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data for: Non\u2010Gaussian parameter inference for hydrogeological models using Stein Variational Gradient Descent", "description": "This package includes the data and Python files for the publication 'Non\u2010Gaussian parameter inference for hydrogeological models using Stein Variational Gradient Descent'.", "keywords": ["SVGD", "modelling", "aquifer", "hydrogeology", "river", "groundwater", "Bayesian inference", "Stein Variational Gradient Descent", "ensemble-based", "modeling", "Bayesian statistics", "non-Gaussian", "Jacobian"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Ramgraber, M., Weatherl, R., Blumensaat, F., Schirmer, M.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.25678/00035v"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.25678/00035v", "name": "item", "description": "10.25678/00035v", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.25678/00035v"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3354/meps11447", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:20:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-08-06", "title": "Ecosystem Engineering By Large Grazers Enhances Carbon Stocks In A Tidal Salt Marsh", "description": "<p>Grazers can have a large impact on ecosystem processes and are known to change vegetation composition. However, knowledge of how the long-term presence of grazers affects soil carbon sequestration is limited. In this study, we estimated total accumulated organic carbon in soils of a back-barrier salt marsh and determined how this is affected by long-term grazing by both small and large grazers in relation to age of the ecosystem. In young marshes, where small grazers predominate, hare and geese have a limited effect on total accumulated organic carbon. In older, mature marshes, where large grazers predominate, cattle substantially enhanced carbon content in the marsh soil. We ascribe this to a shift in biomass distribution in the local vegetation towards the roots in combination with trampling effects on the soil chemistry. These large grazers thus act as ecosystem engineers: their known effect on soil compaction (based on a previous study) enhances anoxic conditions in the marsh soil, thereby reducing the oxygen available for organic carbon decomposition by the local microbial community. This study showed that the indirect effects of grazing can significantly enhance soil carbon storage through changing soil abiotic conditions. This process should be taken into account when estimating the role of ecosystems in reducing carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. Ultimately, we propose a testable conceptual framework that includes 3 pathways by which grazers can alter carbon storage: (1) through above-ground biomass removal, (2) through alteration of biomass distribution towards the roots and/or (3) by changing soil abiotic conditions that affect decomposition.</p>", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "0106 biological sciences", "IMPACT", "SEA-LEVEL RISE", "01 natural sciences", "Coastal wetland", "Climate change", "Biology", "Soil compaction", "Succession", "VEGETATION SUCCESSION", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "CLIMATE-CHANGE", "WETLAND SOILS", "WADDEN SEA", "15. Life on land", "PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENT", "6. Clean water", "Chemistry", "Grazing", "ORGANIC-MATTER", "NORTH-SEA", "REDOX OSCILLATION", "13. Climate action", "Redox potential"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11447"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Marine%20Ecology%20Progress%20Series", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3354/meps11447", "name": "item", "description": "10.3354/meps11447", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3354/meps11447"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-10-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs14153587", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-07-27", "title": "Tectono-Geomorphic Analysis in Low Relief, Low Tectonic Activity Areas: Case Study of the Temiskaming Region in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone (WQSZ), Eastern Canada", "description": "<p>We designed a workflow to investigate areas of potential neotectonic deformation, making use of well-developed techniques, but applied to a site characterized by low relief and low or moderate tectonic activity. In this pilot study, we targeted the Temiskaming Graben, in Eastern Canada, where recent and ongoing geophysical and sedimentological investigations have revealed recent activity along this ancient structure. The dataset compiled for this experimental study covers an area of nearly 147 square km across the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. For efficiency in terms of computational resources, we first performed cluster analysis on knickpoint location, identifying seven areas with a high density of disruptions along river profiles. We then performed more detailed morphometric analysis at 30 m resolution, identifying knickpoints along river profiles, calculating the hypsometric integral across the landscape with a moving window, and mapping and comparing lineaments with known structural features. The results of our workflow showed that these three techniques can be efficiently combined for neotectonic analysis, and the synergistic approach strengthens the reliability and accuracy of our results. Our research extends the application of morphometric analysis, commonly used for exploring areas with intense tectonism and high topography, to areas that are characterized by low relief and low or moderate tectonic activity. The new areas identified with the workflow proposed in this research require ground-truthing through mapping and shallow geophysical investigations.</p>", "keywords": ["knickpoints", "hypsometry", "Science", "Q", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "neotectonics", "longitudinal river profiles", "0207 environmental engineering", "neotectonics; intracratonic areas; low topographic gradient; hypsometry; knickpoints; longitudinal river profiles; lineaments; geomorphometry; tectonic geomorphology; Temiskaming Graben", "02 engineering and technology", "low topographic gradient", "15. Life on land", "intracratonic areas"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/15/3587/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153587"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs14153587", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs14153587", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs14153587"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.b935c05", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:23Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Simplification of shade tree diversity reduces nutrient cycling resilience in coffee agroforestry", "description": "unspecified1. Agroforestry systems are refuges for biodiversity and provide multiple  ecosystem functions and services. Diverse multispecies shade tree canopies  are increasingly replaced by monospecific shade, often dominated by  non-native tree species. The loss of tree diversity and the nature of the  dominating tree can have strong implications for ecosystem functions, e.g.  nutrient cycling ultimately reducing crop production. 2. To understand  direct and indirect impacts of shade trees on nutrient cycling and crop  production, we studied coffee agroforestry systems in India along a  gradient from native multispecies canopies to Grevillea robusta  (Proteaceae) -dominated canopy cover. We identified 25 agroforests, across  a broad rainfall and management gradient and assessed litter quantity and  quality, decomposition, nutrient release, soil fertility and coffee  nutrient limitations. 3. Increasing G. robusta dominance affected nutrient  cycling predominantly by; (1) changing of litter phenology, (2) reducing  phosphorus (P), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), boron (B), and zinc (Zn)  inputs via litterfall, decelerated litter decomposition and immobilization  of P and Zn due to low quality litter, (3) reducing soil carbon (C) and  micronutrients (especially sulphur (S), Mg and B). Coffee plants were  deficient in several nutrients (nitrogen (N), calcium (Ca), manganese  (Mn), Mg and S in organic and B in conventional management). (4) Overall  G. robusta dominated agroforests were characterized by a reduction of P  cycling due to low inputs, strong immobilization while decomposition and  antagonistic effects on its release in litter mixtures with coffee. 4.  Synthesis and applications. The conversion of shade cover in coffee  agroforestry systems from diverse tree canopies to canopies dominated by  Grevillea robusta (Proteaceae) reduces the inputs and cycling of several  micro- and macronutrients. Soil fertility is therefore expected to decline  in G. robusta dominated systems, with likely impacts on coffee production.  These negative effects might increase under the longer dry periods  projected by regional climate change scenarios due to the pronounced  litter phenology of G. robusta. Maintaining diverse shade canopies can  more effectively sustain micro- and macronutrients in a more seasonal  climate.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Intensification", "Grevillea robusta", "Coffea canephora", "13. Climate action", "India", "15. Life on land", "shading", "rainfall gradient", "Nutrient cycle"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Nesper, Maike, Kueffer, Christoph, Krishnan, Smitha, Kushalappa, Cheppudira G., Ghazoul, Jaboury,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b935c05"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.b935c05", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.b935c05", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.b935c05"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txkf", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:20Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "The diversity of mycorrhiza-associated fungi and trees shape subtropical mountain forest ecosystem functioning", "description": "Aim: Mycorrhiza play key roles in ecosystem structure and functioning in  forests. However, how different mycorrhizal types influence mountain  forest biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships is largely  unknown. We evaluate how the diversity of distinct mycorrhiza-associated  fungi and trees shape forest carbon storage along elevational gradients.  Location: Gaoligong Mountains within Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China.  Taxon: Seed plants and mycorrhizal fungi. Methods: We used the data from  31 subtropical forest plots along elevational gradients on two aspects  (east and west) of the mountain. We quantified species richness of trees  and symbiotic fungi and assigned both to their mycorrhizal type  (arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), ectomycorrhiza (EcM) and ericoid mycorrhiza  (ErM)). We then examined the diversity effects of mycorrhiza-associated  fungi and trees on above-ground carbon stored in trees and organic carbon  stored in soils. Results: Species richness was highest for AM trees  (79.5%), followed by ErM trees (13.4%) and then EcM trees (7.1%). Species  richness of AM-associated trees and fungi decreased with increasing  elevation, while ErM-associated trees and fungi showed an opposite trend.  EcM-associated diversity followed a hump-shaped relationship with  elevation. Positive relationships between diversity and above-ground  carbon were detected in all three mycorrhizal associations, but despite  low species number, canopy-dominating EcM trees comprised 64.4% of the  amount of above-ground carbon. Furthermore, community-weighted means of  height exhibited positive correlations with forest above-ground carbon,  indicating that positive selection effects occur. Soil organic carbon was  positively related to EcM-associated fungi diversity, above-ground carbon  mass and soil nitrogen availability, with the latter having the strongest  direct effects. Main conclusions: The distributions of forest biodiversity  and carbon storage can be modulated by distinct mycorrhizal fungi and  trees. Moreover, future global changes (e.g., climate warming,  intensifying nitrogen deposition) could alter the mycorrhizal-mediated  biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in mountain forests.", "keywords": ["Ectomycorrhiza", "soil organic carbon", "13. Climate action", "arbuscular mycorrhiza", "FOS: Biological sciences", "elevational gradients", "14. Life underwater", "15. Life on land", "above-ground carbon", "functional diversity"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Luo, Ya-Huang, Ma, Liang-Liang, Seibold, Sebastian, Cadotte, Marc W., Burgess, Kevin, Tan, Shao-Lin, Ye, Lin-Jiang, Zheng, Wei, Zou, Jia-Yun, Chen, Zhi-Fa, Liu, De-Tuan, Zhu, Guang-Fu, Shi, Xiao-Chun, Zhao, Wei, Li, De-Zhu, Liu, Jie, Gao, Lian-Ming,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txkf"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txkf", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txkf", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txkf"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.51r23", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:21Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient-acquisition strategies along a 2-million year dune chronosequence", "description": "unspecifiedJurien Bay leaf nutrient dataDescription Leaf nutrient concentration and  C/N stable isotope data for 18 plant species across five dune  chronosequence stages along the Jurien Bay chronosequence. Format A data  frame with 508 observations on the following 22 variables: plot factor  with names of 50 10x10-m plots stage factor indicating chronosequence  stage (1 = youngest, 5 = oldest) species factor with full plant species  names state factor with leaf state: mature or senesced date sampling date  ICP factor stating whether nutrients other than C and N were analysed with  a radial or axial ICP equipment for each sample C leaf carbon  concentration (%) Ca leaf calcium concentration (microg g^-1) Cd leaf  boron concentration (microg g^-1) Cu leaf copper concentration (microg  g^-1) Fe leaf iron concentration (microg g^-1) K leaf potassium  concentration (microg g^-1) Mg leaf magnesium concentration (microg g^-1)  Mn leaf manganese concentration (microg g^-1) Mo leaf molybdenum  concentration (microg g^-1) Na leaf sodium concentration (microg g^-1) P  leaf phosphorus concentration (microg g^-1) S leaf sulfur concentration  (microg g^-1) Zn leaf zinc concentration (microg g^-1) N leaf nitrogen  concentration (microg g^-1) d15N delta-N-15 (permil Air) d13C delta-C-13  (permil VPDB) Details For leaf sampling, we used 50 plots (10 m x 10 m  each) from five chronosequence stages where vegetation had been  characterised previously. Using the vegetation survey data, we ranked  species in each of the five chronosequence stages from the most to the  least abundant, based on canopy cover estimates. We then selected 5\u20137  species from each stage, targeting the most abundant species for each of  four contrasting nutrient-acquisition strategies: arbuscular mycorrhizal  (AM), ectomycorrhizal (EM), N-fixing (NF) and non-mycorrhizal (NM) (see  juriensp for strategies). Ericoid mycorrhizal species were not considered  because they were not among the most abundant species. We note that  N-fixing species are generally AM and/or EM, but we considered them as a  separate group because they often show high foliar [N]. Species were  selected from the ten most-abundant species per stage, with the exception  of stage 4 where the 18 most-abundant species were considered. The  selected species accounted for between 38% (stage 5) and 65% (stage 1) of  the total canopy cover of each stage. A total of 18 species were selected  for leaf sampling. All leaf material was collected over a two-month period  between late March and early May 2012, near the end of the dry summer  season. In each of the 50 plots, only healthy mature individuals were  selected for sampling. In general, mature and senesced leaves were sampled  from one individual plant per species in each plot. A species was  considered absent from a plot if it could not be found within ~30 m of its  centre. The number of individual collections (one collection = both mature  and senesced leaves) per species in each chronosequence stage ranged from  five to ten. In each case, representative samples of mature and senesced  leaves were collected using nitrile gloves in order to minimise sample  contamination. Leaves were not washed prior to nutrient analyses but we  consider dust contamination to be highly unlikely, given the sandy nature  of the soils. Mature leaves were undamaged, fully expanded and exposed to  full sunlight. In most cases, senesced leaves were collected directly from  the plant by gently shaking the plant and collecting fallen leaves.  Senesced leaves were easily distinguished from green leaves, since they  were yellow or brown and detached easily from the plant. However, for a  few species it was not possible to collect senesced leaves from live  plants, in which case senesced leaves were collected directly beneath the  plant from recently fallen litter. In all cases, there was no visible  degradation of senesced leaves collected from this litter, which had  predominantly fallen during the summer and had not been exposed to any  significant rain between litter fall and collection. Therefore, we assumed  that losses of nutrients through leaching or decomposition were minimal,  although some photodegradation may have occurred. A total of 508 leaf  samples (mature and senesced) were collected for nutrient analyses. Each  leaf sample was oven-dried (70 degrees C, 48 h) and finely ground using a  Teflon-coated stainless steel ball mill. A subsample was analysed for  carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) concentrations using a continuous-flow system  consisting of a SERCON 20-22 mass spectrometer connected with an automated  nitrogen/carbon analyser (Sercon, Crewe, UK). Stable isotopes of C and N  were analysed using a continuous flow system consisting of a SERCON 20-22  mass spectrometer connected with an automated N/C analyser (Sercon, Crewe,  UK). These analyses were done at the Western Australian Biogeochemistry  Centre, located at the University of Western Australia. A second subsample  was acid-digested using concentrated HNO3:HClO4 (3:1) and analysed for Ca,  Cd, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, P, S and Zn concentrations using  inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES;  ChemCentre, Perth, Australia). All digests were first analysed using a  simultaneous Varian Vista Pro (Australia), radially configured ICP-AES  equipment fitted with a charge-coupled device (CCD) detection system and  an A.I. Scientific AIM-3600 auto-sampler. Samples with P concentrations  close to minimum reporting limit were re-run on more sensitive  axially-configured ICP-AES equipment. The ICP analyses were done at the WA  Chemcentre.jurienleafnut.csv", "keywords": ["Banksia leptophylla", "soil fertility gradient", "nutrient-resorption efficiency", "Acacia rostellifera", "Acanthocarpus preissii", "Spyridium globulosum", "Conostylis candicans", "Banksia attenuata", "Jacksonia floribunda", "Scaevola crassifolia", "nutrient-use efficiency", "Holocene", "manganese accumulation", "nutrient-resorption proficiency", "Mesomelaena pseudostygia", "Phosphorus", "Melaleuca systena", "15. Life on land", "Olearia axillaris", "Banksia menziesii", "Lepidosperma squamatum", "Hardenbergia comptoniana", "Melaleuca leuropoma", "Zinc", "Banksia sessilis", "Hibbertia hypericoides", "Acacia spathulifolia"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Hayes, Patrick, Turner, Benjamin L., Lambers, Hans, Lalibert\u00e9, Etienne,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.51r23"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.51r23", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.51r23", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.51r23"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-11-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.5dv41nsd1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:21Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2024-01-22", "title": "Data and R code used in: Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defenses in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations", "description": "unspecified# Data and R code used in: Plant geographic distribution influences  chemical defenses in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations  ## Description of the data  and file structure * **00_ReadMe_DescriptonVariables.csv**: A list with  the description of variables from each file used. *  **00_Metadata_Coordinates.csv :** A dataset that includes the coordinates  of each Plantago lanceolata population used. * **00_Metadata_Climate.csv  :** A dataset that includes coordinates, bioclimatic parameters, and the  results of PCA. The dataset was created based on the script  '1_Environmental variables.qmd' *  **00_Metadata_Individuals.csv:** A dataset that includes general  information about each plant individual. Information about root traits and  chemistry is missing in four samples since we lost the samples. *  **01_Datset_PlantTraits.csv:** Size-related and resource allocation traits  measured of *Plantago lanceolata* and herbivore damage. *  **02_Dataset_TargetedCompounds.csv:** Phytohormones, Iridoid glycosides,  Verbascoside and Flavonoids quantification of the leaves and roots of  *Plantago lanceolata*. Data generated from HPLC *  **03_Dataset_Volatiles_Area.csv:** Area of identified volatile compounds.  Data generated from GC-FID * **03_Dataset_Volatiles_Compounds.csv:**  Information on identified volatile compounds. Data generated from GC-MS. *  **04_Dataset_Metabolome_Negative_Metadata.txt:** Metadata for files in  negative mode * **04_Dataset_Metabolome_Negative_Intensity.xlsx :** File  with the intensity of the metabolite features in negative mode. The file  was generated from Metaboscape and adapted as required for the Notame  package. * **04_Dataset_Metabolome_Negative_Intensity_filtered.xlsx:**  File generated after preprocessing of features in negative mode. During  the notadame pacakged preprossesing 0 were converted to na *  **04_Dataset_Metabolome_Negative.msmsonly.csv:** File with a intensity of  the the metabolite features in negative mode with ms/ms data. File  generated from Metaboscape. *  **04_Results_Metabolome_Negative_canopus_compound_summary.tsv:** Feature  classification. Results generated from Sirius software. *  **04_Results_Metabolome_Negative_compound_identifications.tsv:** Feature  identification. Results generated from Sirius software. *  **05_Dataset_Metabolome_Positive_Metadata.txt:** Metadata for files in  positive mode * **05_DatasetMetabolome_Positive_Intensity.xlsx :** File  with a intensity of the the metabolite features in positive mode. File  generated from Metaboscape and adapted as required for the Notame package.  * **05_Dataset_Metabolome_Positive_Intensity_filtered:** File generated  after preprocessing of features in positive mode.During the notadame  pacakged preprossesing 0 were converted to na ## ## Code/Software *  **1_Environmental vairables.qmd:** Rscript to Retrieve bioclimatic  variables from based on the coordinates  of each population and then perform a principal components analysis to  reduce the axes variation and included the first principal component as an  explanatory variable in our model to estimate trait differences between  native and introduced populations. Figure 1b and 1d *  **2_PlantTraits_and_Herbivory:** Rscript for statistical anaylsis of  size-related traits, resource allocation traits and herbivore damage.  Figure 2. It needs to source: Model_1_Fucntion.R, Model_2_Fucntion.R,  Plot_Function.R * **3_Metabolome:** Rscript for statistical anaylsis of  *Plantago lanceolata* metabolome. Figure 3. It needs to source:  Metabolome_preprocessing_R, Model_1_Fucntion.R, Model_2_Fucntion.R,  Plot_Function.R. * **4_TargetedCompounds:** Rscript for statistical  anaylsis of *Plantago lanceolata* targeted compounds. Figure 4. It needs  to source: Model_1_Fucntion.R, Model_2_Fucntion.R, Plot_Function.R *  **5_Volatilome:** Rscript for statistical anaylsis of *Plantago  lanceolata* metabolome. Figure 5. It needs to source: Model_1_Fucntion.R,  Model_2_Fucntion.R, Plot_Function.R * **Model_1_Function.R** : Function to  run statistical models * **Model_2_Function.R** : Function to run  statistical models * **Plots_Function.R** : Function to run plot graphs *  **Metabolome_prepocessing.R:** Script to preprocess features", "keywords": ["environmental gradient", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Metabolomics", "Herbivory", "Volatile organic compounds", "iridoid glycosides", "verbascoside", "plant invasion"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Medina-van Berkum, Pamela, Schm\u00f6ckel, Eric, Bischoff, Armin, Carrasco-Farias, Natalia, Catford, Jane, Feldmann, Reinart, Groten, Karin, Henry, Hugh, Bucharova, Anna, H\u00e4nniger, Sabine, Luong, Justin, Meis, Julia, Oetama, Vincensius S. P., P\u00e4rtel, Meelis, Power, Sally, Villellas, Jesus, Welk, Erik, Wingler, Astrid, Rothe, Beate, Gershenzon, Jonathan, Reichelt, Michael, Roscher, Christiane, Unsicker, Sybille B.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5dv41nsd1"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.5dv41nsd1", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.5dv41nsd1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.5dv41nsd1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-02-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:21Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2024-01-24", "title": "Data from: Warming reduces priming effect of soil organic carbon decomposition along a subtropical elevation gradient", "description": "unspecified# Data from: Warming reduces priming effect of soil organic carbon  decomposition along a subtropical elevation gradient  [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf) The dataset includes glucose-, lignin- and SOC-derived CO2-C production, priming effects, soil properties, and microbial communities measured across all treatments. ## Description of the data and file structure Methodological Information  * Methods of data collection/generation: see article for details  * Geographic locations of data collection: Wuyishan Mountain, Fujian, China Description of the data and file structure  * This dataset has one EXCEL. xlsx file with 22 sheets supporting the figures in the article.  * Description of the treatment There are six treatments in this dataset: Control, glucose addition, lignin addition, warming, glucose addition + warming, and lignin addition + warming treatment *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 1a | Abbreviation | Description | Units | | :-------------- | :----------------------------------- | :----------- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | Glucose | Glucose addition treatment | mg g-1 soil | | Glucose+Warming | Glucose addition + warming treatment | mg g-1 soil | | Lignin | Lginin addition treatment | mg g-1 soil | | Lignin +Warming | Lignin addition +warming treatment | mg g-1 soil | *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 1b | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :-------------- | :----------------------------------- | :------- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | Glucose | Glucose addition treatment | unitless | | Glucose+Warming | Glucose addition + warming treatment | unitless | | Lignin | Lignin addition treatment | unitless | | Lignin +Warming | Lignin addition +warming treatment | unitless | *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 1c, data for substrate-derived CO2 | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :-------------- | :----------------------------------- | :----------- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | Glucose | Glucose addition treatment | mg g-1 soil | | Glucose+Warming | Glucose addition + warming treatment | mg g-1 soil | | Lignin | Lignin addition treatment | mg g-1 soil | | Lignin +Warming | Lignin addition +warming treatment | mg g-1 soil | *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 1d, data for substrate-derived PLFAs | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :-------------- | :----------------------------------- | :----------- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | Glucose | Glucose addition treatment | ug g-1 soil | | Glucose+Warming | Glucose addition + warming treatment | ug g-1 soil | | Lignin | Glucose addition treatment | ug g-1 soil | | Lignin+Warming | Lignin addition + warming treatment | ug g-1 soil | *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 2a and Figure 2b | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :--------------- | :----------------------------------- | :------- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | No addition | Without substrate addition treatment | unitless | | Glucose addition | With glucose addition treatment | unitless | | Lignin addition | With lignin addition treatment | unitless | Note:\u00a0Q10 is the temperature sensitivity of SOC or substrates mineralization unitless *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 3a, Figure 3b, Figure 3c, Figure 3d, Figure 3e, and Figure 3f | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :--------------- | :----------------------------------- | :---- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | No addition | Without substrate addition treatment | % | | Glucose addition | With glucose addition treatment | % | | Lignin addition | With lginin addition treatment | % | Note: Warming effect size means the effect of warming on microbial biomass *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 4a, Figure 4b, Figure 4c, Figure 4d and Figure 4e | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :-------------- | :----------------------------------- | :------- | | Glucose | Glucose addition treatment | unitless | | Glucose+Warming | Glucose addition + warming treatment | unitless | | Lignin | Glucose addition treatment | unitless | | Lignin+Warming | Lignin addition + warming treatment | unitless | Note: Response ratio means the ratio of a variable in glucose or lignin addition without or with warming to that in the corresponding unamended control at ambient temperature or warming temperature *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 5a and Figure 5b | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :----------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :--------------- | | MAT | Mean annual temperature | \u2103 | | RR | The ratio of a variable in glucose or lignin addition treatment to that in unamended control | unitless | | \u0394RR | The RR ratio under warming treatment minus that under ambient treatment | unitless | | PE(Glucose) | Priming effect induced by glucose addition treatment | unitless | | PE(Lignin) | Priming effect induced by lignin addition treatment | unitless | | PE(total) | Priming effect induced by glucose or lignin addition treatment | unitless | | \u0394PE(Glucose) | The effect of warming on priming effect induced by glucose addition | unitless | | \u0394PE(Lignin) | The effect of warming on priming effect induced by lignin addition | unitless | | \u0394PE(total) | The effect of warming on priming effect induced by glucose or lignin addition | unitless | | SOC | Soil organic carbon | g kg-1 | | Labile C | Labile pool carbon | g kg-1 | | Stable C | Stable pool carbon | g kg-1 | | TN | Soil total nitrogen | g kg-1 | | C:N ratio | The ratio of soil organic carbon to soil total nitrogen | unitless | | qCO2 | Microbial metabolic quotient | mg C g-1 MBC h-1 | | Total PLFAs | Phospholipid fatty acids | nmol g-1 soil | | F:B ratio | The ratio of fungi to bacteria | unitless | | DOC | Dissolved organic carbon | mg kg-1 | *For abbreviations of variables in the sheet named Figure 6a, Figure 6b and Figure 6c | Abbreviation | Description | units | | :---------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---- | | PE _Glucase | Warming effect on Glucose-induced priming effect | % | | PE _Lignin | Warming effect on Lignin induced priming effect | % | | Bacteria 13C-PLFA | Warming effect on Substrate-derived bacteria phospholipid fatty acids | % | | Fungi 13C-PLFA | Warming effect on Substrate-derived fungi phospholipid fatty acids | % | | Total 13C-PLFAs | Warming effect on Substrate-derived total microbial phospholipid fatty acids | % | ## Code/Software All statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS software version 21.0 for Windows and R (v4.1.0).", "keywords": ["13C-PLFA", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Microbial carbon use efficiency", "priming effects", "substrate quality", "temperature gradient"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Li, Xiaojie, Lyu, Maokui, Zhang, Qiufang, Feng, Jiguang, Liu, Xiaofei, Zhu, Biao, Wang, Xiaohong, Yang, Yusheng, Xie, Jinsheng,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.5x69p8dbf"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-05-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.902k846", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:23Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: The influence of topography and soil phosphorus on the vegetation of Korup Forest Reserve, Cameroun", "description": "unspecifiedSouthern Korup Transect  Plots DataText to files on Korup  plot data of Gartlan and Thomas In the southern part of Korup National  Park (58o10 N, 8o70 E), 135 plots, each of 80 m x 80m in area, were laid  out at 150-m intervals along four E-to-W transect lines (P, Q, R and S;  each of 34 plots, excepting Q with 33). Lines were ~5 km in length, and  separated S-to-N at ~4 km distance. Shrubs and small trees were very  lightly cut to show a way between plots. Each plot was divided into four  40-m x 40-m subplots, although only data at the whole plot level are  archived here. Details of the layout and environmental information are  found in Gartlan et al. (1986). All trees of \u2265 30 cm gbh (girth at breast  height, 1.3 m) were measured and identified. Coordinate locations of trees  within subplots were not taken: trees were not tagged. Lianas were also  recorded but are not included here. The plots were not marked at their  corners in any permanent manner apart from an indication of their location  by single tags on trees at the start of each plot on the line. The field  work was undertaken in 1975-1977, principally by J. S. Gartlan, D. W.  Thomas and F. Namata. Plots were relocatable up to about 1998, after which  time many tags had become very difficult to find. Except for transect P,  the southernmost line, and which has continued in use for further research  up until the present, the other lines have faded. There are four  ASCII-text files. These were the inputs for the abundance tables,  classifications and ordinations in Gartlan et al. (1986). (1) \u2018korbar.txt\u2019  has the basal areas (ba) per plot (units: m2/0.1-ha) of each tree species,  written in the Cornell Condensed Format (CCF) of the programs DECORANA and  CANOCO. Each line of the data has a plot number followed by four couplets  of \u2018species number and ba-value\u2019. (Some lines have trailing zero entries.)  Plots numbers are: 1-34, transect P; 35-67, Q; 68-101, R; and 102-135, S.  (2) \u2018korfre.txt\u2019 has the numbers of trees of each tree species per plot,  corresponding to \u2018korbar.txt\u2019 and also in the CCF. (3) \u2018korlsp.txt\u2019  contains a list of the 444 species\u2019 identifier codes (all transects); and  (4) \u2018kortax.txt\u2019 is a dictionary of these species\u2019 codes giving their full  Latin names and authorities as of 1986, arranged under family names. The  taxonomy has not been updated, and the modern user may want to revise it  using an international plant names\u2019 index. These data were also the basis  to Newbery &amp; Gartlan (1996) and Newbery et al. (1988, 1997, 1998).  _References Gartlan, J. S., D. M. Newbery, D. W. Thomas, and P. G.  Waterman. 1986. The influence of topography and soil phosphorus on the  vegetation of Korup Forest Reserve, Cameroun. Vegetatio 65:131-148.  Newbery, D. M., I. J. Alexander, and J. A. Rother. 1997. Phosphorus  dynamics in a lowland African rain forest: The influence of  ectomycorrhizal trees. Ecological Monographs 67:367-409. Newbery, D. M.,  I. J. Alexander, D. W. Thomas, and J. S. Gartlan. 1988. Ectomycorrhizal  Rain-Forest Legumes and Soil-Phosphorus in Korup-National-Park, Cameroon.  New Phytologist 109:433-450. Newbery, D. M. and J. S. Gartlan. 1996.  Structural analysis of the rain forest at Korup and Douala Edea, Cameroon.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh B 104:177-224. Newbery, D.  M., N. C. Songwe, and G. B. Chuyong. 1998. Phenology and dynamics of an  African rain forest at Korup, Cameroon. Pages 267-308 in D. M. Newbery, H.  H. T. Prins, and N. D. Brown, editors. Dynamics of tropical communities.  Blackwell Science, Oxford.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "vegetation gradient", "soil phosphorus", "Oubanguia alata", "Atlantic Coastal formation", "15. Life on land", "Microberlinia bisulcata"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Thomas, Duncan W., Newbery, David M., Waterman, P. G., Gartlan, J. 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High altitude soils contain high C stocks, but due  to difficult access to sites these areas are understudied. Moreover, how  the C and N cycling is changing in response to climate change in these  ecosystems, is still unclear. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and  its dependency on the environmental constraints along the altitudinal  gradients is one important unknown factor. Here we present results from an  altitudinal gradient study (3500 to 4500 m a.s.l.) from a Polylepis forest  in the Peruvian Andes. We measured the soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks  and microbial metabolic CUE by\u00a013C glucose tracing and microbial  resource use efficiency (CUEC:N) based on enzyme activity measurements. We  expected to find an increase in SOC stock, microbial nutrient limitations,  and lower CUE with elevation. SOC stocks depended on soil development and  followed a unimodal curve that peaks at 4000 m in two of the three studied  valleys. Neither 13CUE nor CUEC:N changed significantly with altitude.  Soil C:N ratio, \u03b2-glucosidase, chitinase, and phosphatase enzyme  activities increased with elevation, but peroxidase activity decreased  with elevation. We suggest that more labile organic matter left at high  elevation could compensate for the increasing nutrient limitation at high  elevation, resulting in no noticeable change in CUE with elevation.", "keywords": ["soil organic carbon", "Exoenzyme", "Carbon use efficiency", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Stoichiometric modelling", "Elevational gradient"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Martin Vivanco, Angela Katherine, Sieti\u00f6, Outi-Maaria, Meyer, Nele, Mganga, Kevin, Kalu, Subin, Adamczyk, Sylwia, Celis, Susan, Alegre, Julio, Karhu, Kristiina,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdqs"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdqs", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdqs", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdqs"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-12-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.rn7c5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-04-15T16:21:29Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Shrubs as ecosystem engineers across an environmental gradient: effects on species richness and exotic plant invasion", "description": "unspecifiedEcosystem-engineering plants modify the physical environment and can  increase species diversity and exotic species invasion. At the individual  level, the effects of ecosystem engineers on other plants often become  more positive in stressful environments. In this study, we investigated  whether the community-level effects of ecosystem engineers also become  stronger in more stressful environments. Using comparative and  experimental approaches, we assessed the ability of a native shrub  (Ericameria ericoides) to act as an ecosystem engineer across a stress  gradient in a coastal dune in northern California, USA. We found increased  coarse organic matter and lower wind speeds within shrub patches. Growth  of a dominant invasive grass (Bromus diandrus) was facilitated both by  aboveground shrub biomass and by growing in soil taken from shrub patches.  Experimental removal of shrubs negatively affected species most associated  with shrubs and positively affected species most often found outside of  shrubs. Counter to the stress-gradient hypothesis, the effects of shrubs  on the physical environment and individual plant growth did not increase  across the established stress gradient at this site. At the community  level, shrub patches increased beta diversity, and contained greater  rarified richness and exotic plant cover than shrub-free patches. Shrub  effects on rarified richness increased with environmental stress, but  effects on exotic cover and beta diversity did not. Our study provides  evidence for the community-level effects of shrubs as ecosystem engineers  in this system, but shows that these effects do not necessarily become  stronger in more stressful environments.", "keywords": ["ecosystem engineers", "Stress-gradient hypothesis", "Anthropocene", "Bromus diandrus", "15. Life on land", "exotic species", "Ericameria ericoides", "Coastal dunes"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kleinhesselink, Andrew R., Magnoli, Susan M., Cushman, J. 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