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We hypothesized that (1) these vegetation types would differ in their responses to precipitation and N manipulation; (2) reduced precipitation (\u201cdrought treatment\u201d) would have a negative effect on soil microbial abundance and alter microbial community composition, (3) these changes would be associated with reductions in soil C and N pools, (4) N addition would increase microbial abundance as well as soil C and N pools, and (5) combined drought and N deposition would have offsetting effects on soil properties. We tested these hypotheses at the Loma Ridge Global Change Experiment in southern California. Across vegetation types, we found that microbial biomass based on phospholipid fatty acids declined with drought and N addition. Microbial composition differed more strongly by vegetation type than with environmental change treatments. Added precipitation had little effect on microbial biomass but reduced labile C and N pools; these reductions were mitigated by N addition. Drought reduced labile forms of soil C and N, whereas N addition increased labile soil C pools and all soil N pools. Negative effects of drought and N addition were additive for microbial biomass, which could inhibit soil C cycling if both of these environmental changes occur together. Drought interacted with N addition to significantly increase the most labile N pool under the drought\u00a0+\u00a0N treatment, which suggests a build-up of available N under these conditions. These results imply that multiple environmental changes may combine non-additively to affect below-ground microorganisms and soil C and N pools, which may have important consequences for ecosystem services such as productivity, biodiversity, and soil quality in Mediterranean climate regimes of North America.", "keywords": ["Veterinary and Food Sciences", "Soil Science", "Microbial communities", "Shrubland", "veterinary and food sciences", "Carbon and nitrogen cycle", "11. Sustainability", "Global change", "2. 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As a result, sub-Arctic tundra is subject to a shrub expansion, called \u201cshrubification\u201d, at the expense of sedge species. Depending on the intrinsic foliar properties of these plant species, changes in foliar mineral element fluxes with shrubification in the context of permafrost degradation may influence topsoil mineral element composition. Despite the potential implications of changes in topsoil mineral element concentrations for the fate of organic carbon, this remains poorly quantified. Here, we investigate vegetation foliar and topsoil mineral element composition (Si, K, Ca, P, Mn, Zn, Cu, Mo, V) across a natural gradient of permafrost degradation at a typical sub-Arctic tundra at Eight Mile Lake (Alaska, USA). Results show that foliar mineral element concentrations are higher (up to 9 times; Si, K, Mo for all species, and for some species Zn) or lower (up to 2 times; Ca, P, Mn, Cu, V for all species, and for some species Zn) in sedge than in shrub species. As a result, a vegetation shift over ~40 years has resulted in lower topsoil concentrations in Si, K, Zn, and Mo (respectively of 52, 24, 20, and 51%) in highly degraded permafrost sites compared to poorly degraded permafrost sites due to lower foliar fluxes of these elements. For other elements (Ca, P, Mn, Cu, and V), the vegetation shift has not induced a marked change in topsoil concentrations at this current stage of permafrost degradation. A modeled amplified shrubification associated with a further permafrost degradation is expected to increase foliar Ca, P, Mn, Cu, and V fluxes, which will likely change these element concentrations in topsoil. These data can serve as a first estimate to assess the influence of other shifts in vegetation in Arctic and sub-Arctic tundra such as sedge expansion under wetter soil conditions.", "keywords": ["topsoil", "[SDV.SA.STA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Sciences and technics of agriculture", "mineral elements", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "sub-Arctic tundra", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "vegetation change", "13. 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A few studies have shown that  Piliostigma reticulatum , a dominant native shrub in parklands from Senegal to Sudan, can positively impact crop yields. However, there are no experiments that measure whether this species can stabilize long-term crop productivity under erratic rainfall. Therefore, an 11-year study of an optimized  P. reticulatum  intercropping system (1000 shrubs ha \u22121  with annual coppiced residue soil amendments) was initiated in 2004 in Senegal, West Africa to determine its impacts on crop productivity and soil quality. The experiment was a split-plot factorial design with the main plot shrubs (with and without) and the subplot fertilizer rate (0, 0.5, 1, and 1.5 times the recommended N-P-K rate) with an annual groundnut ( Arachis hypogaea ) and pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum ) crop rotation. Yield, biomass, soil carbon, and soil and plant nutrient data from 2011 to 2015 were compared with data from 2004 to 2007. The presence of shrubs increased millet and groundnut yield from 2011 to 2015 and rainfall water use efficiency (WUE) between 2004 and 2015. Without fertilizer addition, the shrub plots had approximately 2 times greater millet yield throughout the duration of this experiment. The presence of shrubs also improved soil quality, as evidenced by significantly greater C in the fraction  P. reticulatum  intercropping promotes C sequestration. In addition, five macronutrients (N, K, Ca, Mg, S) and two micronutrients (Mn and Cu) were significantly greater in the shrub plots. The results provide strong evidence that intercropping with  P. reticulatum  is an ecological agroforestry system for the Sahel that can remediate soils, increase crop yields, and buffer climate change.", "keywords": ["580", "Pearl millet", "2. Zero hunger", "Parklands", "Groundnut", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Agroforestry", "15. 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Net effects result from the combination of direct impacts of grazing on biogeochemical characteristics of microsites with indirect effects on relative cover of vegetated and unvegetated microsites. Within five independent areas, we sampled surface soils in sites subjected to three grazing intensities: (1) ungrazed sites inside grazing exclosures, (2) moderately grazed sites adjacent to them, and (3) intensely grazed sites within the same paddock. Grazing significantly reduced soil C and N pools, although this pattern was clearest in intensely grazed sites. This net effect was due to the combination of a direct reduction of soil N content in bare soil patches, and indirect effects mediated by the increase of the cover of bare soil microsites, with lower C and N content than either grass or shrub microsites. This increase in bare soil cover was accompanied by a reduction in cover of preferred grass species and standing dead material. Finally, stable isotope signatures varied significantly among grazed and ungrazed sites, with \u03b415N and \u03b413C significantly depleted in intensely grazed sites, suggesting reduced mineralization with increased grazing intensity. In the Patagonian steppe, grazing appears to exert a negative effect on soil C and N cycles; sound management practices must incorporate the importance of species shifts within life form, and the critical role of standing dead material in maintaining soil C and N stocks and biogeochemical processes.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "ARGENTINA", "SEMIARID ECOSYSTEMS", "STABLE ISOTOPES", "DESERTIFICATION", "\u039413C", "SHRUB-GRASS STEPPE", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "BIOGEOCHEMISTRY", "&Delta;13C", "01 natural sciences", "LIFE FORMS", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5", "13. 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We evaluate a conceptual model which posits that the development of biotic and abiotic structural connectivity is due to ecogeomorphic feedbacks. Three hypotheses are evaluated: 1. Over the shrub-encroachment gradient, the difference in soil properties under each surface-cover type will change non-linearly, becoming increasingly different; 2. There will be a reduction in vegetation cover and an increase in vegetation-patch size that is concurrent with an increase in the spatial heterogeneity of soil properties over the shrub-encroachment gradient; and 3. Over the shrub-encroachment gradient, the range at which soil properties are autocorrelated will progressively exceed the range at which vegetation is autocorrelated. Field-based monitoring of vegetation and soil properties was carried out over a shrub-encroachment gradient at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, USA. Results of this study show that vegetation cover decreases over the shrub-encroachment gradient, but vegetation-patch size increases, with a concurrent increase in the spatial heterogeneity of soil properties. Typically, there are significant differences in soil properties between non-vegetated and vegetated surfaces, but for grass and shrub patches, there are only significant differences for the biotic soil properties. Results suggest that it is the development of larger, well-connected, non-vegetated patches that is most important in driving the overall behavior of shrub-dominated sites. Results of this study support the hypothesis that feedbacks of functional connectivity reinforce the development of structural connectivity, which increases the resilience of the shrub-dominated state, and thus makes it harder for grasses to re-establish and reverse the vegetation change.", "keywords": ["2. 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The changes in plant abundance and chemistry might have cascading effects on tundra food webs, but an integrated understanding of how the responses vary between habitats and across environmental gradients is lacking. We assessed responses in plant abundance and plant chemistry to warmer climate, both at species and community levels, in two different habitats. We used a long-term and multisite warming (OTC) experiment in the Scandinavian forest-tundra ecotone to investigate (i) changes in plant community composition and (ii) responses in foliar nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon-based secondary compound concentrations in two dominant evergreen dwarf-shrubs (Empetrum hermaphroditum and Vaccinium vitis-idaea) and two deciduous shrubs (Vaccinium myrtillus and Betula nana). We found that initial plant community composition, and the functional traits of these plants, will determine the responsiveness of the community composition, and thus community traits, to experimental warming. Although changes in plant chemistry within species were minor, alterations in plant community composition drive changes in community-level nutrient concentrations. In view of projected climate change, our results suggest that plant abundance will increase in the future, but nutrient concentrations in the tundra field layer vegetation will decrease. These effects are large enough to have knock-on consequences for major ecosystem processes like herbivory and nutrient cycling. The reduced food quality could lead to weaker trophic cascades and weaker top down control of plant community biomass and composition in the future. However, the opposite effects in forest indicate that these changes might be obscured by advancing treeline forests. \u00a9 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.", "keywords": ["580", "0106 biological sciences", "570", "P.", "Global warming", "500", "CBSC", "P", "N", "15. 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Hochst (Caesalpinioideae) and Guiera senegalensis J.F. Gmel (Combretaceae) are commonly found in farmers\u2019 fields at varying densities in semi-arid Senegal and throughout the Sahel where soils have chronically low phosphorus (P) availability. It seems plausible that shrub litter and the rhizospheres could influence P fractions and other chemical soil properties that affect crop productivity. Thus, a study was done at two sites, on the distribution of inorganic and organic soil P pools, organic C levels, and pH in soil beneath and outside the canopies of P. reticulatum and G. senegalensis (0-30 cm depth). Both sites had low total P ranging from 64 mg P kg\u22121 to 135 mg P kg-1, and low extractable PO4 (resin Pi) (1\u20136 mg P kg\u22121) with P fractions dominated by NaOH-P. Organic P (Po) made up about 50% of total P, and most of the organic P (>60%) was found in the NaOH-P fractions. The labile P, particularly bicarb-Po was higher in soil beneath shrub canopies (8.4 mg P kg \u22121), than outside the canopy (6.2 mg P kg \u22121). Similarly, C, N and P to a lesser extent, were more concentrated beneath shrub canopies. P. reticulatum soil was dominated by the NaOH-Po fraction, whereas G. senegalensis had higher bicarb-Po at one of the study sites. An index of biologically available organic P (Bicarb-Po) / (Bicarb-Po + Bicar-Pi + Resin Pi) was > 60% and indicates that biological processes represent an important part of P cycling in these shrub ecosystems. The differential ability of shrubs in modifying soil chemical properties under their canopies has major implications for biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and C in sandy soils of semi arid Sahelian ecosystems.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "Total C", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Canopy soil", "Semi-arid", "Sahel", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Shrubs", "P fractions", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Dossa, E. L., Diedhiou, S., Compton, J. E., /Assigbets\u00e9, Komi, Dick, R. 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This is influenced by increasing temperatures. We manipulated the microclimate in a Mediterranean shrubland to increase the soil and air night-time temperatures and to reduce water input from precipitation. The objective was to analyze the extent to which higher temperatures and a drier climate influence soil CO2 emissions in the short term and on an annual basis. The microclimate was manipulated in field plots (about 25\u00a0m2) by covering the vegetation during the night (Warming treatment) and during rain events (Drought treatment). Soil CO2 effluxes were monitored in the treatments and compared to a control over a 3-year period. Along with soil respiration measurements, we recorded soil temperature at 5\u00a0cm depth by a soil temperature probe. The seasonal pattern of soil CO2 efflux was characterized by higher rates during the wet vegetative season and lower rates during the dry non-vegetative season (summer). The Warming treatment did not change SR fluxes at any sampling date. The Drought treatment decreased soil CO2 emissions on only three of 10 occasions during 2004. The variation of soil respiration with temperature and soil water content did not differ significantly among the treatments, but was affected by the season. The annual CO2 emissions were not significantly affected by the treatments. In the semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland, an increase of soil CO2 efflux in response to a moderate increase of daily minimum temperature is unlikely, whereas less precipitation can strongly affect the soil processes mainly limited by water availability.", "keywords": ["Soil respiration", " Night time warming", " Drought", " Mediterranean shrubland", " CO2 emission", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-009-0041-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-009-0041-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-009-0041-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-009-0041-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-05-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-024-06756-x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:15:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-06-01", "title": "CH4 transport in wetland plants under controlled environmental conditions \u2013 separating the impacts of phenology from environmental variables", "description": "Abstract                        Background and Aims             <p>Methane (CH4) fluxes at peatland plant surfaces are net results of transport of soil-produced CH4 and within-plant CH4 production and consumption, yet factors and processes controlling these fluxes remain unclear. We aimed to assess the effects of seasonality, environmental variables, and CH4 cycling microbes on CH4 fluxes from characteristic fen species.</p>                                   Methods             <p>Four species (Carex rostrata, Menyanthes trifoliata, Betula nana, Salix lapponum) were selected, and their CH4 fluxes determined in climate-controlled environments with three mesocosms per growing season per species. Microbial genes for CH4 cycling were analysed to check the potential for within-plant CH4 production and oxidation. Two extra experiments were conducted: removal of C. rostrata leaves to identify how leaves constrain CH4 transport, and a labelling experiment with S. lapponum to distinguish between plant-produced and soil-produced CH4 in the plant flux.</p>                                   Results             <p>All species showed seasonal variability in CH4 fluxes. Higher porewater CH4 concentration increased fluxes from C. rostrata and M. trifoliata, decreased fluxes from S. lapponum, and did not affect fluxes from B. nana. Air temperature only and negatively affected CH4 flux from C. rostrata. Light level did not impact CH4 fluxes. Both methanogens and methanotrophs were detected in shoots of S. lapponum and M. trifoliata, methanotrophs in B. nana, and neither in C. rostrata.</p>                                   Conclusion             <p>Our study demonstrates that the seasonal phase of the plants regulates the CH4 fluxes they mediate across species. The detection of methanogens and methanotrophs in herbs and shrubs suggests that microbial processes may contribute to their CH4 fluxes.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "metanotrofit", "varvut", "Herbs", "11831 Plant biology", "metaani", "Environmental sciences", "Controlled environments", "Microbes", "03 medical and health sciences", "Phenology", "suot", "Plant-mediated CH fluxes", "suokasvillisuus", "Shrubs", "metanogeenit", "sarat"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06756-x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-024-06756-x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-024-06756-x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-024-06756-x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agwat.2004.04.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:15:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-07-06", "title": "Mechanical Control Of Shrubs In A Semiarid Region Of Argentina And Its Effect On Soil Water Content And Grassland Productivity", "description": "Abstract   Mechanical shrub control with roller choppers can be an inexpensive and non contaminant system for increasing grassland production in rangelands dry regions. A field experiment was carried out between October 1997 and October 2001 in the \u201cCaldenal-Jarillal\u201d botanic district of Argentina, a natural rangeland ecosystem with a high water deficit throughout much of the year. The trial was conducted on a Typic Ustortent and consisted of the following treatments: a control, the undisturbed natural condition (N), and rolled with (I) and without (R) interseeding of  Panicum coloratum . Results showed that I and R improved soil water content within the upper 100\u00a0cm, dry matter production of grasses, amount of litter and water use efficiency as compared to N. The positive effect of rolling on soil water content was detected only in autumn months when water balance was positive. In summer months, when a negative water balance occurred, soil water content of rolled treatments was not different from that of the unrolled one. Consumptive water use was similar in rolled and unrolled treatments, and equivalent to the rainfall, reflecting the low soil water-holding capacity. The higher efficiency of water use in rolled treatments indicated that grasses were more efficient in using the consumed water. The I and R treatments had similar values of soil water content within the upper 100\u00a0cm, grass dry matter production, amount of litter and water use efficiency. However, a higher grass dry matter production in R than in I was noticed in part of the last year of this study. Grass dry matter production increased at the same rate in all treatments after 4 years, but litter remained constant in the unrolled treatment and decreased in the rolled ones. Mechanical shrub control with a roller chopper decreased shrub competition, thereby increasing the productivity of the ecosystem.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Rolling", "Natural Grasses", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Shrub Control", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Semiarid Regions", "Water Balance", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2004.04.001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Water%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agwat.2004.04.001", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agwat.2004.04.001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agwat.2004.04.001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.017", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:15:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-04-16", "title": "Land Use Changes And Ground Dwelling Beetle Conservation In Extensive Grazing Dehesa Systems Of North-West Spain", "description": "Traditional management practiced over centuries in Mediterranean cultural landscapes has led to singular agrosilvopastoral ecosystems such as dehesas. Recent abandonment of dehesa management has resulted in shrub encroachment, habitat homogenisation and increased fire risk. Mechanical shrub cutting to decrease biomass load creates novel cleared dehesas with yet unknown consequences for the ecosystem function. We investigated the effects of these land use changes on ground dwelling beetles (carabids and staphylinids) as model organisms by comparing traditionally grazed, long-time abandoned and newly cleared dehesas. Land use changes affected beetle species composition by altering habitat structure (e.g., litter layer) and the availability of feeding resources. Grazed dehesas held the highest number of exclusive species and particular functional guilds of carabid seed eaters and staphylinid coprophiles, utilizing food resources related to the presence of grazing livestock (annual herbs and coprophagous insects). Beetle assemblages of abandoned dehesas, resembling those known from surrounding human disturbed oak forests, exhibited the lowest abundance and greatly differed from beetle assemblages of grazed dehesas. Shrub clearance after dehesa abandonment benefited opportunistic beetle predators feeding on decomposers associated with cutting slash left on the ground. The habitat structure and beetle species composition of cleared dehesas slightly approached those of grazed dehesas, therefore suggesting shrub cutting as a first step towards restoration of abandoned dehesas. However, since livestock grazing is an essential driver of ground dwelling beetle composition, it should be promoted after shrub cutting in cleared dehesas to restore the characteristic assemblages, species interactions and ecosystem function of grazed dehesas.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Shrub encroachment", "Traditional silvopastoral management", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/558391192", "15. Life on land", "Sustainability Science", "01 natural sciences", "Functional guild of species", "Land use abandonment", "Sustainability sciences", " Management &amp; Economics", "Oak savannah-like forest", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft", "Carabid and staphylinid assemblages"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.017"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biological%20Conservation", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.017", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.017", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.02.017"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.085", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-08-21", "title": "Warming And Drought Change Trace Element Bioaccumulation Patterns In A Mediterranean Shrubland", "description": "A field experiment consisting of drought and warming manipulation was conducted in a Mediterranean shrubland dominated by the shrubs Erica multiflora and Globularia alypum. The aim was to investigate the effects of the climatic changes predicted by IPCC models for the coming decades on trace element concentration and accumulation in aboveground biomass, plant litter, and soil. Warming increased concentrations and aboveground accumulation of some trace elements related to plant root uptake, such as Al, As, Cr, Cu, and partially Pb. This effect was more general in E. multiflora than in G. alypum. The stronger effects were increases in Al leaf concentrations (42%) and aboveground accumulation (500gha(-1)) in E. multiflora, in As stem biomass accumulation (0.2gha(-1)) in E. multiflora, and in Cr leaf concentrations (51%) in G. alypum and stem aboveground accumulation in E. multiflora (1.1gha(-1)). These species-specific increases were related to greater retranslocation, photosynthetic capacity and growth in E. multiflora than in G. alypum. Warming decreased the concentrations of some trace elements in leaf litter, implying the existence of an increased leaf retranslocation. Drought increased As (40%) and Cd (55%) in E. multiflora stems, whereas it decreased Cu (50%) in leaves, Ni (28%) in stems and Pb (32%) in leaf litter of G. alypum. The increasing concentrations of some trace elements in E. multiflora and not in G. alypum were related to a greater growth reduction in E. multiflora than in G. alypum. Warming increased As soil solubility (67%) and decreased total soil As (21%). Those changes were related to a greater Fe mobilization in warming plot and to a greater plant capture. Drought increased Hg (350%) concentrations in soils but had no significant effects on trace element accumulation in aboveground biomass. The different response to warming and drought in the two dominant species implies uneven changes in the quality of the plant tissues that may have implications for herbivores. This may be specially important for the performance of the studied Mediterranean ecosystems under the warmer and drier conditions predicted by the next decades by the GCM and ecophysiological models.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Trace elements", "Biomass concentrations", "Mediterranean Region", "15. Life on land", "Models", " Biological", "01 natural sciences", "Soil content", "6. Clean water", "Trace Elements", "Disasters", "Mediterranean shrubland", "Heavy metals", "13. Climate action", "Metals", " Heavy", "Climate change", "Soil Pollutants", "Biomass", "Seasons", "Weather", "Ecosystem", "Environmental Monitoring", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.085"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Chemosphere", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.085", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.085", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.06.085"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104055", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:08Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-12", "title": "The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration", "description": "As CO2 concentration in the atmosphere rises, there is a need for improved physical understanding of its impact on global plant transpiration. This knowledge gap poses a major hurdle in robustly projecting changes in the global hydrologic cycle. For this reason, here we review the different processes by which atmospheric CO2 concentration affects plant transpiration, the several uncertainties related to the complex physiological and radiative processes involved, and the knowledge gaps which need to be filled in order to improve predictions of plant transpiration. Although there is a high degree of certainty that rising CO2 will impact plant transpiration, the exact nature of this impact remains unclear due to complex interactions between CO2 and climate, and key aspects of plant morphology and physiology. The interplay between these factors has substantial consequences not only for future climate and global vegetation, but also for water availability needed for sustaining the productivity of terrestrial ecosystems. Future changes in global plant transpiration in response to enhanced CO2 are expected to be driven by water availability, atmospheric evaporative demand, plant physiological processes, emergent plant disturbances related to increasing temperatures, and the modification of plant physiology and coverage. Considering the universal sensitivity of natural and agricultural systems to terrestrial water availability we argue that reliable future projections of transpiration is an issue of the highest priority, which can only be achieved by integrating monitoring and modeling efforts to improve the representation of CO2 effects on plant transpiration in the next generation of earth system models. \u00a9 2022 The Authors", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "VAPOR-PRESSURE DEFICIT", "COMMUNITY LAND MODEL", "DECIDUOUS FOREST TREES", "TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST", "EARTH SYSTEM MODELS", "STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE", "Earth system models", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Transpiration", "03 medical and health sciences", "DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODELS", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "MOJAVE DESERT SHRUBS", "Climate change", "CO2", "ELEVATED CO2", "Atmospheric water demand", "WATER-USE EFFICIENCY", "Projections", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104055"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Earth-Science%20Reviews", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104055", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104055", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104055"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.04.003", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-05-07", "title": "The Influence Of A Shrub-Based Intercropping System On The Soil Nematofauna When Growing Millet In Senegal", "description": "Abstract   Woody shrubs commonly co-exist with annual food crops in farmers' fields throughout the Sahel. Management strategies that deliberately include the native shrub  Piliostigma reticulatum  in Senegalese cropping systems result in soil functioning enhancement that benefits to the associated cereal. The objective of this work was to evaluate shrub effect on soil nematode communities. Soil samples were collected from an experimental design where pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum ) was cultivated alone or with  P. reticulatum  stands and mulch. Soil nematofauna characteristics were determined and compared with results from soil under pure shrub stands and from bare soil. The analysis of soil nematofauna, characterized by the abundance of different trophic groups and related indices (MI, maturity index; EI and SI, enrichment and structure indices), allowed discrimination between treatments with or without shrub presence. The soil nematode community in millet cultivation was dominated by plant feeding nematodes, mainly from the Hoplolaimidae family, but their abundance decreased when  P. reticulatum  was associated to the cereal. The shrub also impacted other nematode trophic groups. The abundance of opportunistic bacterial feeders (mainly Cephalobidae) was increased in shrub treatments. Further research should explore consequences on cereal nutrition and nematicidal properties of  P. reticulatum .", "keywords": ["580", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Ecological indices", "Soil nematodes", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Piliostigma reticulatum", "01 natural sciences", "630", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Sahelian shrub", "Pennisetum glaucum", "Trophic groups"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.04.003"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.04.003", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.04.003", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2013.04.003"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.10.009", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-12-20", "title": "Biogeochemical And Ecological Impacts Of Livestock Grazing In Semi-Arid Southeastern Utah, Usa", "description": "Abstract   Relatively few studies have examined the ecological and biogeochemical effects of livestock grazing in southeastern Utah. In this study, we evaluated how grazing has affected soil organic carbon and nitrogen to a depth of 50\u00a0cm in grasslands located in relict and actively-grazed sites in the Canyonlands physiographic section of the Colorado Plateau. We also evaluated differences in plant ground cover and the spatial distribution of soil resources. Results show that areas used by domestic livestock have 20% less plant cover and 100% less soil organic carbon and nitrogen compared to relict sites browsed by native ungulates. In actively grazed sites, domestic livestock grazing also appears to lead to clustered, rather than random, spatial distribution of soil resources. Magnetic susceptibility, a proxy for soil stability in this region, suggests that grazing increases soil erosion leading to an increase in the area of nutrient-depleted bare ground. Overall, these results, combined with previous studies in the region, suggest that livestock grazing affects both plant cover and soil fertility with potential long-term implications for the sustainability of grazing operations in this semi-arid landscape.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "availability", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "desertification", "15. Life on land", "soil microbial biomass", "soil organic carbon", "shrub-steppe ecosystem", "magnetic ssceptibility", "vegetation", "13. Climate action", "Natural Resources and Conservation", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.10.009"}, {"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.2007.10.009", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.10.009", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.10.009"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.024", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-01-24", "title": "Effects Of Long-Term Grazing Disturbance On The Belowground Storage Of Organic Carbon In The Patagonian Monte, Argentina", "description": "The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of grazing disturbance on the amount and the spatial distribution (vertical and horizontal) of root biomass and soil organic carbon (SOC) in order to evaluate whether grazing alters the belowground storage of organic carbon (C) in arid rangelands of the Patagonian Monte. We selected three representative sites (3\u00a0ha each) with low, moderate and high grazing disturbance located far, mid-distance and near the watering point, respectively, in rangelands submitted to sheep grazing for more than 100 years. We assessed the canopy structure and identified the four most frequent plant patch types at each site. We selected four replications of each patch type and extracted a soil sample (0-30\u00a0cm depth) underneath the canopy and in the middle of the nearest inter-patch bare soil area in winter and summer. We assessed the root and soil dry mass and the respective organic C concentration in each sample and then we estimated the total belowground organic C storage at each site. Total plant and perennial grass cover were lower with high than low grazing disturbance while the reverse occurred with dwarf shrub cover. High grazing disturbance led to the increase in total root biomass in the whole soil profile of patch areas and in the upper soil of inter-patch areas. SOC was higher in patch than in inter-patch areas at all sites but at both areas was reduced with high grazing disturbance. This was probably the result of the low total plant cover and the low and recalcitrant contribution of above and below-ground plant litter to soils at sites with high grazing disturbance. Accordingly, these changes did not result in variations in the total belowground organic C storage. We concluded that high grazing disturbance did not affect the total belowground organic C storage but led to changes in the spatial patterning of this organic C storage (i.e shifting from soil to roots).", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Sequestration", "Sheep", "Arid Ecosystems", "Argentina", "Plant Development", "15. Life on land", "Deciduous Shrubs", "Poaceae", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Plant Patches", "Soil Organic Carbon", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "Animals", "Biomass", "Herbivory", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1", "Root Biomass", "Dwarf Shrubs", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Larreguy, Cecilia, Carrera, Anal\u00eda Lorena, Bertiller, Monica Beatriz,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.024"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.024", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.024", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.12.024"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:16:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-02-14", "title": "Assessing the suitability of recovering shrub biowaste involved in wildland fires in the South of Europe through torrefaction mobile units", "description": "Several types of shrubs and oak inducing high wildland fire risk in the South of Europe were evaluated for their potential valorization through torrefaction. Biomasses were firstly characterized in terms of macromolecular and elemental composition. Lab-scale TGA-GC/MS torrefaction experiments allowed the in-depth study of the solid mass transformation and the production profile of 23 volatile species (200 to 300\u202f\u00b0C at 3\u202f\u00b0C\u00b7min-1 and 300\u202f\u00b0C for 30\u202fmin). The proportion of the torrefied products (solid, CO, CO2, water and volatile species) was evaluated through mass balance in a lab-scale furnace under typical torrefaction conditions (300\u202f\u00b0C, 40\u202fmin). The results show a similar characterization and behavior in torrefaction for oak and shrublands, and slightly different characteristics for fern. However, fern may grow separately from shrublands and is considered to present a low fire risk. This suggests that the in-situ direct valorization of these biomasses through torrefaction mobile units seems promising. However, other properties, such as density, flowability and grindability need to be studied to confirm the feasibility of the process. Regarding torrefaction products, a higher carbon content and an interesting increase in heating value were measured for the torrefied solid, which makes it suitable for energetic valorization, among other uses. The composition of permanent gases was evaluated and found in agreement with previous studies. Finally, the volatile species released were studied in function of the torrefaction temperature, in view of their possible valorization as green chemicals.", "keywords": ["[SPI.GPROC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Volatile species", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "333", "Torrefaction", "Wildfires", "[CHIM.GENI]Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "G\u00e9nie chimique", "[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy", "Biomass", "G\u00e9nie des proc\u00e9d\u00e9s", "ta215", "ta218", "660", "[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "[CHIM.GENI] Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering", "Temperature", "Solid mass loss", "15. Life on land", "Europe", "Oak", "[SDE.IE] Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "Shrubs", "Gases", "Wildland fire"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/24261/1/Gonzalez%20Martinez_24261.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.019", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1023/b:plso.0000037053.05902.60", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-08-06", "title": "Woody Legume Fallow Productivity, Biological N-2-Fixation And Residual Benefits To Two Successive Maize Crops In Zimbabwe", "description": "Three woody legumes were planted as two-year 'improved fallows' to evaluate their residual nitrogen (N) effects on two subsequent maize crops under minimum and conventional tillage management. Maize monoculture and cowpea-maize-maize sequence treatments were included as controls. N-2-fixation was estimated using the N-15 natural abundance method to allow the N contribution from the fallows to be partitioned into N2-fixation and soil N capture. Acacia angustissima accumulated the largest amount of both below-ground and above-ground biomass during the 2-year growth period. Using Hyparrhenia grass as the reference plant, the proportion of N-2-fixed in litter was 56, 55, 84 and 58% for Acacia, Sesbania sesban, Cajanus cajan, and cowpea, respectively, resulting in inputs of biologically fixed N of 122, 84, 96 and 28 kg N ha(-1). Maize growth following the legumes for two subsequent cropping seasons was in most cases not directly related to the N inputs. The first year maize crop was severely infested with cutworms (Agrotis sp.) in the Sesbania and Acacia plots, while the second season maize was affected by drought particularly in the Acacia plots where there was high moisture demand by the re-growing trees. During the second season, N uptake by maize following Sesbania was significantly higher than the rest of the treatments. Conventional tillage resulted in better yields than minimum tillage across all treatments and in both seasons. It can be concluded that (1) improved legume fallow system results in net positive soil N balances, (2) despite large inputs of litter and continued recycling of N during the cropping phase, legume species that re-grow after cutting can result in depressed yields in drought seasons, and (3) tillage is beneficial even after improved legume fallows.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "shrub", "n-15 natural-abundance", "root development", "soil fertility", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "nitrogen-fixation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "cassia-siamea", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1023/b:plso.0000037053.05902.60"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1023/b:plso.0000037053.05902.60", "name": "item", "description": "10.1023/b:plso.0000037053.05902.60", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1023/b:plso.0000037053.05902.60"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034027", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-09-07", "title": "Birch Shrub Growth In The Low Arctic: The Relative Importance Of Experimental Warming, Enhanced Nutrient Availability, Snow Depth And Caribou Exclusion", "description": "Deciduous shrub growth has increased across the Arctic simultaneously with recent climate warming trends. The reduction in albedo associated with shrub-induced \u2018greening\u2019 of the tundra is predicted to cause significant positive feedbacks to regional warming. Enhanced soil fertility arising from climate change is expected to be the primary mechanism driving shrub responses, yet our overall understanding of the relative importance of soil nitrogen\u00a0(N) and phosphorus\u00a0(P) availability and the significance of other ecological drivers is constrained by experiments with varying treatments, sites, and durations. We investigated dwarf birch apical stem growth responses to a wide range of ecological factors (enhanced summer temperatures, deepened snow, caribou exclusion, factorial high level nitrogen and phosphorus additions, and low level nitrogen additions) after six years of experimental manipulations in birch hummock tundra. As expected, birch apical stem growth was more strongly enhanced by the substantial increases in nutrient supply than by our changes in any of the other ecological factors. The factorial additions revealed that P availability was at least as important as that of N, and our low N additions demonstrated that growth was unresponsive to moderate increases in soil nitrogen alone. Experimental warming increased apical stem growth 2.5-fold\u2014considerably more than in past studies\u2014probably due to the relatively strong effect of our greenhouses on soil temperature. Together, these results have important implications for our understanding of the biogeochemical functioning of mesic tundra ecosystems as well as predicting their vegetation responses to climate change.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "nutrient limitation", "Science", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Q", "15. Life on land", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "shrub expansion", "Environmental sciences", "climate change", "fertilization", "13. Climate action", "GE1-350", "Arctic tundra", "experimental warming", "TD1-1066"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034027"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034027", "name": "item", "description": "10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034027", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034027"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.15722", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-24", "title": "Reindeer control over subarctic treeline alters soil fungal communities with potential consequences for soil carbon storage", "description": "Abstract<p>The climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven encroachment of shrubs into the Arctic is accompanied by shifts in soil fungal communities that could contribute to a net release of carbon from tundra soils. At the same time, arctic grazers are known to prevent the establishment of deciduous shrubs and, under certain conditions, promote the dominance of evergreen shrubs. As these different vegetation types associate with contrasting fungal communities, the belowground consequences of climate change could vary among grazing regimes. Yet, at present, the impact of grazing on soil fungal communities and their links to soil carbon have remained speculative. Here we tested how soil fungal community composition, diversity and function depend on tree vicinity and long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term reindeer grazing regime and assessed how the fungal communities relate to organic soil carbon stocks in an alpine treeline ecotone in Northern Scandinavia. We determined soil carbon stocks and characterized soil fungal communities directly underneath and &gt;3\uffc2\uffa0m away from mountain birches (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) in two adjacent 55\uffe2\uff80\uff90year\uffe2\uff80\uff90old grazing regimes with or without summer grazing by reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). We show that the area exposed to year\uffe2\uff80\uff90round grazing dominated by evergreen dwarf shrubs had higher soil C:N ratio, higher fungal abundance and lower fungal diversity compared with the area with only winter grazing and higher abundance of mountain birch. Although soil carbon stocks did not differ between the grazing regimes, stocks were positively associated with root\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated ascomycetes, typical to the year\uffe2\uff80\uff90round grazing regime, and negatively associated with free\uffe2\uff80\uff90living saprotrophs, typical to the winter grazing regime. These findings suggest that when grazers promote dominance of evergreen dwarf shrubs, they induce shifts in soil fungal communities that increase soil carbon sequestration in the long term. Thus, to predict climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven changes in soil carbon, grazer\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced shifts in vegetation and soil fungal communities need to be accounted for.</p", "keywords": ["Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii", "Ekologi", "0106 biological sciences", "Ecology", "ITS2", "15. Life on land", "tree-line", "01 natural sciences", "Rangifer tarandus", "Carbon", "Soil", "Arctic shrubification", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "grazing", "fungal community", "subarctic tundra", "Tundra", "Mycobiome", "Reindeer"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/24997/1/ylanne_h_et_al_210824.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.15722"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15722"}, {"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.15722", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.15722", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.15722"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8a", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:18:55Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-06", "title": "Decreased soil moisture due to warming drives phylogenetic diversity and community transitions in the tundra", "description": "Abstract                <p>Global warming leads to drastic changes in the diversity and structure of Arctic plant communities. Studies of functional diversity within the Arctic tundra biome have improved our understanding of plant responses to warming. However, these studies still show substantial unexplained variation in diversity responses. Complementary to functional diversity, phylogenetic diversity has been useful in climate change studies, but has so far been understudied in the Arctic. Here, we use a 25 year warming experiment to disentangle community responses in Arctic plant phylogenetic \uffce\uffb2 diversity across a soil moisture gradient. We found that responses varied over the soil moisture gradient, where meadow communities with intermediate to high soil moisture had a higher magnitude of response. Warming had a negative effect on soil moisture levels in all meadow communities, however meadows with intermediate moisture levels were more sensitive. In these communities, soil moisture loss was associated with earlier snowmelt, resulting in community turnover towards a more heath-like community. This process of \uffe2\uff80\uff98heathification\uffe2\uff80\uff99 in the intermediate moisture meadows was driven by the expansion of ericoid and Betula shrubs. In contrast, under a more consistent water supply Salix shrub abundance increased in wet meadows. Due to its lower stature, palatability and decomposability, the increase in heath relative to meadow vegetation can have several large scale effects on the local food web as well as climate. Our study highlights the importance of the hydrological cycle as a driver of vegetation turnover in response to Arctic climate change. The observed patterns in phylogenetic \uffce\uffb2 diversity were often driven by contrasting responses of species of the same functional growth form, and could thus provide important complementary information. Thus, phylogenetic diversity is an important tool in disentangling tundra response to environmental change.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Science", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Q", "15. Life on land", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "Environmental sciences", "long-term warming", "03 medical and health sciences", "vegetation change", "13. Climate action", "phylogenetic diversity", "GE1-350", "Arctic tundra", "soil moisture", "shrubification", "TD1-1066", "biodiversity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8a"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8a", "name": "item", "description": "10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8a", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8a"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.14839", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-09-13", "title": "Multiple trade-offs regulate the effects of woody plant removal on biodiversity and ecosystem functions in global rangelands", "description": "Abstract<p>Woody plant encroachment is a major land management issue. Woody removal often aims to restore the original grassy ecosystem, but few studies have assessed the role of woody removal on ecosystem functions and biodiversity at global scales. We collected data from 140 global studies and evaluated how different woody plant removal methods affected biodiversity (plant and animal diversity) and ecosystem functions (plant production, hydrological function, soil carbon) across global rangelands. Our results indicate that the impact of removal is strongly context dependent, varying with the specific response variable, removal method, and traits of the target species. Over all treatments, woody plant removal increased grass biomass and total groundstorey diversity. Physical and chemical removal methods increased grass biomass and total groundstorey biomass (i.e., non\uffe2\uff80\uff90woody plants, including grass biomass), but burning reduced animal diversity. The impact of different treatment methods declined with time since removal, particularly for total groundstorey biomass. Removing pyramid\uffe2\uff80\uff90shaped woody plants increased total groundstorey biomass and hydrological function but reduced total groundstorey diversity. Environmental context (e.g., aridity and soil texture) indirectly controlled the effect of removal on biomass and biodiversity by influencing plant traits such as plant shape, allelopathic, or roots types. Our study demonstrates that a one\uffe2\uff80\uff90size\uffe2\uff80\uff90fits\uffe2\uff80\uff90all approach to woody plant removal is not appropriate, and that consideration of woody plant identity, removal method, and environmental context is critical for optimizing removal outcomes. Applying this knowledge is fundamental for maintaining diverse and functional rangeland ecosystems as we move toward a drier and more variable climate.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Rangeland management", "Biodiversity", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Wood", "01 natural sciences", "Encroachment", "", "Removal method", "raits", "Woody plant traits", "Shrub removal", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Meta\u2010analysis", "Animals", "Thickening", "Biomass", "Global synthesis", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14839"}, {"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.14839", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.14839", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.14839"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/geb.12215", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-09-13", "title": "Plant Diversity And Ecosystem Multifunctionality Peak At Intermediate Levels Of Woody Cover In Global Drylands", "description": "AbstractAim<p>The global spread of woody plants into grasslands is predicted to increase over the coming century. While there is general agreement regarding the anthropogenic causes of this phenomenon, its ecological consequences are less certain. We analysed how woody vegetation of differing cover affects plant diversity (richness and evenness) and the surrogates of multiple ecosystem processes (multifunctionality) in global drylands, and how these change with aridity.</p>Location<p>Two hundred and twenty\uffe2\uff80\uff90four dryland sites from all continents except Antarctica, widely differing in their environmental conditions (from arid to dry\uffe2\uff80\uff90subhumid sites) and relative woody cover (from 0 to 100%).</p>Methods<p>Using a standardized field survey, we measured the cover, richness and evenness of perennial vegetation. At each site, we measured 14 soil variables related to fertility and the build\uffe2\uff80\uff90up of nutrient pools. These variables are critical for maintaining ecosystem functioning in drylands.</p>Results<p>Species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality were strongly related to woody vegetation, with both variables peaking at a relative woody cover (RWC) of 41\uffe2\uff80\uff9360%. This relationship shifted with aridity. We observed linear positive effects of RWC in dry\uffe2\uff80\uff90subhumid sites. These positive trends shifted to hump\uffe2\uff80\uff90shaped RWC\uffe2\uff80\uff93diversity and multifunctionality relationships under semi\uffe2\uff80\uff90arid environments. Finally, hump\uffe2\uff80\uff90shaped (richness, evenness) or linear negative (multifunctionality) effects of RWC were found under the most arid conditions.</p>Main conclusions<p>Plant diversity and multifunctionality peaked at intermediate levels of woody cover, although this relationship became increasingly positive in wetter environments. This comprehensive study accounts for multiple ecosystem attributes across a range of levels of woody cover and environmental conditions. Our results help us to reconcile contrasting views of woody encroachment found in the current literature and can be used to improve predictions of the likely effects of encroachment on biodiversity and ecosystem services.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "arid regions", "species diversity", "vegetation dynamics", "Thicketization", "Shrub encroachment", "shrubland ecology", "Species evennes", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Soil", "Semi-arid", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "soils", "Aridity", "Species richness"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12215"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Ecology%20and%20Biogeography", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/geb.12215", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/geb.12215", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/geb.12215"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-09-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.537k1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:22:29Z", "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": "2026-04-13T16:19:32Z", "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.1365-2486.2008.01656.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:32Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-05-27", "title": "Warming And Drought Alter C And N Concentration, Allocation And Accumulation In A Mediterranean Shrubland", "description": "Abstract<p>We investigated the effects of warming and drought on C and N concentrations, nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), and C and N accumulation in different ecosystem compartments. We conducted a 6\uffe2\uff80\uff90year (1999\uffe2\uff80\uff932005) field experiment to simulate the climate conditions projected by IPCC models for the coming decades in a Mediterranean shrubland. We studied the two dominant species, Globularia alypum and Erica multiflora, and an N\uffe2\uff80\uff90fixing species, Dorycnium pentaphyllum, also abundant in this shrubland. Warming (1\uffe2\uff80\uff83\uffc2\uffb0C) decreased N leaf concentrations by 25% and increased N stem concentrations by 40% in G. alypum. Although warming changed the available ammonium in soil in some seasons, it did not increase total soil N contents. Drought (19% average reduction in soil moisture) decreased leaf N concentrations in the two dominant shrub species, E. multiflora and G. alypum by 16% and 19%, respectively, and increased stem N concentrations by 56% and 40%, respectively. Neither warming nor drought changed the leaf N concentrations in the N\uffe2\uff80\uff90fixing species D. pentaphyllum, although warming increased stem N concentration by 9%. In G. alypum, the increase of stem N concentrations contributed to the observed increase of N accumulation in stem biomass in drought treatments with respect to control plots (8\uffe2\uff80\uff83kg\uffe2\uff80\uff83N\uffe2\uff80\uff83ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Neither warming nor drought changed NUE in the period 1999\uffe2\uff80\uff932005. Warming increased soil organic C relative to drought. The effects of warming and drought on C and N concentrations, on N accumulation and on leaf/stem N distribution were not the result of dilution or concentration effects produced by changes in biomass accumulation. Other factors such as the changes in soil N availability, photosynthetic capacity, and plant internal C and N remobilization must be involved. These changes which differed depending on the species and the plant tissue show that the climate change projected for the coming decades will have significant effects on the C and N cycle and stoichiometry, with probable implications for ecosystem structure and function, such as changes in plant\uffe2\uff80\uff93herbivore relationships, decomposition rates or community species composition.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "warming", "Dorycnium pentaphyllum", "drought", "01 natural sciences", "Erica multiflora", "Sequ\u00eda", "Matorral mediterr\u00e1neo", "NUE", "Climate change", "Canvi clim\u00e0tic", "Cambio clim\u00e1tico", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Drought", "Sequera", "Escalfament", "Calentamiento", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "N", "6. Clean water", "Globularia alypum", "Mediterranean shrubland", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Warming", "C/N", "Matoll mediterrani"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01656.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01656.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01656.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01656.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02424.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-03-21", "title": "Impacts Of Multiple Extreme Winter Warming Events On Sub-Arctic Heathland: Phenology, Reproduction, Growth, And Co2 Flux Responses", "description": "Abstract<p>Extreme weather events can have strong negative impacts on species survival and community structure when surpassing lethal thresholds. Extreme, short\uffe2\uff80\uff90lived, winter warming events in the Arctic rapidly melt snow and expose ecosystems to unseasonably warm air (for instance, 2\uffe2\uff80\uff9310\uffe2\uff80\uff83\uffc2\uffb0C for 2\uffe2\uff80\uff9314 days) but upon return to normal winter climate exposes the ecosystem to much colder temperatures due to the loss of insulating snow. Single events have been shown to reduce plant reproduction and increase shoot mortality, but impacts of multiple events are little understood as are the broader impacts on community structure, growth, carbon balance, and nutrient cycling. To address these issues, we simulated week\uffe2\uff80\uff90long extreme winter warming events \uffe2\uff80\uff93 using infrared heating lamps and soil warming cables \uffe2\uff80\uff93 for 3 consecutive years in a sub\uffe2\uff80\uff90Arctic heathland dominated by the dwarf shrubsEmpetrum hermaphroditum, Vaccinium vitis\uffe2\uff80\uff90idaea(both evergreen) andVaccinium myrtillus(deciduous). During the growing seasons after the second and third winter event, spring bud burst was delayed by up to a week forE. hermaphroditumandV. myrtillus, and berry production reduced by 11\uffe2\uff80\uff9375% and 52\uffe2\uff80\uff9395% forE. hermaphroditumandV. myrtillus, respectively. Greater shoot mortality occurred inE. hermaphroditum(up to 52%),V. vitis\uffe2\uff80\uff90idaea(51%), andV. myrtillus(80%). Root growth was reduced by more than 25% but soil nutrient availability remained unaffected. Gross primary productivity was reduced by more than 50% in the summer following the third simulation. Overall, the extent of damage was considerable, and critically plant responses were opposite in direction to the increased growth seen in long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term summer warming simulations and the \uffe2\uff80\uff98greening\uffe2\uff80\uff99 seen for some arctic regions. Given the Arctic is warming more in winter than summer, and extreme events are predicted to become more frequent, this generates large uncertainty in our current understanding of arctic ecosystem responses to climate change.</p>", "keywords": ["flowering phenology", "0106 biological sciences", "extreme events", "climate change", "13. Climate action", "arctic", "winter warming", "nutrient cycling", "GPP", "15. Life on land", "dwarf shrub", "01 natural sciences", "SDG 15 - Life on Land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02424.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.1365-2486.2011.02424.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02424.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02424.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-04-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-07-23", "title": "Shrub Encroachment Can Reverse Desertification In Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grasslands", "description": "Abstract<p>The worldwide phenomenon of shrub encroachment in grass\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated dryland ecosystems is commonly associated with desertification. Studies of the purported desertification effects associated with shrub encroachment are often restricted to relatively few study areas, and document a narrow range of possible impacts upon biota and ecosystem processes. We conducted a study in degraded Mediterranean grasslands dominated by Stipa tenacissima to simultaneously evaluate the effects of shrub encroachment on the structure and composition of multiple biotic community components, and on various indicators of ecosystem function. Shrub encroachment enhanced vascular plant richness, biomass of fungi, actinomycetes and other bacteria, and was linked with greater soil fertility and N mineralization rates. While shrub encroachment may be a widespread phenomenon in drylands, an interpretation that this is an expression of desertification is not universal. Our results suggest that shrub establishment may be an important step in the reversal of desertification processes in the Mediterranean region.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Mediterranean Region", "Shrub encroachment", "Mediterranean", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Soil", "Stipa tenacissima", "Semi-arid", "13. Climate action", "Ecosystem functioning", "Desert Climate", "Plant successional dynamics", "Global change", "Desertification", "Ecosystem", "Plant Physiological Phenomena"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1654-109x.2005.tb00624.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-07-21", "title": "Effects Of Fire On Soil Respiration, Atp Content And Enzyme Activities In Mediterranean Maquis", "description": "Abstract<p>Question: Do low or high intensity fires affect micro\uffe2\uff80\uff90organism activity in the upper soil layer of Mediterranean maquis?</p><p>Location: 600 m from the sea in the Nature Reserve of Castel Volturno (Campania, southern Italy, 40\uffc2\uffb057\uffe2\uff80\uff99N; 13\uffc2\uffb055\uffe2\uff80\uff99E).</p><p>Methods: Soil respiration was measured in situ on intact soil; enzyme activity (cellulase, xylanase, invertase, trehalase and protease) and ATP content were measured on soil samples collected under three species of maquis vegetation: Phillyrea angustifolia L., Myrtus communis L. and Cistus incanus L.</p><p>Results: Soil microbial respiration showed no significant differences in CO2 flux in treated and untreated plots, but the ATP content in the soil under C. incanus and M. communis was lower in the treated plots for most of the study period. In the soil under Ph. angustifolia, ATP content was low only for one week after fire. The reduction was more marked in the samples from \uffe2\uff80\uff98high fire intensity\uffe2\uff80\uff99 than from \uffe2\uff80\uff98low fire intensity\uffe2\uff80\uff99 plots. Soil respiration and ATP content exhibited seasonal variations linked to soil water content. Among the enzyme activity measured in the soil under the three plant covers, only invertase declined in burned plots throughout the study period, particularly in the \uffe2\uff80\uff98high fire intensity\uffe2\uff80\uff99 plots. Activity of the enzymes cellulase, xylanase, trehalase and protease had a different sensitivity depending on the respective shrub cover.</p><p>Conclusions: Impact of fire on soil microbial activity is largely dependent on vegetation mosaic and species identity.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Shrub maquis; Soil enzyme activity; Soil microbial biomass;", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-109x.2005.tb00624.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Vegetation%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1654-109x.2005.tb00624.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1654-109x.2005.tb00624.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1654-109x.2005.tb00624.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/nph.18798", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:19:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-02-08", "title": "Plant phenology and species\u2010specific traits control plant CH4 emissions in a northern boreal fen", "description": "Summary<p> <p>Aerenchymatic transport is an important mechanism through which plants affect methane (CH4) emissions from peatlands. Controlling environmental factors and the effects of plant phenology remain, however, uncertain.</p> <p>We identified factors controlling seasonal CH4 flux rate and investigated transport efficiency (flux rate per unit of rhizospheric porewater CH4 concentration). We measured CH4 fluxes through individual shoots of Carex rostrata, Menyanthes trifoliata, Betula nana and Salix lapponum throughout growing seasons in 2020 and 2021 and Equisetum fluviatile and Comarum palustre in high summer 2021 along with water\uffe2\uff80\uff90table level, peat temperature and porewater CH4 concentration.</p> <p>CH4 flux rate of C. rostrata was related to plant phenology and peat temperature. Flux rates of M. trifoliata and shrubs B. nana and S. lapponum were insensitive to the investigated environmental variables. In high summer, flux rate and efficiency were highest for C. rostrata (6.86\uffe2\uff80\uff89mg\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0h\uffe2\uff88\uff921 and 0.36\uffe2\uff80\uff89mg\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0h\uffe2\uff88\uff921 (\uffce\uffbcmol\uffe2\uff80\uff89l\uffe2\uff88\uff921)\uffe2\uff88\uff921, respectively). Menyanthes trifoliata showed a high flux rate, but limited efficiency. Low flux rates and efficiency were detected for the remaining species.</p> <p>Knowledge of the species\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific CH4 flux rate and their different responses to plant phenology and environmental factors can significantly improve the estimation of ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale CH4 dynamics in boreal peatlands.</p> </p", "keywords": ["550", "Herbs", "Peatlands", "plant-enclosure", "metaani", "kosteikot", "Soil", "11. Sustainability", "peatlands", "Ecosystem", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "plant methane (CH4) transport", "porewater CH4 concentration", "Temperature", "temperature", "herbs", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "11831 Plant biology", "shrubs", "13. Climate action", "kosteikkokasvit", "Wetlands", "ta1181", "Plant-enclosure", "Shrubs", "Seasons", "Methane"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.18798"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18798"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/New%20Phytologist", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/nph.18798", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/nph.18798", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/nph.18798"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s13570-014-0018-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-11-24", "title": "Control Of Bush Encroachment In Borana Zone Of Southern Ethiopia: Effects Of Different Control Techniques On Rangeland Vegetation And Tick Populations", "description": "Open AccessA study on effects of bush encroachment control techniques on rangeland productivity and tick population dynamics was conducted in Arero district of Borana zone, southern Ethiopia, for three consecutive years. The study targeted two main and dominant encroaching bush species in Borana rangeland, Acacia drepanolobium and Acacia mellifera, and their effects on some vegetation attributes and tick population dynamics. A hectare of rangeland encroached by these two acacia species was replicated/divided into three plots, and each plot was subdivided into five sub-plots to receive five treatments: cutting at 0.5 m above ground and pouring kerosene on stumps (T1), cutting at 0.5 m above ground and debarking the stumps down into the soil surface (T2), cutting at 0.5 m above ground alone (T3), cutting at 0.5 m above ground and dissecting the stumps (T4) and control (T5). Data on basal and litter covers, soil erosion and compaction, dead and re-sprouted encroaching tree/shrub species and nymph- and adult-stage tick populations were collected before and after treatment applications. The applied treatments significantly influenced (p < 0.05) basal cover, nymph- and adult-stage tick population and the two encroaching tree species. The results of this study showed that T3 and T2 were good in controlling A. drepanolobium in that order. T4 and T2 had a significant effect in controlling A. mellifera in their order. Controlling bush encroachment had also a positive effect in eradicating the tick population. The most dominant grass and non-grass species observed after the control actions were Cenchrus ciliaris, Chrysopogon aucheri, Abutilon hirtum, Pennisetum mezianum, Dyschoriste hildebrandtii, Zaleya pentandra and Eragrostis papposa. Therefore, controlling encroaching tree/shrub species had created a conducive grazing area with palatable herbaceous species for the livestock and unequivocally reduced tick population which play a role in reducing cattle milk production through closing off teats. The management of bush encroachment, if sustained, will contribute in stabilizing rangelands and help minimize the negative effects of feed and food crises in the future.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Population", "Lantana", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "01 natural sciences", "Basal area", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Rangeland Degradation", "Sociology", "Agroforestry Systems and Biodiversity Enhancement", "Rangeland Degradation and Pastoral Livelihoods", "Pathology", "Agroforestry", "Biology", "Demography", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Life Sciences", "Forestry", "Factors Affecting Sagebrush Ecosystems and Wildlife Conservation", "15. Life on land", "Agronomy", "6. Clean water", "FOS: Sociology", "Shrub", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Medicine", "Rangeland", "Vegetation (pathology)", "Tick"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Bikila Negasa, Bedasa Eba, Samuel Tuffa, Barecha Bayissa, Jaldesa Doyo, N. Van Husen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-014-0018-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Pastoralism", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s13570-014-0018-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s13570-014-0018-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s13570-014-0018-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-11-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0153415", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:17Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-04-12", "title": "Seasonality, Rather Than Nutrient Addition Or Vegetation Types, Influenced Short-Term Temperature Sensitivity Of Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition", "description": "Open AccessLa r\u00e9ponse de la respiration microbienne de la d\u00e9composition du carbone organique du sol (COS) aux changements environnementaux joue un r\u00f4le cl\u00e9 dans la pr\u00e9diction des tendances futures de la concentration de CO2 atmosph\u00e9rique. Cependant, il n'est pas certain qu'il existe une tendance universelle dans la r\u00e9ponse de la respiration microbienne \u00e0 l'augmentation de la temp\u00e9rature et \u00e0 l'ajout de nutriments parmi les diff\u00e9rents types de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation. Dans cette \u00e9tude, les sols ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9chantillonn\u00e9s au printemps, en \u00e9t\u00e9, en automne et en hiver \u00e0 partir de cinq types de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation dominants, y compris les for\u00eats de pins, de m\u00e9l\u00e8zes et de bouleaux, les arbustes et les prairies, dans la r\u00e9gion de Saihanba, dans le nord de la Chine. Les \u00e9chantillons de sol de chaque saison ont \u00e9t\u00e9 incub\u00e9s \u00e0 1, 10 et 20 \u00b0C pendant 5 \u00e0 7 jours. L'azote (N\u00a0; 0,035 mM sous forme de NH4NO3) et le phosphore (P\u00a0; 0,03 mM sous forme de P2O5) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 ajout\u00e9s aux \u00e9chantillons de sol, et les r\u00e9ponses de la respiration microbienne du sol \u00e0 l'augmentation de la temp\u00e9rature et \u00e0 l'ajout de nutriments ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9termin\u00e9es. Nous avons constat\u00e9 une tendance universelle selon laquelle la respiration microbienne du sol augmentait avec l'augmentation de la temp\u00e9rature, ind\u00e9pendamment de la saison d'\u00e9chantillonnage ou du type de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation. La sensibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la temp\u00e9rature (indiqu\u00e9e par Q10, l'augmentation du taux de respiration avec une augmentation de 10\u00b0C de la temp\u00e9rature) de la respiration microbienne \u00e9tait plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e au printemps et en automne qu'en \u00e9t\u00e9 et en hiver, quel que soit le type de v\u00e9g\u00e9tation. Le Q10 \u00e9tait significativement corr\u00e9l\u00e9 positivement avec la biomasse microbienne et le rapport champignon\u00a0: bact\u00e9rie. La respiration microbienne (ou Q10) n'a pas r\u00e9pondu de mani\u00e8re significative \u00e0 l'addition d'azote ou de phosphore. Nos r\u00e9sultats sugg\u00e8rent que l'apport en nutriments \u00e0 court terme pourrait ne pas modifier le taux de d\u00e9composition du COS ou sa sensibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la temp\u00e9rature, alors que l'augmentation de la temp\u00e9rature pourrait am\u00e9liorer consid\u00e9rablement la d\u00e9composition du COS au printemps et en automne, par rapport \u00e0 l'hiver et \u00e0 l'\u00e9t\u00e9.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "Atmospheric Science", "Microbial population biology", "Larix", "Carbon Dynamics in Peatland Ecosystems", "Forests", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Soil water", "Pathology", "Carbon Feedback", "Biomass", "Betula", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q10", "Respiration", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Life Sciences", "Soil respiration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Soil carbon", "Grassland", "Earth and Planetary Sciences", "Physical Sciences", "Respiration rate", "Medicine", "Seasons", "Vegetation (pathology)", "Research Article", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Soil Science", "Environmental science", "Shrubland", "Genetics", "Arctic Permafrost Dynamics and Climate Change", "Soil Carbon Sequestration", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Soil science", "Soil organic matter", "Soil Fertility", "Bacteria", "Fungi", "Botany", "15. Life on land", "Pinus", "Vegetation Change", "Carbon", "Agronomy", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Growing season", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Nutrient"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Yu-Qi Qian, Fangliang He, Wei Wang,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153415"}, {"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.0153415", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0153415", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0153415"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-04-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0070224", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-07-16", "title": "Effects Of Added Organic Matter And Water On Soil Carbon Sequestration In An Arid Region", "description": "Open AccessEn general, se predice que el calentamiento global estimular\u00e1 la producci\u00f3n primaria y conducir\u00e1 a m\u00e1s aportes de carbono (C) al suelo. Sin embargo, muchos estudios han encontrado que el suelo C no necesariamente aumenta con el aumento de la entrada de basura vegetal. Las precipitaciones han aumentado en Asia central \u00e1rida y se prev\u00e9 que aumenten m\u00e1s, por lo que probamos los efectos de la adici\u00f3n de materia org\u00e1nica fresca (FOM) y agua en el secuestro de C del suelo en una regi\u00f3n \u00e1rida en el noroeste de China. Los resultados sugirieron que el FOM a\u00f1adido se descompuso r\u00e1pidamente y tuvo efectos menores en el dep\u00f3sito de carbono org\u00e1nico del suelo (SOC) a una profundidad de 30 cm. Tanto la FOM como la adici\u00f3n de agua tuvieron efectos significativos en la biomasa microbiana del suelo. La biomasa microbiana del suelo aument\u00f3 con la adici\u00f3n de FOM, alcanz\u00f3 un m\u00e1ximo y luego disminuy\u00f3 a medida que la FOM se descompon\u00eda. El FOM tuvo un efecto estimulante m\u00e1s significativo sobre la biomasa microbiana con la adici\u00f3n de agua. Bajo los rangos de humedad del suelo utilizados en este experimento (21.0% -29.7%), el aporte de FOM fue m\u00e1s importante que la adici\u00f3n de agua en el proceso de mineralizaci\u00f3n del suelo C. Concluimos que la entrada de FOM a corto plazo en el suelo subterr\u00e1neo y la adici\u00f3n de agua no afectan la piscina de SOC en los matorrales en una regi\u00f3n \u00e1rida.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "550", "Arid", "Growth", "630", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Agricultural soil science", "Tropical forest", "Soil water", "Carbon fibers", "Biomass", "Land-use", "2. Zero hunger", "Analysis of Land Cover and Ecosystems", "Ecology", "Respiration", "Q", "Temperature", "R", "Soil Chemical Properties", "Life Sciences", "Composite number", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Soil carbon", "6. 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Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Fine-root", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "CO2 flux"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070224"}, {"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.0070224", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0070224", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0070224"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-07-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10576/21421", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:26:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-06", "title": "Decreased soil moisture due to warming drives phylogenetic diversity and community transitions in the tundra", "description": "Abstract                <p>Global warming leads to drastic changes in the diversity and structure of Arctic plant communities. Studies of functional diversity within the Arctic tundra biome have improved our understanding of plant responses to warming. However, these studies still show substantial unexplained variation in diversity responses. Complementary to functional diversity, phylogenetic diversity has been useful in climate change studies, but has so far been understudied in the Arctic. Here, we use a 25 year warming experiment to disentangle community responses in Arctic plant phylogenetic \uffce\uffb2 diversity across a soil moisture gradient. We found that responses varied over the soil moisture gradient, where meadow communities with intermediate to high soil moisture had a higher magnitude of response. Warming had a negative effect on soil moisture levels in all meadow communities, however meadows with intermediate moisture levels were more sensitive. In these communities, soil moisture loss was associated with earlier snowmelt, resulting in community turnover towards a more heath-like community. This process of \uffe2\uff80\uff98heathification\uffe2\uff80\uff99 in the intermediate moisture meadows was driven by the expansion of ericoid and Betula shrubs. In contrast, under a more consistent water supply Salix shrub abundance increased in wet meadows. Due to its lower stature, palatability and decomposability, the increase in heath relative to meadow vegetation can have several large scale effects on the local food web as well as climate. Our study highlights the importance of the hydrological cycle as a driver of vegetation turnover in response to Arctic climate change. The observed patterns in phylogenetic \uffce\uffb2 diversity were often driven by contrasting responses of species of the same functional growth form, and could thus provide important complementary information. Thus, phylogenetic diversity is an important tool in disentangling tundra response to environmental change.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. 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Climate action", "phylogenetic diversity", "GE1-350", "Arctic tundra", "soil moisture", "shrubification", "TD1-1066", "biodiversity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10576/21421"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10576/21421", "name": "item", "description": "10576/21421", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10576/21421"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.21258/1951071", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:53Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Swiss national forest inventory - Result table No. 2316089", "keywords": ["protection forest (2022)", "fellings", "accessible forest without shrub forest NFI1-NFI5", "1.4 km grid", " subgrids 1-5", "NFI4\u2013NFI5", "area", "economic region", "main tree species", "change 2009/17\u20132018/26"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Abegg, M., Ahles, P., Allgaier Leuch, B., Cioldi, F., Didion, M., D\u00fcggelin, C., Fischer, C., Herold, A., Meile, R., Rohner, B., R\u00f6sler, E., Speich, S., Temperli, C., Traub, B.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.21258/1951071"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.21258/1951071", "name": "item", "description": "10.21258/1951071", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.21258/1951071"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.21258/1824032", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:53Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Swiss national forest inventory - Result table No. 1338946", "keywords": ["NFI2\u2013NFI3", "altitude (in 400 m classes)", "fellings", "accessible forest without shrub forest NFI2/NFI3", "area", "change 1993/95\u20132004/06", "1.4-km grid", "production region"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Abegg, M., Ahles, P., Allgaier Leuch, B., Cioldi, F., Didion, M., D\u00fcggelin, C., Fischer, C., Herold, A., Meile, R., Rohner, B., R\u00f6sler, E., Speich, S., Temperli, C., Traub, B.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.21258/1824032"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.21258/1824032", "name": "item", "description": "10.21258/1824032", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.21258/1824032"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.21258/1836657", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:53Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Swiss national forest inventory - Result table No. 1250637", "keywords": ["state 1983/85", "biogeographical region", "growing stock (stemwood)", "accessible forest without shrub forest", "protection forest against rockfall (2022)", "altitudinal vegetation belts (NaiS; 6 classes)", "1.4-km grid", "NFI1"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Abegg, M., Ahles, P., Allgaier Leuch, B., Cioldi, F., Didion, M., D\u00fcggelin, C., Fischer, C., Herold, A., Meile, R., Rohner, B., R\u00f6sler, E., Speich, S., Temperli, C., Traub, B.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.21258/1836657"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.21258/1836657", "name": "item", "description": "10.21258/1836657", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.21258/1836657"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/es13-00281.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-06-19", "title": "Long-Term Experimental Warming And Nutrient Additions Increase Productivity In Tall Deciduous Shrub Tundra", "description": "<p>Warming Arctic temperatures can drive changes in vegetation structure and function directly by stimulating plant growth or indirectly by stimulating microbial decomposition of organic matter and releasing more nutrients for plant uptake and growth. The arctic biome is currently increasing in deciduous shrub cover and this increase is expected to continue with climate warming. However, little is known how current deciduous shrub communities will respond to future climate induced warming and nutrient increase. We examined the plant and ecosystem response to a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (18 years) nutrient addition and warming experiment in an Alaskan arctic tall deciduous shrub tundra ecosystem to understand controls over plant productivity and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage in shrub tundra ecosystems. In addition, we used a meta\uffe2\uff80\uff90analysis approach to compare the treatment effect size for aboveground biomass among seven long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term studies conducted across multiple plant community types within the Arctic. We found that biomass, productivity, and aboveground N pools increased with nutrient additions and warming, while species diversity decreased. Both nutrient additions and warming caused the dominant functional group, deciduous shrubs, to increase biomass and proportional C and N allocation to aboveground stems but decreased allocation to belowground stems. For all response variables except soil C and N pools, effects of nutrients plus warming were largest. Soil C and N pools were highly variable and we could not detect any response to the treatments. The biomass response to warming and fertilization in tall deciduous shrub tundra was greater than moist acidic and moist non\uffe2\uff80\uff90acidic tundra and more similar to the biomass response of wet sedge tundra. Our data suggest that in a warmer and more nutrient\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich Arctic, tall deciduous shrub tundra will have greater total deciduous shrub biomass and a higher proportion of woody tissue that has a longer residence time, with a lower proportion of C and N allocated to belowground stems.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "0106 biological sciences", "Nitrogen pools", "Carbon pools", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Deciduous shrubs", "Meta-analysis", "Arctic", "Manipulated warming", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "Climate change", "Nutrient additions", "Tundra", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/es13-00281.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecosphere", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/es13-00281.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/es13-00281.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/es13-00281.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.21258/1911901", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:53Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Swiss national forest inventory - Result table No. 1343423", "keywords": ["protection forest (2022)", "growing stock (stemwood)", "altitudinal vegetation belts (NaiS; 6 classes)", "1.4 km grid", " subgrids 1-5", "economic region", "accessible forest without shrub forest NFI4/NFI5", "change 2009/17\u20132018/26", "NFI4\u2014NFI5"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Abegg, M., Ahles, P., Allgaier Leuch, B., Cioldi, F., Didion, M., D\u00fcggelin, C., Fischer, C., Herold, A., Meile, R., Rohner, B., R\u00f6sler, E., Speich, S., Temperli, C., Traub, B.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.21258/1911901"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.21258/1911901", "name": "item", "description": "10.21258/1911901", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.21258/1911901"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.21258/1690260", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:20:53Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Swiss national forest inventory - Result table No. 890282", "keywords": ["NFI2\u2013NFI3", "1.4 x 1.4 km grid", "accessible forest without shrub forest NFI1/NFI2/NFI3/NFI4", "increment", "tree species (56 classes)", "production region"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Abegg, M., Br\u00e4ndli, U.-B., Cioldi, F., Fischer, C., Herold, A., Meile, R., R\u00f6sler, E., Speich, S., Traub, B.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.21258/1690260"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.21258/1690260", "name": "item", "description": "10.21258/1690260", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.21258/1690260"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00891", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:21:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-09-04", "title": "Soil Bacterial And Fungal Community Responses To Nitrogen Addition Across Soil Depth And Microhabitat In An Arid Shrubland", "description": "Arid shrublands are stressful environments, typified by alkaline soils low in organic matter, with biologically-limiting extremes in water availability, temperature, and UV radiation. The widely-spaced plants and interspace biological soil crusts in these regions provide soil nutrients in a localized fashion, creating a mosaic pattern of plant- or crust-associated microhabitats with distinct nutrient composition. With sporadic and limited rainfall, nutrients are primarily retained in the shallow surface soil, patterning biological activity. We examined soil bacterial and fungal community responses to simulated nitrogen (N) deposition in an arid Larrea tridentata-Ambrosia dumosa field experiment in southern Nevada, USA, using high-throughput sequencing of ribosomal RNA genes. To examine potential interactions among the N application, microhabitat and soil depth, we sampled soils associated with shrub canopies and interspace biological crusts at two soil depths (0-0.5 or 0-10 cm) across the N-amendment gradient (0, 7, and 15 kg ha(-1) yr(-1)). We hypothesized that localized compositional differences in soil microbiota would constrain the impacts of N addition to a microhabitat distribution that would reflect highly localized geochemical conditions and microbial community composition. The richness and community composition of both bacterial and fungal communities differed significantly by microhabitat and with soil depth in each microhabitat. Only bacterial communities exhibited significant responses to the N addition. Community composition correlated with microhabitat and depth differences in soil geochemical features. Given the distinct roles of soil bacteria and fungi in major nutrient cycles, the resilience of fungi and sensitivity of bacteria to N amendments suggests that increased N input predicted for many arid ecosystems could shift nutrient cycling toward pathways driven primarily by fungal communities.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "biological soil crusts", "0303 health sciences", "microhabitat", "soil bacterial community", "dryland", "15. Life on land", "soil fungal community", "Microbiology", "Shrubland", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "Soil bacterial community", "shrubland", "ribosomal RNA", "global change"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Cheryl R. Kuske, Jayne Belnap, Rebecca C. Mueller,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00891"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00891", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00891", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00891"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-09-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3832/ifor0418-0010039", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:22:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-08-11", "title": "Effects Of Warmer And Drier Climate Conditions On Plant Composition And Biomass Production In A Mediterranean Shrubland Community", "description": "The last IPCC report predicts warmer and drier conditions for the future European climate and the Mediterranean basin could be highly sensible to future climatic change. In order to investigate how the forecast more stressing factors could affect Mediterranean shrubland ecosystems, an appropriate manipulation of the microclimate was carried out in an area covered by Mediterranean maquis aimed at extending the drought period and increasing the night-time temperature. Soil cover, plant growth, litterfall, leaf water status, and leaf nutritional status were monitored over three growing seasons. The manipulation altered the microclimate according to common scenarios, increasing mean annual night-time air temperature by about 1 \u00b0C and mean annual temperature by about 0.5 \u00b0C, and decreasing precipitation between 6-46% of the total rainfall during the growing seasons. A general increase of vegetation cover was observed in the whole community during the three years of experimentation. This positive temporal pattern was mainly observed in control and warming treatment, whereas in the drought treatment it was less evident. At species-specific level, a clear negative effect of drought treatment was observed for C. monspeliensis percentage cover. Shoot elongation was not significantly affected by the warming treatment. A significant negative effect of drought treatment was noticed in the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 growing seasons. An increase of N and P concentrations in the drought treatment in Cistus was observed and it can be explained by the reduced shoot growth induced by the water shortage that we had observed in the same treatment. The absence of a concentration effect on the other two species could be the signal of the different behaviour with regard to a drier climate, and therefore could be a symptom of future change in species composition. We underline the need of long-term observation, because of the different responses of plants in the short and long- term conditions", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. 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Zero hunger", "Stipa tenacissima", "Holocene", "13. Climate action", "semi-arid", "15. Life on land", "Plant successional dynamics", "shrub encroachment", "Desertification"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Maestre, Fernando T., Bowker, Matthew A., Puche, Mar\u00eda D., Bel\u00e9n Hinojosa, M., Mart\u00ednez, Isabel, Garc\u00eda-Palacios, Pablo, Castillo, Andrea P., Soliveres, Santiago, Luzuriaga, Ar\u00e1ntzazu L., S\u00e1nchez, Ana M., Carreira, Jos\u00e9 A., Gallardo, Antonio, Escudero, Adri\u00e1n,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.11m00"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.11m00", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.11m00", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.11m00"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-08-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "3163993851", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:27:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-24", "title": "Reindeer control over subarctic treeline alters soil fungal communities with potential consequences for soil carbon storage", "description": "Abstract<p>The climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven encroachment of shrubs into the Arctic is accompanied by shifts in soil fungal communities that could contribute to a net release of carbon from tundra soils. At the same time, arctic grazers are known to prevent the establishment of deciduous shrubs and, under certain conditions, promote the dominance of evergreen shrubs. As these different vegetation types associate with contrasting fungal communities, the belowground consequences of climate change could vary among grazing regimes. Yet, at present, the impact of grazing on soil fungal communities and their links to soil carbon have remained speculative. Here we tested how soil fungal community composition, diversity and function depend on tree vicinity and long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term reindeer grazing regime and assessed how the fungal communities relate to organic soil carbon stocks in an alpine treeline ecotone in Northern Scandinavia. We determined soil carbon stocks and characterized soil fungal communities directly underneath and &gt;3\uffc2\uffa0m away from mountain birches (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) in two adjacent 55\uffe2\uff80\uff90year\uffe2\uff80\uff90old grazing regimes with or without summer grazing by reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). We show that the area exposed to year\uffe2\uff80\uff90round grazing dominated by evergreen dwarf shrubs had higher soil C:N ratio, higher fungal abundance and lower fungal diversity compared with the area with only winter grazing and higher abundance of mountain birch. Although soil carbon stocks did not differ between the grazing regimes, stocks were positively associated with root\uffe2\uff80\uff90associated ascomycetes, typical to the year\uffe2\uff80\uff90round grazing regime, and negatively associated with free\uffe2\uff80\uff90living saprotrophs, typical to the winter grazing regime. These findings suggest that when grazers promote dominance of evergreen dwarf shrubs, they induce shifts in soil fungal communities that increase soil carbon sequestration in the long term. Thus, to predict climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90driven changes in soil carbon, grazer\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced shifts in vegetation and soil fungal communities need to be accounted for.</p", "keywords": ["Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii", "Ekologi", "0106 biological sciences", "Ecology", "ITS2", "15. Life on land", "tree-line", "01 natural sciences", "Rangifer tarandus", "Carbon", "Soil", "Arctic shrubification", "13. Climate action", "Animals", "grazing", "fungal community", "subarctic tundra", "Tundra", "Mycobiome", "Reindeer"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/24997/1/ylanne_h_et_al_210824.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.15722"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/3163993851"}, {"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": "3163993851", "name": "item", "description": "3163993851", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/3163993851"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8png", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:22:37Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Shrub encroachment decreases soil inorganic carbon stocks in Mongolian grasslands", "description": "1. Widespread shrub encroachment in global drylands may increase plant  biomass and change soil organic carbon stocks of grassland ecosystems.  However, the response of soil inorganic carbon (SIC), which is a major  component of dryland carbon pools, to this vegetation shift remains  unknown. 2. We conducted a systematic field survey in 75 pairs of  shrub-encroached grassland and control plots at 25 sites in the grasslands  of the Inner Mongolia Plateau to evaluate how shrub encroachment affects  SIC density (SICD) in these ecosystems. 3. We found that shrub  encroachment significantly reduced SICD in the upper 100 cm (3.85 vs. 4.74  kg C m-2, P &lt; 0.05), especially in the subsurface soil (20-50 cm  layer). The magnitude of SICD changes was related to the change in soil  pH, shrub patch size, and initial SICD, reflecting that the reduction in  SICD might be attributed to the shrub encroachment-related soil  acidification. Our results also revealed that the lost SIC was mainly  released into the atmosphere rather than redistributed into deeper soil  layers. 4. Synthesis. We provide the first evidence for the soil  acidification-induced SIC loss caused by shrub encroachment. Our findings  highlight the non-negligible role of SIC dynamics in the C budget of  shrub-encroached grassland ecosystems and the need to consider these  dynamics in terrestrial C cycle research.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "carbon budget", "13. Climate action", "Soil inorganic carbon", "Temperate grassland", "carbon source", "soil acidification", "15. Life on land", "shrub encroachment", "Invasion ecology"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Liu, Shangshi, Zhou, Luhong, Li, He, Zhao, Xia, Yang, Yuanhe, Zhu, Yankun, Hu, Huifeng, Chen, Leiyi, Zhang, Pujin, Shen, Haihua, Fang, Jingyun,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8png"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8png", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8png", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8png"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4024", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:22:51Z", "type": "Other", "created": "2022-03-27", "title": "Does vegetation shift in Arctic tundra upon permafrost degradation influence mineral element recycling in the topsoil?", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Climate change affects the Arctic and Subarctic regions by exposing previously frozen permafrost to thaw, unlocking nutrients, changing hydrological processes, and boosting plant growth. As a result, Arctic tundra is subject to a shrub expansion, called &amp;amp;#8220;shrubification&amp;amp;#8221; at the expense of sedge species. Depending on intrinsic foliar properties of these plant species, changes in foliar fluxes with shrubification in the context of permafrost degradation may influence topsoil mineral element composition. Despite the potential implications for the fate of organic carbon in the topsoil, this remains poorly quantified. Here, we investigate vegetation foliar and topsoil mineral element composition (mineral elements that influence organic carbon decomposition: Si, K, Ca, P, Mn, Zn, Cu, Mo and V) from a typical Arctic tundra at Eight Mile Lake (Alaska, USA) across a natural gradient of permafrost degradation. Results show that foliar element concentrations are higher (up to 9 times; Si, K, Mo, and for some species Zn) or lower (up to 2 times; Ca, P, Mn, Cu, V, and for some species Zn) in sedge than in shrub species. This induces different foliar flux with permafrost degradation and shrubification. As a result, a vegetation shift over ~40 years from sedges to shrubs has resulted in lower topsoil concentrations in Si, K, Zn and Mo (respectively of 52, 24, 20 and 51%) in poorly degraded permafrost sites compared to highly degraded permafrost sites. For other mineral elements (Ca, P, Mn, Cu and V), the vegetation shift has not induced a marked changed in topsoil concentrations at this stage of permafrost degradation. This observed change in topsoil composition involving beneficial or toxic elements for decomposers is likely to influence organic carbon decomposition. These data can serve as a first estimate to assess the influence of other shifts in vegetation in Arctic tundra such as sedge expansion with wildfires.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</p></article>", "keywords": ["shrubs", "13. Climate action", "Permafrost", "vegetation shift", "15. 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Ecol Eng 222: 107783 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107783  L\u00f3pez-Marcos D, Turri\u00f3n MB, Mart\u00ednez-Ruiz C (2020) Linking soil variability with plant community composition along a mine-slope topographic gradient: Implications for restoration. Ambio 49: 337\u2013349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01193-y", "keywords": ["Postmining slope", "Plant cover", "Forest", "Grassland", "Shrubland", "Physicochemical soil parameters"], "contacts": [{"organization": "L\u00f3pez-Marcos, Daphne, Mart\u00ednez-Ruiz, Carolina, Turri\u00f3n, Mar\u00eda-Bel\u00e9n,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17523269"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.17523269", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.17523269", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.17523269"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-11-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.4277166", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-13T16:24:34Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Data from: Dwarf shrubs impact tundra soils: drier, colder, and less organic carbon", "description": "In the tundra, woody plants are dispersing towards higher latitudes and altitudes due to increasingly favourable climatic conditions. The coverage and height of woody plants are increasing, which may influence the soils of the tundra ecosystem. Here, we use structural equation modelling to analyse 171 study plots and to examine if the coverage and height of woody plants affect the growing-season topsoil moisture and temperature (&lt; 10 cm) as well as soil organic carbon stocks (&lt; 80 cm). In our study setting, we consider the hierarchy of the ecosystem by controlling for other factors, such as topography, wintertime snow depth and the overall plant coverage that potentially influence woody plants and soil properties in this dwarf-shrub dominated landscape in northern Fennoscandia. We found strong links from topography to both vegetation and soil. Further, we found that woody plants influence multiple soil properties: the dominance of woody plants inversely correlated with soil moisture, soil temperature, and soil organic carbon stocks (standardised regression coefficients = -0.39; -0.22; -0.34, respectively), even when controlling for other landscape features. Our results indicate that the dominance of dwarf shrubs may lead to soils that are drier, colder, and contain less organic carbon. Thus, there are multiple mechanisms through which woody plants may influence tundra soils. Kemppinen, Niittynen, Virkkala, Happonen, Riihim\u00e4ki, Aalto &amp; Luoto (2021). Dwarf shrubs impact tundra soils: drier, colder, and less organic carbon. Ecosystems. These are the data from Kemppinen et al. (2021).", "keywords": ["tundra", "Arctic", "13. Climate action", "carbon cycle", "structural equation model", "15. 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