Predicted climate change extremes, such as severe or prolonged drought, may considerably
impact carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in water-limited ecosystems. However, we lack a …

Future climates will alter the frequency and size of rain events in drylands, potentially
affecting soil microbes that generate carbon feedbacks to climate, but field tests are rare …

Aims Soil microorganisms play critical roles in regulating soil biogeochemical cycles, but
their growth and metabolic activities are usually limited by resource availability, especially in …

Biocrust communities promote soil surface roughness, a key functional characteristic for soil
ecology. However, the spatial scales at which biocrust communities contribute to surface …

Dryland communities may mitigate the loss of limited resources by exchanging nutrients
through subterranean fungal connections, termed fungal loops. In arid grasslands, fungal …

Altering precipitation regimes are of particular concern in drylands, where isolated rainfall
events often drive ecosystem structure and function. This study aims to explore the effects of …

Root production influences carbon and nutrient cycles and subsidizes soil biodiversity.
However, the long‐term dynamics and drivers of belowground production are poorly …

Interactions between plants and soil microbes influence plant nutrient transformations,
including nitrogen (N) fixation, nutrient mineralization, and resource exchanges through …

In dryland ecosystems, plant productivity and microbial decomposition are often separated
in space and time due to the asynchronous availability of soil moisture and organic matter …