The critical zone (CZ) includes natural and anthropogenic environments, where life, energy
and matter cycles combine in complex interactions in time and space. Critical zone …

Grazing by domestic livestock is both the main land use across drylands worldwide and a
major desertification and global change driver. The ecological consequences of this key …

Patchy global data on belowground litter decomposition dynamics limit our capacity to
discern the drivers of carbon preservation and storage across inland and coastal wetlands …

Ongoing rapid climatic changes are expected to modify the structure, composition, and
functioning of forest ecosystems. Studying the influence of such changes on biogeochemical …

Soil respiration plays a central role in global carbon dynamics, and small changes in the
magnitude of soil respiration could have large impacts on atmospheric CO2 concentrations …

Background: Attempts to restore degraded highlands by tree planting are common in East
Africa. However, up till now, little attention has been given to effects of tree species choice …