Residues from black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae rearing influence the plant-associated soil microbiome in the short term

A Fuhrmann, B Wilde, RF Conz, S Kantengwa… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The larvae of the black soldier fly (BSFL, Hermetia illucens) efficiently close resource cycles.
Next to the nutrient-rich insect biomass used as animal feed, the residues from the process …

Carbon starvation following a decade of experimental drought consumes old reserves in Pinus edulis

DMP Peltier, MS Carbone, CD McIntire… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in the age or turnover time of non‐structural carbohydrates (NSC) may underlie
changes in tree growth under long‐term increases in drought stress associated with climate …

Realistic rates of nitrogen addition increase carbon flux rates but do not change soil carbon stocks in a temperate grassland

ME Wilcots, KM Schroeder, LC DeLancey… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the biosphere carbon (C) sink are of utmost importance given rising
atmospheric CO2 levels. Concurrent global changes, such as increasing nitrogen (N) …

Old reserves and ancient buds fuel regrowth of coast redwood after catastrophic fire

DMP Peltier, MS Carbone, M Enright, MC Marshall… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
For long-lived organisms, investment in insurance strategies such as reserve energy storage
can enable resilience to resource deficits, stress or catastrophic disturbance. Recent fire in …

Insights into source/sink controls on wood formation and photosynthesis from a stem chilling experiment in mature red maple

T Rademacher, P Fonti, JM LeMoine, MV Fonti… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whether sources or sinks control wood growth remains debated with a paucity of evidence
from mature trees in natural settings. Here, we altered carbon supply rate in stems of mature …

Soil nutrients cause threefold increase in pathogen and herbivore impacts on grassland plant biomass

M Zaret, L Kinkel, ET Borer, EW Seabloom - Journal of Ecology, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
A combination of theory and experiments predicts that increasing soil nutrients will modify
herbivore and microbial impacts on ecosystem carbon cycling. However, few studies of …

Leaf Scanner: A portable and low-cost multispectral corn leaf scanning device for precise phenotyping

L Zhang, L Wang, J Wang, Z Song, TU Rehman… - … and Electronics in …, 2019 - Elsevier
During recent years, portable plant phenotyping instruments have become increasingly
important to monitor conditions of plant health non-destructively in the greenhouse and field …

Manipulating phloem transport affects wood formation but not local nonstructural carbon reserves in an evergreen conifer

T Rademacher, P Fonti, JM LeMoine… - Plant, cell & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How variations in carbon supply affect wood formation remains poorly understood in
particular in mature forest trees. To elucidate how carbon supply affects carbon allocation …

[HTML][HTML] Ideas and perspectives: Enhancing research and monitoring of carbon pools and land-to-atmosphere greenhouse gases exchange in developing countries

DG Kim, B Bond-Lamberty, Y Ryu, B Seo… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Carbon (C) and greenhouse gas (GHG) research has traditionally required data collection
and analysis using advanced and often expensive instruments, complex and proprietary …

[PDF][PDF] FluxCalR: a R package for calculating CO~ 2~ and CH~ 4~ fluxes from static chambers

J Zhao - Journal of Open Source Software, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
As the main drivers of climate change, greenhouse gas (eg, CO2 and CH4) emissions have
been monitored intensively across the globe. The static chamber is one of the most …