Differential Nutrient Limitation of Soil Microbial Biomass and Metabolic Quotients (qCO2): Is There a Biological Stoichiometry of Soil Microbes?

WH Hartman, CJ Richardson - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Variation in microbial metabolism poses one of the greatest current
uncertainties in models of global carbon cycling, and is particularly poorly understood in …

A fly in a tube: macroevolutionary expectations for integrated phenotypes

RN Felice, M Randau, A Goswami - Evolution, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic integration and modularity are ubiquitous features of complex organisms,
describing the magnitude and pattern of relationships among biological traits. A key …

Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest

JL Baltzer, NJ Day, XJ Walker… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Intensifying wildfire activity and climate change can drive rapid forest compositional shifts. In
boreal North America, black spruce shapes forest flammability and depends on fire for …

Water depth underpins the relative roles and fates of nitrogen and phosphorus in lakes

B Qin, J Zhou, JJ Elser, WS Gardner… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Eutrophication mitigation is an ongoing priority for aquatic ecosystems. However, the current
eutrophication control strategies (phosphorus (P) and/or nitrogen (N)) are guided mainly by …

Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs

RJW Brienen, L Caldwell, L Duchesne… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land vegetation is currently taking up large amounts of atmospheric CO2, possibly due to
tree growth stimulation. Extant models predict that this growth stimulation will continue to …

Rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in the brains of Heliconiini butterflies

A Couto, FJ Young, D Atzeni, S Marty… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the abundance and diversity of neural cell types, and their connectivity,
shape brain composition and provide the substrate for behavioral evolution. Although …

Long‐term, amplified responses of soil organic carbon to nitrogen addition worldwide

C Xu, X Xu, C Ju, HYH Chen, BJ Wilsey… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the largest carbon sink in terrestrial ecosystems and plays a
critical role in mitigating climate change. Increasing reactive nitrogen (N) in ecosystems …

The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought

MK Bartlett, T Klein, S Jansen… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is expected to exacerbate drought for many plants, making drought
tolerance a key driver of species and ecosystem responses. Plant drought tolerance is …

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

KR Kramer‐Walter, PJ Bellingham, TR Millar… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Root, stem and leaf traits are thought to be functionally coordinated to maximize the
efficiency of acquiring and using limited resources. However, evidence is mixed for …

Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests

JV Tavares, RS Oliveira, M Mencuccini… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical forests face increasing climate risk,, yet our ability to predict their response to
climate change is limited by poor understanding of their resistance to water stress. Although …