Arthur Gessler

Nov 28, 2024 | nature.com | Qingshui Yu |Chenqi He |Bernhard Schmid |Arthur Gessler |Yuhao Feng |Biao Zhu | +6 more

AbstractUnderstanding the concurrent responses of aboveground and belowground biota compartments to global changes is crucial for the maintenance of ecosystem functions and biodiversity conservation. We conduct a comprehensive analysis synthesizing data from 13,209 single observations and 3223 pairwise observations from 1166 publications across the world terrestrial ecosystems to examine the responses of plants and soil organisms and their synchronization.

Mar 15, 2024 | nature.com | Mark Anthony |Leho Tedersoo |Henning Meesenburg |Paweł Lech |Beat M. Frey |Arthur Gessler | +8 more

AbstractForest soils harbor hyper-diverse microbial communities which fundamentally regulate carbon and nutrient cycling across the globe. Directly testing hypotheses on how microbiome diversity is linked to forest carbon storage has been difficult, due to a lack of paired data on microbiome diversity and in situ observations of forest carbon accumulation and storage.

Feb 1, 2024 | nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Haoyu Diao |Lucas A. Cernusak |Matthias Saurer |Arthur Gessler

Introduction A rise in vapour pressure deficit (VPD) has become evident in recent decades, due to a significant increase in surface temperature, while surface relative humidity (RH) has declined at the global scale (Vicente-Serrano et al., 2018; IPCC, 2021). Plants sense variations in VPD, defined as the difference between the saturation and actual water vapour pressure, through the leaf-to-air vapour pressure difference (LAVPD).

Dec 27, 2023 | nature.com | Laibao Liu |Elisabet Martínez-Sancho |Flurin Babst |Arthur Gessler |Benjamin Poulter |Sonia I. Seneviratne | +26 more

AbstractThe vapor pressure deficit reflects the difference between how much moisture the atmosphere could and actually does hold, a factor that fundamentally affects evapotranspiration, ecosystem functioning, and vegetation carbon uptake. Its spatial variability and long-term trends under natural versus human-influenced climate are poorly known despite being essential for predicting future effects on natural ecosystems and human societies such as crop yield, wildfires, and health.