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1 month ago | 
nature.com | Angelica Gonzalez |Angélica González |Julian Merder |Ulrich Brose |Malte Jochum |Mark Nessel | +10 more
AbstractThe elemental content of life is a key trait shaping ecology and evolution, yet organismal stoichiometry has largely been studied on a case-by-case basis. This limitation has hindered our ability to identify broad patterns and mechanisms across taxa and ecosystems. To address this, we present StoichLife, a global dataset of 28,049 records from 5,876 species spanning terrestrial, freshwater, and marine realms.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
nature.com | Ferran Romero |Alberto Orgiazzi |Cristiano Ballabio |Panos Panagos |Leho Tedersoo |Mohammad Bahram | +5 more
Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02511-8, published online 27 August 2024. In the version of the article initially published, the text “Moreover, the scatterplots (Supplementary Fig.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
nature.com | Yi Li |Andreas Schuldt |Nico Eisenhauer |Yuanyuan Huang |Georg Albert |Cynthia Albracht | +25 more
AbstractEcosystem functioning depends on biodiversity at multiple trophic levels, yet relationships between multitrophic diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality have been poorly explored, with studies often focusing on individual trophic levels and functions and on specific ecosystem types. Here, we show that plant diversity can affect ecosystem functioning both directly and by affecting other trophic levels.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
nature.com | Ferran Romero |Alberto Orgiazzi |Cristiano Ballabio |Panos Panagos |Leho Tedersoo |Mohammad Bahram | +5 more
AbstractSoil health is expected to be of key importance for plant growth and ecosystem functioning. However, whether soil health is linked to primary productivity across environmental gradients and land-use types remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we conducted a pan-European field study including 588 sites from 27 countries to investigate the link between soil health and primary productivity across three major land-use types: woodlands, grasslands and croplands.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
nature.com | Guiyao Zhou |Nico Eisenhauer |César Terrer |David Eldridge |Emilio Guirado |Miguel Berdugo | +1 more
AbstractTerrestrial ecosystems are subjected to multiple global changes simultaneously. Yet, how an increasing number of global changes impact the resistance of ecosystems to global change remains virtually unknown. Here we present a global synthesis including 14,000 observations from seven ecosystem services (functions and biodiversity), as well as data from a 15-year field experiment.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
nature.com | Liting Zheng |Kathryn E. Barry |Peter B. Reich |Michael Scherer-Lorenzen |Nico Eisenhauer |Jürgen Bauhus | +34 more
AbstractPlant diversity effects on community productivity often increase over time. Whether the strengthening of diversity effects is caused by temporal shifts in species-level overyielding (i.e., higher species-level productivity in diverse communities compared with monocultures) remains unclear.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
nature.com | Guillaume Patoine |Nico Eisenhauer |Simone Cesarz |Xiaofeng Xu
replying to C.Yue et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45508-4 (2024)The dynamics of soil microbial carbon are complex and critically important for global carbon cycles. In our previous study1, we presented global trends in soil microbial carbon across time and assessed the main drivers of microbial carbon change.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | Anton Potapov |Andrew Barnes |Bruno Bellini |Steven L. Chown |Enrique Miranda |Jochen Drescher | +20 more
AbstractSpringtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database on springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences from 44,999 samples and 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at the species level collected predominantly from private archives of the authors that were quality-controlled and taxonomically-standardised.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
nature.com | Qingqing Chen |Shaopeng Wang |Elizabeth T. Borer |Jonathan D. Bakker |Eric W. Seabloom |Nico Eisenhauer | +17 more
AbstractEutrophication usually impacts grassland biodiversity, community composition, and biomass production, but its impact on the stability of these community aspects is unclear. One challenge is that stability has many facets that can be tightly correlated (low dimensionality) or highly disparate (high dimensionality).
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Oct 11, 2023 | nature.com | Qingqing Chen |Shaopeng Wang |Elizabeth T. Borer |Jonathan D. Bakker |Eric W. Seabloom |Nico Eisenhauer | +17 more
AbstractEutrophication usually impacts grassland biodiversity, community composition, and biomass production, but its impact on the stability of these community aspects is unclear. One challenge is that stability has many facets that can be tightly correlated (low dimensionality) or highly disparate (high dimensionality).
