The roles microbes play in ecosystems are changing with global warming. Microbes are also affected by infection by viruses, but scientists know relatively little about how these viral infections could ...

Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

A decades-long effort to plant shrubs and trees around the Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest desert and one of the driest ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Despite escalating anthropogenic alteration of food webs, how the carbon cycle in ecosystems is regulated by food web processes remains poorly ...

Sphagnum peat mosses have an extraordinary impact on the global carbon cycle as they control long-term carbon sequestration in boreal peatland ecosystems. Sphagnum species engineer peatlands, which ...

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have created a more accurate model of global carbon cycling. The model better accounts for the contributions of Earth’s terrestrial ...

A new paper published in Biological Reviews has revealed the potential of desert ecosystems in the global fight against climate change. The review, led by Prof. Zeng Fanjiang from the Xinjiang ...

Throughout their lifetimes, healthy forests produce more oxygen than they use, while taking in greenhouse gases via plants ...

Afforestation transforms degraded soils in semi-arid regions, increasing microbial necromass and enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen pools, thereby improving ecosystem health.

Scientists are invited to submit their latest research to a new special issue focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and biochar for sustainable land management. The special ...