NEWS AND VIEWS 08 April 2020 Will mature forests absorb enough carbon from the atmosphere to mitigate climate change as levels of carbon dioxide increase? An experiment in a eucalyptus forest provides fresh evidence. Yiqi Luo & Yiqi Luo is at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, […] More
Conceptual model To understand the role played by jellyfish for carbon cycling, it is essential to trace each physiological process where carbon is implicated. An ecophysiological 0-D model was built based on three forcing variables, which are temperature (T), food concentration (F) and initial jellyfish carbon mass (CM). The growth (G; gC.d−1) of any organism […] More
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Given the global role of microbes in the environment, determining the drivers of microbial community assembly is an important issue in microbial ecology17. Microbes inhabiting agricultural soils are closely linked to crop productivity through complex biogeochemical processes18. In this study, we investigated the major environmental factors that drive bacterial community assembly in maize soils across […] More
Hg isotopes in Late Archean sediments We studied sediments from the lower part of the Upper Nauga Formation, sampled from core GKF01 drilled by the Agouron Institute in the Griqualand West Basin, South Africa24 (SI, Supplementary Fig. 1). The core consists mainly of mudstones and dolostones deposited in a deep water slope environment of the Cambellrand-Malmani […] More
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