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    The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

    1. Banwart, S. et al. Benefits of soil carbon: report on the outcomes of an international scientific committee on problems of the environment rapid assessment workshop. Carbon Manage. 5, 185–192 (2014). CAS Google Scholar 2. Wood, S. A. & Baudron, F. Soil organic matter underlies crop nutritional quality and productivity in smallholder agriculture. Agric. Ecosyst. […] More

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    Negative effects of cattle on soil carbon and nutrient pools reversed by megaherbivores

    1. du Toit, J. T. & Cumming, D. H. M. Functional significance of ungulate diversity in African savannas and the ecological implications of the spread of pastoralism. Biodivers. Conserv. 8, 1643–1661 (1999). Google Scholar 2. Reid, R. Savannas of our Birth: People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa (Univ. California Press, 2012). 3. Veblen, K. […] More

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    Hypermobile human predators

    1. Packer, C., Holt, R. D., Hudson, P. J., Lafferty, K. D. & Dobson, A. P. Ecol. Lett. 6, 797–802 (2003). 2. Cáceres, C. E., Knight, C. J. & Hall, S. R. Ecology 90, 2850–2858 (2009). 3. Nichols, T. A., Fischer, J. W., Spraker, T. R., Kong, Q. & VerCauteren, K. C. Prion 9, 367–375 […] More

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    Woody litter protects peat carbon stocks during drought

    1. Gorham, E. Northern peatlands: role in the carbon cycle and probable responses to climatic warming. Ecol. Appl. 1, 182–195 (1991). Article Google Scholar 2. Limpens, J. et al. Peatlands and the carbon cycle: from local processes to global implications—a synthesis. Biogeosciences 5, 1475–1491 (2008). 3. Holden, J. Peatland hydrology and carbon release: why small-scale […] More

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    Palaeoproterozoic oxygenated oceans following the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event

    1. Karhu, J. A. & Holland, H. D. Carbon isotopes and the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Geology 24, 867–870 (1996). Article Google Scholar 2. Martin, A. P., Condon, D. J., Prave, A. R. & Lepland, A. A review of temporal constraints for the Palaeoproterozoic large, positive carbonate carbon isotope excursion (the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event). Earth-Sci. Rev. […] More

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    Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California

    County-level data in California We use annual crop yields, harvested area, production and economic value data for 58 counties in California for the years 1980–2015 from the California County Agricultural Commissioners’ reports21. We analyse the 20 most valuable perennial crops in California: almonds, wine grapes, strawberries, table grapes, walnuts, hay, pistachios, navel oranges, raisin grapes, […] More

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    Beyond green growth

    1. D’Alessandro, S., Cieplinski, A., Distefano, T. & Dittmer, K. Nat. Sustain. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0484-y (2020). 2. Rezai, A. & Stagl, S. Ecol. Econ. 121, 181–185 (2016). 3. Hardt, L. & O’Neill, D. W. Ecol. Econ. 134, 198–211 (2017). 4. Stiglitz, J. E., Sen, A. & Fitoussi, J.-P. Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up. The […] More

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    Publisher Correction: Short-range interactions govern the dynamics and functions of microbial communities

    Affiliations Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Alma Dal Co , Simon van Vliet , Daniel Johannes Kiviet , Susan Schlegel  & Martin Ackermann Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland Alma Dal Co , Simon van Vliet , Daniel Johannes Kiviet , Susan Schlegel  & Martin Ackermann Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Simon […] More