Studies from global regions indicate promising avenues for maintaining and increasing soil organic carbon stocks: The Sc...
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Effects of experimental nitrogen deposition on soil organic carbon storage in Southern California drylands.
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is enriching soils with N across biomes. Soil N enrichment can increase plant productivity and affect microbial activity, thereby increasing soil organic carbon (SOC), but such responses vary across biomes. Drylands cover ~45% of Earth's land area and store ~33% of global SOC contained in the top 1 m of soil. Nit...
Spatial genetic structure of two forest plant metapopulations in dynamic agricultural landscapes
status: Published online
Pests, wind and fire: A multi-hazard risk review for natural disturbances in forests
Natural disturbances are paramount in the development of ecosystems but may jeopardise the provision of forest ecosystem services. Climate change exacerbates this threat and favours interactions between disturbances. Our objective was thus to capture this dimension of multiple disturbances in forest economics through a literature review. We built a...
Spider mites avoid caterpillar traces to prevent intraguild predation
害虫の王者が芋虫の足跡を嫌うことを発見 --はらぺこあおむしが自然界の秩序を保つ？--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-02-24. / The phytophagous spider mites Tetranychus kanzawai and Tetranychus urticae can be as small as
Predator efficacy and attraction to herbivore-induced volatiles determine insect pest selection of inferior host plant.
Published in iScience
Unlike mammals, most invertebrates provide no direct parental care for their progeny, which makes a well-selected oviposition site crucial. However, little is known about the female evaluation of opportunities and threats during host selection. Leveraging the wide range of host plants used by the polyphagous pest, Spodoptera littoralis, we investig...
Urban Heat Islands and What They Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Published in Frontiers for Young Minds
Urban areas typically get much hotter than rural or natural areas. The higher temperatures in cities are caused by the presence of lots of buildings and streets, which heat up in the sun because they are made of materials that can not hold much water. In hot urban areas, called urban heat islands, people and animals stay cool by sweating, panting, ...
Seagrass macrobenthic biodiversity does not vary in conformity with a leaky-lagoonal confinement gradient.
Coastal lagoon ecology often changes on progression from the open, well-flushed mouth region to the depositional zone furthest from the open sea. This is generally considered consequent on increasing 'confinement' and associated features, rather than on the often co-occurringly decreasing salinity. The 12 km Rainbow Channel connecting part of Moret...
Locating Partial Discharges in Power Transformers with Convolutional Iterative Filtering.
The most common source of transformer failure is in the insulation, and the most prevalent warning signal for insulation weakness is partial discharge (PD). Locating the positions of these partial discharges would help repair the transformer to prevent failures. This work investigates algorithms that could be deployed to locate the position of a PD...
Vehicle pollution is associated with elevated insect damage to street trees
Vehicle pollution is a pervasive aspect of anthropogenic change across rural and urban habitats. The most common emissions are carbon- or nitrogen-based pollutants that may impact diverse interactions between plants and insect herbivores. However, the effects of vehicle pollution on plant-insect interactions are poorly understood. Here, we combine ...
