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View article: Climate history modulates stress responses of common soil bacteria under experimental drought
Climate history modulates stress responses of common soil bacteria under experimental drought Open
Soil drying challenges microbial viability and survival, with bacteria employing various mechanisms to respond to shifts in osmolarity, including dormancy or metabolic upregulation of osmoprotectants. However, the extent to which these res…
View article: Total Dissolved Nitrogen and Ammonia Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2015-2024)
Total Dissolved Nitrogen and Ammonia Data for the East River Watershed, Colorado (2015-2024) Open
This data package contains mean values for total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) and ammonia concentrations for water samples taken from the East River Watershed in Colorado. The East River is part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area …
View article: Changes in high-latitude surface energy balance driven by snowpack and vegetation dynamics under warmer climate
Changes in high-latitude surface energy balance driven by snowpack and vegetation dynamics under warmer climate Open
With rapid climate warming, expected changes in snowpack and vegetation will alter the seasonal surface albedo of high-latitude ecosystems. The extent to which these albedo changes may affect surface energy balances and thus soil temperatu…
View article: Coordinated organic and inorganic nitrogen transformations fuel soil microbial blooms and increase nitrogen retention during snowmelt
Coordinated organic and inorganic nitrogen transformations fuel soil microbial blooms and increase nitrogen retention during snowmelt Open
Snowmelt in high-elevation watersheds triggers a microbial bloom and crash that affects nitrogen (N) export. Predicting watershed N dynamics as snowpack declines is a challenge because the mechanisms that underlie this microbial bloom and …
View article: Panama Rainforest Changes with Experimental Drought (PaRChED): Initial Effects of Partial Throughfall Exclusion on Soil Dynamics in Lowland Forests Across Variation in Rainfall and Soil Fertility
Panama Rainforest Changes with Experimental Drought (PaRChED): Initial Effects of Partial Throughfall Exclusion on Soil Dynamics in Lowland Forests Across Variation in Rainfall and Soil Fertility Open
Changes in rainfall are predicted across tropical regions, with effects on nutrient, water, and carbon cycling. This chapter summarizes results from the first two years of a throughfall exclusion experiment in four lowland Panamanian fores…
View article: A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry
A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry Open
Microbes drive the biogeochemical cycles of earth systems, yet the long-standing goal of linking emerging genomic information, microbial traits, mechanistic ecosystem models, and projections under climate change has remained elusive despit…
View article: Climate History and Metabolic Trade-offs shape the Bacterial Response to Drought
Climate History and Metabolic Trade-offs shape the Bacterial Response to Drought Open
Soil drying challenges microbial viability and survival, with bacteria employing various mechanisms to respond to shifts in osmolarity, including dormancy or metabolic upregulation of osmoprotectants. However, the extent to which these res…
View article: Plant responses to elevated <scp>CO<sub>2</sub></scp> under competing hypotheses of nitrogen and phosphorus limitations
Plant responses to elevated <span>CO<sub>2</sub></span> under competing hypotheses of nitrogen and phosphorus limitations Open
The future ecosystem carbon cycle has important implications for biosphere‐climate feedback. The magnitude of future plant growth and carbon accumulation depends on plant strategies for nutrient uptake under the stresses of nitrogen (N) ve…
View article: A Tale of Two Catchments: Causality Analysis and Isotope Systematics Reveal Mountainous Watershed Traits That Regulate the Retention and Release of Nitrogen
A Tale of Two Catchments: Causality Analysis and Isotope Systematics Reveal Mountainous Watershed Traits That Regulate the Retention and Release of Nitrogen Open
Mountainous watersheds are characterized by variability in functional traits, including vegetation, topography, geology, and geomorphology, which determine nitrogen (N) retention, and release. Coal Creek and East River are two contrasting …
View article: SAIL Aerosol Vertical Profiles (SAIL-AVP) Field Campaign Report
SAIL Aerosol Vertical Profiles (SAIL-AVP) Field Campaign Report Open
Aerosols are central to understanding the water cycle within mountainous regions, but a complete understanding of this role cannot be provided without vertically resolved observations, particularly for aerosol-cloud interactions, since we …
View article: A tale of two catchments: Causality analysis and isotope systematics reveal mountainous watershed traits that regulate the retention and release of nitrogen
A tale of two catchments: Causality analysis and isotope systematics reveal mountainous watershed traits that regulate the retention and release of nitrogen Open
Mountainous watersheds are characterized by variability in functional traits, including vegetation, topography, geology, and geomorphology, which together determine nitrogen (N) retention, and release. Coal Creek and East River are two con…
View article: Microbial metabolic response to throughfall exclusion and feedback on soil carbon dynamics along a tropical forest precipitation gradient
Microbial metabolic response to throughfall exclusion and feedback on soil carbon dynamics along a tropical forest precipitation gradient Open
Tropical forest soils represent some of Earth's largest stores of soil carbon. Humid and warm conditions promote high primary productivity offsetting high ecosystem respiration rates, and this balance has resulted in significant carbon acc…
View article: Long-term plant-microbe interactions weaken the rhizosphere priming effect in tundra systems
Long-term plant-microbe interactions weaken the rhizosphere priming effect in tundra systems Open
Ecosystem priming is a critical process contributing to the carbon balance of tundra soils. On one hand, plant exudation of labile organic compounds can stimulate microbial activity inducing the decomposition of more complex organic matter…
View article: Metagenome Assmbled Genomes recovered from the tropical peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon
Metagenome Assmbled Genomes recovered from the tropical peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon Open
The Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin (PMFB) holds the most extensive tropical peatland area in South America. PMFB peatlands store 7.07 Gt of organic carbon while releasing 31.6 – 41.1 Tg methane year–1. However, little is understood about h…
View article: Genes and genome-resolved metagenomics reveal the microbial functional make up of Amazon peatlands under geochemical gradients
Genes and genome-resolved metagenomics reveal the microbial functional make up of Amazon peatlands under geochemical gradients Open
The Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin (PMFB) holds the most extensive tropical peatland area in South America. PMFB peatlands store 7.07 Gt of organic carbon interacting with multiple microbial heterotrophic, methanogenic, and other oxic/anox…
View article: Wildfire exacerbates high-latitude soil carbon losses from climate warming
Wildfire exacerbates high-latitude soil carbon losses from climate warming Open
Arctic and boreal permafrost soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition has been slower than carbon inputs from plant growth since the last glaciation. Anthropogenic climate warming has threatened this historical trend by accelerating SOC dec…
View article: Characterizing Natural Organic Matter Transformations by Microbial Communities in Terrestrial Subsurface Ecosystems: A Critical Review of Analytical Techniques and Challenges
Characterizing Natural Organic Matter Transformations by Microbial Communities in Terrestrial Subsurface Ecosystems: A Critical Review of Analytical Techniques and Challenges Open
Determining the mechanisms, traits, and pathways that regulate microbial transformation of natural organic matter (NOM) is critical to informing our understanding of the microbial impacts on the global carbon cycle. The capillary fringe of…
View article: Global distribution and climatological temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter fractions differ between observations and models&#160;
Global distribution and climatological temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter fractions differ between observations and models  Open
<p>Soils contain the largest actively-cycling terrestrial carbon pool, which is itself composed of chemically heterogeneous and measurable pools that vary in their persistence. Fundamental uncertainties in terrestrial carbon-climate …
View article: Climate history dictates microbial metabolic response to drought stress: from semi-arid soils to tropical forest precipitation gradients&#160;
Climate history dictates microbial metabolic response to drought stress: from semi-arid soils to tropical forest precipitation gradients  Open
<p>The frequency and intensity of environmental fluctuations play an important role in shaping microbial community composition, trait-distribution, and adaptive capacity. We hypothesize here that a communities&#8217; climate hist…
View article: Divergent responses of soil microorganisms to throughfall exclusion across tropical forest soils driven by soil fertility and climate history
Divergent responses of soil microorganisms to throughfall exclusion across tropical forest soils driven by soil fertility and climate history Open
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View article: Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions
Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above- and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions Open
In this study, we develop a watershed zonation approach for characterizing watershed organization and functions in a tractable manner by integrating multiple spatial data layers. We hypothesize that (1) a hillslope is an appropriate unit f…
View article: Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling
Drought impacts on microbial trait distribution and feedback to soil carbon cycling Open
Quantifying the impact of drought on microbial processes and its consequences for soil carbon cycling is hindered by the lack of underlying mechanistic understanding. Therefore, there is a need to scale up the physiological response to cha…
View article: 16S and ITS Amplicon Sequencing Fastq files and metadata from PARCHED Panama Tropical Forest soils, 2019-2020,
16S and ITS Amplicon Sequencing Fastq files and metadata from PARCHED Panama Tropical Forest soils, 2019-2020, Open
Model projections predict tropical forests will experience longer periods of drought and more intense precipitation cycles under a changing climate. Such transitions have implications for structure-function relationships within microbial c…
View article: Non-growing Season Plant Nutrient Uptake Controls Arctic Tundra Vegetation Composition: Modeling Archive
Non-growing Season Plant Nutrient Uptake Controls Arctic Tundra Vegetation Composition: Modeling Archive Open
This Modeling Archive is in support of a NGEE-Arctic publication: Riley et al. (2021) “Non-growing season plant nutrient uptake controls Arctic tundra vegetation composition under future climate” (Riley et al., 2021). The dataset contains …