Climate driven plant traits exert influence on ecosystem functioning through soil conditioning

Fungi and animal diversity shown to be as important for forest productivity as tree diversity

Understanding the temperature sensitivity (Q₁₀) of soil organic C (SOC) decomposition is critical to quantifying the climate-carbon cycle feedback and predicting the response of ecosystems to climate change. However, the driving factors of the spatial variation in Q₁₀ at a continental scale are...

Aim: To evaluate the relative importance of climatic versus soil data when predicting species distributions for Amazonian plants and to gain understanding of potential range shifts under climate change. Location: Amazon rain forest. Methods: We produced species distribution models (SDM) at 5-km...

Climate change models predict more frequent and severe droughts in the humid tropics. How drought will impact tropical forest carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics is poorly understood. Here we report the effects of the severe 2015 Caribbean drought on soil moisture, oxygen, phosphorus (P), and...

Greenhouse gases are the main cause of global warming, and forest soil plays an important role in greenhouse gas flux. Near natural forest management is one of the most promising options for improving the function of forests as carbon sinks. However, its effects on greenhouse gas emissions are not...

Climate change and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations are likely to alter tropical forest net primary productivity (NPP), potentially affecting soil C storage. We examined biochemical and physical changes in soil C fractions in a humid tropical forest where experimental litter...

Methane (CH₄) is a vital greenhouse gas with a 28-fold higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide when considering a molar basis for the time horizon of 100 years. Here, we investigated the variation of soil CH₄ fluxes, soil physiochemical properties, and CH₄-related bacteria community...

Data on ecosystem-scale methane (CH₄) fluxes in tropical peatlands are currently lacking in the global CH₄ budget. Although the waterlogged Indonesian peatlands contain the largest share of peat carbon in South-East Asia, ecosystem-scale CH₄ budgets have not yet been reported, although these...

According to a prevailing hypothesis, lowland tropical organisms are unlikely to successfully cross mountain passes because they have neither acclimated nor adapted to the colder temperatures found at higher elevations. However, this expectation assumes that changes in temperature are uniform...