Prolonged drought linked to instability in key nitrogen-cycling microbes in Connecticut salt marsh A 13-year study led by Anne Bernhard, professor of biology at Connecticut College, found that prolonged drought in southeastern Connecticut was associated with reduced stability in key…

Prolonged #drought linked to instability in key #nitrogen-cycling #microbes ...

| #marsh | #Connecticut | #nitrogencycling | #carboncycling | #ammonia | #bacteria | #archaea | Via eurekalert .org

🎓 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: PhD grant from Institut de l'Océan @sorbonne-universite.fr.

#MarineMicrobiology #CarbonCycling #ViralEcology #Oceanography #Modelling

One of Earth's most abundant organisms is surprisingly fragile A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized. The bacteria, known as SAR11, domin...

'SAR11 bacteria play a major role in ocean #carboncycling, and their sensitivity to warming and nutrient pulses could reshape microbial communities as #oceans become more variable.'
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Howdy!

Please join us on January 23 for another Friday Seminar.

🗓️ Friday, January 23
📍 WFES 411 or Zoom: linktr.ee/tamu_eccb
🕛 12:00 - 1:00 PM

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A conceptual framework for nitrogen-induced changes in HFA of litter decomposition.

Chunhui Li et al. explored how nitrogen (N) deposition affects the #Home_fieldAdvantage (HFA) effect in a subtropical forest.

#CarbonCycling | #LitterDecomposition | #MicrobialCommunityComposition | #MicrobialDiversity

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Replacing native forests with plantations changes more than the landscape—it may reshape deep soil carbon stability.

See how FTIR-MIR, TGA-FTIR-EGA & Δ14C trace SOC age, structure & persistence now at #AGU25 Don’t miss it!
#soilcarbon #biogeochemistry #carboncycling #forestecology
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A conceptual framework for nitrogen-induced changes in HFA of litter decomposition.

Nitrogen deposition ➡️ #Home-fieldAdvantage (HFA) effect

Results:
1️⃣ N addition tended to weaken the HFA effect.
2️⃣ Soil acidification driven by N inputs indirectly reduces HFA through altering bacterial communities.

#CarbonCycling

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Ectomycorrhiza (ECM) affects soil organic carbon (C) by mediating both C input into soils and C loss by microbial decomposition.

The role of #ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil #CarbonCycling under global change

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👆 A #Commentary by Christina Kaiser & Mark Anthony on Carrillo et al. 👇

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The small greenhouse on the right is an Open Top Chamber (OTC), it warms the air temperature by 1 degree. They are like small windows into the future. Measuring #CO2 and #CH4 exchanges inside and outside the #OTC helps us understand how #climatewarming will impact #carboncycling in the tundra.

Absorptive roots drive forest soil carbon accumulation through iterative effects, study finds Since the 1980s, scientists have known fine roots (< 2 mm) are critical to ecosystem carbon cycling, with research long suggesting their contribution to soil carbon accrual may exceed that of…

Absorptive #roots drive #forest #soil #carbon accumulation through iterative effects ...

| #SoilCarbon | #microbes | #CarbonSequestration | #carboncycling | #roots | Via @sciencex.bsky.social

Weathered microplastics alter deep sea benthic biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment The deep seafloor is the largest reservoir for plastic contamination; yet, it remains unclear whether Carbon introduced through synthetic polymers mig…

Weathered #microplastics alter deep sea benthic #biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment

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#Plasticpollution
#Ecosystemfunctioning
#Carboncycling
#Deepseaecosystem

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Emerging challenges of microplastic impacts to ecological health and climate change

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Open access until November 22 2025

#Microplastics
#Greenhousegasemissions
#Ecologicalrisk
#Climatechange
#Carboncycling
#Plasticpollution

Blue flyer with gray and white accents. Has Rice Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science logo with text "Congratulations". Picture of Dr. Carrie Masiello in center with text "American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow - Recognized by AGU for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements that have significantly advanced understanding of global carbon cycling and climate solutions.

Dr. Masiello has been elected fellow of American Geophysical Union, an honor earned by fewer than 0.1% of all AGU members.

Please send her many congratulations in the comments 👇

Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

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Emerging challenges of microplastic impacts to ecological health and climate change

#Microplastics
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The RPTU Landau and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) offers a PhD student position in Soil chemistry, with the earliest possible starting date in January 2026 and a project duration of 3 years🌱🔬🧪

Read more about it 👉 rptu.de/s/fsxenc

#phdposition #soilchemistry #carboncycling

Figure 7 in Franco-Cisterna et al. (2025): "Sediment trap material from the Attenborough shallow lakes. (a) Copepod carcasses from Coneries Pond. (b) Snail shell from Tween Pond."

New publication: Carbon sedimentation in shallow floodplain lakes. #carboncycling #shallowfloodplainlakes #carbondeposition
doi.org/10.1002/lno....

Excited to share our new paper on how forced fungal colonization changes the microbiome & carbon release patterns in wood—key for understanding and predicting the future of forest carbon in a changing climate. 🍄🌲 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#MicrobialEcology #CarbonCycling #ForestEcology

Nitrogen addition weakens home-field advantage of litter decomposition by altering soil pH and bacterial communities in a subtropical forest Abstract. The home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis predicts that litter decomposes faster in its home environment than elsewhere. Given the critical role

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Nitrogen addition weakens #Home-fieldAdvantage of #LitterDecomposition by altering soil pH and #BacterialCommunities in a subtropical forest

#CarbonCycling | #MicrobialCommunityComposition

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Light-Driven Changes in Macrophyte Tissue Quality Affect the Composition of Associated Microbial Communities - Microbial Ecology Microbial biofilms are important components in macrophyte decomposition, and their composition depends on the decomposition stage and host plant quality. Here, we investigated how macrophyte tissue qu...

New publication: Light-Driven Changes in #Macrophyte Tissue Quality Affect the Composition of Associated Microbial Communities. #biofilm #carboncycling
doi.org/10.1007/s002...

We gladly introduce PriME, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration which aims to derive fundamental principles of how microbial ecosystems assemble and function, with a primary focus on #marinemicrobes and #carboncycling 🦠🌊

Comprehensive Fuel and Emissions Measurements Highlight Uncertainties in Smoke Production Using Predictive Modeling Tools Predictive modeling tools, such as the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), are used to generate estimates of the effects from wildland fires, including fuel consumption and smoke emissions. Given ...

Interesting study reveals land-cover-based fuel loading values significantly underpredicted #emissions & need to improve fuel loading data for more accurate smoke emission predictions. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#FOFEM #forestecology #carboncycling @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @natureatcal.bsky.social

Does the C:N:P 1:1:1 Ratio Hold? Examining Log‐Transformation Bias in Enzyme Stoichiometry Microbial enzymes play a key role in recycling nutrients in soil, but common methods for analyzing enzyme ratios can introduce bias and reinforce misleading patterns. This article challenges the wide...

Excited to share my paper challenging the C : N : P enzyme stoichiometry 1 : 1 : 1 pattern as a logarithm artefact and advocating unit-independent approaches for clearer insights into nutrient aquisition
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Enzymes #SoilMicroorganisms #CarbonCycling #OpenAccess

Light pollution fuels toxic algae and alters carbon cycling in lakes Recent findings suggest that light pollution can affect lakes including producing toxic algae and altering carbon cycling.

Light pollution fuels toxic algae and alters carbon cycling in lakes: Recent findings suggest that light pollution can affect lakes including producing toxic algae and altering carbon cycling.

#LightPollution #ToxicAlgae #CarbonCycling #Cyanobacteria #FreshwaterEcosystems #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap

Tune it at 13 EET for @roellammerant.bsky.social PhD-defense on #macrophyte traits snd #carboncycling
Zoom: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422

Figure 4 in Saros et al. (2025): "Transformation of lakes from blue to brown. (A) shows that clearwater, blue, lakes (photo from summer 2014) became darkly stained, brown, in 2023 (photo from summer 2023). (B) The central point is the median depth of 1% PAR across lakes for each year since 2013, the thicker line shows the interquartile range, and the thinner line shows maximum and minimum values. Blue distributions show data before 2023, and brown show data from July and August 2023 and July 2024. (C) Nutrient-color status of lakes shifted in July 2023 & 2024 compared to July of 2016 to 2022, with lakes moving toward the brown quartile. Both axes are on a log10 scale. (D) Light underwater was substantially reduced in 2023 (brown) compared to 2022 (blue) in lake SS85. The ribbons show the interquartile range of daily values from a PME miniPAR sensor anchored 3 m below the surface from mid-April (DOY 100) to the end of June (DOY 180). Bars on the Top of the panel show ice-cover."

New publication: Abrupt transformation of west #Greenland #lakes following compound climate extremes associated with atmospheric #rivers. #climatechange #carboncycling #rainfall #heat #lakebrowning
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Figure 2 in McGowan et al. (2025): "Historical and current land use. Top-left: summary of historical maps from 1948 (Survey Department, Federation of Malaya No. 218-49, prepared from air photographs and existing, limited ground survey data). Top-right: 1985–1989 Director of National mapping 1:50 000 restricted map, Malaysia, published in 1992 and compiled from aerial photos taken in 1985 and field surveys in 1989. Bottom-left: 2002 from the mapping digitization study of Sujaul et al. (2010). Bottom-right: 2017 Google Earth imagery (image taken 3 October 2017). [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]"

New publication: Land use, #hydroclimate and #damming influence organic carbon #sedimentation in a flood pulse #wetland, Malaysia. #carboncycling #palaeolimnology #tropicallakes
doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

Gerard Rocher-Ros will very soon join IceLab as a new faculty member and he is hiring two PhD students and two postdocs! If you are interested in #climate #ecology #carboncycling #freshwater systems check it out - also one #PhDjob includes #modelling. Check out the info 👇

BE-STEMM 2024 | EN-STIMM 2024 | Canadian Black Scientists

Poster sent to print! The great thing about research posters is they are already DONE when you arrive at the conference, no more tinkering, just enjoying. Can't wait for Canadian Black Scientists Network’s #BESTEMM2024 next week. Let's talk #Arctic #CarbonCycling ❄️ blackscientists.ca/be-stemm-eve...

Learn more about 2024 #InnovatorsTravelAward recipient #ecologist Elizabeth Forbes & her innovative research regarding the effects of community change on #ecosystem #carbonstorage & #carboncycling. bit.ly/ITA_EF #soilcarbon #ESA2024 #zoogeochemistry #soilcarbon #kenya @yalee360.bsky.social

The innovative Dr. Elizabeth Forbes discusses her #zoogeochemistry research & why continued collaboration across animal, community & #ecosystems research methods is critical. Can't make it? We'll send the recording. Register NOW! bit.ly/ppswb #carboncycling #ecophys @britishecolsoc.bsky.social