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Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across g...
Eldridge, David J.; Ding, Jingyi; Dorrough, Josh; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Sala, Osvaldo; Gross, Nicolas; Le Bagousse-Pinguet, YoannPerennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands, beneath their canopies. These hotspots largely determine the structure and functioning of drylands worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the factors controlling fertile islands under conditions of contrasting grazing by livestock, the most prevalent land use in drylands, remain virtually unknown. Here we evaluated the relative im...
Publisher Correction: Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that i...
Liu, Yu-Rong; van der Heijden, Marcel G A; Riedo, Judith; Sanz-Lazaro, Carlos; Eldridge, David J.; Bastida, Felipe; Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo
Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces wo...
Liu, Yu-Rong; van der Heijden, Marcel G A; Riedo, Judith; Sanz-Lazaro, Carlos; Eldridge, David J.; Bastida, Felipe; Moreno-Jiménez, EduardoSoil contamination is one of the main threats to ecosystem health and sustainability. Yet little is known about the extent to which soil contaminants differ between urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems. Here we show that urban greenspaces and adjacent natural areas (i.e., natural/semi-natural ecosystems) shared similar levels of multiple soil contaminants (metal(loid)s, pesticides, microplastics, and antibi...
Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands
Maestre, Fernando T.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Eldridge, David J.; Saiz, Hugo; Berdugo, Miguel; Gozalo, BeatrizGrazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may occur but have never been addressed simultaneously. Using a standardized survey at 98 sites across six continents, we show that interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil, and biodiver...
Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding enviro...
Phillips, Helen R. P.; Bach, Elizabeth M; Bartz, M. L. C.; Bennett, Joanne M.; Beugnon, Rémy; Briones, Maria J. I.; Brown, George G.; Ferlian, OlgaEarthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site l...
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Kattge, Jens; Bönisch, Gerhard; Díaz, Sandra; Lavorel, Sandra; Prentice, Iain Colin; Leadley, Paul; Tautenhahn, Susanne; Werner, Gijsbert D. A.Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; AXA Research Fund; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Natural Environment Research Council; Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem ...