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Legacies of past forest management determine current responses to severe drought events of conifer species in the Romanian Carpathians
(Science of the Total Environment, 2021-01-10)
Worldwide increases in droughts- and heat-waves-associated tree mortality events are destabilizing the future of many forests and the ecosystem services they provide. Along with climate, understanding the impact of the ...
Spatial variability of soil respiration (R<inf>s</inf>) and its controls are subjected to strong seasonality in an even-aged European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) stand
(European Journal of Soil Science, 2021-09-01)
Uncertainties arising from the so-far poorly explained spatial variability of soil respiration (Rs) remain large. This is partly due to the limited understanding about how spatially variable Rs actually is, but also on how ...
Whole-tree mesophyll conductance reconciles isotopic and gas-exchange estimates of water-use efficiency
(New Phytologist, 2021-03-01)
Photosynthetic water-use efficiency (WUE) describes the link between terrestrial carbon (C) and water cycles. Estimates of intrinsic WUE (iWUE) from gas exchange and C isotopic composition (d13C) differ due to an internal ...
Tree influence exacerbates the El Niño effects over soil CO<inf>2</inf> emissions and its microclimatic controls
(Applied Soil Ecology, 2020-03-01)
Dryland ecosystems are considered the largest global carbon sink. However, extreme climate phenomena like the El Niño events (EN) may change soil respiration (Rs) the CO2 emitted from soils resulting from biological ...
Eating local and in-season fruits and vegetables: Carbon-water-employment trade-offs and synergies
(Ecological Economics, 2022-02-01)
What would the effect on the employment and environmental footprint be if Spanish households substituted imported fresh fruits and vegetables with local production? Are the impacts similar over the entire year? Is it ...
When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions
(Futures, 2022)
The term ‘Just Transition’ (JT) emerged from the 1970s North American labour movement to become a campaign for a planned energy transition that includes justice and fairness for workers. There is diversity in the JT ...
Tree growth response to drought partially explains regional-scale growth and mortality patterns in Iberian forests
(Ecological Applications, 2022-07-01)
Tree-ring data has been widely used to inform about tree growth responses to drought at the individual scale, but less is known about how tree growth sensitivity to drought scales up driving changes in forest dynamics. ...
The stationary and non-stationary character of the silver fir, black pine and Scots pine tree-growth-climate relationships
(Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022-10-15)
Tree-growth-climate relationships are usually assumed to have a stationary character, i.e., continuous and/or time-independent, along the lifetime of the trees. The fact that non-stationarity, i.e., discontinuous and/or ...
Challenges and directions toward a general theory of ecological recovery dynamics: A metacommunity perspective
(One Earth, 2021-08-20)
Global change degrades ecosystems worldwide. Scientific research has advanced our knowledge of the impacts of global change on ecosystems. Comparatively, however, it remains unclear how ecosystems recover after disturbances. ...
Regional Soil Nutrient Balances for Cropland in 1920s Catalonia, Spain
(Social Science History, 2021-09-06)
Understanding the replacement of soil nutrients removed by harvests makes it possible to understand the influence of humans on long-term soil fertility. This article calculates nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium balances ...