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Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale

It is unclear whether trait trade-offs and optimality principles observed at the individual level scale up to the ecosystem level. Here, the authors show that plant trait coordination principles also predict patterns between community-level traits and ecosystem-scale processes.

Ulisse Gomarasca
Mirco Migliavacca
Markus Reichstein
ResearchOpen Access04 Jul 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes

Small-scale farmers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to monocultures of oil palm and rubber to maximize income. Clough and colleagues demonstrate that this land-use change in Indonesia comes at a cost to a wide array of ecosystem functions and biodiversity.

Yann Clough
Vijesh V. Krishna
Stefan Scheu
ResearchOpen Access11 Oct 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Publisher Correction: Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

Talie Musavi
Mirco Migliavacca
Miguel D. Mahecha
Amendments and Corrections11 Feb 2019
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 3, P: 501
Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

Ph. Ciais
M. Reichstein
R. Valentini
Research22 Sept 2005
Nature

Volume: 437, P: 529-533
Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

The direct effects of land-cover change on surface climate are increasingly well understood, but fewer studies have investigated the consequences of the trend towards more intensive land management practices. Now, research investigating the biophysical effects of temperate land-management changes reveals a net warming effect of similar magnitude to that driven by changing land cover.

Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Mathilde Jammet
A. Johannes Dolman
Research13 Apr 2014
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 4, P: 389-393
Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

The photosynthetic capacity of forest ecosystems is an important variable in the global carbon cycle. Here, it is shown that older, more diverse forests have less fluctuation between years in photosynthetic capacity.

Talie Musavi
Mirco Migliavacca
Miguel D. Mahecha
Research23 Jan 2017
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1-7
The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

Three key axes of variation of ecosystem functional changes and their underlying causes are identified from a dataset of surface gas exchange measurements across major terrestrial biomes and climate zones.

Mirco Migliavacca
Talie Musavi
Markus Reichstein
ResearchOpen Access22 Sept 2021
Nature

Volume: 598, P: 468-472
Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel

Palm oil biofuels are touted as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Meijide and colleagues use greenhouse gas measurements to update life cycle assessments of oil palm growth scenarios and show that despite the promise, emission savings do not meet sustainability standards.

Ana Meijide
Cristina de la Rua
Alexander Knohl
ResearchOpen Access27 Feb 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-11
Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

Identifying economic and ecological trade-offs of land-use transitions is important to ensure sustainability. Here, Grass et al. find biodiversity-profit trade-offs in tropical land-use transitions in Sumatra, and show that targeted landscape planning is needed to increase land-use efficiency while ensuring socio-ecological sustainability.

Ingo Grass
Christoph Kubitza
Meike Wollni
ResearchOpen Access04 Mar 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-13
Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations

Rainforest conversion to plantations driven by global demand for agricultural products generates high environmental costs. Here, the authors show that the high oil palm plantation production efficiency is associated with decreased carbon storage and slower organic matter cycling that affect ecosystem services.

Thomas Guillaume
Martyna M. Kotowska
Yakov Kuzyakov
ResearchOpen Access19 Jun 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-11
Joint optimization of land carbon uptake and albedo can help achieve moderate instantaneous and long-term cooling effects

The albedo-induced warming effect with increased net ecosystem productivity can be overcome by optimizing albedo and land carbon uptake, according to an analysis of in-situ observations from 176 eddy covariance flux stations across different ecosystem types and conditions.

Alexander Graf
Georg Wohlfahrt
Harry Vereecken
ResearchOpen Access25 Aug 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-12
Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants

The uptake of CO2 by leaves, and its conversion to sugars, is the basis for life on land. This study proposes a model unifying light-use efficiency relationships and a standard model of photosynthesis across species and ecosystems, and globally.

Han Wang
I. Colin Prentice
Changhui Peng
Research04 Sept 2017
Nature Plants

Volume: 3, P: 734-741
Atmospheric deposition, CO₂, and change in the land carbon sink

M. Fernández-Martínez
S. Vicca
J. Peñuelas
ResearchOpen Access29 Aug 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-13
The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

Gilberto Pastorello
Carlo Trotta
Dario Papale
ResearchOpen Access09 Jul 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-27
Monitoring of carbon-water fluxes at Eurasian meteorological stations using random forest and remote sensing

Mingjuan Xie
Xiaofei Ma
Geping Luo
ResearchOpen Access07 Sept 2023
Scientific Data

Volume: 10, P: 1-18
Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

Gilberto Pastorello
Carlo Trotta
Dario Papale
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access25 Feb 2021
Scientific Data

Volume: 8, P: 1-2

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