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  • Using synthesized experimental and observational data, Cen et al. revealed that anthropogenic nitrogen deposition has increased global forest soil CO2 emissions by ~5%, despite considerable spatial variation in the effects of nitrogen deposition.

    • Xiaoyu Cen
    • Peter Vitousek
    • Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 17, P: 1-16

  • Surprisingly, invasive plant species that have successfully colonized resource-poor habitats in Hawaii tend to be more efficient than native species at using limiting resources. The work has important implications for habitat management and conservation.

    • Jennifer L. Funk
    • Peter M. Vitousek
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 446, P: 1079-1081

  • The role of soil health in crop productivity and environmental sustainability is often overlooked. Using a 0.5° × 0.5° global dataset, this study shows that soil health accounts for 12% of yield variation and 22% of nitrogen use efficiency variation. Enhancing global soil health could increase yields by 7.8 Mt and cut nitrogen surplus by 8.1 Mt by 2050.

    • Jianming Xu
    • Chenchen Ren
    • Baojing Gu
    Research
    Nature Food
    Volume: 6, P: 597-609

  • Soil age is thought to be an important driver of ecosystem development. Here, the authors perform a global survey of soil chronosequences and meta-analysis to show that, contrary to expectations, soil age is a relatively minor ecosystem driver at the biome scale once other drivers such as parent material, climate, and vegetation type are accounted for.

    • Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
    • Peter B. Reich
    • Noah Fierer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-14

  • Grasslands account for as much as one-third of the net primary production on land. Results from a network of experiments carried out on five continents suggest that two or more nutrients often constrain the productivity of these globally significant ecosystems.

    • Peter M. Vitousek
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 1, P: 1-2

  • In contrast to marine environments, the occurrence of nitrogen fixation in terrestrial environments does not seem to be dependent on nitrogen availability. An alternative framework is proposed, based on the assumptions that enhanced phosphate acquisition by nitrogen fixing plants provides an advantage in phosphate limited environments and that temperature limits nitrogen fixation in high latitudes.

    • Benjamin Z. Houlton
    • Ying-Ping Wang
    • Christopher B. Field
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 454, P: 327-330

  • Our understanding of phosphorus (P) cycling in soils, a basis for many ecosystem services, has been limited by the complexity of P forms and processes. Here the authors use spectroscopic and isotopic techniques to estimate turnover times of P pools and tease apart biologically-driven and geochemically-driven P fluxes.

    • Julian Helfenstein
    • Federica Tamburini
    • Emmanuel Frossard
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 9, P: 1-9

  • Multiple climate-related coastal hazards could impact people, infrastructure and ecosystems, yet previous works often focused on flooding only. By analysing the future exposure to four types of hazard along the US Southeast Atlantic coast, this research emphasizes the risks beyond flooding.

    • Patrick L. Barnard
    • Kevin M. Befus
    • Jamie L. Jones
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 15, P: 101-109

  • The dynamic components of coastal water level can add metres to water levels during extreme events. A data synthesis reveals that Pacific regional wave and water level fluctuations are closely related to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation.

    • Patrick L. Barnard
    • Andrew D. Short
    • Derek K. Heathfield
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 8, P: 801-807

  • Combining field data from 83 sites on five continents, together with microcosm experiments, the authors show that nutrient cycling, decomposition, plant production and other ecosystem functions are positively associated with a higher diversity of a wide range of soil organisms.

    • Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
    • Peter B. Reich
    • Brajesh K. Singh
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 4, P: 210-220

  • Distinct latitudinal patterns in seasonal and interannual waterline variability along the North American West Coast are closely linked to regional differences in wave power and sea-level variations, as revealed by analysis of a 25-year satellite-derived waterline dataset from 1997 to 2022.

    • Marcan Graffin
    • Rafael Almar
    • Peter Ruggiero
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 6, P: 1-15

  • In an experiment across China to test integrated soil–crop system management for rice, wheat and maize against current practice, improvements in grain yield are equivalent to high-input techniques, but nutrient use, nutrient loss and greenhouse gas emissions are lower than current practice.

    • Xinping Chen
    • Zhenling Cui
    • Fusuo Zhang
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 514, P: 486-489