• Climate teleconnections modulate global burned area 

  Cardil Forradellas, Adrián; Rodrigues, Marcos; Tapia, Mario; Barbero, Renaud; Ramírez, Joaquín; Stoof, Cathelijne R.; Silva, Carlos Alberto; Mohan, Midhun; Miguel Magaña, Sergio de (Springer Nature, 2023)

  Climate teleconnections (CT) remotely influence weather conditions in many regions on Earth, entailing changes in primary drivers of fire activity such as vegetation biomass accumulation and moisture. We reveal significant ...

• Characterizing the rate of spread of large wildfires in emerging fire environments of northwestern Europe using visible infrared imaging radiometer suite active fire data 

  Cardil Forradellas, Adrián; Tapia, Víctor M.; Monedero, Santiago; Quiñones, Tomás; Little, Kerryn; Stoof, Cathelijne R.; Ramirez, Joaquín R; Miguel Magaña, Sergio de (European Geosciences Union, 2023)

  In recent years fires of greater magnitude have been documented throughout northwest Europe. With several climate projections indicating future increases in fire activity in this temperate area, it is imperative to identify ...

• Agroforestry shows higher potential than reforestation for soil restoration after slash-and-burn: a case study from Bangladesh 

  Islam Chowdhury, Faqrul; Baruaa, Imon; Islam Chowdhuryb, Aminul; Resco de Dios, Víctor; Shafiul Alam, Mohammed (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  ncreasing land demands for food production has led to large-scale soil degradation in the hilly regions of south-eastern Bangladesh. An intensification of slash-and-burn techniques, where fallow intervals have shortened ...

• The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data 

  Pastorello, Gilberto; Trotta, Carlo; Canfora, Eleonora; Chu, Housen; Christianson, Danielle; Cheah, You-Wei; Poindexter, Cristina; Chen, Jiquan; Elbashandy, Abdelrahman; Humphrey, Marty; Isaac, Peter; Polidori, Diego; Reichstein, Markus; Ribeca, Alessio; Ingen, Catharine van; Resco de Dios, Víctor (Springer Nature, 2020)

  The FLUXNET2015 dataset provides ecosystem-scale data on CO2, water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over ...

• A ‘wiring diagram’ for source strength traits impacting wheat yield potential 

  Murchie, Erik; Reynolds, Matthew P.; Slafer, Gustavo A.; Foulkes, M. John; Acevedo-Siaca, Liana; McAusland, Lorna; Sharwood, Robert; Griffiths, Simon; Flavell, Richard B.; Gwyn, Jeff; Sawkins, Mark; Carmo-Silva, Elizabete (Oxford University Press, 2022)

  Source traits are currently of great interest for the enhancement of yield potential; for example, much effort is being expended to find ways of modifying photosynthesis. However, photosynthesis is but one component of ...

• Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates 

  Zanne, Amy E.; Flores-Moreno, Habacuc; Powell, Jeff R.; Cornwell, William K.; Dalling, James W.; Austin, Amy T.; Classen, Aimée T.; Eggleton, Paul; Okada, Kei-ichi; Parr, Catherine L.; Adair, E. Carol; Adu-Bredu, Stephen; Alam, Md Azharul; Alvarez-Garzón, Carolina; Apgaua, Deborah; Bonet Lledos, José Antonio; Resco de Dios, Víctor (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022)

  Deadwood is a large global carbon store with its store size partially determined by biotic decay. Microbial wood decay rates are known to respond to changing temperature and precipitation. Termites are also important ...

• Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates 

  Zanne, Amy E.; Flores-Moreno, Habacuc; Powell, Jeff R.; Cornwell, William K.; Dalling, James W.; Austin, Amy T.; Classen, Aimée T.; Eggleton, Paul; Okada, Kei-ichi; Parr, Catherine L.; Adair, E. Carol; Adu-Bredu, Stephen Stephen; Alam, Md Azharul; Alvarez-Garzón, Carolina; Apgaua, Deborah; Bonet Lledos, José Antonio; Resco de Dios, Víctor (2022)

  Animals, such as termites, have largely been overlooked as global-scale drivers of biogeochemical cycles1,2, despite site-specific findings3,4. Deadwood turnover, an important component of the carbon cycle, is driven by ...

• Reduction of cd uptake in rice (oryza sativa) grain using different field management practices in alkaline soils 

  Kudakwashe Zveushe, Obey; Ling, Qin; Li, Xing; Sajid, Sumbal; Resco de Dios, Víctor; Nabi, Farhan; Han, Ying; Dong, Faqin; Zeng, Fang; Zhou, Lei; Shen, Songrong; Zhang, Wei; Li, Zhi (MDPI, 2023)

  Cadmium contamination and toxicity on plants and human health is a major problem in China. Safe rice production in Cd-contaminated alkaline soils, with acceptably low Cd levels and high yields, remains an important research ...

• Seasonal precipitation and continentality drive bimodal growth in Mediterranean forests 

  Valeriano, Cristina; Gutiérrez, Emilia; Colangelo, Michele; Gazol, Antonio; Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl; Tumajer, Jan; Shishov, Vladimir; Bonet Lledos, José Antonio; Martínez de Aragón, Juan; Ibáñez, Ricardo; Valerio, Mercedes; Camarero, J. Julio (Elsevier, 2023)

  Tree phenology is sensitive to climate warming and changes in seasonal precipitation. Long xylogenesis records are scarce, thus limiting our ability to analyse how radial growth responds to climate variability. Alternatively, ...

• The frequency of spring harvest and row distance affect the seed and forage production of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) under irrigated Mediterranean conditions 

  Chocarro, Cristina; Maresma Galindo, Ángel; Lloveras Vilamanyà, Jaume (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (CSIC-INIA), 2022)

  The effect of the number of spring harvests (1 or 2) for forage before letting alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) grow for seed, combined with three different row distances, on seed production was evaluated over a three-year ...

• Distribution of Phytophthora species within recreational chestnut, beech and cork oak forests 

  Štraus, Dora; Caballol, Maria; Serradó, Francesc; Oliveras, Josep; Ramis, Xavier; Oliva Palau, Jonàs (Elsevier, 2023)

  Tree decline caused by exotic Phytophthora pathogens is a serious issue affecting forests around the world. The presence of Phytophthora has been reported in heavily visited natural forests; however, whether recreational ...

• Soil hydraulic properties and pore dynamics under different tillage and irrigated crop sequences 

  Talukder, Rasendra; Plaza Bonilla, Daniel; Cantero-Martínez, Carlos; Wendroth, Ole; Lampurlanés Castel, Jorge (Elsevier, 2023)

  Soil hydraulic properties and pore continuity are important parameters of soil quality and may differ among tillage systems, crop rotations, and change over time. However, there are some contrasting results, depending on ...

• Edible wild mushrooms of the Northern Mediterraneanarea - Sectorial analysis and future perspectives 

  Brenko, Anton; Vidale, Enrico; Oliach, Daniel; Marois, Olivia; Andrighetto, Nicola; Stara, Kalliopi; Martínez de Aragón, Juan; Bonet Lledos, José Antonio (Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas-CSIC, 2022)

  Aim of study: Wild mushrooms are among the most widespread non-wood forest products in the Mediterranean region contributing to the rural economies. However, the wild mushroom sector still faces problems along its supply ...

• Factors influencing successful establishment of exotic Pinus radiata seedlings with co-introduced Lactarius deliciosus or local ectomycorrhizal fungal communities 

  Wang, Ran; Wang, Yanliang; Guerin-Laguette, Alexis; Zhang, Peng; Colinas, C. (Carlos); Yu, Fuqiang (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)

  An introduction of exotic or non-native trees may fail due to a lack of suitable fungal partners. We planted exotic Pinus radiata in Xifeng, Guizhou Southwest China. Strategies to introduce P. radiata seedlings either ...

• Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients 

  Liang, Jingjing; Gamarra, Javier G. P.; Picard, Nicolas; Zhou, Mo; Pijanowski, Bryan C.; Jacobs, Douglass F.; Reich, Peter B.; Crowther, Thomas W.; Nabuurs, Gert-Jan; Miguel Magaña, Sergio de; Fang, Jingyun; Woodall, Christopher; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Jucker, Tommaso; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Wiser, Susan; Slik, Ferry; Hérault, Bruno; Giorgio, Alberti; Keppel, Gunnar; Hengeveld, Geerten M.; Ibisch, Pierre L.; Silva, Carlos Alberto; ter Steege, Hans; Peri, Pablo L.; Coomes, David A.; Searle, Eric B.; von Gadow, Klaus; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Abbasi, Akane O.; Abegg, Meinrad; Adou Yao, Yves C.; Aguirre Gutiérrez, Jesús; Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M.; Altman, Jan; Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Álvarez-González, Juan Gabriel; Alves, Luciana F.; Amani, Bienvenu H. K.; Amani, Christian A.; Ammer, Christian; Angoboy Ilondea, Bhely; Antón-Fernández, Clara; Avitabile, Valerio; Aymard, Gerardo A.; Azihou, Akomian F.; Baard, Johan A.; Baker, Timothy R.; Balazy, Radomir; Bastian, Meredith L.; Batumike, Rodrigue; Bauters, Marijn; Beeckman, Hans; Hendrik Benu, Nithanel Mikael; Bitariho, Robert; Boeckx, Pascal; Bogaert, Jan; Bongers, Frans; Bouriaud, Olivier; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Brandl, Susanne; Brearley, Francis Q.; Briseno-Reyes, Jaime; Broadbent, Eben N.; Bruelheide, Helge; Bulte, Erwin; Catlin, Ann Christine; Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto; César, Ricardo G.; Chen, Han Y. H.; Chisholm, Chelsea; Cienciala, Emil; Colletta, Gabriel D.; Corral-Rivas, José Javier; Cuchietti, Anibal; Cuni-Sanchez, Aida; Dar, Javid A.; Dayanandan, Selvadurai; Haulleville, Thales de; Decuyper, Mathieu; Delagrange, Sylvain; Derroire, Géraldine; DeVries, Ben; Diisi, John; Dolezal, Jiri; Dourdain, Aurélie; Durrheim, Graham P.; Engone-Obiang, Nestor L.; Ewango, Corneille E. N.; Eyre, Teresa J.; Feunang, Lethicia Flavine; Finér, Leena; Fischer, Markus; Fridman, Jonas; Frizzera, Lorenzo; de Gasper, André L.; Gianelle, Damiano; Glick, Henry B.; Gonzalez-Elizondo, Maria Socorro; Gorenstein, Lev; Habonayo, Richard; Hardy, Olivier J.; Harris, David J.; Hector, Andrew; Hemp, Andreas; Herold, Martin; Hillers, Annika; Hubau, Wannes; Ibanez, Thomas; Imai, Nobuo; Imani, Gerard; Jagodzinski, Andrzej M.; Janecek, Stepan; Kvist Johannsen, Vivian; Joly, Carlos A.; Jumbam, Blaise; Kabelong, Banoho; Abraha Kahsay, Goytom; Karminov, Viktor; Kartawinata, Kuswata; Kassi, Justin N.; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kennard, Deborah K.; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Latif Khan, Mohammed; Kigomo, John N.; Seok Kim, Hyun; Klauberg, Carine; Klomberg, Yannick; Korjus, Henn; Kothandaraman, Subashree; Kraxner, Florian; Kumar, Amit; Kuswandi, Relawan; Lang, Mait; Lawes, Michael J.; Leite, Rodrigo V.; Lentner, Geoffrey; Lewis, Simon L.; Libalah, Moses B.; Lisingo, Janvier; López-Serrano, Pablito Marcelo; Lu, Huicui; Lukina, Natalia V.; Mette Lykke, Anne; Maicher, Vincent; Maitner, Brian S.; Marcon, Eric; Marshall, Andrew R.; Martin, Emanuel H.; Martynenko, Olga; Mbayu, Faustin M.; Mbuvi, Musingo; Meave, Jorge A.; Merow, Cory; Miscicki, Stanislaw; Moreno, Vanessa S.; Morera, Albert; Mukul, Sharif A.; Müller, Jörg C.; Murdjoko, Agustinus; Nava-Miranda, Maria Guadalupe; Ndive, Litonga; Neldner, Victor J.; Nevenic, Radovan V.; Nforbelie, Louis N.; Ngoh, Michael L.; N’Guessan, Anny E.; Ngugi, Michael R.; Ngute, Alain; Njila, Emile Narcisse; Nyako, Melanie C.; Ochuodho, Thomas O.; Oleksyn, Jacek; Paquette, Alain; Parfenova, Elena I.; Park, Minjee; Parren, Marc; Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy; Pfautsch, Sebastian; Phillips, Oliver L.; Piedade, Maria; Piotto, Daniel; Pollastrini, Martina; Poorter, Lourens; Poulsen, John R.; Dalberg Poulsen, Axel; Pretzsch, Hans; Rodeghiero, Mirco; Rolim, Samir G.; Rovero, Francesco; Rutishauser, Ervan; Sagheb-Talebi, Khosro; Saikia, Purabi; Nsanyi Sainge, Moses; Salas-Eljatib, Christian; Salis, Antonello; Schall, Peter; Schepaschenko, Dmitry; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Schmid, Bernhard; Schöngart, Jochen; Šebeň, Vladimír; Sellan, Giacomo; Selvi, Federico; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Sheil, Douglas; Shvidenko, Anatoly Z.; Sist, Plinio; Souza, Alexandre F.; Stereńczak, Krzysztof J.; Sullivan, Martin; Sundarapandian, Somaiah; Svoboda, Miroslav; Swaine, Mike D.; Targhetta, Natalia; Tchebakova, Nadja; Trethowan, Liam A.; Tropek, Robert; Tshibamba Mukendi, John; Mbanda Umunay, Peter; Usoltsev, Vladimir A.; Vaglio Laurin, Gaia; Valentini, Riccardo; Valladares, Fernando; van der Plas, Fons; Vega-Nieva, Daniel José; Verbeeck, Hans; Viana, Helder; Vibrans, Alexander C.; Vieira, Simone A.; Vleminckx, Jason; Waite, Catherine E.; Wang, Hua-Feng; Katembo Wasingya, Eric; Wekesa, Chemuku; Westerlund, Bertil; Wittmann, Florian; Wortel, Verginia; Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Tomasz; Zhang, Chunyu; Zhao, Xiuhai; Zhu, Jun; Zhu, Xiao; Zhu, Zhi-Xin; Zo-Bi, Irie C.; Hui, Cang (Springer Nature, 2022)

  The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is one of the most recognized global patterns of species richness exhibited across a wide range of taxa. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed in the past two centuries to explain ...

• Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission 

  Duncanson, Laura; Kellner, James R.; Armston, John; Dubayah, Ralph; Minor, David M.; Hancock, Steven; Healey, Sean P.; Patterson, Paul L.; Saarela, Svetlana; Marselis, Suzanne; Silva, Carlos E.; Bruening, Jamis; Goetz, Scott J.; Tang, Hao; Hofton, Michelle; Blair, Bryan; Luthcke, Scott; Fatoyinbo, Lola; Abernethy, Katharine; Alonso, Alfonso; Andersen, Hans-Erik; Aplin, Paul; Baker, Timothy R.; Barbier, Nicolas; Bastin, Jean-Francois; Biber, Peter; Boeckx, Pascal; Bogaert, Jan; Boschetti, Luigi; Brehm Boucher, Peter; Boyd, Doreen S.; Burslem, David; Calvo-Rodriguez, Sofia; Chave, Jérôme; Chazdon, Robin L.; Clark, David B.; Clark, Deborah A.; Cohen, Warren B.; Coomes, David A.; Corona, Piermaria; Cushman, Katherine C.; Cutler, Mark E.J.; Dalling, James W.; Dalponte, Michele; Dash, Jonathan; Miguel Magaña, Sergio de; Deng, Songqiu; Woods Ellis, Peter; Erasmus, Barend; Fekety, Patrick A.; Fernandez-Landa, Alfredo; Ferraz, Antonio; Fischer, Rico; Fisher, Adrian G.; García-Abril, Antonio; Gobakken, Terje; Hacker, Jorg M.; Heurich, Marco; Hill, Ross A.; Hopkinson, Chris; Huang, Huabing; Hubbell, Stephen P.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Huth, Andreas; Imbach, Benedikt; Jeffery, Kathryn J.; Katoh, Masato; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kenfack, David; Kljun, Natascha; Knapp, Nikolai; Král, Kamil; Krůček, Martin; Labrière, Nicolas; Lewis, Simon L.; Longo, Marcos; Lucas, Richard M.; Main, Russell; Manzanera, Jose A.; Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo; Mathieu, Renaud; Memiaghe, Herve; Meyer, Victoria; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel; Monerris, Alessandra; Montesano, Paul; Morsdorf, Felix; Næsset, Erik; Naidoo, Laven; Nilus, Reuben; O’Brien, Michael; Orwig, David A.; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos; Parker, Geoffrey; Philipson, Christopher; Phillips, Oliver L.; Pisek, Jan; Poulsen, John R.; Pretzsch, Hans; Rüdiger, Christoph; Saatchi, Sassan S.; Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo; Sanchez-Lopez, Nuria; Scholes, Robert; Silva, Carlos Alberto; Simard, Marc; Skidmore, Andrew; Stereńczak, Krzysztof; Tanase, Mihai; Torresan, Chiara; Valbuena, Ruben; Verbeeck, Hans; Vrska, Tomas; Wessels, Konrad; White, Joanne C.; White, Lee J.T.; Zahabu, Eliakimu; Zgraggen, Carlo (Elsevier, 2022)

  NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass density (AGBD). This ...

• Correction to: Variations in biomass of fungal guilds are primarily driven by factors related to soil conditions in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster forests 

  Hagenbo, Andreas; Alday, Josu G.; Martínez de Aragón, Juan; Castaño Soler, Carles; Miguel Magaña, Sergio de; Bonet, José Antonio; Bonet Lledos, José Antonio (Springer Nature, 2022)

• Fungal Perspective of Pine and Oak Colonization in Mediterranean Degraded Ecosystems 

  Adamo, Irene; Dashevskaya, Svetlana; Alday, Josu G. (MDPI, 2022)

  Forest restoration has become one of the most important challenges for restoration ecology in the recent years. In this regard, soil fungi are fundamental drivers of forest ecosystem processes, with significant implications ...

• Physiological bases of cultivar differences in average grain weight in wheat: scaling down from plot to individual grain in elite material 

  Beral, A.; Girousse, C.; Le Gouis, J.; Allard, V.; Slafer, Gustavo A. (2022)

  In recent decades, wheat grain yields have been increased mainly through increases in grain number per m2 (GNM2) rather than through increases in average grain weight (AGW). Using AGW as a lever to increase yield would ...

• Comparative performance of barley and wheat across a wide range of yielding conditions. Does barley outyield wheat consistently in low-yielding conditions? 

  Slafer, Gustavo A.; Savin, Roxana (Elsevier, 2023)

  There is a generalised belief that barley is more resilient to stress than wheat. Consequently, land allocation to wheat and barley is based on a presumed differential sensitivity to stresses between these species. Previous ...

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