Soil organic carbon dynamics: Impact of land use changes and management practices: A review

T Ramesh, NS Bolan, MB Kirkham, H Wijesekara… - Advances in …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Global climate change has resulted in changes to the earth's geological, ecological, and
biological ecosystems, which pose a severe threat to the existence of human civilization and …

Saving the sagebrush sea: an ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities

KW Davies, CS Boyd, JL Beck, JD Bates… - Biological …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Vegetation change and anthropogenic development are altering ecosystems and
decreasing biodiversity. Successful management of ecosystems threatened by multiple …

Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

EW Slessarev, Y Lin, NL Bingham, JE Johnson, Y Dai… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Soil pH regulates the capacity of soils to store and supply nutrients, and thus contributes
substantially to controlling productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. However, soil pH is not an …

Climate-driven thresholds in reactive mineral retention of soil carbon at the global scale

MG Kramer, OA Chadwick - Nature Climate Change, 2018‏ - nature.com
Soil organic matter can release carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as the climate warms.
Organic matter sorbed to reactive (iron-and aluminium-bearing) soil minerals is an important …

Forest vulnerability to drought controlled by bedrock composition

RP Callahan, CS Riebe, LS Sklar, S Pasquet… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Forests are increasingly threatened by climate-change-fuelled cycles of drought, dieback
and wildfires. However, for reasons that remain incompletely understood, some forest stands …

Resilience to Stress and Disturbance, and Resistance to Bromus tectorum L. Invasion in Cold Desert Shrublands of Western North America

JC Chambers, BA Bradley, CS Brown, C D'Antonio… - Ecosystems, 2014‏ - Springer
Alien grass invasions in arid and semi-arid ecosystems are resulting in grass–fire cycles and
ecosystem-level transformations that severely diminish ecosystem services. Our capacity to …

[كتاب][B] Soil genesis and classification

SW Buol, RJ Southard, RC Graham, PA McDaniel - 2011‏ - books.google.com
Soil Genesis and Classification, Sixth Edition, builds on the success of the previous editions
to present an unparalleled resource on soil formation and classification. Featuring a color …

Chemical Weathering, Atmospheric CO2, and Climate

LR Kump, SL Brantley, MA Arthur - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2000‏ - annualreviews.org
There has been considerable controversy concerning the role of chemical weathering in the
regulation of the atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and thus the strength of the …

Microbial taxa distribution is associated with ecological trophic cascades along an elevation gradient

F Yao, S Yang, Z Wang, X Wang, J Ye… - Frontiers in …, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
The elevational pattern of soil microbial diversity along mountain slopes has received
considerable interest over the last decade. An increasing amount of taxonomic data on soil …

WHAT MAKES GREAT BASIN SAGEBRUSH ECOSYSTEMS INVASIBLE BY BROMUS TECTORUM?

JC Chambers, BA Roundy, RR Blank… - Ecological …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem susceptibility to invasion by nonnative species is poorly understood, but
evidence is increasing that spatial and temporal variability in resources has large‐scale …