The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plants, crops, and ecosystems: how should we prepare for what comes next?

SI Zandalinas, MÁ Peláez‐Vico, R Sinha… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The complexity of environmental conditions encountered by plants in the field, or in nature,
is gradually increasing due to anthropogenic activities that promote global warming, climate …

Plastics can be used more sustainably in agriculture

T Hofmann, S Ghoshal, N Tufenkji… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Plastics have become an integral component in agricultural production as mulch films, nets,
storage bins and in many other applications, but their widespread use has led to the …

Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities

B Speißer, RA Wilschut, M Van Kleunen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Plant communities experience impacts of increasing numbers of global change factors (eg,
warming, eutrophication, pollution). Consequently, unpredictable global change effects …

Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors

G Zhou, N Eisenhauer, C Terrer, DJ Eldridge… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Terrestrial ecosystems are subjected to multiple global changes simultaneously. Yet, how an
increasing number of global changes impact the resistance of ecosystems to global change …

Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils

LA Domeignoz-Horta, SL Cappelli, R Shrestha… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Expanding and intensifying agriculture has led to a loss of soil carbon. As agroecosystems
cover over 40% of Earth's land surface, they must be part of the solution put in action to …

Soil microbial diversity and network complexity drive the ecosystem multifunctionality of temperate grasslands under changing precipitation

C Zhai, L Han, C **ong, A Ge, X Yue, Y Li… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil microbiomes play a critical role in regulating ecosystem multifunctionality. However,
whether and how soil protists and microbiome interactions affect ecosystem …

Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stress

ED Osburn, G Yang, MC Rillig… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ecosystem functions and services are under threat from anthropogenic global change at a
planetary scale. Microorganisms are the dominant drivers of nearly all ecosystem functions …

Adaptive expression of phage auxiliary metabolic genes in paddy soils and their contribution toward global carbon sequestration

D Zhu, SY Liu, MM Sun, XY Yi, GL Duan, M Ye… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Habitats with intermittent flooding, such as paddy soils, are crucial reservoirs in the global
carbon pool; however, the effect of phage–host interactions on the biogeochemical cycling …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropedogenesis in coal mine overburden; the need for a comprehensive, fundamental biogeochemical approach

SU Gunathunga, EJ Gagen, PN Evans… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The primary solid waste product of surface coal mining is overburden (also known as spoil),
the material that is moved to access the underlying coal seams. Once removed, this material …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit plants in response to major global change factors

B Tang, J Man, A Lehmann, MC Rillig - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Land plants play a key role in global carbon cycling, but the potential role of arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the responses of a wide range of plant species to global change …