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Open AccessJoint optimization of land carbon uptake and albedo can help achieve moderate instantaneous and long-term cooling effects
Both carbon dioxide uptake and albedo of the land surface affect global climate. However, climate change mitigation by increasing carbon uptake can cause a warming trade-off by decreasing albedo, with most res...
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Open AccessLeaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale
Fundamental axes of variation in plant traits result from trade-offs between costs and benefits of resource-use strategies at the leaf scale. However, it is unclear whether similar trade-offs propagate to the ...
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Open AccessEffects of competition reduction on intra-annual radial growth of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at stem base and crown base
In beech stands, thinning affects growth differently along tree stems, with higher and longer duration increment at stem base than at crown base while unmanaged stands depict opposite patterns.
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Open AccessMultifunctionality of temperate alley-crop** agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland
Intensively managed open croplands are highly productive but often have deleterious environmental impacts. Temperate agroforestry potentially improves ecosystem functions, although comprehensive analysis is la...
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Open AccessThe three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function
The leaf economics spectrum1,2 and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions3 revealed fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies that are shaped by the ...
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Reply to: Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00851-9.
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Open AccessThe FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
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 g...
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Open AccessTrade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes
Land-use transitions can enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers but potential economic-ecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. Here, we present an interdisciplinary study of the environmental, ...
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Open AccessMeasured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel
The potential of palm-oil biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared with fossil fuels is increasingly questioned. So far, no measurement-based GHG budgets were available, and plantation age wa...
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Publisher Correction: Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity
In the version of this Article originally published, the wrong Supplementary Information pdf was uploaded, in which the figures did not correspond with those mentioned in the main text and the R code was not p...
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Water sources of plant uptake along a salt marsh flooding gradient
Salt marsh plants are affected by regular tidal inundation exposing them to saline water as a potential water source. This study aimed at quantifying the water uptake of plants depending on their distance from...
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Open AccessCarbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations
Land-use intensification in the tropics plays an important role in meeting global demand for agricultural commodities but generates high environmental costs. Here, we synthesize the impacts of rainforest conve...
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Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity
The conversion of tropical rainforest to agricultural systems such as oil palm alters biodiversity across a large range of interacting taxa and trophic levels. Yet, it remains unclear how direct and cascading ...
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Tracing carbon fixation
Land surface models show large divergences in simulating the terrestrial carbon cycle. Atmospheric observations of the tracer carbonyl sulfide allow selection of the most realistic models.
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Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity
The total uptake of carbon dioxide by ecosystems via photosynthesis (gross primary productivity, GPP) is the largest flux in the global carbon cycle. A key ecosystem functional property determining GPP is the ...
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Open AccessLand-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes
Smallholder-dominated agricultural mosaic landscapes are highlighted as model production systems that deliver both economic and ecological goods in tropical agricultural landscapes, but trade-offs underlying c...
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Testing the applicability of BIOME-BGC to simulate beech gross primary production in Europe using a new continental weather dataset
A daily 1-km Pan-European weather dataset can drive the BIOME-BGC model for the estimation of current and future beech gross primary production (GPP). Annual beech GPP is affected primarily by ...
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Open AccessRemotely-sensed detection of effects of extreme droughts on gross primary production
Severe droughts strongly impact photosynthesis (GPP), and satellite imagery has yet to demonstrate its ability to detect drought effects. Especially changes in vegetation functioning when vegetation state rema...
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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. ...
