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Open AccessNotable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change
Human actions compromise the many life-supporting functions provided by the freshwater cycle. Yet, scientific understanding of anthropogenic freshwater change and its long-term evolution is limited. Here, usin...
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Open AccessOrganic agriculture in a low-emission world: exploring combined measures to deliver a sustainable food system in Sweden
In the EU, including Sweden, organic farming is seen as a promising pathway for sustainable production, protecting human health and animal welfare, and conserving the environment. Despite positive developments...
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Open AccessHow can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy thei...
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Open AccessQuantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation
Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe operating space for humanity. ...
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A planetary boundary for green water
Green water — terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture — is fundamental to Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental to planetary scales. However,...
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Open AccessMoisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves
Heatwaves are extreme weather events that have become more frequent and intense in Europe over the past decades. Heatwaves are often coupled to droughts. The combination of them lead to severe ecological and s...
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Open AccessHysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century
Tropical forests modify the conditions they depend on through feedbacks at different spatial scales. These feedbacks shape the hysteresis (history-dependence) of tropical forests, thus controlling their resili...
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Open AccessDisturbance history can increase functional stability in the face of both repeated disturbances of the same type and novel disturbances
Climate change is expected to increase the incidences of extremes in environmental conditions. To investigate how repeated disturbances affect microbial ecosystem resistance, natural lake bacterioplankton comm...
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Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries
Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to achieve future food security without compromising Earth system resilience. On the basis of process-detailed, spatially ex...
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A core set of metabolite sink/source ratios indicative for plant organ productivity in Lotus japonicus
Plant growth is an important process in physiological as well as ecological respect and a number of metabolic parameters (elemental ratios as well as steady-state levels of individual metabolites) have been de...
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Predator richness increases the effect of prey diversity on prey yield
Positive biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are generally attributed to two mechanisms: complementarity and selection. These mechanisms have been primarily examined using plant communities, where...
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The Relevance of Conditional Dispersal for Bacterial Colony Growth and Biodegradation
Bacterial degradation is an ecosystem service that offers a promising method for the remediation of contaminated soils. To assess the dynamics and efficiency of bacterial degradation, reliable microbial simula...
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Towards a systemic metabolic signature of the arbuscular mycorrhizal interaction
Our experiments addressed systemic metabolic effects in above-ground plant tissue as part of the plant’s response to the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) interaction. Due to the physiology of this interaction, we e...
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Resolution of Natural Microbial Community Dynamics by Community Fingerprinting, Flow Cytometry, and Trend Interpretation Analysis
Natural microbial communities generally have an unknown structure and composition because of their still not yet cultivable members. Therefore, understanding the relationships among the bacterial members, pred...
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Open AccessCalculation of partial isotope incorporation into peptides measured by mass spectrometry
Stable isotope probing (SIP) technique was developed to link function, structure and activity of microbial cultures metabolizing carbon and nitrogen containing substrates to synthesize their biomass. Currently...
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Limnocalanus macrurus in the Kara Sea (Arctic Ocean): an opportunistic copepod as evident from distribution and lipid patterns
Limnocalanus macrurus is an important member of the zooplankton communities of the Siberian shelf seas. During the cruise, Boris Petrov 1999, in August/September to the southern Kara Sea ...
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The distribution of juvenile benthic invertebrates in an arctic glacial fjord
The distribution of juvenile benthic invertebrates with respect to their abiotic environment was investigated at four locations along a gradient in Kongsfjorden (79°N, 12°E), Spitsbergen, in September 1997. H...
