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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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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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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...
