Synthetic fertilizer use has perturbed the global nitrogen cycle by increasing reactive nitrogen inputs to terrestrial systems. This Review synthesizes estimates of global nitrogen pools and fluxes si...

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Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon...

In this Review, the authors describe current knowledge of microbial phosphorus cycling in terrestrial ecosystems and discuss how microbial communities respond to environmental and anthropogenic pressu...

Enhanced plant productivity under climate warming may partially offset soil carbon losses in cold ecosystems, but this compensation depends on whet...

Forests are portrayed as the golden egg against rising CO₂, but this benefit is globally limited by nutrient deficiency. We found that soil microbial resource limitation intensified under rising CO₂, ...

Associations between mosses and cyanobacteria are crucial sources of new nitrogen in arctic and subarctic ecosystems. The physiology of both mosses and cyanobacteria is strongly influenced by environ....

Associations between mosses and cyanobacteria are crucial sources of new nitrogen in arctic and subarctic ecosystems. The physiology of both mosses and cyanobacteria is strongly influenced by environ...

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-025-02213-2Soil microbial populations bloom and then die-off in ecosystems with seasonal snowpack. This study showed that distinct taxa utilize different N sources for growth or energy during the microbial bloom and alter the fate of N after snowmelt.

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Nature Climate Change - More frequent fires in the North American boreal are causing shifts from conifer to deciduous forests. This study finds that when deciduous forests burn, their carbon losses...

Subject description Biology is the broad subject about all living things. It encompasses everything from processes at the molecular and cellular level to global processes at ecosystem level. The subje

Abstract. Despite an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmen

Developments in the environmental DNA (eDNA) field have revolutionised our ability to map biodiversity by providing cost-effective and non-invasive means to survey organisms across the tree of life. ...

Lund University. When the Swedish military began collecting air samples in the 1960s to register radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing, it is highly unlikely that anyone was thinking about ...

The impact of global warming on soil carbon stocks remains uncertain. While warming initially accelerates microbial decomposition of organic matter and CO2 release, long-term field studies consistent...

Biological N2 fixation performed by moss-associated cyanobacteria is among the main sources of new nitrogen (N) input in pristine subarctic ecosystems…

Nature Climate Change - Elevated atmospheric CO2 has stimulated plant growth, yet the future land carbon sink may be constrained in part by nutrient availability. Here the authors review plant...

We report on multi-decadal shifts in the phenology of spore dispersal in 16 bryophyte taxa using a unique 35-year time series of eDNA (environmental DNA) data collected in northern Sweden. These phen....

We are seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to conduct research focused on reducing bias and uncertainty in the measurement and monitoring of forest carbon uptake from local to global scales...