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Emerging challenges of microplastic impacts to ecological health and climate change

#Microplastics
#GreenhouseGasEmissions
#Ecologicalrisk
#ClimateChange
#Carboncycling
#Plasticpollution
September 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
primecollaboration.bsky.social
We gladly introduce PriME, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration which aims to derive fundamental principles of how microbial ecosystems assemble and function, with a primary focus on #marinemicrobes and #carboncycling 🦠🌊
May 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
newphyt.bsky.social
The role of #ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil #CarbonCycling under global change

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👆 A #Commentary by Christina Kaiser & Mark Anthony on Carrillo et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Ectomycorrhiza (ECM) affects soil organic carbon (C) by mediating both C input into soils and C loss by microbial decomposition.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
tonyrwalker1.bsky.social
🚨 Hot off the press 👇

Emerging challenges of microplastic impacts to ecological health and climate change

authors.elsevier.com/c/1ltW3,asiD...

Open access until November 22 2025

#Microplastics
#Greenhousegasemissions
#Ecologicalrisk
#Climatechange
#Carboncycling
#Plasticpollution
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October 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
jeremypuissant.bsky.social
Excited to share my paper challenging the C : N : P enzyme stoichiometry 1 : 1 : 1 pattern as a logarithm artefact and advocating unit-independent approaches for clearer insights into nutrient aquisition
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Enzymes #SoilMicroorganisms #CarbonCycling #OpenAccess
Does the C:N:P 1:1:1 Ratio Hold? Examining Log‐Transformation Bias in Enzyme Stoichiometry
Microbial enzymes play a key role in recycling nutrients in soil, but common methods for analyzing enzyme ratios can introduce bias and reinforce misleading patterns. This article challenges the wide...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
sjonespoet.bsky.social
Poster sent to print! The great thing about research posters is they are already DONE when you arrive at the conference, no more tinkering, just enjoying. Can't wait for Canadian Black Scientists Network’s #BESTEMM2024 next week. Let's talk #Arctic #CarbonCycling ❄️ blackscientists.ca/be-stemm-eve...
BE-STEMM 2024 | EN-STIMM 2024 | Canadian Black Scientists
blackscientists.ca
July 25, 2024 at 7:11 PM
mud-maik.bsky.social
PhD Opportunity in Soil Science @ TU Berlin

Interested in how plant roots, soil structure, and soil organisms shape carbon cycling? Join the DFG-funded ROOT-DECAY project and work with X-ray CT, ¹³C isotope tracing, and field, greenhouse & lab experiments.

#PhD #SoilScience #CarbonCycling
X-ray CT image of particulate organic matter with the shape of a heart
July 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
vkurbel.bsky.social
New paper on necromass! 🌱🍄

Using highly ¹³C-enriched AMF necromass, we traced the fate of fungal residues in soil and found surprisingly dynamic and texture-dependent stabilization processes.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SoilScience #CarbonCycling #necromass #SoilCarbon #Biogeochemistry
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal necromass: Rapid decomposition and texture-dependent formation of mineral-associated organic matter
Fungal necromass represents a major source of soil organic carbon (C), partly stabilized as mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM). Mycorrhizal fung…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 2, 2026 at 11:51 AM
aiym-bakytbaikyzy.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper on how forced fungal colonization changes the microbiome & carbon release patterns in wood—key for understanding and predicting the future of forest carbon in a changing climate. 🍄🌲 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#MicrobialEcology #CarbonCycling #ForestEcology
August 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
primecollaboration.bsky.social
Exciting new work from Andi Sichert and several other PriME members, now published in Nature! 🌊🦠

The study reveals how specialized #marinebacteria work together to break down complex algal polysaccharides, with important implications for ocean #carboncycling 👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean - Nature
Efficient degradation of fucoidans depends on complementary bacterial guilds that cooperatively break backbone and side-chain sugars, revealing a conserved, globally relevant mechanism that shapes mar...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2026 at 8:28 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Stronger microbial respiratory #ThermalAdaptation under higher warming levels

#CarbonCycling | #ClimateWarming | #MicrobialCommunity | #Carbon_climateFeedback | #FunctionalGeneDiversity

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
May 25, 2026 at 5:13 PM
cmgustafsson.bsky.social
Tune it at 13 EET for @roellammerant.bsky.social PhD-defense on #macrophyte traits snd #carboncycling
Zoom: helsinki.zoom.us/j/68659327422
April 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
tonyrwalker1.bsky.social
Weathered #microplastics alter deep sea benthic #biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Plasticpollution
#Ecosystemfunctioning
#Carboncycling
#Deepseaecosystem
Weathered microplastics alter deep sea benthic biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment
The deep seafloor is the largest reservoir for plastic contamination; yet, it remains unclear whether Carbon introduced through synthetic polymers mig…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
ppsystems.bsky.social
Soils are releasing more CO₂ under warming conditions.
But carbon storage isn’t dropping the way we expect.
Why? Explore a 10-yr warming study in Tasmania’s highlands Register: ppsystems.com/webinars

#soilscience #climatechange #carboncycling
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May 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
niooknaw.bsky.social
New publication: Land use, #hydroclimate and #damming influence organic carbon #sedimentation in a flood pulse #wetland, Malaysia. #carboncycling #palaeolimnology #tropicallakes
doi.org/10.1002/jqs....
Figure 2 in McGowan et al. (2025): "Historical and current land use. Top-left: summary of historical maps from 1948 (Survey Department, Federation of Malaya No. 218-49, prepared from air photographs and existing, limited ground survey data). Top-right: 1985–1989 Director of National mapping 1:50 000 restricted map, Malaysia, published in 1992 and compiled from aerial photos taken in 1985 and field surveys in 1989. Bottom-left: 2002 from the mapping digitization study of Sujaul et al. (2010). Bottom-right: 2017 Google Earth imagery (image taken 3 October 2017). [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]"
January 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
niooknaw.bsky.social
New publication: Carbon sedimentation in shallow floodplain lakes. #carboncycling #shallowfloodplainlakes #carbondeposition
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
Figure 7 in Franco-Cisterna et al. (2025): "Sediment trap material from the Attenborough shallow lakes. (a) Copepod carcasses from Coneries Pond. (b) Snail shell from Tween Pond."
September 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
Nitrogen deposition ➡️ #Home-fieldAdvantage (HFA) effect

Results:
1️⃣ N addition tended to weaken the HFA effect.
2️⃣ Soil acidification driven by N inputs indirectly reduces HFA through altering bacterial communities.

#CarbonCycling

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
A conceptual framework for nitrogen-induced changes in HFA of litter decomposition.
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
riceeeps.bsky.social
Dr. Masiello has been elected fellow of American Geophysical Union, an honor earned by fewer than 0.1% of all AGU members.

Please send her many congratulations in the comments 👇

Learn more: news.rice.edu/news/2025/ri...

#AGUFellow @AmericanGeophysicalUnion #CarbonCycling #ClimateSolutions
Blue flyer with gray and white accents. Has Rice Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science logo with text "Congratulations". Picture of Dr. Carrie Masiello in center with text "American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow - Recognized by AGU for exemplary leadership and outstanding scientific achievements that have significantly advanced understanding of global carbon cycling and climate solutions.
September 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
icelabumu.bsky.social
Gerard Rocher-Ros will very soon join IceLab as a new faculty member and he is hiring two PhD students and two postdocs! If you are interested in #climate #ecology #carboncycling #freshwater systems check it out - also one #PhDjob includes #modelling. Check out the info 👇
grocherros.bsky.social Gerard Rocher-Ros @grocherros.bsky.social · Dec 8
I am soon recruiting two PhDs and a postdoc, to work on carbon, methane, metabolism in arctic stream networks. Glad to chat potential opportunities during #AGU24 @agu.org ! There is also soon another postdoc position on oxygen responses to peatland restoration with @ryansponseller.bsky.social ⬇️
December 9, 2024 at 7:07 AM
ecotoxblog.bsky.social
The RPTU Landau and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) offers a PhD student position in Soil chemistry, with the earliest possible starting date in January 2026 and a project duration of 3 years🌱🔬🧪

Read more about it 👉 rptu.de/s/fsxenc

#phdposition #soilchemistry #carboncycling
September 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
microbesinfo.bsky.social
Prolonged #drought linked to instability in key #nitrogen-cycling #microbes ...

| #marsh | #Connecticut | #nitrogencycling | #carboncycling | #ammonia | #bacteria | #archaea | Via eurekalert .org
Prolonged drought linked to instability in key nitrogen-cycling microbes in Connecticut salt marsh
A 13-year study led by Anne Bernhard, professor of biology at Connecticut College, found that prolonged drought in southeastern Connecticut was associated with reduced stability in key…
www.eurekalert.org
March 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
earthdotcom.bsky.social
Light pollution fuels toxic algae and alters carbon cycling in lakes: Recent findings suggest that light pollution can affect lakes including producing toxic algae and altering carbon cycling.

#LightPollution #ToxicAlgae #CarbonCycling #Cyanobacteria #FreshwaterEcosystems #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap
Light pollution fuels toxic algae and alters carbon cycling in lakes
Recent findings suggest that light pollution can affect lakes including producing toxic algae and altering carbon cycling.
www.earth.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Nitrogen addition weakens #Home-fieldAdvantage of #LitterDecomposition by altering soil pH and #BacterialCommunities in a subtropical forest

#CarbonCycling | #MicrobialCommunityComposition

@pku1898.bsky.social @mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Nitrogen addition weakens home-field advantage of litter decomposition by altering soil pH and bacterial communities in a subtropical forest
Abstract. The home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis predicts that litter decomposes faster in its home environment than elsewhere. Given the critical role
doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
ppsystems.bsky.social
Interesting study reveals land-cover-based fuel loading values significantly underpredicted #emissions & need to improve fuel loading data for more accurate smoke emission predictions. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
#FOFEM #forestecology #carboncycling @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @natureatcal.bsky.social
Comprehensive Fuel and Emissions Measurements Highlight Uncertainties in Smoke Production Using Predictive Modeling Tools
Predictive modeling tools, such as the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), are used to generate estimates of the effects from wildland fires, including fuel consumption and smoke emissions. Given ...
pubs.acs.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
adc-bioscientific.bsky.social
🌱 Long-Term Conservation Tillage Improves Soil Quality Index by 25%, but Not Crop Yield:

Full study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Equipment: adc.co.uk/products/srs...

#SoilScience #SoilHealth #ConservationAgriculture #SustainableAgriculture #CarbonCycling #GHG #SoilRespiration #CO2 #IRGA #ADC
August 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM