Submissions tagged with Soil
(5 documents)
Five years of winter climate change-related research in the Canadian low Arctic: What have we learned?
The importance of the fall, winter and spring periods to ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling in tundra has only become apparent in the past two decades. Our research group has been co…
Received 20 August 2009 21:08 UTC; Posted 21 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology
Time to focus on function: Linking microbial community structure to novel aspects of microbial function
Background/Question/MethodsOne of the fundamental challenges in microbial ecology is to examine how microbial communities that differ in composition may also differ in function. Since the adve…
Received 18 August 2009 13:16 UTC; Posted 18 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology
Effective denitrification scales predictably with water residence time across diverse systems
Nitrogen provides a fundamental building block for life. However, some nitrogen species (e.g., NO3) cause water quality degradation and contribute to climatic warming as a greenhouse gas (e.g., N…
Received 30 July 2009 14:28 UTC; Posted 06 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
Nanoscience and Nano-Technology: Cracking Prodigal Farming
Nano-science coupled with nano-technology has emerged as possible cost-cutting measure to prodigal farming and environmental clean-up operations. It has ushered as a new interdisciplinary field by …
Received 29 April 2009 10:46 UTC; Posted 29 April 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Ecology, Earth & Environment
Mechanisms to overcome ecosystem nitrogen and phosphorus limitation
Nutrients limit plant growth in many ecosystems, and many species develop adaptations to either obtain more nutrients or to avoid losses. Much past ecological work has focused either on temperate n…
Received 20 June 2008 08:44 UTC; Posted 23 June 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Plant Biology
