Paper on investigating litter decomposition data provides the proof of the “Nitrogen mining” that microbe deompose recalcitrant carbon only under nitrogen limited environment. As the outgrowth, N fertilization can decrease microbial activity and also the decomposition rate, which is to the opposite of our previous understanding. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/06-1847.1
From where comes the smell of rain
A recent paper published on Nature Communication described how the raindrop bring aerosols from the Earth to the air, “the smell of the rain” is just a smell of these particles from the Earth. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/science/how-the-smell-of-rain-bubbles-from-the-ground.html
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The Paradox on Global NPP Pattern
Global pattern of Net Primary Production (NPP) has long been considered as a gradient from pole region towards tropics, which means the highest contribution of global terrestrial production is from tropical forest. This paper showed the evidences, both data and conclusions, the authored collected from hundreds of papers published to overturn this dogma. The actual […]
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