By incorporating cover crops, nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency in NT fields could be improved given the nutrient supplying capacity of some cover crops. Cover crops could also offset the need for oc
Soil is a critical component of many ecosystem services (Pereira et al., 2018). It is crucial for carbon sequestration, water purification, biodiversity conservation, nutrient cycling, plant nutrition, and climate regulation (Brussaard, 2012; Bünemann et al., 2018). It is therefore detrimental ...
Another dynamic area is processes regulated by microbes that carry out much of the production, consumption, decomposition, and nutrient cycling within ecosystems (Zimmerman and others 2014). New molecular, enzymatic, and isotopic techniques have revolutionized our ability to “open the black box” of...
Service type Examples of goods or services provided Provisional Fiber; Food; Freshwater; Fuel wood and other essential resources Regulative Climate regulation; Disease control and suppression of pathogens; Water purification and regulation Supporting(processes) Nutrient cycling; Primary production; Soil form...
Supporting services include soil formation and nutrient cycling but also may include the sequestration of contami- 130 R. V. Pouyat et al. Fig. 7.1 As with nonurban soils, urban soils provide ecosystem services. Because of the close proximity of urban soils with dense human popula- ...
Tree species diversity is essential to sustaining stable forest ecosystem functioning. However, it remains unclear how boreal tree species diversity has changed in response to climate change and how it is associated with productivity and the temporal sta
The ecological commons includes provisioning (e.g., food, raw materials, medicine, water supplies), regulating (e.g., climate, water, soil retention, flood retention), cultural (e.g., science and education, artistic, spiritual), and supporting (e.g., soil formation, nutrient cycling, water...
Returning the nutrients in dead plant matter back to the soil—known as nutrient cycling—more quickly. Increasing fruiting of native plants, providing an abundant food source for wildlife. Decreasing the intensity of fire and the likelihood of wildfires by reducing fuel loads. ...
Consistent with this, ecosystem respiration (Reco) increased up to 38%. In addition, warming enhanced genes involved in nutrient cycling, which very likely contributed to an observed increase (30%) in gross primary productivity (GPP). However, the GPP increase did not offset the extra Reco, ...
availability and endogenous nutrient cycling18,19. We associate the absence of a trend in NPP, LAI and fine-root biomass with the aggrading stage and declining trends with the transition stage18. The dynamics of annual NPP, LAI, and fine-root biomass in the ambient CO2treatment were different...