Prokaryotes that operate in higher temperature ranges—above 45℃—did not show such a response, but since they operate at such high temperatures to begin with, they are unlikely to be affected by climate change. Lead author of the new research, PhD student Thomas Smith said: "Importantly for...
Agricultural productivity and hence, food and nutrition security will be significantly impacted by climate change (it is being affected nowadays), but at the same time, global agricultural production also contributes to climate change. Science-based policies are critical for the implementation of ...
regulation of primary productivity, biomass decomposition, and maintenance of soil health [1,2]. Increasing evidence shows that soil biota is directly and indirectly impacted by climate change, population growth, agricultural intensification, and urbanization [1,3,4,5,6]. These activities...
In addition, due to climate change and land degradation, pest species may become more abundant, with consequent losses in agricultural production and, thus, pesticide use is likely to intensify. Temperature variations and thermal extremes caused by climate change may have profound implications for ...
As major emphasis has been placed on the cryosphere by the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report, this is a key time to understand the dynamics of these microbially-driven processes as well as whether there is a way to counteract the resulting negative ...
The Tertiary was an interval of enormous geologic, climatic, oceanographic, and biological change. It spanned the transition from a globally warm world containing relatively high sea levels and dominated by reptiles to a world of polarglaciation, sharplydifferentiatedclimate zones, and mammalian dominanc...
In contrast to the invertebrate feeding activity, microbial activity was not significantly affected by the interaction of the two global change drivers. Moreover, we could not detect any interactive effects on nematode indices or nematode groups. This illustrates the robustness of a large portion of...
In contrast to our fourth prediction, the damselfly larvae were indirectly exposed to MPs and this did not cause any differences in survival. Thus, even though the MPs affected the microbiome of the damselflies, the microbiome change seemed to have no effect on predator avoidance by the damselfli...
Benthic communities are structured at multiple scales depending on global-, regional- (currents, affecting dispersal patterns) and local- (such as biological interactions, niche availability) scale processes93,95. Dispersal patterns of organisms within a reef system are affected by the larval behavior ...
How is life affected by thermohaline circulation? How does development affect the water cycle? How does water cycle through the biosphere? How does the water cycle affect the environment? How does eutrophication affect an aquatic ecosystem? Why does water change ...