At the organism scale, mixotrophic protists regulate both autotrophic and heterotrophic metabolic pathways in response to the resource availability, allowing them to maintain greater stoichiometric ...

Understanding how global changes affect both aboveground plants and belowground soil organisms is essential for preserving ecosystem functions and biodiversity. This study synthesizes extensive ...

Climate change and more intensive land use are threatening soil organisms and their important tasks—known as ecosystem functions. To understand how intensive and sustainable land use affects the ...

Get more HMS news here Up until recently, habituation — a simple form of learning — was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, ...

American soil losing more nutrients for crops due to heavier rainstorms Date: November 18, 2024 Source: Penn State Summary: Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of ...

Tree of life (ToL) is a metaphorical tree that captures a simplified narrative of the evolutionary course and kinship among all living organisms of today. We have reconstructed a whole ... The members ...

It's a good option as it lasts for years in the soil, where organisms convert it into sulfuric acid and acidify the soil. 'Sulfur can be found as elemental sulfur, a yellow powder that can be applied ...

Here, Lynette Abbott from the School of Agriculture and Environment and Institute of Agriculture at the University of Western Australia recognise the importance of soil biodiversity in managing soil ...

To bridge this divide, we developed an integrated-imaging system called Growth and Luminescence Observatory for Roots (GLO-Roots) that uses luminescence-based reporters to enable studies of root ...