While rapid environmental change is reshaping Arctic marine ecosystems, much of the region remains biologically unexplored. The marine habitats of Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park on Earth, are among the least documented with limited benthic and pelagic data available. Establishing biodiversity baselines in this region is crucial for understanding ecosystem function and resilience under accelerating...

Aim Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems serve as reference laboratories for the investigation of global change because of their transitional climate, the high spatiotemporal variability of their environmental conditions, a rich and unique biodiversity and a wide range of socio‐economic conditions. As scientific development and environmental pressures increase, it is increasingly necessary to evaluate recent progress and to ch...

Many field studies have demonstrated that soil temperature explains most of the temporal variation in soil respiration ( SR ). However, there is increasing evidence to suggest that SR is also influenced by current, or recent, photosynthate. Accordingly, seasonal changes in SR nominally attributed to temperature may, in part, be due to seasonality in photosynthesis. Within a mixed coniferous–deciduous temperate forest, we measu...

This experiment was designed to study three determinant factors in decomposition patterns of soil organic matter (SOM): temperature, water and carbon (C) inputs. The study combined field measurements with soil lab incubations and ends with a modelling framework based on the results obtained. Soil respiration was periodically measured at an oak savanna woodland and a ponderosa pine plantation. Intact soils cores were collected...