Drought events are becoming more severe and recurrent over Europe. Changes in temperature and rain patterns can affect soil nutrient mobility and availability, modulating the biomass and activity of soil microbial communities. Here, we investigated the effects of drought on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and nitrogen (MBN) in differently managed cropping systems. An on-field drought...

Ulva intestinalis holds promise for sustainable aquaculture in the Baltic Sea, but success has so far been limited by high environmental variability. This study examines how environmental factors influence sporogenesis, attachment, and growth of U. intestinalis in the low-salinity Baltic Sea. Optimal sporogenesis was observed at nutrient levels of 4–7 g/L, with peak zoospore release at 22–24 °C. Artificial substrates showed li...

Increasing aridity is a major threat to forests worldwide. Understanding tree functional constraints under drought and their impacts on resilience and mortality among species is crucial to assess the impacts of global change on forests. We analyzed the long‐term drought and atmospheric CO 2 responses in three Mediterranean co‐occurring species with differing drought tolerances ( Pinus pinaster Pinus pinea Juniperus oxycedrus )...

Climate change continues to alter the productivity of commercially and culturally important fisheries with major consequences for food security and coastal economies. We provide the first, multi‐model projections of changes in the distribution and productivity of 18 key fish stocks across seven European regional seas spanning the Mediterranean to the Arctic, using 11 state‐of‐the‐art bio‐ecological models. Our projections indi...

During the Middle to Late Berriasian (so called “German Wealden”) a large lake system developed in the Lower Saxony Basin (LSB; in northwestern Germany) of which the eastern part is characterized by varying fluvial and lacustrine influences. The changeable situation through the earliest Cretaceous, particularly in the eastern LSB, is relatively understudied and a recently drilled well (KB-Rehburg 2; R-2) can help shedding ligh...

The ability to store energy within covalent bonds and to transform this energy into biological reactions is vital for all pro- and eukaryotic cells. Among the wide variety of high-energy compounds, polyphosphate (polyP), a polymer of three to more than a thousand phosphoanhydrid-linked phosphate groups is one of the most ancient energy-rich molecules. Despite its structural simplicity, energy storage is only one of the multipl...

How the migration behavior of long-lived birds develops throughout their life is still a research question in ornithology that is largely unanswered. Here, we analyzed GPS data of 70 juvenile Black Storks during the first 3 years of their migration to determine the influence of age and experience on migration patterns. We focused on the choice of the migration flyway, as well as the movements in the wintering area, and the cha...

With ongoing global warming, increasing water deficits promote physiological stress on forest ecosystems with negative impacts on tree growth, vitality, and survival. How individual tree species will react to increased drought stress is therefore a key research question to address for carbon accounting and the development of climate change mitigation strategies. Recent tree‐ring studies have shown that trees at higher latitude...