L. Stephan results 155
· Newest (Page 1/7, per page 25)
Author: L. Stephan ×Clear All Filters
Search Results
Dissolved oxygen (DO) dynamics in estuarine ecosystems are shaped by both anthropogenic activities and climate variability, which jointly influence oxygen concentrations and overall ecosystem health. This study examined temporal and spatial variations in DO across three coastal sectors in Eastern South America. DO levels were classified as hypoxia (<2.0mgL-¹),intermediate(2.0–4.0mgL¹), and optimum (>4.0mgL-¹).Hypoxia was assoc...
Long‐Term Ecological Baselines and Critical Thresholds in Ombrotrophic Peatlands of Europe: Implications for Restoration StrategiesNARA Subscribed
Maintaining appropriate peatland hydrology, notably through the regulation of the depth to water table (DWT), is crucial for peatland conservation, restoration, and the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We assess the long‐term ecological impact of hydrological changes, primarily induced by drainage, in ombrotrophic peatlands across Europe. Our analysis is based on novel palaeoecological data from seven peat cores c...
Signatures of Polar Vortex Weakening in the MLTI: A ReviewNARA Subscribed
This paper is a collaborative effort that originated at the International Space Science Institute Workshop on “Physical links between Weather and Climate in Space and the Lower Atmosphere” held 22–26 January 2024. Many scientists attended that workshop and contributed their expertise related to polar vortex impacts on upper atmosphere variability. This paper summarizes well-known and newly reported signatures of polar vortex w...
Integrated textural and geochemical analysis of igneous zircon by atom probe tomographyNARA Subscribed
Mechanisms relating to growth and/or compositional modification of zircon occur at the atomic scale. For felsic igneous systems, processes responsible for growth patterns in zircon have previously remained elusive as the volume of material needed to analyze these compositional features using traditional in-situ methods is considerably larger than the typical sub-micron scale distribution of trace elements. To illuminate some o...
Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communitiesNARA Subscribed
Secondary tropical forests play an increasingly important role in carbon budgets and biodiversity conservation. Understanding successional trajectories is therefore imperative for guiding forest restoration and climate change mitigation efforts. Forest succession is driven by the demographic strategies—combinations of growth, mortality and recruitment rates—of the tree species in the community. However, our understanding of de...
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshopNARA Subscribed
Sub-optimal dietary patterns make major contributions to the Global Burden of Disease and are among the most pressing issues affecting human health. Consequently, they are key to consider when assessing the human health and other environmental impacts of foods and diets within life cycle assessments. The UN Environment Life Cycle Initiative convened a task force on nutrition-related human health impacts as part of the Global L...
Heritable differences in abundance of bacterial rhizosphere taxa are correlated with fungal necrotrophic pathogen resistanceNARA Subscribed
Host–microbe interactions are increasingly recognized as important drivers of organismal health, growth, longevity and community‐scale ecological processes. However, less is known about how genetic variation affects hosts' associated microbiomes and downstream phenotypes. We demonstrate that sunflower ( Helianthus annuus ) harbours substantial, heritable variation in microbial communities under field conditions. We show that m...
Lakes worldwide are affected by multiple stressors, including climate change. This includes massive loading of both nutrients and humic substances to lakes during extreme weather events, which also may disrupt thermal stratification. Since multi‐stressor effects vary widely in space and time, their combined ecological impacts remain difficult to predict. Therefore, we combined two consecutive large enclosure experiments with a...