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Litter decomposition by microorganisms and animals is influenced by climate and has been found to be higher in warm and wet than in cold and dry biomes. We, however, hypothesized that the macrofaunal effect on decomposition should increase with temperature and aridity since larger animals are more tolerant to aridity than smaller organisms. This hypothesis was supported by our global analysis of macrofauna...
The development of technologies to enable fresh water harvesting from atmospheric moisture could help overcome the problem of potable water scarcity. Here, an atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) device is assembled in a core–shell structure, with the core consisting of networks of alginate (Alg) and polyaniline (PANI) and the outer layer consisting of thermo‐responsive poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)...
Tundra soils are one of the world's largest organic carbon stores, yet this carbon is vulnerable to accelerated decomposition as climate warming progresses. The landscape‐scale controls of litter decomposition are poorly understood in tundra ecosystems, which hinders our understanding of the global carbon cycle. We examined the extent to which the thermal sum of surface air temperature, soil moisture...
The use of urea as nitrogen (N) fertilizer in agriculture needs to consider environmental, economic and resource conservation aspects because of low N‐use efficiency (NUE). Polymer‐coated urea (PCU) offers an effective way to improve the NUE of urea and to reduce its environmental trade‐offs. However, we lack information on the impact of climate and soil properties on N release from PCU. Therefore,...