Phosphorus (P), especially its availability, plays a pivotal role in the productivity of terrestrial ecosystems. The recent article makes several key discoveries with substantial implications for understanding the global soil P cycling as a function of microbiome and ecological effects of human activities.

Soil microbes involved in phosphorus cycling facilitate the fixation and mineralization of phosphorus through various biological processes. The biogeography of soil phosphorus‐cycling microbes is of great significance for a comprehensive understanding of their ecological roles and utilization of their functions. It is imperative to underscore the profound impact of human activities on soil phosphorus‐cycling

Nitrogen fertilizer plays a vital role in rice cultivation, yet its excessive application significantly intensifies methane emissions from rice paddies. Therefore, the urgent adoption of effective agronomic interventions is crucial to mitigate methane emissions resulting from nitrogen fertilizer application.

Terryn, L., Calders, K., Meunier, F., Bauters, M., Boeckx, P., Brede, B., Burt, A., Chave, J., Costa, A. C. L., D'hont, B., Disney, M., Jucker, T., Lau, A., Laurance, S. G. W., Maeda, E. E., Meir, P., Krishna Moorthy, S. M., Nunes, M. H., Shenkin, A., … Verbeeck, H. (2024). New Tree Height Allometries Derived From Terrestrial Laser Scanning Reveal Substantial Discrepancies With Forest Inventory Methods

This commentary article highlights the recent findings by Meacham–Hensold and colleagues on the benefit of engineered photorespiration for plant acclimation toward future climate change scenarios. Their fieldwork shows that optimized photorespiration can help to deal with short‐term heatwaves better than the corresponding control plants.

In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. While California maintains a reserve of offset credits—known as a “buffer pool”—that is intended to safeguard against such carbon losses, the growing frequency, and severity of wildfires threatens to undermine the program's environmental

Extreme climatic events (ECEs), such as marine heatwaves (MHWs), are a major threat to biodiversity. Understanding the variability in ecological responses to recurrent ECEs within species and underlying drivers arise as a key issue owing to their implications for conservation and population recovery. Yet, our knowledge on such ecological responses is limited since it has been frequently gathered following

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Tropical biodiversity is undergoing unprecedented changes due to the hydrological cycle intensification, characterized by more intense droughts and wet seasons. This raises concerns about the resilience of animal and plant communities to such extremes and the existence of potential refugia—areas theorized to safeguard biological communities from adverse climate impacts. Over 20 years of monitoring

Long‐distance migrations are a striking, and strikingly successful, adaptation for highly mobile terrestrial animals in seasonal environments. However, it remains an open question whether migratory animals are more resilient or less resilient to rapidly changing environments. Furthermore, the mechanisms by which animals adapt or modify their migrations are poorly understood. We describe a dramatic

Long‐term carbon sequestration by the ocean's recalcitrant dissolved organic carbon (RDOC) pool regulates global climate. Algae and bacteria interactively underpin RDOC formation. However, on the long‐term scales, the influence of their persistent interactions close to in situ state on ocean RDOC dynamics and accumulation remains unclear, limiting our understanding of the oceanic RDOC pool formation

Chen, X., Chen, T., Liu, Y. Y., He, B., Liu, S., Guo, R., & Dolman, H. Emergent constraints on historical and future global gross primary productivity. Global Change Biology, 2024, 30(8): e17479. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17479 In the version of this article originally published, two figures have unit errors. The X-axis of Figure 4 panel (d) shows two “(PgC year−1),” one of which should be removed