Permafrost thaw threatens up to 3 million people in the Arctic

Permafrost thaw poses multiple risks to local Arctic communities, their livelihoods, infrastructure and environment. A transdisciplinary study led by Umeå University and others has identified key risks across four Arctic regions. This allows communities to adapt and make informed decisions.

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Comprehensive, first-ever soil virus dataset represents untapped viral diversity, biogeochemical potential

Soils are among the largest viral reservoirs on Earth. Yet historically, soil viruses have been ignored. Recent work indicates the soil virosphere as a critical factor in human and environmental health, yet our understanding of global soil viral distributions, activities, and interactions with the soil microbiome remains limited.

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The Meioflume: A New System for Observing the Interstitial #Behavior of #Meiofauna
W M Ballentine, & K M Dorgan

https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obae016

#benthic #invertebrates #biogeochemical #macrofauna #ecological
#science #biology

The Meioflume: A New System for Observing the Interstitial Behavior of Meiofauna

Synopsis. Meiofauna (benthic invertebrates < 1 mm in size) facilitate sediment biogeochemical cycling, alter sediment microbial community structure, and

OUP Academic

Just added to our Publications library (https://bit.ly/CZNBDPubLibrary).

This chapter in 2023's Ecohydrological Interfaces describes the seamless continuum of hydrological and #biogeochemical conditions in #riparian zones which blur the line between #groundwater, the hyporheic zone, and surface stream water.

This integration is crucial for the ecological integrity of water bodies, affecting everything from water temperature to #biodiversity.

Details and access: https://bit.ly/49DXSpc

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John Little Nieber is an invited speaker with "Application of Machine Learning to Long-Term Catchment, #CriticalZone, and #Ecosystem Data for the Advancement of Physical and #Biogeochemical Processes Understanding"

Conveners say they invited Nieber to start a conversations about how #MachineLearning could be used in #hydrology and #catchement science.

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Application of Machine Learning to Long-Term Catchment, Critical Zone, and Ecosystem Data for the Advancement of Physical and Biogeochemical Processes Understanding

In the application of experiments to test hypotheses about the effect of a part...

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#Arctic #permafrost, a vast store of ancient carbon, is crucial in understanding the global carbon cycle.

This study, sampling over 100 Alaskan streams, reveals how permafrost degradation, #geology to climate change, affects carbon and nutrient flows in surface waters, essential for predicting future Arctic carbon fluxes.

🔗🗓️ https://bit.ly/agu23121108

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Biogeochemical Effects of Permafrost Degradation across Alaska from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez

Arctic permafrost is a significant reservoir of ancient terrestrial carbon. Und...

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#Arctic #permafrost, a vast store of ancient carbon, is crucial in understanding the global carbon cycle.

This study, sampling over 100 Alaskan streams, reveals how permafrost degradation, #geology to climate change, affects carbon and nutrient flows in surface waters, essential for predicting future Arctic carbon fluxes.

🔗🗓️ https://bit.ly/agu23121108

Add #Biogeochemical Effects of Permafrost Degradation to your #AGU23

Biogeochemical Effects of Permafrost Degradation across Alaska from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez

Arctic permafrost is a significant reservoir of ancient terrestrial carbon. Und...

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#Viruses are the most prevalent biological entities in the world’s #oceans and play essential roles in its #ecological and #biogeochemical balance. Yet, they are the least understood elements of #marine life.
#Mirusviruses #Virology #MarineBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/11/vi11012301.html
The Unraveling of a Protist Genome Could Unlock the Mystery of Marine Viruses

Mirusviruses are large DNA viruses sharing genes with both major realms of viral diversity

`We find that upper-#ocean dissolved iron #dynamics were decoupled from those of ligands, which necessitates a process by which dissolved iron escapes ligand stabilization to generate a reservoir of authigenic #iron particles that settle to depth. When this ‘colloidal shunt’ mechanism was implemented in a global-scale #biogeochemical model, it reproduced both seasonal iron-cycle dynamics observations and independent global datasets when previous models failed`

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06210-5

Authigenic mineral phases as a driver of the upper-ocean iron cycle - Nature

Analysis of a new dissolved iron, ligand and particulate iron seasonal dataset shows that authigenic iron phases help control ocean dissolved iron distributions and the coupling between dissolved and particulate iron pools.

Nature