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  • Earth Sciences

    • Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading

      • Patrick J. Mulholland, Ashley M. Helton, Geoffrey C. Poole, Robert O. Hall, Stephen K. Hamilton, Bruce J. Peterson, Jennifer L. Tank, Linda R. Ashkenas, Lee W. Cooper, Clifford N. Dahm, Walter K. Dodds, Stuart E. G. Findlay, Stanley V. Gregory, Nancy B. Grimm, Sherri L. Johnson, William H. McDowell, Judy L. Meyer, H. Maurice Valett, Jackson R. Webster, Clay P. Arango, Jake J. Beaulieu, Melody J. Bernot, Amy J. Burgin, Chelsea L. Crenshaw, Laura T. Johnson, B. R. Niederlehner, Jonathan M. O’Brien, Jody D. Potter, Richard W. Sheibley, Daniel J. Sobota, Suzanne M. Thomas
        Original article citation: Nature 452," 202 - 205, (2008).

      • Categories: Anthropogenic change and Earth Sciences
      • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 04/03/2008 03:41PM GMT

        In a Nature News & Views article that we've reprinted this month (http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0804/full/452162a.html), Sybil Seitzinger explains how this 'study of unparalleled scale' replaces a muddy mix of data on the ability of river sediment bacteria to convert nitrate pollutants into nitrogen gas and the the greenhouse gas N2O. It turns out that the more nitrates we load into rivers, the worse they sponge it up.
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    • Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River

      • Peter A. Raymond, Neung-Hwan Oh, R. Eugene Turner, Whitney Broussard
        Original article citation: Nature 451," 449 - 452, (2008).

      • Categories: Anthropogenic change and Earth Sciences
      • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 01/25/2008 04:11PM GMT

        Here Peter Raymond et al. examine carbon export by the Mississippi River in the form of inorganic carbon, the byproduct of natural rock-weathering processes that consume atmospheric carbon dioxide. Analyzing century-long records from the water-treatment plants of New Orleans, they find that shifting agricultural practices have had a greater impact than climate change on this carbon flux. Emilio Mayagora discussed the paper in a News and Views article (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7177/full/451405a.html), which we reprinted in this month's Nature Reports Climate Change (http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0802/full/451405a.html).
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    • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

      • Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Peylin, Markus Reichstein, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Hank Margolis, Jingyun Fang, Alan Barr, Anping Chen, Achim Grelle, David Y. Hollinger, Tuomas Laurila, Anders Lindroth, Andrew D. Richardson, Timo Vesala
        Original article citation: Nature 451," 49 - 52, (2008).

      • Categories: Climate Impacts, Biology, and Earth Sciences
      • Recommended by the Editor: Anna Barnett on 01/17/2008 04:06PM GMT

        Spring and autumn temperatures at northern latitudes are increasing, leading to longer growing seasons, but this doesn't necessarily mean that the growing plants can sequester more atmospheric carbon. In fact, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais an colleagues find here that warming in autumn makes plants release more carbon than they take up. John Miller discussed the paper in a News and Views piece in the same issue of Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/full/451026a.html
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    • Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

      • R. B. Myneni, W. Yang, R. R. Nemani, A. R. Huete, R. E. Dickinson, Y. Knyazikhin, K. Didan, R. Fu, R. I. Negron Juarez, S. S. Saatchi, H. Hashimoto, K. Ichii, N. V. Shabanov, B. Tan, P. Ratana, J. L. Privette, J. T. Morisette, E. F. Vermote, D. P. Roy, R. E. Wolfe, M. A. Friedl, S. W. Running, P. Votava, N. El-Saleous, S. Devadiga, Y. Su, V. V. Salomonson
        Original article citation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104,"

      • Categories: Earth Sciences
      • Recommended by : Arindam Samanta on 07/09/2007 09:05PM GMT

        A very interesting and relevant paper on the distictive behaviour of the Amazonian rainforests to seasonal trends. This supports certain vital theories about the Amazonian climatic system.
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