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Ambio 2023 Sep 26. Epub 2023 Sep 26.

Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

Carbon sequestration and capture have gained a central position in forest governance, alongside wood production and biodiversity conservation, resulting in calls for policy coherence and integration across the EU. While coherence is often a target in the technical assessment of the policy design, it is important to understand how incoherent policies are supported by disconnected or incongruent knowledge claims and epistemologies. We address the coherence of forest policy by analysing the content and knowledge claims in forest, bioeconomy, and biodiversity strategies of Finland, an EU member state in which forests have a strong economic, political, and cultural status. Read More

Microsc Microanal 2023 Apr;29(2):665-674

College of Geography and Tourism, Anhui Normal University, Anhui 241002, China.

Research on Ca-Mg carbonate crystallization and phase transition regulated by microbial cells and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) is significant for carbon sequestration, remediation of polluted soil and water, and synthesis of functional biomaterials. This study focused on the mineralogical transformation from amorphism to crystal, and interaction among cells, EPS, and minerals. By tracing the law of mineral growth and morphological evolution, the influences of cells and EPS on mineral formation were investigated. Read More

Nat Ecol Evol 2023 Sep 25. Epub 2023 Sep 25.

State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Globally, rising food demand has caused widespread biodiversity and ecosystem services loss, prompting growing efforts in ecological protection and restoration. However, these efforts have been significantly undercut by further reclamation for cropland. Focusing on China, the world's largest grain producer, we found that at the national level from 2000 to 2015, reclamation for cropland undermined gains in wildlife habitat and the ecosystem services of water retention, sandstorm prevention, carbon sequestration and soil retention by 113. Read More

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023 Oct 25;120(40):e2306492120. Epub 2023 Sep 25.

Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

The ~2,000-km-long Central Range of New Guinea is a hotspot of modern carbon sequestration due to the chemical weathering of igneous rocks with steep topography in the warm wet tropics. These high mountains formed in a collision between the Australian plate and ophiolite-bearing volcanic arc terranes, but poor resolution of the uplift and exhumation history has precluded assessments of the impact on global climate change. Here, we develop a palinspastic reconstruction of the Central Range orogen with existing surface geological constraints and seismic data to generate time-temperature paths and estimate volumes of eroded material. Read More

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023 Oct 25;120(40):e2302996120. Epub 2023 Sep 25.

Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Ghent University, Ghent B-9052, Belgium.

Plant roots explore the soil for water and nutrients, thereby determining plant fitness and agricultural yield, as well as determining ground substructure, water levels, and global carbon sequestration. The colonization of the soil requires investment of carbon and energy, but how sugar and energy signaling are integrated with root branching is unknown. Here, we show through combined genetic and chemical modulation of signaling pathways that the sugar small-molecule signal, trehalose-6-phosphate (T6P) regulates root branching through master kinases SNF1-related kinase-1 (SnRK1) and Target of Rapamycin (TOR) and with the involvement of the plant hormone auxin. Read More