• Revisiting Global Vegetation Controls Using Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture 

  Li, Wantong; Migliavacca, Mirco; Forkel, Matthias; Walther, Sophia; Reichstein, Markus; Orth, René (Geophysical Research Letters, 2021-06-07)

  The productivity of terrestrial vegetation is determined by multiple land surface and atmospheric drivers. Water availability is critical for vegetation productivity, but the role of vertical variability of soil moisture ...

• Bacterial and archaeal lipids trace chemo(auto)trophy along the redoxcline in Vancouver Island fjords 

  Kusch, Stephanie; Wakeham, Stuart G.; Dildar, Nadia; Zhu, Chun; Sepúlveda, Julio (Geobiology, 2021-05-07)

  Abstract Marine oxygen minimum zones play a crucial role in the global oceanic carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles as they harbor microbial communities that are adapted to the water column chemistry and redox zonation, and ...

• On the present habitats and ecology of Vertigo pseudosubstriata Ložek, 1954 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Vertiginidea) in Central Asia and its distribution history in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Meng, Stefan; Vasyliev, Pavlo; Khoptynets, Ivan; Tkach, Vitalii; Maier, Andreas (Journal of Quaternary Science, 2021-06-07)

  The small terrestrial gastropod Vertigo pseudosubstriata Ložek, 1954 is one of the rarest glacial indicator species in the Pleistocene of Central and Eastern Europe. In all, this species has been found at only about 15 ...

• Comment on ‘Kidron, G. J. (2018). Biocrust research: A critical view on eight common hydrological-related paradigms and dubious theses. Ecohydrology, e2061’ 

  Felde, Vincent John Martin Noah Linus; Rodriguez-Caballero, Emilio; Chamizo, Sonia; Rossi, Federico; Uteau, Daniel; Peth, Stephan; Keck, Hannes; De Philippis, Roberto; Belnap, Jayne; Eldridge, David J. (Ecohydrology, 2020)

  According this discussion the eight putative paradigms advanced by Kidron (2018) cannot be upheld nor are they commonly held among hydrologists, ecologists, or microbiologists that investigate biocrusts.

• Desert breath—How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert’s living skin 

  Jung, Patrick; Baumann, Karen; Lehnert, Lukas W.; Samolov, Elena; Achilles, Sebastian; Schermer, Michael; Wraase, Luise M.; Eckhardt, Kai-Uwe; Bader, Maaike Y.; Leinweber, Peter; Karsten, Ulf; Bendix, Jörg; Büdel, Burkhard (Geobiology, 2019)

  The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, presenting precarious conditions for biological activity. In the arid coastal belt, life is restricted to areas with fog events that cause almost daily wet–dry ...

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