Battelle’s Post

Ever wonder about climate change’s effects on the interrelation between fungi and forests? Or about the impact of plant diversity management and intensification methods on grazing lands, or how using satellite data can inform us about plant traits? Read the new Inside Battelle blog, where we highlighting the latest research leveraging data from the NEON Program that we proudly operate for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Originally conceived at the turn of the millennium and designed to collect measurements for three decades, NEON is a U.S.-wide network of 81 field sites that offers the global scientific community access to rich, continent-scale datasets that are driving ecological research. https://okt.to/3WQwOa

Are you interested in climate change’s effects on the relationship between fungi and forests? Would you like to know the impact of plant diversity management and intensification methods on grazing lands? Do you want to learn about how using satellite data can inform us about plant traits? Wonder no more, we've got you covered in the latest edition of the Inside Battelle blog covering the current news at America's NEON Program, a continental-scale network we operate for the National Science Foundation (NSF). https://okt.to/xJiXlQ

Not spatial resolution, not temporal resolution, but climate proximity is what ultimately matters. Indeed, in a new paper we show a 247% (!) improvement in ecological model performance using proximal microclimate data. I break this important concept down for you in this new blogpost: https://lnkd.in/eu8RFYZ3 A truly important paper (a landmark paper, I'd say), led by the always amazing David Klinges, now published in @GEB_macro. Written with a whole bunch of great minds from the SoilTemp network. The paper can be found here: https://lnkd.in/ePpDrsuB

📢 Are you working on modelling of forest ecosystems and climate change? The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is organising a special session on this topic during the EGU general assembly. Submit your abstract by January 10th ⏱! #forestry #modelling #climatechange #ForestNavigator

🌍💧🌿 Dear friends and colleagues, please consider submitting your AGU24 abstracts to: GC027 - Advancing Soil Moisture Research in the Context of Global Environmental Change Submission Link:   https://lnkd.in/gQ98drJE   Submission Deadline:  31 July (Wed) 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT   Invited Presenters: Sonia I. Seneviratne (https://lnkd.in/gdw4JauP) Paul A. Dirmeyer (https://lnkd.in/gyfBUWM3)   Session Description: At the nexus of hydrology, climate dynamics, and ecology, soil moisture (SM) is an essential variable within Earth system science. The RUBISCO Soil Moisture Working Group (SMWG) invites contributions for this session that delve into the multifaceted role of SM against the backdrop of global environmental change. Highly desired are submissions showcasing novel methodologies, particularly those incorporating machine learning, to improve SM estimation at multiple scales. Furthermore, we seek insights applying new SM datasets to benchmark critical ecohydrological and biogeochemical cycles, thereby aiding in the modeling of Earth's long-term perturbations. Contributors are also encouraged to present studies focused on developing novel understanding on the quality of existing SM datasets, and detecting and attributing the impacts of SM on climate hazards, ecosystem health, and human-ecosystem-climate interactions. This dialogue aims to deepen our collective knowledge and catalyze a dynamic global discourse on the pivotal role of SM in understanding, modeling, and adapting to our changing environment over the coming decades and centuries.

Challenging traditional views: Asserting that #ecology and #climate are the same! 🌱 In a time where 75% of Earth’s land surface has been significantly altered, climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr. establishes that the climate impact of increased photosynthesis is many times more potent than any other single action to reverse climate change! 🌍🌿 That’s right! This holistic approach recognises climate not just as atmospheric conditions over time, but as a complex web of interactions among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere! 🌊 Since all the components of the water cycle are connected (and linked to the carbon cycle!), changes in land use trickle down to many other components of the water cycle and climate system. 🔄 Climate and ecology being the same is huge because people tend to look at climate as physics, and ecology as a ‘hippy’ movement... There seems to have grown an institutional suspicion of perspectives that don’t fit a strictly physical, CO2-driven interpretation of climate... 🤔 It’s crucial to highlight the importance of integrating both biological and physical elements for a comprehensive understanding of climate dynamics. 📚🌿 Actions such as syntropic forests, successional mob grazing, and regenerative arable farming, can store huge amounts of carbon and restore the short water cycle. Cooling the area. 🌳 Between 2010 and 2015, over 123,000 square miles of primary forest were lost. 🌲 Bringing back plants and vegetables will cool the area and restore life! 🥦 To delve deeper into this transformative perspective on climate and ecology, read the full article at: https://lnkd.in/ejU9a-3e 📖

William Dietrich (Miller Professor 1998) is a co-author of the paper "Anticipating responses to climate change and planning for resilience in California’s freshwater ecosystems," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It calls on California leaders to do more to recover degraded freshwater ecosystems and protect the resilience, health, and viability of existing ecosystems. #ecology #ecosystems #climate #science #stem #millerfellow

Low-intensity #grassland is better able to withstand climate change Climate change has an impact on the biodiversity and productivity of #meadows and #pastures. Species-rich grasslands that are less frequently mown / grazed were more resistant to the heat and #drought than the intensively used meadows, write biologists Lotte Korell and Harald Auge from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and collegues from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Leuphana University of Lüneburg and University of Potsdam in Global Change Biology. This was made possible by the large-scale and long-term experiment of the UFZ in Bad Lauchstädt near Halle, the Global Change Experimental Facility (#GCEF). https://lnkd.in/dPBF3wXT #climatechange #biodiversity #science #publication

Biotic homogenization has become a truly global phenomenon. We just published in Science of The Total Environment (IF = 9.8; Q1 in Environmental Sciences) a paper on the impact of climate change on diatom communities in streams of the Island of Cyprus over the last 10 years. In particular, we could show that that, in response to increased water temperature, conductivity, and discharge variability due to climate-change, Cypriot stream diatom communities include a higher number of trivial widespread, tolerant, and opportunistic), aerial, and thermophilic species, have reduced β-diversity and increased nestedness. The paper was published open access and can be freely downloaded: https://lnkd.in/exUXJjYP