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Invited article for our special collection, “Leaders of Tomorrow” by Sung-Ching (Nick) Lee, @sclee.bsky.social, is now online: Flux Insights: Forging New Understanding of Expanding Drylands and Squeezing Coastlines. Read it here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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✨New Research✨

Caro et al. measure the rates at which #permafrost microorganisms resuscitate during thaw and relate these growth rates to changes in microbial community composition and #GreenhouseGas emissions.

🔗Check out their results: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#AGUPubs #Biogeosciences @agu.org
Schematic overview of study site and experimental procedure.
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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NEW: Scientists investigate the spatial variabilities in carbon storage within and between three seagrass meadows to gain a better understanding of these #BlueCarbon ecosystems.🌊🌿

🔗Check out Capece et al. for free: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AGUPubs #Seagrass #Carbon #OpenAccess
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Multi-Scale Variability of Blue Carbon in Seagrass Sediments From Three California Estuaries by Capece et al. 2025
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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A new special collection features review articles that capture the range and breadth of topics, methods, approaches, scales, and ecosystems that have been covered in JGR: Biogeosciences over the past 20 years.🌎

🔗 lite.spr.ly/6008zVDK

#AGUPubs #Biogeosciences #STEM @agu.org
Special Collection Celebrating 20 years at JGR: Biogeosciences.
September 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A new study explores how #methane moves from the sediments (accumulated layers of mud and organic matter) of Arctic lakes, where it is produced, into the overlying water.

🔗Check out Bulínová et al. (2025) to learn more: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AG#AGUPubsr#Arcticr#GreehouseGas
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Increased Ecosystem Productivity Boosts Methane Production in Arctic Lake Sediments by Bulínová et al. 2025
August 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A new study finds that long-term agricultural patterns can reshape the stratigraphic features and microbial community assembly in vadose zones.

🔗Learn more: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#AGUPubs #Agriculture #VadoseZone #Soil #SDG2
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Vadose Zone Geochemical Heterogeneity Governs Vertical Microbial Assembly in Lakeshore Agricultural Lands by Qiao et al. 2025
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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✨New Research✨

Scientists find that climate-induced landscape alteration will lead to increased mobilization of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon (DOC) into #Arctic rivers.

🔗Learn more: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#AGUPubs #ClimateChange @nationalmaglab.bsky.social @ucdavisresearch.bsky.social
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Signatures of Arctic Change: Molecular-Level Composition and Bioavailability of Shifting Dissolved Organic Matter Sources by Slentz et al. 2025
August 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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In drainage waters from an agricultural field in Indiana (USA), scientists find that ∼75% of the phosphorus leaving the field was organic (DOP).🌽

🔗Learn more: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AGUPubs #Phosphorus #Nutrients #Agriculture #Runoff
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Seasonal Variation of Enzymatically Hydrolyzable Organic Phosphorus in Agricultural Drainage Waters by Pitcock & Jacinthe 2025
August 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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NEW: Gerhardt et al. used an aquatic drone equipped with water quality sensors to better understand spatial patterns of #nitrate in the Des Moines River (Iowa, USA).

🔗Check out their results: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Longitudinal Patterns in Nitrate Revealed Through Drone-Based Measurements in an Agriculturally Influenced Midwestern River by Gerhardt et al. 2025
July 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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In a related commentary, Buchkowski (2025) discusses how the effects of animals should be considered when we study how ecosystems change over time.🌎

👉Check it out: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#Ecosystems #Biogeochemistry #AGUPubs #STEM
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Zoogeochemistry: Breaking Down the Silos Between Biogeochemistry and Zoology By Buchkowski 2025
July 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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📢New Research📢

Jonsson et al. experimentally tested how earthworms known to be non-native to arctic ecosystems affect carbon reservoirs in soil and plants in two tundra vegetation types.🪱

🔗Check out their results: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#Earthworms #Soil #Arctic #Tundra
Experimental design from the study.
July 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Controlling for natural variability reveals a clear 🌡️-driven decline in phytoplankton in the tropical Pacific

Satellite data (1997–2023) show a 0.4%/yr drop in chlorophyll-a, with the N. Pacific experiencing a faster decline than the S. Pacific

🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
July 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A new study investigates the three most important GHGs in ponds, lakes, and streams in an area of Arctic Siberia over two summers (2016–2017).

🔗Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AG#AGUPubsr#Arcticr#GreenhouseGas
New in JGR Biogeosciences: The Importance of Inland Water CO2, CH4, and N2O for Summertime Greenhouse Gas Exchange With the Atmosphere in Arctic Tundra Lowlands by Martyn Rosco et al. 2025
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A new study tests how invasive plants and salinity stress affect the decomposition and storage of carbon in coastal vegetated ecosystems.

🔗Check out the results: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AGUPubs #Wetland #microbiology #invasivespecies @agu.org
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Increased Salinity Constrains the Priming Effect of SOM Decomposition by Shifting Microbial Carbon Preferences: A Microcosm Study in a Typical Coastal Wetland by Zhang et al. 2025
June 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Scientists measured biodegradable DOC (bDOC) from riparian soils, groundwater, stream water and lake water in a small boreal catchment to assess how bDOC quantity and degradability varies across landscape components.

🔗Check out their results: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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New in JGR: Biogeosciences Riparian Zone Heterogeneity Influences the Amount and Fate of Biodegradable Dissolved Organic Carbon at the Land-Water Interface by Reidy et al. 2025
June 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Traditional sap-flux measurement systems are tricky to deploy in urban settings (long power cords, solar panels, vandalism, etc.), so Chen et al. designed a low-cost solution!

🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

#UrbanForestry #OpenHardware #Ecohydrology
May 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Plant-soil interactions shape grassland responses to stress

🌿 Warming & drought shift plant diversity and soil function
🦠 Asymbiotic N fixation rises where legumes decline—potential buffer for N loss
📍Impacts vary across latitude & species makeup

🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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✨New Research✨

Rea et al. measure soil biogeochemistry and rates of microbial sulfate reduction within three different wetland types at Niwot Ridge, CO, USA.

🔗Check out their results: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AGUPubs #Soil #Wetlands #Colorado
New in JGR Biogeosciences: Patterns and Potential Consequences of a Changing Sulfur Cycle in High Elevation Wetlands by Rea et al. 2025
May 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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At #EGU25 next week, Editor Gil Bohrer will be available for 15-minute meetings to share advice on publishing in JGR: Biogeosciences!

This is a great opportunity for #EarlyCareer researchers!

🔗Sign up here: lite.spr.ly/6006GtQG

#Vienna #STEM #Biogeosciences #Publishing #EGU @egu.eu @agu.org
Sign Up to Meet with an AGU Editor at #EGU25 Tuesday, 29 April - Thursday, 1 May AGU Booth (X212), Exhibit Hall
April 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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For the first time, scientists provide a global data set for roughness parameters to improve the accuracy of derived soil moisture through #CYGNSS observations.🛰️

🔗Check it out: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AGUPubs #GNSSR #Soil
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Investigation of the Global Influence of Surface Roughness on Space-Borne GNSS-R Observations by Rahmani et al. (2025)
March 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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New research on extreme Siberian tundra 🔥 reveals:
🛰️ Satellite maps underestimate burned area by 1.2–4.7x
🌱 Small unburned patches-key for recovery-are missing in medium-res data
⛰️ Topography & pre-🔥 veg explain why some areas burn more completely
🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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✨New Research✨

Wang et al. determine sulfur speciation in entire peat profiles, both from natural and anthropogenic atmospheric sulfur deposition. Their results demonstrate that sulfur in ombrotrophic peatlands mainly existed as organic sulfur.

🔗Learn more: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Elevated Atmospheric Sulfur Deposition Affects Predominant Forms of Sulfur in Ombrotrophic Peatlands by Wang et al. (2025)
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A new study helps refine the identification of molecular bio-candidates, thereby improving the ability to trace biological processes at the molecular level.

🔗Check out Chen et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#AGUPubs #Microbes
New in JGR: Biogeosciences: Deciphering Microbially Driven Labile and Refractory Molecular Candidates in Dissolved Organic Matter by Chen et al. 2025
March 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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⬆️VPD has been the dominant stressor on ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) since 1982—stronger than soil moisture (SM), but Li et al. (2025) found that trends could be shifting as the influence of SM grows...

🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Bisson et al. (2025) highlights a hidden GHG pathway: stream banks with active groundwater discharge emit more CO₂ & act as N₂O sources, while non-discharging banks can be N₂O sinks

🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

#Hydrology #Biogeochemistry
March 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM