Orpheus Butler
@orpheusbutler.bsky.social
Soil ecologist | ARC DECRA Fellow at Griffith University, Australia
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New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity.
This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics.
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This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics.
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Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function
Nature - Time-series data from tropical forests tracking weather and declines in arthropod diversity and function show that fluctuations in species were largely dependent on their El Niño...
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August 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity.
This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics.
rdcu.be/ezAxP
This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics.
rdcu.be/ezAxP
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Elisa found that respiration rates scale as the product of organic carbon and microbial biomass, with minimal effects of microbial diversity. This is a cool result, supporting the use of nonlinear kinetics to interpret data at small scales (lab incubation). Great @holisoils.bsky.social team effort!
If you are interested about soil microbes and their role on decomposition, please check this recent paper by Elisa Bruni and others @holisoils.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @luke.fi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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June 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Elisa found that respiration rates scale as the product of organic carbon and microbial biomass, with minimal effects of microbial diversity. This is a cool result, supporting the use of nonlinear kinetics to interpret data at small scales (lab incubation). Great @holisoils.bsky.social team effort!
Excited to share this paper from my postdoc at The University of Sydney! We looked at soil microbial physiological responses to declining soil P at the Cooloola dune sequence on the east coast of Australia.
⚒️ Article: Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus across long-term ecosystem development - Nature Geoscience
Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development, according to measu...
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May 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Excited to share this paper from my postdoc at The University of Sydney! We looked at soil microbial physiological responses to declining soil P at the Cooloola dune sequence on the east coast of Australia.