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Decomponology: A board game for understanding soil carbon dynamics

Natural Sciences Education, Volume 55, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Soils sustain life and regulate global carbon cycling, yet the processes governing soil organic matter dynamics are inherently complex, involving multiple pathways and positive and negative feedbacks. Traditional concepts such as humus often portrayed soil carbon as a static pool whose persistence was attributed largely to the inherent ...
Priscila Pinto, Bruno Bazzoni, Paula Berenstecher, Cecilia Casas, Ximena López Zieher, M. Soledad Méndez, Marina Omacini, Gervasio Piñeiro, Lucía Vivanco, Laura Yahdjian, Maria‐Victoria Piazza   +10 more
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Translocated Clam Retention and Effects on Ecosystem Functions Across a Gradient of Environmental Stress

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2026.
Estuarine ecosystems are experiencing increasing land‐derived stress, bringing sediments, excess nutrients and contaminants. Once degraded, disturbed soft sediment ecosystems can take years to recover because long‐lived, functionally important species that aid recovery are lost.
Natalie Prinz, Joanne I. Ellis, Lolita Rynkowski, Timothy Thomson, Rebecca V. Gladstone‐Gallagher, Candida Savage, Conrad A. Pilditch   +6 more
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Can benthic community structure be used to predict the process of bioturbation in real ecosystems?

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Disentangling the roles of environmental change and natural environmental variability on biologically mediated ecosystem processes is paramount to predict future marine ecosystem functioning.
Somerfield, P.J., Braeckman, U., Braeckman, Ulrike, Ravaglioli, C, Ravaglioli, Chiara, Cook, R, Fishwick, James, Dashfield, SL, Somerfield, Paul J, Stephens, N., Fishwick, J, Braeckman, U, Tilstone, G.H., Cook, R., Nunes, J., Cook, Richard, Braeckman, UlrikeWE110020013851358020000459100000-0002-7558-6363F8610E58-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4, Dashfield, Sarah, Tilstone, GH, Widdicombe, S, Harris, Carolyn, Fishwick, J., Tilstone, Gavin H, Nunes, Joana, Widdicombe, S., Somerfield, PJ, Queiros, AM, Nunes, J, Stephens, Nicholas, Harris, C, Dashfield, S., Queirós, Ana M, Queirós, A.M., Widdicombe, Stephen, Stephens, N, Ravaglioli, C., Harris, C.   +36 more
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Best Practices in Open and Reproducible Antarctic Marine Sediment Core Research

Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 7, Issue 1, December 2026.
Abstract Marine sediment cores from Antarctica are archived by national programs for reuse and resampling by future researchers, creating a resourceful way to conduct Antarctic science. With reduced budgets to conduct Antarctic field work and to collect new sediment cores offshore of the icy continent, the accessibility of these archived cores and ...
L. E. Miller, R. A. Venturelli, L. O. Prothro, N. Varela, M. Szemak, J. Ruggiero, A. Vega‐González, A. P. Lepp, V. Stanley, K. Vadman, C. Fritz, K. Tinto, F. Nitsche   +12 more
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Sit‐and‐Wait for the Agoutis: Dung Beetle Phoresy on Dasyprocta azarae in a Tropical Forest

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT We document the first case of phoresy by dung beetles with a rodent, involving Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus subviridis and agoutis (Dasyprocta azarae). Camera traps set in a tropical forest recorded 21 phoretic events, with agoutis carrying 1–6 beetles each. This behavior likely enhances how beetles locate fresh dung.
Fernanda C. Souza, Glauco Cássio de Sousa Oliveira, Letícia Vieira, Fernando Z. Vaz‐de‐Mello, Júlio Louzada, Fernando Cesar Cascelli Azevedo   +5 more
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Optimising Connectivity in Deep‐Sea MPA Networks for Nephrops norvegicus Recovery in NW Mediterranean Sea

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 10, October 2026.
In the NW Mediterranean, where the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) is both ecologically and economically important, larval connectivity in an existing network of Fishery No‐Take Zones was estimated using Lagrangian transport simulation informed by species‐specific habitat models.
Morane Clavel‐Henry, Nixon Bahamon, Miguel López, Jacopo Aguzzi, Joan Navarro, Joan B. Company   +5 more
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Estuarine benthic diversity declines with temperature across a tropical–temperate gradient

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 10, October 2026.
Estuarine benthic sediments are important habitats that support ecosystem health and productivity, but the drivers of large‐scale patterns in benthic diversity are not well documented. Using 18S amplicon sequencing of 425 sediment DNA samples from estuaries spanning 20° of latitude along Australia's east coast, we assessed tropical–temperate patterns ...
Sally A. Bracewell, Mariana Mayer‐Pinto, Katherine A. Dafforn, Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez, Thayanne L. Barros, Emma L. Johnston   +5 more
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Decoupling glacier retreat and surface stabilization on the Snežnik Plateau (Slovenia), insights from in situ cosmogenic 36Cl exposure and depth‐profile ages

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 7, Page 1060-1077, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Glaciokarst landscapes pose distinctive challenges for cosmogenic dating because meltwater and runoff can be rapidly rerouted into ponors and conduit networks, weakening glacier–river coupling and promoting local sediment storage. We reconstruct glacier retreat and postglacial stabilization on the Snežnik Plateau (SW Slovenia) using in situ ...
Onur Altınay, Mehmet Akif Sarıkaya, Uroš Stepišnik, Manja Žebre, Cengiz Yıldırım, Attila Çiner, Klaus M. Wilcken   +6 more
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Can DNA from wet, temperate soils be used for palaeoecological reconstruction?

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 7, Page 1114-1124, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Sedimentary ancient DNA in well‐dated contexts (sedaDNA) has great potential as a palaeoecological proxy. A few studies have attempted palaeoecological reconstructions using sedaDNA from soil; these studies have been mainly restricted to cold and/or dry soils.
Nick A. Cutler, Doreen Yu‐Tuan Huang, Richard T. Streeter, Andrew J. Dugmore   +3 more
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Dynamic response of communities and ecosystem functions to ecosystem engineering and multiple stressors in a marine mussel bed

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 10, October 2026.
Ecosystem engineers are crucial to the development of coastal ecosystem communities and functions. However, a better understanding of how environmental stressors affect ecosystem engineering and thereby influence communities and ecosystem dynamics is needed. We conducted an in situ experiment in a blue mussel Mytilus spp.
Félix Lauzon, Charlotte Carrier‐Belleau, Jérémie Boucher‐Fontaine, Philippe Archambault, Mathieu Cusson, Frédéric Guichard   +5 more
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