Knowledge Domain: Ecology and Earth Systems

Editor-in-Chief

Steven Allison, University of California, Irvine, USA

Elementa’s Ecology and Earth Systems domain aims to publish original research on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the context of human impacts on the environment. The scope encompasses:

All aspects of ecology from population to landscape scales, including conservation and restoration ecology
Biogeochemistry
Soil science
Limnology
Geomorphology
Ecohydrology
Ecophysiology

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Changing the culture of ecology from the ground up

Elsa Abs; Moira Hough

Karst landforms as microrefugia for soil Collembola: Open versus forested dolines

Michal Marcin; Natália Raschmanová; Dana Miklisová; Jozef Šupinský; Ján Kaňuk; L’ubomír Kováč

Amphibian and reptile diversity in natural landscapes and human-modified habitats of the Sahara Desert of Algeria: A better understanding of biodiversity to improve conservation

Aicha Mouane; Abdel’karim Harrouchi; Ismail Ghennoum; Makhlouf Sekour; Haroun Chenchouni

Greater change in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal richness as a response to short-term rainfall exclusion across the North American monsoon season

Jonathan R. Dickey; James A. Fordyce

Erosion of community complexity increases temperature-dependency of microbial respiration, but not growth, in short-term incubations

Nadja Rohner; Selina Lepori; Viviana Loaiza; David Sebag; Eric Verrecchia; Daniel B. Nelson; Ansgar Kahmen; Pascal A. Niklaus; Anna-Liisa Laine; Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta

Human impacts on environment in the preindustrial forest landscapes in Poland—An overview

Michał Słowiński; Tomasz Związek; Paweł Swoboda; Michał A. Niedzielski; Sandra Słowińska; Michał Konopski; Jerzy Jonczak; Bogusława Kruczkowska; Aleksandra Chojnacka; Dominik Róg; Krzysztof Szewczyk; Dariusz Brykała

Multi-criteria assessment of factors affecting the reduction of retention capacity of dam reservoirs

Łukasz Pieron; Damian Absalon; Magdalena Matysik

Biogeochemical effects of a forest understory plant invasion depend more on dissimilar nutrient economies than invader biomass

Laura Y. Podzikowski; Marissa Lee; Catherine Fahey; Justin Wright; S. Luke Flory; Richard P. Phillips

Religious activities and their impacts on the surface sediments of two lakes in Bali, Indonesia: A case study from Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan

Ni Komang Tri Suandayani; Ulvienin Harlianti; Silvia Jannatul Fajar; Putu Billy Suryanata; Khalil Ibrahim; Satria Bijaksana; Darharta Dahrin; Irwan Iskandar

Historic and recent trends of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms and environmental conditions in Clear Lake, California: A 70-year perspective

Jayme Smith; Emily Eggleston; Meredith D. A. Howard; Sarah Ryan; John Gichuki; Karola Kennedy; Alix Tyler; Marcus Beck; Stephen Huie; David A. Caron

Mesquite-associated soil and phyllosphere microbial communities differ across land-use types in drylands

Sydney Cleavenger; Yongjian Chen; Albert Barberán

Succession of bacterial community structure in response to a one-time application of biochar in barley rhizosphere and bulk soils

Lu Yu; Peter M. Homyak; Liangzhong Li; Haiping Gu

Soil NH 3 emissions across an aridity, soil pH, and N deposition gradient in southern California

Alexander H. Krichels; Peter M. Homyak; Emma L. Aronson; James O. Sickman; Jon Botthoff; Aral C. Greene; Holly M. Andrews; Hannah Shulman; Stephanie Piper; G. Darrel Jenerette

Vanishing of the mighty tunales of central Mexico: A 5-century history of landscape change

Mónica E. Riojas-López; Eric Mellink

Spatiotemporal changes in Iranian rivers’ discharge

Mohsen Maghrebi; Roohollah Noori; Ali Danandeh Mehr; Raziyeh Lak; Farzaneh Darougheh; Rahman Razmgir; Hossein Farnoush; Hamid Taherpour; Seyed Mohammad Reza Alavai Moghaddam; Alireza Araghi; Bjørn Kløve

The world of underground ecology in a changing environment

Elsa Abs; Moira Hough

Soil microbial communities vary in composition and functional strategy across soil aggregate size class regardless of tillage

Lukas T. Bernhardt; Richard G. Smith; A. Stuart Grandy; Jessica E. Mackay; Nicholas D. Warren; Kevin M. Geyer; Jessica G. Ernakovich

Microbial community response to drought depends on crop

Jennifer Marie Jones; Emma Lauren Boehm; Kevin Kahmark; Jennifer Lau; Sarah Evans

A closer look at underground natural gas pipeline leaks across the United States

Younki Cho; Kathleen M. Smits; Nathaniel L. Steadman; Bridget A. Ulrich; Clay S. Bell; Daniel J. Zimmerle

Effects of consumer diversity on prey consumption are not influenced by omnivory

Feng-Hsun Chang; Bradley J. Cardinale