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UCI researchers: carbon in Earth’s soil older than previously thought
Analyzing radiocarbon dating on a massive database of soil samples from around the world, University of California, Irvine researchers have determined that globally, the average age of the carbon in the ground is about 5,000 years old. In a study published today in Nature Geoscience, a team led by Zheng Shi, UCI postdoctoral scholar in […]
UCI scientists awarded $2.7 million for soil nutrient microbiome research
Microorganisms’ reaction to drought could hold clue to surviving climate change
UCI, UC Merced: California forest die-off caused by depletion of deep-soil water
Study warns of threats from future concurrent drought and heat events
Study quantifies global soil carbon loss due to warming
UCI biologists Steven Allison and Kathleen Treseder are part of a Yale-led global study appearing in Nature that says global warming will drive the loss of at least 55 trillion kilograms of carbon from the Earth’s soil by midcentury, or about 17 percent more than the projected emissions due to human-related activities during that period. This would be roughly the […]
UCI-led bio sci team awarded $3 million by DOE to investigate drought impact on soil microbes
The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded a UCI research team $3 million over three years to explore how drought affects microbes in surface soil that are vital to plant life and to the exchange of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas – among the Earth’s oceans, plants, soil and air. Steven Allison, associate professor of […]
Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, UCI-led study finds
Improved Earth system models paint bleak climate change picture
Even plant-supporting soil fungi affected by global warming, UCI study finds
Ecologically rich mountain cloud forests impacted by drying climate
Warmer temps may affect how soil stores carbon
A research team that included Steven Allison, associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences, has found that warmer temperatures shorten the lifespan of soil microbes, and this may affect how soil stores carbon.
UCI-led team develops more accurate model of climate change’s effect on soil
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming’s effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon.