The Temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: A seven desert synthesis

Deserts remain one of the most under-represented ecosystems in soil respiration syntheses (Lloyd and Taylor 1994; Raich and Potter 1995; Chen and Tian 2005) due to their low productivity, low soil respiration rates, and limited available data (Raich and Potter 1995). However, deserts are important to include in large-scale models because drylands cover a quarter of the earth’s land surface (Reynolds 2001), are expanding in area (Dregne 1983), and are rapidly changing. For example, in addition to tremendous human population growth (Geist and Lambin 2004), deserts are experiencing wide-spread woody plant expansion, which has been associated with increases in productivity (Hibbard et al. 2003), soil fertility (McCulley et al. 2004), deep root biomass (Connin et al. 1997), and soil respiration rates (McCulley et al. 2004). Further, climate change is predicted to increase precipitation variability and potentially exacerbate aridity in some desert systems (Christensen et al. 2007; Seager et al. 2007). Such alterations of the hydrological cycle could significantly impact desert ecosystems given that water is the primary driver of biological activity in deserts (e.g., Noy-Meir 1973). Thus, the combined effects of changes in climate, land use, vegetation cover, and desertification make it critical to better understand and quantify desert ecological processes

LORIS (Longitudinal Online Research and Imaging System)

<h2>What's Changed</h2> <ul> <li>[media] React Warning on Upload Tab by @skarya22 in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8721</li> <li>[issue_tracker] Do not display inactive users in issue form by @charlottesce in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8841</li> <li>[LINST] skip metadatafields for surveys by @zaliqarosli in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8961</li> <li>[dictionary] Fixes for correct displaying "Data Type" column for the enumeration type in the "Data Dictionary (Beta)" table by @yagurdmitriy in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8976</li> <li>[tools] Fix efficiency of fix_candidate_age script by @CamilleBeau in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8992</li> <li>[media] fixes issue when media module try to instantiate a non existing instrument. by @racostas in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8903</li> <li>[instrument_list] Fix deprecation warning by @driusan in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8867</li> <li>[LINST] fix survey and date issues by @ridz1208 in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8858</li> <li>[JSX] Modal Width Prop by @skarya22 in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8893</li> <li>[libraries] Get examiner sites by UserID by @CamilleBeau in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8994</li> <li>[genomic_browser] Download button not showing up in the Files tab by @ridz1208 in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8480</li> <li>[issue_tracker - raisinbread/tools] Fix issue tracker history wrong module ID by @zaliqarosli in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8677</li> <li>[Issue Tracker] Issue Change Notifications by @skarya22 in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8885</li> <li>[behavioural_qc] fixes visitLevel feedback not showing up. by @racostas in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8900</li> <li>[battery_manager] Update Test Plan by @skarya22 in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8782</li> </ul> <h2>New Contributors</h2> <ul> <li>@yagurdmitriy made their first contribution in https://github.com/aces/Loris/pull/8976</li> </ul> <p><strong>Full Changelog</strong>: https://github.com/aces/Loris/compare/v25.0.1...v25.0.2</p>If you use this software, please cite it using these metadata