Reviews

Prikazi knjiga "A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children: A Systematic Functional Approach" (Arsenio Jesus Moya Guijarro, 2014.), "Once Upon a Time. A Short History of Fairy Tale." (Marina Warner, 2014.), "The Politics of Panem. Challenging Genres" (Sean O. Connors, 2014.), "Children’s Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature)" (M.O. Grenby, 2014.), "Reading for Learning: Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature" (Maria Nikolajeva, 2014.), "Literatur in Deutsch als Fremdsprache und internationaler Germanistik: Konzepte, Themen, Forschungsperspektiven" (Claus Altmayer, Michel Dobstadt, Renate Reidner, Carmen Schier, 2014.), "The “Evil Child” in Literature, Film and Popular Culture" (Karen J. Renner, 2013.), "Bajke braće Grimm: Psihoanalitičko čitanje" (Marc Girard, 2013.), "Izlet u muzej na mala vrata: prema teoriji slikovnice = A Trip to The Museum Through the “Little Door”: Towards a Theory of Picturebook" (Diana Zalar, Antonija Balić Šimrak, Stjepko Rupčić, 2014.), "Bibliografija. Sabrana djela Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić. Kritičko izdanje" (Vinko Bešić, 2014.).Book reviews of "A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children: A Systematic Functional Approach" (Arsenio Jesus Moya Guijarro, 2014), "Once Upon a Time. A Short History of Fairy Tale." (Marina Warner, 2014), "The Politics of Panem. Challenging Genres" (Sean O. Connors, 2014), "Children’s Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature)" (M.O. Grenby, 2014), "Reading for Learning: Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature" (Maria Nikolajeva, 2014), "Literatur in Deutsch als Fremdsprache und internationaler Germanistik: Konzepte, Themen, Forschungsperspektiven" (Claus Altmayer, Michel Dobstadt, Renate Reidner, Carmen Schier, 2014), "The “Evil Child” in Literature, Film and Popular Culture" (Karen J. Renner, 2013), "Bajke braće Grimm: Psihoanalitičko čitanje" (Marc Girard, 2013), "Izlet u muzej na mala vrata: prema teoriji slikovnice = A Trip to The Museum Through the “Little Door”: Towards a Theory of Picturebook" (Diana Zalar, Antonija Balić Šimrak, Stjepko Rupčić, 2014), "Bibliografija. Sabrana djela Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić. Kritičko izdanje" (Vinko Bešić, 2014)

Aligning molecular studies of mycorrhizal fungal diversity with ecologically important levels of diversity in ecosystems.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) occur in the roots of most plants and are an ecologically important component of the soil microbiome. Richness of AMF taxa is a strong driver of plant diversity and productivity, thus providing a rationale for characterizing AMF diversity in natural ecosystems. Consequently, a large number of molecular studies on AMF community composition are currently underway. Most published studies, at best, only address species or genera-level resolution. However, several experimental studies indicate that variation in plant performance is large among plants colonised by different individuals of one AMF species. Thus, there is a potential disparity between how molecular community ecologists are currently describing AMF diversity and the level of AMF diversity that may actually be ecologically relevant. We propose a strategy to find many polymorphic loci that can define within-species genetic variability within AMF, or at any level of resolution desired within the Glomermycota. We propose that allele diversity at the intraspecific level could then be measured for target AMF groups, or at other levels of resolution, in environmental DNA samples. Combining the use of such markers with experimental studies on AMF diversity would help to elucidate the most important level(s) of AMF diversity in plant communities. Our goal is to encourage ecologists who are trying to explain how mycorrhizal fungal communities are structured to take an approach that could also yield meaningful information that is relevant to the diversity, functioning and productivity of ecosystems

Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust‐amended agricultural soil

Land‐based enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a biogeochemical carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy aiming to accelerate natural geological processes of carbon sequestration through application of crushed silicate rocks, such as basalt, to croplands and forested landscapes. However, the efficacy of the approach when undertaken with basalt, and its potential co‐benefits for agriculture, require experimental and field evaluation. Here we report that amending a UK clay‐loam agricultural soil with a high loading (10 kg/m2) of relatively coarse‐grained crushed basalt significantly increased the yield (21 ± 9.4%, SE ) of the important C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor under controlled environmental conditions, without accumulation of potentially toxic trace elements in the seeds. Yield increases resulted from the basalt treatment after 120 days without P‐ and K‐fertilizer addition. Shoot silicon concentrations also increased significantly (26 ± 5.4%, SE ), with potential benefits for crop resistance to biotic and abiotic stress. Elemental budgets indicate substantial release of base cations important for inorganic carbon removal and their accumulation mainly in the soil exchangeable pools. Geochemical reactive transport modelling, constrained by elemental budgets, indicated CO2 sequestration rates of 2–4 t CO2/ha, 1–5 years after a single application of basaltic rock dust, including via newly formed soil carbonate minerals whose long‐term fate requires assessment through field trials. This represents an approximately fourfold increase in carbon capture compared to control plant–soil systems without basalt. Our results build support for ERW deployment as a CDR technique compatible with spreading basalt powder on acidic loamy soils common across millions of hectares of western European and North American agriculture