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   https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008174  

   Wang, Yuhan; Bing, Haijian; Moorhead, Daryl L; Hou, Enqing; Wu, Yanhong; Wang, Jipeng; Duan, Chengjiao; Cui, Qingliang; Zhang, Zhiqin; Zhu, He; et al (October 2024, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)

   Abstract Microbes are the drivers of soil phosphorus (P) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; however, the role of soil microbes in mediating P cycling in P‐rich soils during primary succession remains uncertain. This study examined the impacts of bacterial community structure (diversity and composition) and its functional potential (absolute abundances of P‐cycling functional genes) on soil P cycling along a 130‐year glacial chronosequence on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Bacterial community structure was a better predictor of soil P fractions than P‐cycling genes along the chronosequence. After glacier retreat, the solubilization of inorganic P and the mineralization of organic P were significantly enhanced by increased bacterial diversity, changed interspecific interactions, and abundant species involved in soil P mineralization, thereby increasing P availability. Although 84% of P‐cycling genes were associated with organic P mineralization, these genes were more closely associated with soil organic carbon than with organic P. Bacterial carbon demand probably determined soil P turnover, indicating the dominant role of organic matter decomposition processes in P‐rich alpine soils. Moreover, the significant decrease in the complexity of the bacterial co‐occurrence network and the taxa‐gene‐P network at the later stage indicates a declining dominance of the bacterial community in driving soil P cycling with succession. Our results reveal that bacteria with a complex community structure have a prominent potential for biogeochemical P cycling in P‐rich soils during the early stages of primary succession. 

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   https://doi.org/10.1071/WF23096  

   Wu, Yudi; Pae, Lois M; Huang, Rixiang (January 2024, International Journal of Wildland Fire)

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   https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8822  

   Blumberg, Andrew; Mandell, Michael (January 2022, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   Let p ∈ Z p\in {\mathbb {Z}} be an odd prime. We show that the fiber sequence for the cyclotomic trace of the sphere spectrum S {\mathbb {S}} admits an “eigensplitting” that generalizes known splittings on K K -theory and T C TC . We identify the summands in the fiber as the covers of Z p {\mathbb {Z}}_{p} -Anderson duals of summands in the K ( 1 ) K(1) -localized algebraic K K -theory of Z {\mathbb {Z}} . Analogous results hold for the ring Z {\mathbb {Z}} where we prove that the K ( 1 ) K(1) -localized fiber sequence is self-dual for Z p {\mathbb {Z}}_{p} -Anderson duality, with the duality permuting the summands by i ↦ p − i i\mapsto p-i (indexed mod p − 1 p-1 ). We explain an intrinsic characterization of the summand we call Z Z in the splitting T C ( Z ) p ∧ ≃ j ∨ Σ j ′ ∨ Z TC({\mathbb {Z}})^{\wedge }_{p}\simeq j \vee \Sigma j’\vee Z in terms of units in the p p -cyclotomic tower of Q p {\mathbb {Q}}_{p} . 

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   https://doi.org/10.3767/persoonia.2023.51.01  

   Magain, N.; Miadlikowska, J.; Goffinet, B.; Goward, T.; Pardo-De la Hoz, C.J.; Jüriado, I.; Simon, A.; Mercado-Díaz, J.A.; Barlow, T.; Moncada, B.; et al (August 2023, Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi)

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   https://doi.org/10.1515/ans-2022-0041  

   Xi, Dongmeng; Yang, Deane; Zhang, Gaoyong; Zhao, Yiming (January 2023, Advanced Nonlinear Studies)

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