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Reviews and syntheses

12 Nov 2025
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Reviews and syntheses: Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)-derived mercury contamination in agricultural systems: what we know and need to know
David S. McLagan, Excellent O. Eboigbe, and Rachel J. Strickman
Biogeosciences, 22, 6695–6726, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6695-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6695-2025, 2025
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06 Nov 2025
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Reviews and syntheses: Best practices for the application of marine GDGTs as proxy for paleotemperatures: sampling, processing, analyses, interpretation, and archiving protocols
Peter K. Bijl, Kasia K. Śliwińska, Bella Duncan, Arnaud Huguet, Sebastian Naeher, Ronnakrit Rattanasriampaipong, Claudia Sosa-Montes de Oca, Alexandra Auderset, Melissa A. Berke, Bum Soo Kim, Nina Davtian, Tom Dunkley Jones, Desmond D. Eefting, Felix J. Elling, Pierrick Fenies, Gordon N. Inglis, Lauren O'Connor, Richard D. Pancost, Francien Peterse, Addison Rice, Appy Sluijs, Devika Varma, Wenjie Xiao, and Yi Ge Zhang
Biogeosciences, 22, 6465–6508, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6465-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6465-2025, 2025
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16 Oct 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Contribution of sulfate to aerobic methane oxidation in upland soils – a mini-review
Rui Su, Kexin Li, Nannan Wang, Fenghui Yuan, Ying Zhao, Yunjiang Zuo, Ying Sun, Liyuan He, Lixin Yang, Xiaofeng Xu, and Lihua Zhang
Biogeosciences, 22, 5625–5634, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5625-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5625-2025, 2025
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15 Oct 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Potential and limitations of oceanic carbon dioxide storage via reactor-based accelerated weathering of limestone
Tom Huysmans, Filip J. R. Meysman, and Sebastiaan J. van de Velde
Biogeosciences, 22, 5557–5572, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5557-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5557-2025, 2025
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06 Oct 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Bioturbation impacts on sediment accretion and erosion in tidal marshes, with implications for carbon burial and sequestration
Leigh-Ann Smit, Janine Adams, and Gavin Rishworth
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4749,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4749, 2025
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25 Sep 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2025: from poly-crisis to poly-solutions
Friedrich J. Bohn, Giles B. Sioen, Ana Bastos, Yolandi Ernst, Marcin P. Jarzebski, Niak S. Koh, Romina Martin, Anja Rammig, Alex Godoy-Faúndez, Alexandros Gasparatos, Alvaro G. Gutiérrez, Amanda J. Aceituno, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Andrea Marais-Potgieter, Ayyoob Sharifi, Caroline Howe, Cornelia B. Krug, Eduardo E. Acosta, Emmanuel F. Nzunda, Erik Andersson, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Helen Sooväli-Sepping, Ishihara Hiroe, Ivan Palmegiani, Kaera Coetzer, Kirsten Thonike, Krizler Tanalgo, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger, Nicholas O. Oguge, Mi S. Park, Milena Gross, Pablo De La Cruz, Paula R. Prist, Peng Bi, Rivera Diego, Roman Isaac, Rosemary McFarlane, Sinikka J. Paulus, Stefanie Burkhart, Sung-Ching Lee, Susanne Müller, Uchi D. Terhile, Wan-Yu Shih, William K. Smith, Viola Hakkarainen, Virginia Murray, Yuki Yoshida, Yohannes T. Damtew, and Zeenat Niazi
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3619,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3619, 2025
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18 Jul 2025
Reviews and syntheses: A trait-based approach to constrain controls on planktic foraminiferal ecology – key trade-offs and current knowledge gaps
Kirsty M. Edgar, Maria Grigoratou, Fanny M. Monteiro, Ruby Barrett, Rui Ying, and Daniela N. Schmidt
Biogeosciences, 22, 3463–3483, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3463-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3463-2025, 2025
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18 Jul 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Process-based modeling of the CO2:CH4 production ratio is important for predicting future Arctic methane emissions
Marius Moser, Lara Kaiser, Victor Brovkin, and Christian Beer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3159,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3159, 2025
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19 Jun 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Carbon vs. cation based MRV of Enhanced Rock Weathering and the issue of soil organic carbon
Jelle Bijma, Mathilde Hagens, Jens Hammes, Noah Planavsky, Philip A. E. Pogge von Strandmann, Tom Reershemius, Christopher T. Reinhard, Phil Renforth, Tim Jesper Suhrhoff, Sara Vicca, Arthur Vienne, and Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2740,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2740, 2025
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30 May 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025 – eight findings from ecology, sociology, and economics
Friedrich J. Bohn, Ana Bastos, Romina Martin, Anja Rammig, Niak Sian Koh, Giles B. Sioen, Bram Buscher, Louise Carver, Fabrice DeClerck, Moritz Drupp, Robert Fletcher, Matthew Forrest, Alexandros Gasparatos, Alex Godoy-Faúndez, Gregor Hagedorn, Martin C. Hänsel, Jessica Hetzer, Thomas Hickler, Cornelia B. Krug, Stasja Koot, Xiuzhen Li, Amy Luers, Shelby Matevich, H. Damon Matthews, Ina C. Meier, Mirco Migliavacca, Awaz Mohamed, Sungmin O, David Obura, Ben Orlove, Rene Orth, Laura Pereira, Markus Reichstein, Lerato Thakholi, Peter H. Verburg, and Yuki Yoshida
Biogeosciences, 22, 2425–2460, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2425-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2425-2025, 2025
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15 Apr 2025
Reviews and syntheses: On increasing hypoxia in eastern boundary upwelling systems – zooplankton under metabolic stress
Leissing Frederick, Mauricio A. Urbina, and Ruben Escribano
Biogeosciences, 22, 1839–1852, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1839-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1839-2025, 2025
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10 Apr 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Ecological Stoichiometry of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in Shrubs and Shrublands
Xinru Zhang, Lin Zhang, Zhong Wang, and Jinniu Wang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-848,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-848, 2025
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24 Feb 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Variable inundation across Earth's terrestrial ecosystems
James Stegen, Amy J. Burgin, Michelle H. Busch, Joshua B. Fisher, Joshua Ladau, Jenna Abrahamson, Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Li Li, Xingyuan Chen, Thibault Datry, Nate McDowell, Corianne Tatariw, Anna Braswell, Jillian M. Deines, Julia A. Guimond, Peter Regier, Kenton Rod, Edward K. P. Bam, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Inke Forbrich, Kristin L. Jaeger, Teri O'Meara, Tim Scheibe, Erin Seybold, Jon N. Sweetman, Jianqiu Zheng, Daniel C. Allen, Elizabeth Herndon, Beth A. Middleton, Scott Painter, Kevin Roche, Julianne Scamardo, Ross Vander Vorste, Kristin Boye, Ellen Wohl, Margaret Zimmer, Kelly Hondula, Maggi Laan, Anna Marshall, and Kaizad F. Patel
Biogeosciences, 22, 995–1034, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-995-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-995-2025, 2025
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18 Feb 2025
Reviews and syntheses: Review of proxies for low-oxygen paleoceanographic reconstructions
Babette A.A. Hoogakker, Catherine Davis, Yi Wang, Stephanie Kusch, Katrina Nilsson-Kerr, Dalton S. Hardisty, Allison Jacobel, Dharma Reyes Macaya, Nicolaas Glock, Sha Ni, Julio Sepúlveda, Abby Ren, Alexandra Auderset, Anya V. Hess, Katrin J. Meissner, Jorge Cardich, Robert Anderson, Christine Barras, Chandranath Basak, Harold J. Bradbury, Inda Brinkmann, Alexis Castillo, Madelyn Cook, Kassandra Costa, Constance Choquel, Paula Diz, Jonas Donnenfield, Felix J. Elling, Zeynep Erdem, Helena L. Filipsson, Sebastián Garrido, Julia Gottschalk, Anjaly Govindankutty Menon, Jeroen Groeneveld, Christian Hallmann, Ingrid Hendy, Rick Hennekam, Wanyi Lu, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Lélia Matos, Alfredo Martínez-García, Giulia Molina, Práxedes Muñoz, Simone Moretti, Jennifer Morford, Sophie Nuber, Svetlana Radionovskaya, Morgan Reed Raven, Christopher J. Somes, Anja S. Studer, Kazuyo Tachikawa, Raúl Tapia, Martin Tetard, Tyler Vollmer, Xingchen Wang, Shuzhuang Wu, Yan Zhang, Xin-Yuan Zheng, and Yuxin Zhou
Biogeosciences, 22, 863–957, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-863-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-863-2025, 2025
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21 Jan 2025
Review and syntheses: Ocean alkalinity enhancement and carbon dioxide removal through marine enhanced rock weathering using olivine
Luna J. J. Geerts, Astrid Hylén, and Filip J. R. Meysman
Biogeosciences, 22, 355–384, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-355-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-355-2025, 2025
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