Plant and Soil - Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation: Linking global scale with plant-soil system”
Plant and Soil is seeking submissions for a Special Issue on “Responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation: Linking global scale with plant-soil system” guest edited by Ruowen Yang (Yunnan University, Kunming, China), Weiyu Shi )Southwest University, Chongqing, China), Ryunosuke Tateno (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Oscar Pérez-Priego (University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain), Richard Nair (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Xinhua He (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia).
Submissions close 30 June 2024.
Special issue papers accepted for publication in the special issue will be available online very soon after acceptance, and before inclusion in the special issue. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by 2-3 independent reviewers and handled by the Guest Editors, in collaboration with the Journal’s Section Editors.
Atmospheric circulation is the dominant forcing of mass and energy transportation from field to global scales and has multi-scale impacts on plant-soil systems. Variation in atmospheric circulation is determined by both internal and external variabilities of the atmosphere. The internal variability refers to the departure of the mean state of the atmosphere due to naturally internal processes within the climate system, including phenomena like monsoons, and climatic variability patterns such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. The external variability refers to the variations due to external forcings, such as the increase of anthropogenic-induced CO2 concentration and related climate change. Global climate changes alter atmospheric carbon and water cycles, as well as N deposition, which fundamentally affects interactions between plant and soil. Even though the current conceptual approach to researching plant–soil interactions has been recently shifted from plant strategy frameworks to more quantitative approaches using specific plant functional traits and soil food web characteristics directly linked to ecosystem functions. However, our understanding of the mechanism involved responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation is incomplete, which weakens our ability to quantify and predict. Therefore, the complex interactions between plant and soil should be revealed including plant genotypes, soil types, management approaches, and soil organisms, with endophytes and mycorrhizal fungi both causing a range of positive to negative effects on different plant species as a function of species identity, plant health, and resource availability.
The responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulations are coupled across scales. On the global or climate-zone scale, atmospheric circulations dominate spatial heterogeneity of temperature, precipitation, CO2 concentration, N deposition, etc., which all affect plant-soil relationships. At more local scales, dissimilarity of plant and soil types could result in divergent responses to atmospheric circulation variations. Responses of plant and soil to atmospheric circulation are certainly reflected at ecophysiological and/or molecular scales but it is not clear how plant-soil systems respond together.
This special issue aims to gather studies on responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation variations while focusing on interactions among plant, microbe and soil (see a conceptual diagram below). Specifically, it welcomes studies on the following topics, but not limited to (i) How atmospheric circulations shape spatial-temporal pattern of plant-soil systems from global to molecular scale, and what processes are involved in their corresponding plant-soil interactions; (ii) How large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns link to the plant-soil system through atmosphere-plant-soil processes, and how plant physiological and soil processes will respond to atmospheric circulation variations; and (iii) How plant-soil interactions respond to atmospheric mass and energy transportation resulting from atmospheric circulation variations in temperature, precipitation, air CO2, N deposition, and etc.. State-of-art technologies, including stable and radioactive isotopes, molecular techniques, physical probes, remote sensing, big data or meta-analysis, numerical modelling, etc., are expected to elucidate the interactive mechanisms of plant-soil systems to variations in atmospheric circulations. A better understanding of responses of plant-soil interaction to atmospheric circulation at global to molecular scales will provide insights into climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable soil management and food security, and other societal benefits.
Figure 1. A diagram showing the main topics will be called on this special issue.
Important Submission Information
To submit a manuscript for this special issue, authors should follow the steps below:
1. Authors submit their paper through the following website http://plso.edmgr.com/ (this opens in a new tab)
2. In the “Article Type Selection” step of the online submission procedure, authors must choose “Special Issue S113 – Atmospheric circulation” from the dropdown box.
3. In the General Information step, authors must specify their Article Category.
4. In the Comments step, authors must include the following information: Special Issue S113 – Atmospheric circulation / Article Category (please indicate whether Research Article, Review, Methods Paper or Opinion Paper)
Contact
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact Guest Editors Weiyu Shi (shiweiyu@swu.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab)) and Xingua He (xinhua.he@uwa.edu.au (this opens in a new tab)), Editor in Chief Hans Lambers (hans.lambers@uwa.edu.au) or Managing Editor Lieve Bultynck (plso-plants@uwa.edu.au ).