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Co-editors-in-chief: Steven Bouillon, Anja Rammig, Paul Stoy, Tina Treude & Sara Vicca
eISSN: BG 1726-4189, BGD 1810-6285

Biogeosciences (BG) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications, and review papers on all aspects of the interactions between the biological, chemical, and physical processes in terrestrial or extraterrestrial life with the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. The objective of the journal is to cut across the boundaries of established sciences and achieve an interdisciplinary view of these interactions. Experimental, conceptual, and modelling approaches are welcome.

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Recent papers

10 Oct 2025
Long-term nitrogen fertilization alters microbial respiration sensitivity to temperature and moisture, potentially enhancing soil carbon retention in a boreal Scots pine forest
Boris Ťupek, Aleksi Lehtonen, Stefano Manzoni, Elisa Bruni, Petr Baldrian, Etienne Richy, Bartosz Adamczyk, Bertrand Guenet, and Raisa Mäkipää
Biogeosciences, 22, 5497–5510, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5497-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5497-2025, 2025
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10 Oct 2025
Microbial sulfur cycling across a 13 500-year-old lake sediment record
Jasmine S. Berg, Paula C. Rodriguez, Cara Magnabosco, Longhui Deng, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Hendrik Vogel, Marina Morlock, and Mark A. Lever
Biogeosciences, 22, 5483–5496, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5483-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5483-2025, 2025
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10 Oct 2025
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A tracer study for the development of in-water monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of ship-based ocean alkalinity enhancement
Adam V. Subhas, Jennie E. Rheuban, Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Daniel C. McCorkle, Anna P. M. Michel, Lukas Marx, Chloe L. Dean, Kate Morkeski, Matthew G. Hayden, Mary Burkitt-Gray, Francis Elder, Yiming Guo, Heather H. Kim, and Ke Chen
Biogeosciences, 22, 5511–5534, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5511-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5511-2025, 2025
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10 Oct 2025
Spatiotemporal Variability and Environmental Controls on Aquatic Methane Emissions in an Arctic Permafrost Catchment
Michael W. Thayne, Karl Kemper, Christian Wille, Aram Kalhori, and Torsten Sachs
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4754,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4754, 2025
Preprint under review for BG (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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10 Oct 2025
Fluvial biofilm phosphorus entrapment shifts from intracellular to extracellular dominance along a multifactorial longitudinal river gradient
Simon Wentritt, Markus Weitere, David Kneis, Karla Münzner, and Nuria Perujo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4844,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4844, 2025
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Highlight articles

10 Oct 2025
A tracer study for the development of in-water monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of ship-based ocean alkalinity enhancement
Adam V. Subhas, Jennie E. Rheuban, Zhaohui Aleck Wang, Daniel C. McCorkle, Anna P. M. Michel, Lukas Marx, Chloe L. Dean, Kate Morkeski, Matthew G. Hayden, Mary Burkitt-Gray, Francis Elder, Yiming Guo, Heather H. Kim, and Ke Chen
Biogeosciences, 22, 5511–5534, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5511-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5511-2025, 2025
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09 Oct 2025
Mapping the safe operating space of marine ecosystems under contrasting emission pathways
Timothée Bourgeois, Giang T. Tran, Aurich Jeltsch-Thömmes, Jörg Schwinger, Friederike Fröb, Thomas L. Frölicher, Thorsten Blenckner, Olivier Torres, Jean Negrel, David P. Keller, Andreas Oschlies, Laurent Bopp, and Fortunat Joos
Biogeosciences, 22, 5435–5462, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5435-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5435-2025, 2025
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29 Sep 2025
Technical note: Pondi – a low-cost logger for long-term monitoring of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide in aquatic and terrestrial systems
Martino E. Malerba, Blake Edwards, Lukas Schuster, Omosalewa Odebiri, Josh Glen, Rachel Kelly, Paul Phan, Alistair Grinham, and Peter I. Macreadie
Biogeosciences, 22, 5051–5067, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5051-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5051-2025, 2025
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29 Sep 2025
Physiological responses to ultra-high CO2 levels in an evergreen tree species
Ben-El Levy, Yedidya Ben-Eliyahu, Yaniv-Brian Grunstein, Itay Halevy, and Tamir Klein
Biogeosciences, 22, 5069–5079, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5069-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5069-2025, 2025
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25 Sep 2025
Impacts of eutrophication and deoxygenation on the sediment biogeochemistry in the Sea of Marmara
İsmail Akçay, Süleyman Tuğrul, Hasan Örek, Devrim Tezcan, Koray Özhan, Barış Salihoğlu, and Mustafa Yücel
Biogeosciences, 22, 4953–4968, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4953-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4953-2025, 2025
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Scheduled special issues

01 Oct 2025–30 Apr 2026 | Ewa Poniecka (University of Warsaw, Poland), Roberto Ambrosini (University of Milan, Italy), Helge Niemann (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands), and Tina Šantl-Temkiv (Aarhus University, Denmark) | Information
01 Oct 2024–31 Oct 2025 | Sanja Frka (Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia), Peter S. Liss (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom), Klaus Jürgens (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany), Frédéric Gazeau (Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France), and Hermann Bange (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany) | Information
10 Nov 2023–indefinite | David McLagan (Queen's University, Canada), Ashu Dastoor (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada), Johannes Bieser (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany), Celia Chen (Dartmouth, Department of Biological Sciences, USA), Jane Kirk (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada), Adrien Mestrot (Institute of Geography, Switzerland), Anne L. Soerensen (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden), and Xun Wang (Institute of Geochemistry, China) | Information
02 Nov 2023–31 Oct 2026 | Frédéric Gazeau (Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory, France), Manmohan Sarin (Physical Research Laboratory, India), Suzanne Fietz (Stellenbosch University, South Afrca), Douglas Hamilton (North Carolina State University, USA), Akinori Ito (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan), Morgane Perron (Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin, France), and Mingjin Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) | Information
01 Feb 2020–indefinite | Eric Achterberg, Javier Arístegui, Francisco Chavez, Michelle I. Graco, Hans-Peter Grossart, Dimitri Gutierrez, Ulf Riebesell, and Silvio Pantoja | Information

News

08 Oct 2025 Press Release: Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which triggered record-breaking carbon emissions and exposed the region's growing ecological fragility despite a slowing trend in deforestation. Please read more.

08 Oct 2025 Press Release: Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

A new study by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which triggered record-breaking carbon emissions and exposed the region's growing ecological fragility despite a slowing trend in deforestation. Please read more.

31 Jul 2025 Disentangling future effects of climate change and forest disturbance on vegetation composition and land surface properties of the boreal forest

Disturbances, such as fire, can change which vegetation grows in a forest, affecting water and carbon flows and, thus, the climate. Disturbances are expected to increase with climate change, but it is uncertain by how much. Using a simulation model, the authors studied how future climate, disturbances, and their combined effect impact northern (high-latitude) forest ecosystems. Please read more.

31 Jul 2025 Disentangling future effects of climate change and forest disturbance on vegetation composition and land surface properties of the boreal forest

Disturbances, such as fire, can change which vegetation grows in a forest, affecting water and carbon flows and, thus, the climate. Disturbances are expected to increase with climate change, but it is uncertain by how much. Using a simulation model, the authors studied how future climate, disturbances, and their combined effect impact northern (high-latitude) forest ecosystems. Please read more.

27 Jun 2025 New co-review option in BG

BG now offers a co-review option for referees. Please read more.

27 Jun 2025 New co-review option in BG

BG now offers a co-review option for referees. Please read more.

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