J. M. Rodrigues

Maintaining grass coverage increases methane uptake in Amazonian pasture soils

This study shows that maintaining grass coverage in Amazonian pasture soils increases methane uptake and reduces methane-producing microbes, while liming converts soils from methane sinks to sources.

Amazonian soil metagenomes indicate different physiological strategies of microbial communities in response to land use change

The paper compares microbial community physiological strategies in Amazonian forest and pasture soils using metagenomics and machine learning, finding distinct gene compositions and shifts linked to land use change.