期刊
OECOLOGIA
卷 170, 期 3, 页码 799-808出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2336-6
关键词
N-15 tracer; Nitrogen cycling; Plant-microbial interactions; Temporal effects; Water addition
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资金
- USDA-ARS
- Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research Program
- National Science Foundation [DEB 0217631, 0823405]
- Australian Research Council [FT100100779]
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0823405, 1027319] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Precipitation pulses in arid ecosystems can lead to temporal asynchrony in microbial and plant processing of nitrogen (N) during drying/wetting cycles causing increased N loss. In contrast, more consistent availability of soil moisture in mesic ecosystems can synchronize microbial and plant processes during the growing season, thus minimizing N loss. We tested whether microbial N cycling is asynchronous with plant N uptake in a semiarid grassland. Using N-15 tracers, we compared rates of N cycling by microbes and N uptake by plants after water pulses of 1 and 2 cm to rates in control plots without a water pulse. Microbial N immobilization, gross N mineralization, and nitrification dramatically increased 1-3 days after the water pulses, with greatest responses after the 2-cm pulse. In contrast, plant N uptake increased more after the 1-cm than after the 2-cm pulse. Both microbial and plant responses reverted to control levels within 10 days, indicating that both microbial and plant responses were short lived. Thus, microbial and plant processes were temporally synchronous following a water pulse in this semiarid grassland, but the magnitude of the pulse substantially influenced whether plants or microbes were more effective in acquiring N. Furthermore, N loss increased after both small and large water pulses (as shown by a decrease in total N-15 recovery), indicating that changes in precipitation event sizes with future climate change could exacerbate N losses from semiarid ecosystems.
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