期刊
PLANT AND SOIL
卷 330, 期 1-2, 页码 407-421出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0214-8
关键词
(15)Nitrogen; Gross N mineralization; Arctic tundra; Litter; Soil microbial community; Betula
资金
- NSERC
- NSF [0516509-PG]
- W. Garfield Weston Foundation/ACUNS
Shrub growth has increased across the Arctic in recent decades and is strongly limited by soil nitrogen (N) availability. In order to understand the role of N in controlling shrub growth, we compared N-cycling in tall birch (Betula glandulosa) and surrounding dwarf birch hummock vegetation on similar soils in a Canadian low arctic site. Stable isotope tracer analysis revealed N pools and cycling rates were similar to 3 times larger and faster in the tall birch ecosystem in the late growing season, just prior to leaf senescence. Gross NH (4) (+) -N production rates in these ecosystems correlated positively with larger pools and production rates of dissolved soil C and N, higher quality litter inputs and lower soil C. Analyses of the soil microbial community in both ecosystems indicated similar fungal dominance (epifluorescence microscopy) and similar compositions of the principal fungal or bacterial phylotypes (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis). Together, these results strongly suggest that vegetation feedbacks associated with larger inputs of higher quality litter promote rapid soil N-cycling and enhanced shrub growth in tall birch tundra. We conclude that these litter-related feedbacks during summer may be as important as snow-shrub feedbacks in maintaining and promoting differences in shrub growth across the arctic landscape.
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