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Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming-induced increases in topsoil P pools

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JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
卷 110, 期 9, 页码 2074-2087

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13930

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Biological soil crusts; climate change; dryland ecosystems; phosphorus deposition; phosphorus fractions

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  1. FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades-Agencia Estatal de Investigacion [CGL2017-88124-R]
  2. Generalitat Valenciana [CIDEGENT/2018/041]
  3. H2020 European Research Council [647038]
  4. Spanish State Programme for Scientific Research
  5. European ERDF Funds [CGL2016-78075-P]

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This study investigates the impacts of temperature warming, rainfall reduction, and biocrust cover on soil phosphorus (P) pools in drylands. It finds that warming increases most P pools, except occluded P, while rainfall reduction has no effect on soil P pools. Biocrusts enhance soil P pools and provide resilience against warming and rainfall reduction.
1. Ongoing global warming and alterations in rainfall patterns driven by climate change are known to have large impacts on biogeochemical cycles, particularly on drylands. In addition, the global increase in atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition can destabilize primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems, and phosphorus (P) may become the most limiting nutrient in many terrestrial ecosystems. However, the impacts of climate change on soil P pools in drylands remain poorly understood. Furthermore, it is unknown whether biocrusts, a major biotic component of drylands worldwide, modulate such impacts. 2. Here we used two long-term (8-10 years) experiments conducted in Central (Aranjuez) and SE (Sorbas) Spain to test how a similar to 2.5 degrees C warming, a similar to 30% rainfall reduction and biocrust cover affected topsoil (0-1 cm) P pools (non-occluded P, organic P, calcium bound P, occluded P and total P). 3. Warming significantly increased most P pools-except occluded P-in Aranjuez, whereas only augmented non-occluded P in Sorbas. The rainfall reduction treatment had no effect on the soil P pools at any experimental site. Biocrusts increased most soil P pools and conferred resistance to simulated warming for major P pools at both sites, and to rainfall reduction for non-occluded and occluded P in Aranjuez. 4. Synthesis. Our findings provide novel insights on the responses of soil P pools to warming and rainfall reduction, and highlight the importance of biocrusts as modulators of these responses in dryland ecosystems. Our results suggest that the observed negative impacts of warming on dryland biocrust communities will decrease their capacity to buffer changes in topsoil P driven by climate change.

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