Effects of fertilisation and irrigation on ‘foliar afterlife’ in alpine tundra
Abstract Question: How do increases in soil nutrient and water availability alter the nutrient fluxes through the resorption and litter decomposition pathways and how do they affect litter nutrient pools in a low‐productive alpine tundra ecosystem? Location: An alpine lichen‐rich tundra on Mt. Malay...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02591.x 2024-06-23T07:57:16+00:00 Effects of fertilisation and irrigation on ‘foliar afterlife’ in alpine tundra Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. Onipchenko, Vladimir G. Cornelissen, Johannes H.C. Aerts, Rien 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02591.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1654-1103.2007.tb02591.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02591.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Journal of Vegetation Science volume 18, issue 5, page 755-766 ISSN 1100-9233 1654-1103 journal-article 2007 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02591.x 2024-06-06T04:21:04Z Abstract Question: How do increases in soil nutrient and water availability alter the nutrient fluxes through the resorption and litter decomposition pathways and how do they affect litter nutrient pools in a low‐productive alpine tundra ecosystem? Location: An alpine lichen‐rich tundra on Mt. Malaya Khati‐para in the NW Caucasus, Russia (43°27’ N, 41°42’ E; altitude 2800 m a.s.l.). Methods: We conducted a 4‐year fertilisation (N, P, N+P, lime) and irrigation experiment, and analysed the responses of nutrient resorption from senescing leaves, leaf litter quality and decomposability of six pre‐dominant vascular plant species, total plant community litter production and litter (nutrient) accumulation. Results: Vascular plant litter [N] and [P] increased 1.5 and 10 fold in response to N and P additions, due to increased concentrations of the nutrients in fresh leaves and unchanged or reduced resorption efficiency. Litter decomposability was not affected by nutrient amendments. Fertilisation enhanced litter production (180%; N+P treatment) and litter accumulation (80%; N+P), owing to tremendously increased production and low decomposability of graminoids. Together with increased litter [N] and [P] this led to great increases in total litter nutrient pools. Conclusions: Due to increased production of graminoids, nutrients added to the alpine tundra soil were mostly immobilised in recalcitrant, nutrient‐rich litter. This suggests that changing species composition in low productive ecosystems may act as an internal buffer mechanism, which under increased soil nutrient availability prevents the community from rapidly acquiring features typical of a high productive ecosystem such as high decomposability and high nutrient availability. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra Wiley Online Library Journal of Vegetation Science 18 5 755 766 |
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Abstract Question: How do increases in soil nutrient and water availability alter the nutrient fluxes through the resorption and litter decomposition pathways and how do they affect litter nutrient pools in a low‐productive alpine tundra ecosystem? Location: An alpine lichen‐rich tundra on Mt. Malaya Khati‐para in the NW Caucasus, Russia (43°27’ N, 41°42’ E; altitude 2800 m a.s.l.). Methods: We conducted a 4‐year fertilisation (N, P, N+P, lime) and irrigation experiment, and analysed the responses of nutrient resorption from senescing leaves, leaf litter quality and decomposability of six pre‐dominant vascular plant species, total plant community litter production and litter (nutrient) accumulation. Results: Vascular plant litter [N] and [P] increased 1.5 and 10 fold in response to N and P additions, due to increased concentrations of the nutrients in fresh leaves and unchanged or reduced resorption efficiency. Litter decomposability was not affected by nutrient amendments. Fertilisation enhanced litter production (180%; N+P treatment) and litter accumulation (80%; N+P), owing to tremendously increased production and low decomposability of graminoids. Together with increased litter [N] and [P] this led to great increases in total litter nutrient pools. Conclusions: Due to increased production of graminoids, nutrients added to the alpine tundra soil were mostly immobilised in recalcitrant, nutrient‐rich litter. This suggests that changing species composition in low productive ecosystems may act as an internal buffer mechanism, which under increased soil nutrient availability prevents the community from rapidly acquiring features typical of a high productive ecosystem such as high decomposability and high nutrient availability. |
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Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. Onipchenko, Vladimir G. Cornelissen, Johannes H.C. Aerts, Rien Effects of fertilisation and irrigation on ‘foliar afterlife’ in alpine tundra |
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Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. Onipchenko, Vladimir G. Cornelissen, Johannes H.C. Aerts, Rien |
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Effects of fertilisation and irrigation on ‘foliar afterlife’ in alpine tundra |
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Effects of fertilisation and irrigation on ‘foliar afterlife’ in alpine tundra |
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