Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region

Massive stores of carbon and nutrients in permafrost could be released by global warming. Here the authors show that though warming across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region accelerates nitrogen liberation, contrary to expectations the elevated nutrients do not alleviate plant nitrogen limitation.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Dan Kou, Guibiao Yang, Fei Li, Xuehui Feng, Dianye Zhang, Chao Mao, Qiwen Zhang, Yunfeng Peng, Chengjun Ji, Qiuan Zhu, Yunting Fang, Xueyan Liu, Xu-Ri, Siqi Li, Jia Deng, Xunhua Zheng, Jingyun Fang, Yuanhe Yang
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
Subjects:
Science
Q
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17169-6
https://doaj.org/article/1b0d83999c544e03815fc1ca52c5ae5f
Description
Summary:Massive stores of carbon and nutrients in permafrost could be released by global warming. Here the authors show that though warming across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region accelerates nitrogen liberation, contrary to expectations the elevated nutrients do not alleviate plant nitrogen limitation.

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