Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Maestre, Fernando, Gallardo, Antonio, Bowker, Matthew, Wallenstein, Matthew, Quero, Jose Luis, Ochoa, Victoria, Gozalo, Beatriz, García-Gómez, Miguel, Soliveres, Santiago, García-Palacios, Pablo, Berdugo, Miguel, Valencia Gómez, Enrique, Escolar, Cristina, Arredondo, Tulio, Barraza-Zepeda, Claudia, Bran, Donaldo, Carreira, José Antonio, Chaieb, Mohamed, Conceição, Abel, Derak, Mchich, Eldridge, David, Escudero, Adrián, Espinosa, Carlos, Gaitán, Juan, Gatica, Gabriel, Gómez-González, Susana, Guzman, Elizabeth, Gutiérrez, Julio, Florentino, Adriana, Hepper, Estela, Hernández, Rosa, Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth, Jankju, Mohammad, Liu, Jushan, Mau, Rebecca, Miriti, Maria, Monerris, Jorge, Naseri, Kamal, Noumi, Zouhaier, Polo, Vicente, Prina, Aníbal, Pucheta, Eduardo, Ramírez, Elizabeth, Ramírez-Collantes, David, Romão, Roberto, Tighe, Matthew, Torres, Duilio, Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Ungar, Eugene, Val, James, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Wang, Deli, Zaady,Eli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2013
• Subjects: 631.4; 574; Soil nutrient; Drylands; Edafología (Biología); Ecología (Biología); 2511 Ciencias del Suelo (Edafología); 2417.13 Ecología Vegetal; Pablo; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/93758; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12670

The biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are interlinked by primary production, respiration and decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems1. It has been suggested that the C, N and P cycles could become uncoupled under rapid climate change because of the different degree...