Seabird colonies as important global drivers in the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles
Seabirds drastically transform the environmental conditions of the sites where they establish their breeding colonies via soil, sediment, and water eutrophication (hereafter termed ornitheutrophication). Here, we report worldwide amounts of total nitrogen (N) and total phosphorus (P) excreted by sea...
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ftunivsantcomp:oai:minerva.usc.es:10347/16780 2023-05-15T13:38:00+02:00 Seabird colonies as important global drivers in the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles Otero, Xosé Luís Peña Lastra, Saúl de la Pérez Alberti, Augusto Osório Ferreira, Tiago Huerta-Diaz, Miguel Ángel Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16780 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02446-8 eng eng Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02446-8 Otero, X., De La Peña-Lastra, S., Pérez-Alberti, A., Ferreira, T., & Huerta-Diaz, M. (2018). Seabird colonies as important global drivers in the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Nature Communications, 9(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02446-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16780 doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02446-8 2041-1723 © The Author(s) 2018. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/ Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Element cycles Environmental impact info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion ftunivsantcomp https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02446-8 2022-10-18T23:23:47Z Seabirds drastically transform the environmental conditions of the sites where they establish their breeding colonies via soil, sediment, and water eutrophication (hereafter termed ornitheutrophication). Here, we report worldwide amounts of total nitrogen (N) and total phosphorus (P) excreted by seabirds using an inventory of global seabird populations applied to a bioenergetics model. We estimate these fluxes to be 591 Gg N y−1 and 99 Gg P y−1, respectively, with the Antarctic and Southern coasts receiving the highest N and P inputs. We show that these inputs are of similar magnitude to others considered in global N and P cycles, with concentrations per unit of surface area in seabird colonies among the highest measured on the Earth’s surface. Finally, an important fraction of the total excreted N (72.5 Gg y−1) and P (21.8 Gg y−1) can be readily solubilized, increasing their short-term bioavailability in continental and coastal waters located near the seabird colonies This work was supported by a 2016 BBVA Foundation Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, by the Autonomous National Parks Organization (Ref. 041/2010) of the Spanish Ministry for the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, and CRETUS strategic group (AGRUP2015/02). S. De La Peña-Lastra benefitted from a predoctoral fellowship from the FPU Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Innovation SI Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Minerva - Repositorio institucional da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) Antarctic The Antarctic Nature Communications 9 1 |
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Seabirds drastically transform the environmental conditions of the sites where they establish their breeding colonies via soil, sediment, and water eutrophication (hereafter termed ornitheutrophication). Here, we report worldwide amounts of total nitrogen (N) and total phosphorus (P) excreted by seabirds using an inventory of global seabird populations applied to a bioenergetics model. We estimate these fluxes to be 591 Gg N y−1 and 99 Gg P y−1, respectively, with the Antarctic and Southern coasts receiving the highest N and P inputs. We show that these inputs are of similar magnitude to others considered in global N and P cycles, with concentrations per unit of surface area in seabird colonies among the highest measured on the Earth’s surface. Finally, an important fraction of the total excreted N (72.5 Gg y−1) and P (21.8 Gg y−1) can be readily solubilized, increasing their short-term bioavailability in continental and coastal waters located near the seabird colonies This work was supported by a 2016 BBVA Foundation Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, by the Autonomous National Parks Organization (Ref. 041/2010) of the Spanish Ministry for the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, and CRETUS strategic group (AGRUP2015/02). S. De La Peña-Lastra benefitted from a predoctoral fellowship from the FPU Programme of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Innovation SI |
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