Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2022)
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry reveals widespread soil phosphorus limitation to microbial metabolism across Chinese forests
- Yongxing Cui,
- Haijian Bing,
- Daryl L. Moorhead,
- Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,
- Luping Ye,
- Jialuo Yu,
- Shangpeng Zhang,
- Xia Wang,
- Shushi Peng,
- Xue Guo,
- Biao Zhu,
- Ji Chen,
- Wenfeng Tan,
- Yunqiang Wang,
- Xingchang Zhang,
- Linchuan Fang
Affiliations
- Yongxing Cui
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- Haijian Bing
- Key Laboratory of Mountain Surface Processes and Ecological Regulation, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Daryl L. Moorhead
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo
- Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Av. Reina Mercedes 10
- Luping Ye
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jialuo Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- Shangpeng Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- Xia Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- Shushi Peng
- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Xue Guo
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University
- Biao Zhu
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University
- Ji Chen
- Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University Centre for Circular Bioeconomy, Aarhus University
- Wenfeng Tan
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- Yunqiang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment CAS
- Xingchang Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- Linchuan Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation CAS and MWR
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00523-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Phosphorus limitation of soil microbial communities in forests is widespread, increases with soil depth, and is enhanced under wetter and warmer climates and elevated anthropogenic nitrogen deposition, according to ecoenzymatic stoichiometric analyses across 181 forests in China.
