Nature Communications (Feb 2022)
Retention of deposited ammonium and nitrate and its impact on the global forest carbon sink
- Geshere Abdisa Gurmesa,
- Ang Wang,
- Shanlong Li,
- Shushi Peng,
- Wim de Vries,
- Per Gundersen,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Oliver L. Phillips,
- Erik A. Hobbie,
- Weixing Zhu,
- Knute Nadelhoffer,
- Yi Xi,
- Edith Bai,
- Tao Sun,
- Dexiang Chen,
- Wenjun Zhou,
- Yiping Zhang,
- Yingrong Guo,
- Jiaojun Zhu,
- Lei Duan,
- Dejun Li,
- Keisuke Koba,
- Enzai Du,
- Guoyi Zhou,
- Xingguo Han,
- Shijie Han,
- Yunting Fang
Affiliations
- Geshere Abdisa Gurmesa
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ang Wang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shanlong Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shushi Peng
- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Wim de Vries
- Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Systems Analysis Group
- Per Gundersen
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
- Philippe Ciais
- LSCE (CEA CNRS UVSQ UPSaclay) Centre d’Etudes Orme des Merisiers
- Oliver L. Phillips
- School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Erik A. Hobbie
- Earth Systems Research Center, Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire
- Weixing Zhu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, The State University of New York
- Knute Nadelhoffer
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
- Yi Xi
- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
- Edith Bai
- School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University
- Tao Sun
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dexiang Chen
- Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry
- Wenjun Zhou
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yiping Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yingrong Guo
- Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of Forestry
- Jiaojun Zhu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lei Duan
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University
- Dejun Li
- Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Keisuke Koba
- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
- Enzai Du
- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, and Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University
- Guoyi Zhou
- Institute of Ecology and School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
- Xingguo Han
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shijie Han
- School of Life Sciences, Henan University
- Yunting Fang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28345-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
A study using paired 15N tracers shows atmospheric N deposited in oxidized form is more likely retained by trees, while the reduced form is retained in soil. The authors argue that this is a greater contribution of deposited N to the global forest C sink than previously reported.
