Nature Communications (Jul 2020)
Progressive nitrogen limitation across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region
- 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
Affiliations
- Dan Kou
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guibiao Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fei Li
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xuehui Feng
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dianye Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chao Mao
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qiwen Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yunfeng Peng
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chengjun Ji
- Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University
- Qiuan Zhu
- College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University
- Yunting Fang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xueyan Liu
- School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University
- Xu-Ri
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Siqi Li
- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jia Deng
- Earth Systems Research Centre, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire
- Xunhua Zheng
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jingyun Fang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yuanhe Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17169-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
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.
