The effects of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition on organic matter decomposition vary with the biochemical characteristics of plant litter. At the ecosystem\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale, net effects are difficult to predict because various soil organic matter (SOM) fractions may respond differentially. We investigated the relationship between SOM chemistry and microbial activity in three northern deciduous forest ecosystems that have been subjected to experimental N addition for 2 years. Extractable dissolved organic carbon (DOC), DOC aromaticity, C\uffe2\uff80\uff83:\uffe2\uff80\uff83N ratio, and functional group distribution, measured by Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR), were analyzed for litter and SOM. The largest biochemical changes were found in the sugar maple\uffe2\uff80\uff93basswood (SMBW) and black oak\uffe2\uff80\uff93white oak (BOWO) ecosystems. SMBW litter from the N addition treatment had less aromaticity, higher C\uffe2\uff80\uff83:\uffe2\uff80\uff83N ratios, and lower saturated carbon, lower carbonyl carbon, and higher carboxylates than controls; BOWO litter showed opposite trends, except for carbonyl and carboxylate contents. Litter from the sugar maple\uffe2\uff80\uff93red oak (SMRO) ecosystem had a lower C\uffe2\uff80\uff83:\uffe2\uff80\uff83N ratio, but no change in DOC aromaticity. For SOM, the C\uffe2\uff80\uff83:\uffe2\uff80\uff83N ratio increased with N addition in SMBW and SMRO ecosystems, but decreased in BOWO; N addition did not affect the aromaticity of DOC extracted from mineral soil. All ecosystems showed increases in extractable DOC from both litter and soil in response to N treatment. The biochemical changes are consistent with the divergent microbial responses observed in these systems. Extracellular oxidative enzyme activity has declined in the BOWO and SMRO ecosystems while activity in the SMBW ecosystem, particularly in the litter horizon, has increased. In all systems, enzyme activities associated with the hydrolysis and oxidation of polysaccharides have increased. At the ecosystem scale, the biochemical characteristics of the dominant litter appear to modulate the effects of N deposition on organic matter dynamics.
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Life on land", "Dissolved Organic Matter", "Extracellular Enzyme Activity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01001.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01001.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01001.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.01001.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-07-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10342-008-0203-0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:13Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-04-08", "title": "Seedling Growth Response Of Two Tropical Tree Species To Nitrogen Deposition In Southern China", "description": "Seedling growth response of two tropical tree species (Schima superba and Cryptocarya concinna) to simulated N deposition was studied during a period of 11\u00a0months. One-year-old seedlings were grown in forest soil treated with N as NH4NO3 at Control\u2013no N addition, N5\u20135, N10\u201310, N15\u201315, and N30\u201330\u00a0g N m\u22122\u00a0year\u22121. The objective was to examine the effects of N addition on seedling growth and compare this effect between the two tropical tree species of different species-N-requirement. Results showed that both species responded significantly to N addition and exhibited positive effect to lower rate of N addition and negative effect to higher rate of N addition on growth parameters (height and stem base diameter, biomass production, and net photosynthetic rate). The highest values were observed in the N10 plots for S. superba and in the N15 plots for C. concinna, but the lowest values were observed in the N30 plots for both species. However, the reduction in the N30 plots was more pronounced for S. superba than for C. concinna relative to the control plots. Our findings suggest that response of seedling growth of tropical tree species to atmospheric N deposition may vary depending on rate of N deposition and species-N-requirement.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/Life", "Tropics", "Species-N-requirement", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Nitrogen deposition", "Forest dynamic", "Global change", "01 natural sciences", "Former LIFE faculty"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-008-0203-0"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Forest%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10342-008-0203-0", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10342-008-0203-0", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10342-008-0203-0"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-04-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10533-004-7112-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2005-11-04", "title": "Extracellular Enzyme Activities And Soil Organic Matter Dynamics For Northern Hardwood Forests Receiving Simulated Nitrogen Deposition", "description": "Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment alters decomposition processes that control the flux of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) from soil organic matter (SOM) pools. To link N-driven changes in SOM to microbial responses, we measured the potential activity of several extracellular enzymes involved in SOM degradation at nine experimental sites located in northern Michigan. Each site has three treatment plots (ambient, +30 and +80 kg N ha 1 y 1 ). Litter and soil samples were collected on five dates over the third growing season of N treatment. Phenol oxidase, peroxidase and cellobiohydrolase activities showed significant responses to N additions. In the Acer saccha- rum-Tilia americana ecosystem, oxidative activity was 38% higher in the litter horizon of high N treatment plots, relative to ambient plots, while oxidative activity in mineral soil showed little change. In the A. saccharum-Quercus rubra and Q. velutina-Q. alba ecosystems, oxidative activities declined in both litter (15 and 23%, respectively) and soil (29 and 38%, respectively) in response to high N treatment while cellobiohydrolase activity increased (6 and 39% for litter, 29 and 18% for soil, respectively). Over 3 years, SOM content in the high N plots has decreased in the Acer-Tilia ecosystem and increased in the two Quercus ecosystems, relative to ambient plots. For all three ecosystems, differences in SOM content in relation to N treatment were directly related (r 2 = 0.92) to an enzyme activity factor that included both oxidative and hydrolytic enzyme responses.", "keywords": ["Soil Science & Conservation", "Decomposition", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "Terrestrial Pollution", "Natural Resources and Environment", "Molecular", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Biochemistry", "Phenol Oxidase", "Geochemistry", "Cellulase", "Soil Organic Matter", "Health Sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Nitrogen Deposition", "Cellular and Developmental Biology", "General", "Extracellular Enzyme Activity", "Geosciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-004-7112-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biogeochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10533-004-7112-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10533-004-7112-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10533-004-7112-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10533-008-9257-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-11-11", "title": "Nitrogen Deposition Effects On Soil Organic Matter Chemistry Are Linked To Variation In Enzymes, Ecosystems And Size Fractions", "description": "Recent research has dramatically advanced our understanding of soil organic matter chemistry and the role of N in some organic matter transformations, but the effects of N deposition on soil C dynamics remain difficult to anticipate. We examined soil organic matter chemistry and enzyme kinetics in three size fractions (>250 \u03bcm, 63\u2013250 \u03bcm, and 250 \u03bcm fraction of the sugar maple\u2013basswood ecosystem from 0.9 to 3.3 but there were no changes in other size classes or in the black oak\u2013white oak ecosystem. Third, simulated N deposition increased the ratio of lignin derivatives to N-bearing compounds in the 63\u2013250 and >250 \u03bcm fractions in both ecosystems but not in the 63 \u03bcm) where there were multiple correlations between oxidative enzyme activities and concentrations of lignin derivatives and between glycanolytic enzyme activities and concentrations of carbohydrates. Within silt-clay fractions (<63 \u03bcm), these enzyme-substrate correlations were attenuated by interactions with particle surfaces. Our results demonstrate that variation in enzyme activity resulting from atmospheric N deposition is directly linked to changes in soil organic matter chemistry, particularly those that occur within coarse soil size fractions.", "keywords": ["Carbon structure", "Soil organic matter", "13. Climate action", "Pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biogeochemistry", "15. Life on land", "Nitrogen deposition", "Enzymes"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-008-9257-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biogeochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10533-008-9257-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10533-008-9257-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10533-008-9257-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10533-014-0004-0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:15:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-09", "title": "Chronic Nitrogen Additions Suppress Decomposition And Sequester Soil Carbon In Temperate Forests", "description": "The terrestrial biosphere sequesters up to a third of annual anthropogenic carbon dioxide emis- sions, offsetting a substantial portion of greenhouse gas forcing of the climate system. Although a number of factors are responsible for this terrestrial carbon sink, atmospheric nitrogen deposition contributes by enhancing tree productivity and promoting carbon storage in tree biomass. Forest soils also represent an important, but understudied carbon sink. Here, we examine the contribution of trees versus soil to total ecosystem carbon storage in a temperate forest and investigate the mechanisms by which soils accumulate carbon in response to two decades of elevated nitrogen inputs. We find that nitrogen-induced soil carbon accumulation is of equal or greater magnitude to carbon stored in trees, with the degree of response being dependent on stand type (hardwood versus pine) and level of N addition. Nitrogen enrichment resulted in a shift in organic matter chemistry and the microbial community such that unfertilized soils had a higher relative abundance of fungi and lipid, phenolic, and N-bearing compounds; whereas, N-amended plots were associated with reduced fungal biomass and activity and higher rates of lignin accumulation. We conclude that soil carbon accumulation in response to N enrichment was largely due to a suppression of organic matter decomposition rather than enhanced carbon inputs to soil via litter fall and root production.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Temperate forest", "13. Climate action", "Terrestrial carbon sink", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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In lignin-rich forest soils, chronic N additions tend to increase soil C content partly by decreasing the activity of lignin-degrading enzymes. In cellulose-rich grassland soils it is not clear whether cellulose-degrading enzymes are also inhibited by N additions and what consequences this might have on changes in soil C content. Here we address whether chronic N fertilization has affected (1) the C content of light versus heavier soil fractions, and (2) the activity of four extracellular enzymes including the C-acquiring enzyme \u03b2-1,4-glucosidase (BG; necessary for cellulose hydrolysis). We found that 19\u00a0years of chronic N-only addition to permanent grassland have significantly increased soil C sequestration in heavy but not in light soil density fractions, and this C accrual was associated with a significant increase (and not decrease) of BG activity. Chronic N fertilization may increase BG activity because greater N availability reduces root C:N ratios thus increasing microbial demand for C, which is met by C inputs from enhanced root C pools in N-only fertilized soils. However, BG activity and total root mass strongly decreased in high pH soils under the application of lime (i.e. CaCO3), which reduced the ability of these organo-mineral soils to gain more C per units of N added. Our study is the first to show a potential \u2018enzyme link\u2019 between (1) long-term additions of inorganic N to grassland soils, and (2) the greater C content of organo-mineral soil fractions. Our new hypothesis is that the \u2018enzyme link\u2019 occurs because (a) BG activity is stimulated by increased microbial C demand relative to N under chronic fertilization, and (b) increased BG activity causes more C from roots and from microbial metabolites to accumulate and stabilize into organo-mineral C fractions. We suggest that any combination of management practices that can influence the BG \u2018enzyme link\u2019 will have far reaching implications for long-term C sequestration in grassland soils.", "keywords": ["DECOMPOSITION", "DYNAMICS", "570", "\u03b2-1", "4-Glucosidase", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2304", "NUTRIENT RELEASE", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "Root C:N ratio", "Extracellular enzyme activity", "LITTER DECAY", "FOREST ECOSYSTEMS", "0399 Other Chemical Sciences", "0402 Geochemistry", "Environmental Chemistry", "Geosciences", " Multidisciplinary", "beta-1", "4-Glucosidase", "Earth-Surface Processes", "Water Science and Technology", "2. Zero hunger", "Multidisciplinary", "Science & Technology", "/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1904", "Geology", "sequestration", "Agronomy & Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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In a \u2018pristine\u2019 soil, not previously exposed to high N deposition rates, an initial threshold of 40 kg N ha\u22121 year \u22121 was required to increase N2O emissions. For all data described here on average 0.76% (range 0.2 to 15%) of the elevated N deposited was emitted as N2O. For soils exposed to long-term and large N deposition rates N2O losses >3% of the N deposition rate were calculated. This suggests that N2O losses of more than 3% of the N input can be indicative of soil ecosystems where the N input exceeds its demand. For NO a more limited data set showed losses ranging from 1.3 to 20% of the elevated N input. It was calculated that NH3 emissions from all intensive pig and poultry farms in Great Britain accounted for 18 t N2O\ue5f8N year\u22121 and that poultry farms accounted for less than 3 t NO\ue5f8N year\u22121.", "keywords": ["Nitrous oxide", "nitric oxide", "13. Climate action", "15. 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Despite the importance of the microbial CUE for the terrestrial C cycle, very little is known about how it is affected by nutrient availability. Therefore, we studied microbial CUE and microbial biomass turnover time in soils of a long-term fertilization experiment in a temperate grassland comprising five treatments (control, PK, NK, NP, NPK). Microbial CUE and the turnover of microbial biomass were determined using a novel substrate-independent method based on incorporation of 18O from labeled water into microbial DNA. Microbial respiration was 28-37% smaller in all three N treatments (NK, NP, and NPK) compared to the control, whereas the PK treatment did not affect microbial respiration. N-fertilization decreased microbial C uptake, while the microbial growth rate was not affected. Microbial CUE ranged between 0.31 and 0.45, and was 1.3- to 1.4-fold higher in the N-fertilized soils than in the control. The turnover time ranged between 80 and 113 days and was not significantly affected by fertilization. Net primary production (NPP) and the abundance of legumes differed strongly across the treatments, and the fungal:bacterial ratio was very low in all treatments. Structural equation modeling revealed that microbial CUE was exclusively controlled by N fertilization and that neither the abundance of legumes (as a proxy for the quality of the organic matter inputs) nor NPP (as a proxy for C inputs) had an effect on microbial CUE. Our results show that N fertilization did not only decrease microbial respiration, but also microbial C uptake, indicating that less C was intracellularly processed in the N fertilized soils. The reason for reduced C uptake and increased CUE in the N-fertilization treatments is likely an inhibition of oxidative enzymes involved in the degradation of aromatic compounds by N in combination with a reduced energy requirement for microbial N acquisition in the fertilized soils. In conclusion, the study shows that N availability can control soil C cycling by affecting microbial CUE, while plant community-mediated changes in organic matter inputs and P and K availability played no important role for C partitioning of the microbial community in this temperate grassland.
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Chronic nitrogen (N) amendments frequently cause the accumulation of soil organic matter within soils, suggesting that elevated N disrupts decomposition by altering fungal communities. To link previously observed increases in soil organic matter with potential changes in the fungal community, we assessed the effects of soil N amendment on fungal community structure at a long-term N addition experiment at Harvard Forest (Petersham, MA, USA). A decline in the relative abundance of ectomycorrhizal fungi following long-term N addition was offset by an increase in the relative abundance of saprotrophs. Species richness and diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi declined, while ascomycetes and saprotrophs responded positively to N enrichment. However, nitrophilic species included ectomycorrhizal as well as saprotrophic fungi, especially the ectomycorrhizal Russula vinacea, whose relative abundance increased from 10 to 37% of the entire community across N treatments. Two decades of soil N enrichment appears to have fundamentally altered the soil fungal community of this temperate forest.", "keywords": ["Basidiomycetes", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Diversity", "Community", "Soil fungi", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biogeochemistry", "15. 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To fill this gap and investigate the response of lichens with different tolerance to atmospheric N deposition, thalli of the sensitive Evernia prunastri and the tolerant Xanthoria parietina were exposed for ten weeks to different forms and doses of N in a field manipulation experiment where confounding factors were minimized. During this period, several parameters, namely total N, \u03b415N and chlorophyll a fluorescence, were measured. Under the experimental conditions, \u03b415N in lichens quantitatively responded to the \u03b415N of released gaseous ammonia (NH3). Although a high correlation between the isotopic signatures in lichen tissue and supplied N was found both in tolerant and sensitive species, chlorophyll a fluorescence indicated that the sensitive species very soon lost its photosynthetic functionality with increasing N availability. The most damaging response to the different N chemical forms was observed with dry deposition of NH3, although wet deposition of ammonium ions had a significant observable physiological impact. Conversely, there was no significant effect of nitrate ions on chlorophyll a fluorescence, implying differential sensitivity to dry deposition versus wet deposition and to ammonium versus nitrate in wet deposition. Evernia prunastri was most sensitive to NH3, then NH4+, with lowest sensitivity to NO3-. Moreover, these results confirm that lichen \u03b415N can be used to indicate the \u03b415N of atmospheric ammonia, providing a suitable tool for the interpretation of the spatial distribution of NH3 sources in relation to their \u03b415N signal.", "keywords": ["Air Pollutants", "Nitrates", "Lichens", "Nitrogen Isotopes", "Chlorophyll A", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "Models", " Theoretical", "chlorophyll a fluorescence", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen deposition", "Xanthoria parietina", "Species Specificity", "Ammonia", "13. 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Increased N availability may also result in changes in the principal limitations on ecosystem productivity. Phosphorus (P) limitation may constrain productivity in instances of high N deposition, yet ecosystem responses to P availability are poorly understood. This study investigated CO2 and CH4 flux responses to N and P enrichment using both short- (1year) and long-term (16year) nutrient addition experiments. We hypothesised that the addition of either N or P will increase CO2 and CH4 fluxes, since both plant production and microbial activity are likely to increase with alleviation from nutrient limitation. This study demonstrated the modification of C fluxes from N and P enrichment, with differing results subject to the duration of nutrient addition. On average, relative to control, the addition of N alone inhibited CO2 flux in the short-term (-9%) but considerably increased CO2 emissions in the long-term (+35%), reduced CH4 uptake in the short term (-90%) and reduced CH4 emission in the long term (-94%). Phosphorus addition increased CO2 and CH4 emission in the short term (+20% and +184% respectively), with diminishing effect into the long term, suggesting microbial communities at these sites are P limited. Whilst a full C exchange budget was not examined in the experiment, the potential for soil C storage loss with long-term nutrient enrichment is demonstrated and indicates that P addition, where P is a limiting factor, may have an adverse influence on upland soil C content.", "keywords": ["nitrogen deposition", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "P limitation", "13. Climate action", "pollution", "soil carbon", "carbon fluxes", "15. 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It is often assumed that gaseous return of deposited N to the atmosphere as N2O through denitrification may provide an important sink for N. This assumption was tested for four moorland catchments (Allt a\u2019Mharcaidh in the Cairngorms, Afon Gwy in mid-Wales, Scoat Tarn in the English Lake District and River Etherow in the southern Pennines), covering gradients of atmospheric N deposition and surface water NO3\u2212 leaching, through a combination of field and laboratory experiments. Field measurements of N2O fluxes from static chambers with and without additions of NH4NO3 solution were carried out every 4 weeks over 1 yr. Wetted soil cores from the same field plots were used in experimental laboratory incubations at 5 and 15 \u00b0C with and without additions of NH4NO3 solution, followed by measurement of N2O fluxes. Field measurements showed that significant N2O fluxes occurred in only a very small number of plots with most showing zero values for much of the year. The maximum fluxes were 0.24 kg-N/ha/yr from unamended plots at the River Etherow and 0.49 kg-N/ha/yr from plots with NH4NO3 additions at the Allt a\u2019Mharcaidh. Laboratory incubation experiments demonstrated that large N2O fluxes could be induced by warming and NH4NO3 additions, with the top 5 cm of soil cores responsible for the largest fluxes, reaching 11.8 kg-N/ha/yr from a podsol at Scoat Tarn. Acetylene block experiments showed that while N2 was not likely to be a significant denitrification product in these soils, reduced N2O fluxes indicated that nitrification was an important source of N2O in many cases. A simple model of denitrification suggesting that 10\u201380% of net N inputs may be denitrified from non-agricultural soils was found to greatly over-estimate fluxes in the UK uplands. The proportion of deposition denitrified was found to be much closer to the IPCC suggested value of 1% with an upper limit of 10%. Interception of N deposition by vegetation may greatly reduce the net supply of N from this source, while soil acidification or other factors limiting carbon supply to soil microbes may prevent large denitrification fluxes even where NO3\u2212 supply is not limiting.", "keywords": ["denitrification", "nitrous oxide", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "nitrification", "6. Clean water", "moorlands", "nitrogen deposition", "acidification", "13. 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We investigated the importance of these controls on litter decomposition using litter bags placed in annual herb based microcosm ecosystems that had been subject to two rates of N deposition (which raised soil inorganic N availability and stimulated litter inputs) and two planting regimes, namely the plant species compositions of low and high N deposition environments. In each microcosm, we harvested litter bags of 10 annual plant species, over an 8-week period, to determine mass loss from decomposition. Our data showed that species differed greatly in their decomposability, but that these differences were unlikely to affect decomposition at the ecosystem level because there was no correlation between a species\u2019 decomposability and its response to N deposition (measured as population seed production under high N, relative to low N, deposition). Litter mass loss was 2% greater in high N deposition microcosms. Using a comprehensive set of measurements of the microcosm soil environments, we found that the most statistically likely explanation for this effect was increased soil enzyme activity (cellobiosidase, \u03b2-glucosidase and \u03b2-xylosidase), which appears to have occurred in response to a combination of raised soil inorganic N availability and stimulated litter inputs. Our data indicate that direct effects of N deposition on litter input and soil N availability significantly affected decomposition but indirect effects did not. We argue that indirect effects of changes to plant species composition could be stronger in natural ecosystems, which often contain a greater diversity of plant functional types than those considered here.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Litter decomposition", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Nitrogen deposition", "630", "Plant species composition", "C:N ratio", "13. 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The experimental design included forest plots with different earthworm community composition (dominated byLumbricus terrestrisorL. rubellus). Soil carbon pools were 37% lower in earthworm\uffe2\uff80\uff90invaded plots largely because of the elimination of the forest floor horizons, and mineral soil C:N was lower in earthworm plots despite the mixing of high C:N organic matter into soil by earthworms. Litter disappearance over the first winter\uffe2\uff80\uff93spring was highest in theL. terrestris(T) plots, but during the warm season, rapid loss of litter was observed in bothL. rubellus(R) and T plots. After two years, 22.0% \uffc2\uffb1 5.4% of13C released from litter was recovered in soil with no significant differences among plots. Total recovery of added13C (decaying litter plus soil) was much higher in no\uffe2\uff80\uff90worm (NW) plots (61\uffe2\uff80\uff9368%) than in R and T plots (20\uffe2\uff80\uff9329%) as much of the litter remained in the former whereas it had disappeared in the latter. Much higher percentage recovery of15N than13C was observed, with significantly lower values for T than R and NW plots. Higher overwinter earthworm activity in T plots contributed to lower soil N recovery. In earthworm\uffe2\uff80\uff90invaded plots isotope enrichment was highest in macroaggregates and microaggregates whereas in NW plots silt plus clay fractions were most enriched. The net effect of litter mixing and priming of recalcitrant soil organic matter (SOM), stabilization of SOM in soil aggregates, and alteration of the soil microbial community by earthworm activity results in loss of SOM and lowering of the C:N ratio. We suggest that earthworm stoichiometry plays a fundamental role in regulating C and N dynamics of forest SOM.
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We therefore studied the effects of elevatedCO2 in combination with N supply on the growth ofSphagnum mosses and vascular plants in ombrotrophic bogvegetation. Because the growth of Sphagnum is lessnutrient-limited than that of vascular plants, we hypothesized thatSphagnum would benefit from elevated CO2. In ourgreenhouse experiment, peat monoliths (34 cm diameter, 40cm deep) with intact bog vegetation were exposed to ambient (350ppmv) or elevated (560 ppmv) atmosphericCO2 combined with low (no N addition) or high (5 g Nm\u22122 yr\u22121 added) N deposition for twogrowing seasons. Elevated atmospheric CO2 had unexpected deleterious effectson the growth of Sphagnum magellanicum, the dominant Sphagnumspecies. Growth was greatly reduced, particularly in the second growing seasonwhen, regardless of N supply, the mosses looked unhealthy. The negativeCO2 effect was strongest in the warmest months, suggesting a combinedeffect of elevated CO2 and the raised temperatures in the greenhouse.High N deposition favored Rhynchospora alba, which became the dominant vascular plant speciesduring the experiment. Biomass increased more when N supply was high. There wereno significant effects of elevated CO2 on vascular plants, althoughelevated CO2 combined with high N supply tended to increase theaboveground vascular plant biomass. As Sphagnum is the maincarbon-sequestrating species in bogs and rising atmospheric CO2levels are likely to be followed by increases in temperature, there is an urgentneed for further research on the combined effects of elevated CO2 andincreased temperature on Sphagnum growth in bog ecosystems.", "keywords": ["Sphagnum magellanicum", "Carbon dioxide", "13. Climate action", "Rhynchospora alba", "Climate change", "Greenhouse experiment", "15. 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Five study plots were subjected to elevated CO2 concentration (560 ppm), and five plots to NH4NO3 (3 or 5 g N yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921). The CH4 emissions from the control plots correlated in most cases with the soil temperatures. The depth of the water table, the pH, and the DOC, N and SO4 concentrations were only weakly correlated with the CH4 emissions. The elevated CO2 treatment gave nonsignificantly higher CH4 emissions at three sites and lower at two sites. The N treatment resulted in higher methane emissions at three sites (nonsignificant). At one site, the CH4 fluxes of the N\uffe2\uff80\uff90treatment plots were significantly lower than those of the control plots. These results were not in agreement with our hypotheses, nor with the results obtained in some earlier studies. However, the results are consistent with the results of the vegetation analyses, which showed no significant treatment effects on species relationships or biomass production.
", "keywords": ["northern peatlands", "methane emissions", "atmospheric carbon-dioxide", "temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "forest soils", "nitrogen deposition", "boreal mire", "13. Climate action", "raised co2", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "bog vegetation", "water-table", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1029/2002gb001886"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Biogeochemical%20Cycles", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1029/2002gb001886", "name": "item", "description": "10.1029/2002gb001886", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1029/2002gb001886"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00535.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:18:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-03-11", "title": "Potassium Limits Potential Growth Of Bog Vegetation Under Elevated Atmospheric Co2 And N Deposition", "description": "AbstractThe free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition experiments on four ombrotrophic bogs in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland, revealed that after three years of treatment: (1) elevated atmospheric CO2concentration had no significant effect on the biomass growth ofSphagnumand vascular species; and (2) increased N\uffc2\uffa0deposition reduced Sphagnum growth, because it increased the cover of vascular plants and the tall mossPolytrichum strictum, while vascular plant biomass growth was not affected. This paper focuses on water chemistry, plant nutrient content, and litter decomposition rates. Potassium limitation, or low supply of K\uffc2\uffa0and P, may have prevented a significant increase ofSphagnumgrowth under elevated CO2and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition. Vascular plant growth under elevated CO2and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition was also limited by K, or by K\uffc2\uffa0in combination with P\uffc2\uffa0or N\uffc2\uffa0(N in CO2experiment). Elevated CO2and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition had no effect on decomposition rates ofSphagnumand vascular plant litter. Aside from a possible effect of N\uffc2\uffa0deposition on light competition between species, we expect that elevated atmospheric CO2and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition concentrations will not affectSphagnumand vascular plant growth in bogs of north\uffe2\uff80\uff90west Europe due to K\uffe2\uff80\uff90, or K\uffc2\uffa0in combination with N\uffe2\uff80\uff90 or P\uffe2\uff80\uff90, limited growth. For the same reason we expect no effect of elevated CO2and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition on litter decomposition. Net primary production of raised ombrotrophic bogs that are at or close to steady state, is regulated by input of nutrients through atmospheric deposition. Therefore, we hypothesize that the expected increase of plant growth under elevated CO2and N\uffc2\uffa0deposition is diminished by current levels of K\uffc2\uffa0(and to some extent P\uffc2\uffa0and N) in atmospheric deposition.
", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Sphagnum", "Carbon dioxide", "13. Climate action", "Bog", "Litter decomposition", "Nutrient limited growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Nitrogen deposition", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00535.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00535.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00535.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00535.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2002-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/1365-2435.12475", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:19:17Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-05-12", "title": "Nitrogen Saturation In Humid Tropical Forests After 6years Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus Addition: Hypothesis Testing", "description": "Summary
Nitrogen (N) saturation hypothesis suggests that when an ecosystem reaches N\uffe2\uff80\uff90saturation, continued N input will cause increased N leaching, nitrous oxide (N2O) emission, and N mineralization and nitrification rates. It also suggests that a different element will become the main limiting factor when N saturation has been reached. Although this hypothesis has been tested in temperate forests, whether they can be directly applied to N\uffe2\uff80\uff90saturated tropical forests remain poorly addressed.
To test this hypothesis, soil inorganic N, soil N mineralization and nitrification rate, soil N2O emission rate and nitrate () leaching rate were measured in an N\uffe2\uff80\uff90saturated old\uffe2\uff80\uff90growth tropical forest in southern China, after 6\uffc2\uffa0years of N and P addition. We hypothesized that N addition would stimulate further N saturation, but P addition might alleviate N saturation.
As expected, our results showed that six continuous years of experimental N addition did cause further N saturation, which was indicated by significant increases in soil inorganic N concentration, N2O emission and nitrate () leaching. However, in contrast to our expectations, N addition significantly decreased in\uffc2\uffa0situ rates of net N mineralization and nitrification, which could be related to associated changes in enzyme activity and microbial community composition. On the other hand, P addition mitigated N saturation, as expected. Soil inorganic N concentration, N2O emission and leaching decreased significantly after P addition, but the net rates of N mineralization and nitrification were significantly increased.
Our results provide a new understanding of the N saturation hypothesis, suggesting that the effects of long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term N deposition on net N mineralization and nitrification rates in N\uffe2\uff80\uff90saturated tropical forests can be negative and that P addition can alleviate N saturation in such tropical systems.
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Global environmental change poses threats to plant and soil biodiversity. Yet, whether soil biodiversity loss can further influence plant community\uffe2\uff80\uff99s response to global change is still poorly understood.
We created a gradient of soil biodiversity using the dilution\uffe2\uff80\uff90to\uffe2\uff80\uff90extinction approach, and investigated the effects of soil biodiversity loss on plant communities during and following manipulations simulating global change disturbances in experimental grassland microcosms.
Grass and herb biomass was decreased by drought and promoted by nitrogen deposition, and a fast recovery was observed following disturbances, independently of soil biodiversity loss. Warming promoted herb biomass during and following disturbance only when soil biodiversity was not reduced. However, legumes biomass was suppressed by these disturbances, and there were more detrimental effects with reduced soil biodiversity. Moreover, soil biodiversity loss suppressed the recovery of legumes following these disturbances. Similar patterns were found for the response of plant diversity. The changes in legumes might be partly attributed to the loss of mycorrhizal soil mutualists.
Our study shows that soil biodiversity is crucial for legume persistence and plant diversity maintenance when faced with environmental change, highlighting the importance of soil biodiversity as a potential buffering mechanism for plant diversity and community composition in grasslands.
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Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Animal science"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Zhenmin Du, Wei Wang, Wenjing Zeng, Hui Zeng,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087975"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0087975", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0087975", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0087975"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-02-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-5120", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Nitrogen Deposition Modifies Soil Carbon Storage Through Changes In Microbial Enzymatic Activity", "description": "Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition derived from fossil\uffe2\uff80\uff90fuel combustion, land clearing, and biomass burning is occurring over large geographical regions on nearly every continent. Greater ecosystem N availability can result in greater aboveground carbon (C) sequestration, but little is understood as to how soil C storage could be altered by N deposition. High concentrations of inorganic N accelerate the degradation of easily decomposable litter and slow the decomposition of recalcitrant litter containing large amounts of lignin. This pattern has been attributed to stimulation or repression of different sets of microbial extracellular enzymes. We hypothesized that soil C cycling in forest ecosystems with markedly different litter chemistry and decomposition rates would respond to anthropogenic N deposition in a manner consistent with the biochemical composition of the dominant vegetation. Specifically, oak\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated ecosystems with low litter quality should gain soil C, and sugar maple ecosystems with high litter quality should lose soil C in response to high levels of N deposition (80 kg N\uffc2\uffb7ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffb7yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921). Consistent with this hypothesis, we observed over a three\uffe2\uff80\uff90year period a significant loss of soil C (20%) from a sugar maple\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated ecosystem and a significant gain (10%) in soil C in an oak\uffe2\uff80\uff90dominated ecosystem, a result that appears to be mediated by the regulation of the microbial extracellular enzyme phenol oxidase. Elevated N deposition resulted in changes in soil carbon that were ecosystem specific and resulted from the divergent regulatory control of microbial extracellular enzymes by soil N availability.
", "keywords": ["forests", "13. Climate action", "Science", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "soil enzyme activities", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "northern temperate", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Michigan (USA)", "carbon sequestration", "N deposition"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Waldrop, Mark P., Zak, Donald R., Sinsabaugh, Robert L., Gallo, Marcy, Lauber, Chris,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5120"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-5120", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-5120", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-5120"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/03-5162", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-06-06", "title": "Nitrogen Deposition Onto The United States And Western Europe: Synthesis Of Observations And Models", "description": "The documented acceleration of NH3 and NOx (NO NO2) emissions over the last 150 years has accelerated N deposition, compromising air and water quality and altering the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems worldwide. To construct con- tinental-scale N budgets, we produced maps of N deposition fluxes from site-network observations for the United States and Western Europe. Increases in the rates of N cycling for these two regions of the world are large, and they have undergone profound modification of biospheric-atmospheric N exchanges, and ecosystem function. The maps are necessarily restricted to the network measured quantities and consist of statistically interpolated fields of aqueous NO3 and NH4, gaseous HNO3 and NO2 (in Europe), and particulate NO3 and NH4. There remain a number of gaps in the budgets, including organic N and NH3 de- position. The interpolated spatially continuous fields allow estimation of regionally inte- grated budget terms. Dry-deposition fluxes were the most problematic because of low station density and uncertainties associated with exchange mechanisms. We estimated dry N de- position fluxes by multiplying interpolated surface-air concentrations for each chemical species by model-calculated, spatially explicit deposition velocities. Deposition of the ox- idized N species, by-products of fossil-fuel combustion, dominate the U.S. N deposition budget with 2.5 Tg of NOy-N out of a total of 3.7-4.5 Tg of N deposited annually onto the conterminous United States. Deposition of the reduced species, which are by-products of farming and animal husbandry, dominate the Western European N-deposition budget with a total of 4.3-6.3 Tg N deposited each year out of a total of 8.4-10.8 Tg N. Western Europe receives five times more N in precipitation than does the conterminous United States. Estimated N emissions exceed measured deposition in the United States by 5.3- 7.81 Tg N, suggesting significant N export or under-sampling of urban influence. In Europe, estimated emissions better balance measured deposition, with an imbalance of between 0.63 and 2.88 Tg N, suggesting that much of the N emitted in Europe is deposited there, with possible N import from the United States. The sampling network in Europe includes urban influences because of the greater population density of Western Europe. Our analysis of N deposition for both regions was limited by sampling density. The framework we present for quantification of patterns of N deposition provides a constraint on our under- standing of continental biospheric-atmospheric N cycles. These spatially explicit wet and dry N fluxes also provide a tool for verifying regional and global models of atmospheric chemistry and transport, and they represent critical inputs into terrestrial models of bio- geochemistry.", "keywords": ["atmospheric chemistry", "N deposition patterns", "Western Europe", "NOx", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "N deposition", "6. Clean water", "ammonium", "13. Climate action", "dry deposition", "11. Sustainability", "wet deposition", "United States and Western Europe", "biosphere\u00e2\u20ac\u201catmosphere N exchange", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/03-5162"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/03-5162", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/03-5162", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/03-5162"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-03-07", "title": "Nitrogen Limitation Of Net Primary Productivity In Terrestrial Ecosystems Is Globally Distributed", "description": "Our meta-analysis of 126 nitrogen addition experiments evaluated nitrogen (N) limitation of net primary production (NPP) in terrestrial ecosystems. We tested the hypothesis that N limitation is widespread among biomes and influenced by geography and climate. We used the response ratio (R approximately equal ANPP(N)/ANPP(ctrl)) of aboveground plant growth in fertilized to control plots and found that most ecosystems are nitrogen limited with an average 29% growth response to nitrogen (i.e., R = 1.29). The response ratio was significant within temperate forests (R = 1.19), tropical forests (R = 1.60), temperate grasslands (R = 1.53), tropical grasslands (R = 1.26), wetlands (R = 1.16), and tundra (R = 1.35), but not deserts. Eight tropical forest studies had been conducted on very young volcanic soils in Hawaii, and this subgroup was strongly N limited (R = 2.13), which resulted in a negative correlation between forest R and latitude. The degree of N limitation in the remainder of the tropical forest studies (R = 1.20) was comparable to that of temperate forests, and when the young Hawaiian subgroup was excluded, forest R did not vary with latitude. Grassland response increased with latitude, but was independent of temperature and precipitation. These results suggest that the global N and C cycles interact strongly and that geography can mediate ecosystem response to N within certain biome types.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Evolutionary Biology", "Ecology", "Nitrogen", "carbon", "Climate", "net primary production", "Plant Development", "nitrogen fertilization", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Carbon", "Trees", "meta-analysis", "nitrogen deposition", "13. Climate action", "Ecological Applications", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "resource limitation", "Biomass", "Fertilizers", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt998412zp/qt998412zp.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/06-2057.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/06-2057.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/06-2057.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00385", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-05-05", "description": "Global environmental change is predicted to have major consequences for carbon cycling and the functioning of soil ecosystems. However, we have limited knowledge about its impacts on the microorganisms, which act as a 'valve' between carbon sequestered in soils versus released into the atmosphere. In this study we examined microbial response to continuous 9-years manipulation of three global change factors (elevated CO2, warming, and nitrogen deposition), singly and in combination using two methods: lipid and amino sugar biomarkers at the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE). The two methods yielded important distinctions. There were limited microbial lipid differences, but many significant effects for microbial amino sugars. We found that CO2 was not a direct factor influencing soil carbon and major amino sugar pools, but had a positive impact on bacterial-derived muramic acid. Likewise, warming and nitrogen deposition appeared to enrich residues specific to bacteria despite an overall depletion in total amino sugars. The results indicate that elevated CO2, warming, and nitrogen deposition all appeared to increase bacterial-derived residues, but this accumulation effect was far offset by a corresponding decline in fungal residues. The sensitivity of microbial residue biomarker amino sugars to warming and nitrogen deposition may have implications for our predictions of global change impacts on soil stored carbon.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "elevated CO2", "warming", "microbial biomass", "soil carbon stabilization", "microbial residue", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Lipid", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "QR1-502", "nitrogen deposition", "Amino sugar", "lipid", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "amino sugar", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Chao eLIANG, Chao eLIANG, Jessica eGutknecht, Teri eBalser,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00385"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00385", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00385", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00385"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00819", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-08-14", "description": "The N cycle of arid ecosystems is influenced by low soil organic matter, high soil pH, and extremes in water potential and temperature that lead to open canopies and development of biological soil crusts (biocrusts). We investigated the effects of N amendment on soil microbial dynamics in a Larrea tridentata-Ambrosia dumosa shrubland site in southern Nevada USA. Sites were fertilized with a NO3-NH4 mix at 0, 7, and 15 kg N ha(-1) y(-1) from March 2012 to March 2013. In March 2013, biocrust (0-0.5 cm) and bulk soils (0-10 cm) were collected beneath Ambrosia canopies and in the interspaces between plants. Biomass responses were assessed as bacterial and fungal SSU rRNA gene copy number and chlorophyll a concentration. Metabolic responses were measured by five ecoenzyme activities and rates of N transformation. By most measures, nutrient availability, microbial biomass, and process rates were greater in soils beneath the shrub canopy compared to the interspace between plants, and greater in the surface biocrust horizon compared to the deeper 10 cm soil profile. Most measures responded positively to experimental N addition. Effect sizes were generally greater for bulk soil than biocrust. Results were incorporated into a meta-analysis of arid ecosystem responses to N amendment that included data from 14 other studies. Effect sizes were calculated for biomass and metabolic responses. Regressions of effect sizes, calculated for biomass, and metabolic responses, showed similar trends in relation to N application rate and N load (rate \u00d7 duration). The critical points separating positive from negative treatment effects were 88 kg ha(-1) y(-1) and 159 kg ha(-1), respectively, for biomass, and 70 kg ha(-1) y(-1) and 114 kg ha(-1), respectively, for metabolism. These critical values are comparable to those for microbial biomass, decomposition rates and respiration reported in broader meta-analyses of N amendment effects in mesic ecosystems. However, large effect sizes at low N addition rates indicate that arid ecosystems are sensitive to modest increments in anthropogenic N deposition.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "microbial biomass", "arid ecosystems", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "meta-analysis", "nitrogen deposition", "Meta-analysis", "13. Climate action", "ecoenzyme activity", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Arid ecosystems"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Darren R. Sandquist, Jayne Belnap, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Cheryl R. Kuske, Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Noelle G. Martinez,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00819"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00819", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2015.00819", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00819"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-08-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.00259", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:21:31Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-03-02", "description": "Litter decomposition is an enzymatically-complex process that is mediated by a diverse assemblage of saprophytic microorganisms. It is a globally important biogeochemical process that can be suppressed by anthropogenic N deposition. In a northern hardwood forest ecosystem located in Michigan, USA, 20 years of experimentally increased atmospheric N deposition has reduced forest floor decay and increased soil C storage. Here, we paired extracellular enzyme assays with shotgun metagenomics to assess if anthropogenic N deposition has altered the functional potential of microbial communities inhabiting decaying forest floor. Experimental N deposition significantly reduced the activity of extracellular enzymes mediating plant cell wall decay, which occurred concurrently with changes in the relative abundance of metagenomic functional gene pathways mediating the metabolism of carbohydrates, aromatic compounds, as well as microbial respiration. Moreover, experimental N deposition increased the relative abundance of 50 of the 60 gene pathways, the majority of which were associated with saprotrophic bacteria. Conversely, the relative abundance and composition of fungal genes mediating the metabolism of plant litter was not affected by experimental N deposition. Future rates of atmospheric N deposition have favored saprotrophic soil bacteria, whereas the metabolic potential of saprotrophic fungi appears resilient to this agent of environmental change. Results presented here provide evidence that changes in the functional capacity of saprotrophic soil microorganisms mediate how anthropogenic N deposition increases C storage in soil.", "keywords": ["saprotroph", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Climate Change", "C storage", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "metagenome", "N deposition", "QR1-502", "03 medical and health sciences", "climate change", "13. Climate action", "Saprotroph", "Metagenome"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00259"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.00259", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.00259", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00259"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-03-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x51", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:22:21Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2025-08-10", "title": "Herbivore grazing mitigates the negative effects of nitrogen deposition on soil organic carbon in low-diversity grassland", "description": "1. Changes in soil carbon (C) sequestration in grassland ecosystems have important impacts on the global C cycle. As such, it is important that researchers better understand the underlying mechanisms affecting soil C. Increasing evidence has shown that atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition can cause dramatic changes in grassland soil C. It remains unclear whether herbivore grazing, a primary means to manage and utilize grassland resources, can regulate the effects of N deposition on soil C, and whether these effects are dependent on plant community diversity. 2. Here, we examined the joint effects of herbivore grazing and N-addition on soil organic C (SOC) stocks in two types of communities with low and high plant diversity, respectively. 3. Our results showed that the effects of N-addition and its combination with herbivore grazing on grassland SOC were inconsistent in the two types of communities. In the low-diversity community, N-addition greatly decreased SOC stocks, while grazing significantly increased it. Additionally, the grazing-induced increase in soil C stocks in presence of N-addition was so great that it completely counteracted the significant decline in SOC induced by N-addition. However, in the high-diversity community, we observed no effects of N-addition on SOC and grazing increased SOC only in the absence of N-addition and had no significant effect in presence of N-addition. 4. Synthesis and applications. Our study suggests that increased N deposition can trigger a remarkable reduction in soil C sequestration in grasslands with low plant diversity, but that herbivore grazing can offset this decline, which may help to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions caused by atmospheric N deposition. As a result, we suggest that moderate herbivore grazing should be considered as an effective grassland management measure for maintaining and improving grassland soil C sequestration as the increasing global change such as elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, N deposition, and biodiversity losses threat.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil organic carbon", "global carbon cycle", "13. Climate action", "grassland management", "herbivore grazing", "atmospheric nitrogen deposition", "15. Life on land", "plant community composition"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Li, Guangyin, Cai, Jinting, Song, Xuxin, Pan, Xiaobin, Pan, Duofeng, Jiang, Shicheng, Sun, Jinyan, Zhang, Minna, Wang, Ling,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x51"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x51", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x51", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x51"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-10-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.4067/s0718-95162014005000045", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:22:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-08-22", "description": "Nitrogen (N) deposition greatly affects the above ground biological composition of grasslands and soil properties. However, its influence on the relationship among soil, plant and bacterial communities remain controversy. We calculated Shannon-wiener index to measure the soil bacterial diversity based on denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis, and investigate the roles of vegetation and soil properties on the soil bacterial community under N addition. A three-year simulated N deposition experiment was conducted in a forbs community dominated by Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzvel. and Artemisia scoparia Wald. Et. Kit. N was added at five levels (0, 23, 46, 69, 92 kg ha -1 yr -1 ). Our results showed that N addition increased the soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC) and soil bacterial diversity. Moderate N (23, 46, 69 kg ha -1 yr -1 ) addition increased the soil bacterial diversity, whereas excess N (92 kg ha -1 yr -1 ) addition inhibited it. The SMBC and soil bacterial diversity were related to richness of plant functional groups. In particular, SMBC had positive correlation with biomass of annuals and biennials, suggesting that the effects of the plant community on the soil bacteria could be explained by a relationship between the soil bacterial community and a subset of plant species rather than all species.", "keywords": ["Songnen grassland", "13. Climate action", "soil bacterial community", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "species richness", "15. Life on land", "Nitrogen deposition", "resource availability"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Sun, S, Xing, F, Zhao, H, Gao, Y, Bai, Z, Dong, Y,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-95162014005000045"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20soil%20science%20and%20plant%20nutrition", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.4067/s0718-95162014005000045", "name": "item", "description": "10.4067/s0718-95162014005000045", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.4067/s0718-95162014005000045"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.dncjsxm5j", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-06-23T16:22:16Z", "type": "Dataset", "created": "2023-10-05", "title": "Bacterial traits, N deposition and mycorrhiza. qSIP Aspartic Acid", "description": "unspecifiedNitrogen (N) deposition increases soil carbon (C) storage by reducing microbial activity.\u00a0 These effects vary in soil beneath trees that associate with arbuscular (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi. Variation in carbon C and N uptake traits among microbes may explain differences in soil nutrient cycling between mycorrhizal associations in response to high N loads, a mechanism not previously examined due to methodological limitations. Here, we used quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (qSIP) to measure bacterial C and N assimilation rates from an added organic compound, which we conceptualize as functional traits.\u00a0 As such, we applied a trait-based approach to explore whether variation in assimilation rates of bacterial taxa can inform shifts in soil function under chronic N deposition. We show taxon-specific and community-wide declines of bacterial C and N uptake under chronic N deposition in both AM and ECM soils. N deposition-induced reductions in microbial activity were mirrored by declines in soil organic matter mineralization rates in AM but not ECM soils. Our findings suggest C and N uptake traits of bacterial communities can predict C cycling feedbacks to N deposition in AM soils but additional data, for instance on the traits of fungi, may be needed to connect microbial traits with soil C and N cycling in ECM systems. Our study also highlights the potential of employing qSIP in conjunction with trait\u2013based approaches to inform how ecological processes of microbial communities influence soil functioning", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Bacterial traits", "FOS: Agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "15. Life on land", "Mycorrhiza", "Nitrogen deposition"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Pi\u00f1eiro, Juan, Morrissey, Ember, Dang, Chansotheary, Walkup, Jeth, Freedman, Zachary, Brzostek, Edward,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dncjsxm5j"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.dncjsxm5j", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.dncjsxm5j", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.dncjsxm5j"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-11-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5061/dryad.jwstqjqc0", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:22:18Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "More soil organic carbon is sequestered through the mycelium-pathway than through the root-pathway under nitrogen enrichment in an alpine forest", "description": "Open AccessPeer reviewed", "keywords": ["roots", "SOC sequestration", "ectomycorrhizal mycelia", "Alpine forests", "15. 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The CO2 flux and PE were measured by NaOH trapping. Soil variables were measured at the end of incubation.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "SOM decomposition", "13. Climate action", "P limitation", "15. Life on land", "priming effects", "Microbial metabolism", "FOS: Natural sciences", "N deposition"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Wang, Xiaohong, Li, Shiyining, Zhu, Biao, Homyak, Peter M., Chen, Guangshui, Yao, Xiaodong, Wu, Dongmei, Yang, Zhijie, Lyu, Maokui, Yang, Yusheng,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0ph1"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0ph1", "name": "item", "description": "10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0ph1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0ph1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-04-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10451/59767", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-06-23T16:25:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-11-03", "title": "\u03b415N of lichens reflects the isotopic signature of ammonia source", "description": "Although it is generally accepted that \u03b415N in lichen reflects predominating N isotope sources in the environment, confirmation of the direct correlation between lichen \u03b415N and atmospheric \u03b415N is still missing, especially under field conditions with most confounding factors controlled. To fill this gap and investigate the response of lichens with different tolerance to atmospheric N deposition, thalli of the sensitive Evernia prunastri and the tolerant Xanthoria parietina were exposed for ten weeks to different forms and doses of N in a field manipulation experiment where confounding factors were minimized. During this period, several parameters, namely total N, \u03b415N and chlorophyll a fluorescence, were measured. Under the experimental conditions, \u03b415N in lichens quantitatively responded to the \u03b415N of released gaseous ammonia (NH3). Although a high correlation between the isotopic signatures in lichen tissue and supplied N was found both in tolerant and sensitive species, chlorophyll a fluorescence indicated that the sensitive species very soon lost its photosynthetic functionality with increasing N availability. The most damaging response to the different N chemical forms was observed with dry deposition of NH3, although wet deposition of ammonium ions had a significant observable physiological impact. Conversely, there was no significant effect of nitrate ions on chlorophyll a fluorescence, implying differential sensitivity to dry deposition versus wet deposition and to ammonium versus nitrate in wet deposition. Evernia prunastri was most sensitive to NH3, then NH4+, with lowest sensitivity to NO3-. Moreover, these results confirm that lichen \u03b415N can be used to indicate the \u03b415N of atmospheric ammonia, providing a suitable tool for the interpretation of the spatial distribution of NH3 sources in relation to their \u03b415N signal.", "keywords": ["Air Pollutants", "Nitrates", "Lichens", "Nitrogen Isotopes", "Chlorophyll A", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "Models", " Theoretical", "chlorophyll a fluorescence", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen deposition", "Xanthoria parietina", "Species Specificity", "Ammonia", "13. 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Despite the importance of the microbial CUE for the terrestrial C cycle, very little is known about how it is affected by nutrient availability. Therefore, we studied microbial CUE and microbial biomass turnover time in soils of a long-term fertilization experiment in a temperate grassland comprising five treatments (control, PK, NK, NP, NPK). Microbial CUE and the turnover of microbial biomass were determined using a novel substrate-independent method based on incorporation of 18O from labeled water into microbial DNA. Microbial respiration was 28-37% smaller in all three N treatments (NK, NP, and NPK) compared to the control, whereas the PK treatment did not affect microbial respiration. N-fertilization decreased microbial C uptake, while the microbial growth rate was not affected. Microbial CUE ranged between 0.31 and 0.45, and was 1.3- to 1.4-fold higher in the N-fertilized soils than in the control. The turnover time ranged between 80 and 113 days and was not significantly affected by fertilization. Net primary production (NPP) and the abundance of legumes differed strongly across the treatments, and the fungal:bacterial ratio was very low in all treatments. Structural equation modeling revealed that microbial CUE was exclusively controlled by N fertilization and that neither the abundance of legumes (as a proxy for the quality of the organic matter inputs) nor NPP (as a proxy for C inputs) had an effect on microbial CUE. Our results show that N fertilization did not only decrease microbial respiration, but also microbial C uptake, indicating that less C was intracellularly processed in the N fertilized soils. The reason for reduced C uptake and increased CUE in the N-fertilization treatments is likely an inhibition of oxidative enzymes involved in the degradation of aromatic compounds by N in combination with a reduced energy requirement for microbial N acquisition in the fertilized soils. In conclusion, the study shows that N availability can control soil C cycling by affecting microbial CUE, while plant community-mediated changes in organic matter inputs and P and K availability played no important role for C partitioning of the microbial community in this temperate grassland.
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