Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

A. C. Risch (), S. Zimmermann, R. Ochoa-Hueso, M. Schütz, B. Frey, J. L. Firn, P. A. Fay, F. Hagedorn, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, W. S. Harpole, J. M. H. Knops, R. L. McCulley, A. A. D. Broadbent, C. J. Stevens, M. L. Silveira, P. B. Adler, S. Báez, L. A. Biederman, J. M. Blair, C. S. Brown, M. C. Caldeira, S. L. Collins, P. Daleo, A. Virgilio, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, E. Esch, A. Eskelinen, N. Hagenah, Y. Hautier, K. P. Kirkman, A. S. MacDougall, J. L. Moore, S. A. Power, S. M. Prober, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, J. Siebert, K. L. Speziale, P. M. Tognetti, R. Virtanen, L. Yahdjian and B. Moser
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A. C. Risch: Snow and Landscape Research WSL
S. Zimmermann: Snow and Landscape Research WSL
R. Ochoa-Hueso: Campus Rio San Pedro
M. Schütz: Snow and Landscape Research WSL
B. Frey: Snow and Landscape Research WSL
J. L. Firn: Science and Engineering Faculty
P. A. Fay: USDA-ARS Grassland Soil, and Water Research Laboratory
F. Hagedorn: Snow and Landscape Research WSL
E. T. Borer: University of Minnesota
E. W. Seabloom: University of Minnesota
W. S. Harpole: Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
J. M. H. Knops: University of Nebraska
R. L. McCulley: University of Kentucky
A. A. D. Broadbent: The University of Manchester, Oxford Road
C. J. Stevens: Lancaster University
M. L. Silveira: Range Cattle Research and Education Center
P. B. Adler: Utah State University
S. Báez: Escuela Politécnica Nacional del Ecuador
L. A. Biederman: Iowa State University
J. M. Blair: Kansas State University
C. S. Brown: Colorado State University
M. C. Caldeira: Universidade de Lisboa
S. L. Collins: University of New Mexico
P. Daleo: CONICET
A. Virgilio: Grupo de Investigaciones en Biología de la Conservación (GrInBiC) Laboratorio Ecotono, Quintral
A. Ebeling: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
N. Eisenhauer: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
E. Esch: University of California San Diego
A. Eskelinen: Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
N. Hagenah: University of Pretoria
Y. Hautier: Utrecht University, Padualaan 8
K. P. Kirkman: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg
A. S. MacDougall: University of Guelph
J. L. Moore: Monash University
S. A. Power: Western Sydney University
S. M. Prober: CSIRO Land and Water
C. Roscher: Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
M. Sankaran: TIFR
J. Siebert: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
K. L. Speziale: Grupo de Investigaciones en Biología de la Conservación (GrInBiC) Laboratorio Ecotono, Quintral
P. M. Tognetti: CONICET
R. Virtanen: Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research—UFZ
L. Yahdjian: CONICET
B. Moser: Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Soil nitrogen mineralisation (Nmin), the conversion of organic into inorganic N, is important for productivity and nutrient cycling. The balance between mineralisation and immobilisation (net Nmin) varies with soil properties and climate. However, because most global-scale assessments of net Nmin are laboratory-based, its regulation under field-conditions and implications for real-world soil functioning remain uncertain. Here, we explore the drivers of realised (field) and potential (laboratory) soil net Nmin across 30 grasslands worldwide. We find that realised Nmin is largely explained by temperature of the wettest quarter, microbial biomass, clay content and bulk density. Potential Nmin only weakly correlates with realised Nmin, but contributes to explain realised net Nmin when combined with soil and climatic variables. We provide novel insights of global realised soil net Nmin and show that potential soil net Nmin data available in the literature could be parameterised with soil and climate data to better predict realised Nmin.

Date: 2019
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