Nitrogen addition alters C-N cycling in alpine rangelands: Evidence from a 4-year in situ field experiment

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Liu, Yongwen

作者： Liu, Yongwen;Xu-Ri;Wei, Da;Tenzintarchen;Zhao, Jingxue;Zhao, Jingxue;Geng, Xiaodong;Dai, Dongxue

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关键词： Alpine pasture; Nitrogen deposition; Livestock grazing; Carbon sink; Ecosystem respiration; Soil inorganic nitrogen; Tibetan Plateau

期刊名称：CATENA （ 影响因子：5.198； 五年影响因子：5.594 ）

ISSN： 0341-8162

年卷期： 2021 年 203 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Nitrogen (N) deposition has been critical to the increase in the terrestrial carbon (C) sink in recent decades. Clarifying the C-N cycling responses in rangelands to N enrichment is essential for quantitatively understanding and predicting how N enrichment influences terrestrial C sinks. However, the N enrichment effects on rangeland C-N cycling under livestock grazing, rather than grazing exclusion, have rarely been investigated. Here, we conducted a 4-year in situ field experiment to examine the effects of multilevel N addition (NH4NO3: 0, 10, 20, 40, 80 and 160 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1) ) on soil N characteristics and ecosystem C fluxes in an alpine pasture on the Tibetan Plateau. We found that there were no significant differences in the soil organic C, soil total N, or soil C:N ratio across the six N addition levels. Over the four years, N addition generally increased the average soil inorganic N, with an increase ranging from 6% for the addition of 10 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1) to 292% for the addition of 160 kg N ha(-1) yr(-1). Such an increase in soil inorganic N was dominated by soil NO3--N enrichment rather than NH4+-N variations, resulting in a decreased soil NH4-/NO3 ratio. Unlike the significant response of soil inorganic N to N addition, the net ecosystem CO2 exchange, gross ecosystem productivity and ecosystem respiration averaged over the growing season were not significantly changed by N addition in the third and fourth years, possibly due to the regulation by livestock grazing. In the last experimental year, N addition significantly enhanced belowground biomass but had no significant effect on aboveground biomass, leading to an increase in the root:shoot ratio. Our study highlights that N addition altered C-N cycling in alpine pastoral ecosystems and provides experimental evidence for quantitatively parameterizing the C process responses to N variations in terrestrial ecosystem models.

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