Long-term snowpack manipulation promotes large loss of bioavailable nitrogen and phosphorus in a subalpine grassland

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Y. Yano, E. Brookshire, J. Holsinger, T. Weaver]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Biogeochemistry, 124/1-3(2015-05-01), 319-333
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Long-term snowpack manipulation promotes large loss of bioavailable nitrogen and phosphorus in a subalpine grassland  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Y. Yano, E. Brookshire, J. Holsinger, T. Weaver] 
520 3 |a Nutrient retention in ecosystems requires synchrony between the supply of bioavailable nutrients released via mineralization and nutrient uptake by plants. Though disturbance and chronic nutrient loading are known to alter nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) dynamics and induce nutrient export, whether long-term shifts in climate affect source-sink synchrony, and ultimately primary productivity, remains uncertain. This is particularly true for snow-dominated ecosystems, which are naturally subject to lags between nutrient inputs and uptake. To address how climate change may affect nutrient source-sink synchrony we examined the impacts of deepened snowpack on N and P losses in a subalpine grassland in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA, where we have experimentally increased snowpack depths by two- and four-times ambient snow for 45years. Long-term snow addition resulted in remarkably high levels of bioavailable-N leaching (up to 16kgha−1 year−1) that were 11-80 times higher than those under ambient snowpack. Estimated bioavailable-P losses also increased with snow addition, but to a lesser degree (up to 0.3kgha−1 year−1), indicating greater enhancement of N losses over P losses during snowmelt. Because these losses could not be explained by changes in nutrient inputs in snowpack or by changes in plant-soil turnover, our results suggest that high bioavailable-N leaching under deep snowpack originates not from a lack of N limitation of plant productivity, but rather from enhanced subnivean microbial processes followed by snowmelt leaching prior to the growing season. This is supported by reduced soil N pools in the snow treatments. Snow-dominated regions are projected to experience shifts in seasonal snowpack regime. These shifts may ultimately affect the stoichiometric balance between available N and P and future plant productivity. 
540 |a Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015 
690 7 |a Climate change  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Grassland  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Nitrogen cycle  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Nutrient leaching  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Phosphorus cycle  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Snowmelt  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Nutrient stoichiometry  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a BTL : Bangtail study area  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a DIN : Dissolved inorganic nitrogen  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a DON : Dissolved organic nitrogen  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a SWE : Snow-water equivalent  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a TDN : Total dissolved nitrogen  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Yano  |D Y.  |u Department of Land, Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 59717, Bozeman, MT, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Brookshire  |D E.  |u Department of Land, Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 59717, Bozeman, MT, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Holsinger  |D J.  |u Department of Land, Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 59717, Bozeman, MT, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Weaver  |D T.  |u Department of Ecology, Montana State University, 59717, Bozeman, MT, USA  |4 aut 
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