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| Title |
Plant species diversity affects soil–atmosphere fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide
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| Published in |
Oecologia, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00442-016-3611-8 |
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| Authors |
Pascal A. Niklaus, Xavier Le Roux, Franck Poly, Nina Buchmann, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Alexandra Weigelt, Romain L. Barnard |
| Abstract |
Plant diversity effects on ecosystem functioning can potentially interact with global climate by altering fluxes of the radiatively active trace gases nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). We studied the effects of grassland species richness (1-16) in combination with application of fertilizer (nitrogen:phosphorus:potassium = 100:43.6:83 kg ha(-1) a(-1)) on N2O and CH4 fluxes in a long-term field experiment. Soil N2O emissions, measured over 2 years using static chambers, decreased with species richness unless fertilizer was added. N2O emissions increased with fertilization and the fraction of legumes in plant communities. Soil CH4 uptake, a process driven by methanotrophic bacteria, decreased with plant species numbers, irrespective of fertilization. Using structural equation models, we related trace gas fluxes to soil moisture, soil inorganic N concentrations, nitrifying and denitrifying enzyme activity, and the abundance of ammonia oxidizers, nitrite oxidizers, and denitrifiers (quantified by real-time PCR of gene fragments amplified from microbial DNA in soil). These analyses indicated that plant species richness increased soil moisture, which in turn increased N cycling-related activities. Enhanced N cycling increased N2O emission and soil CH4 uptake, with the latter possibly caused by removal of inhibitory ammonium by nitrification. The moisture-related indirect effects were surpassed by direct, moisture-independent effects opposite in direction. Microbial gene abundances responded positively to fertilizer but not to plant species richness. The response patterns we found were statistically robust and highlight the potential of plant biodiversity to interact with climatic change through mechanisms unrelated to carbon storage and associated carbon dioxide removal. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 126 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 121 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 16% |
| Researcher | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 20 | 16% |
| Unknown | 18 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47 | 37% |
| Environmental Science | 31 | 25% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 6% |
| Unknown | 29 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2016.
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#5,898,954
of 22,860,626 outputs
Outputs from Oecologia
#1,247
of 4,221 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#83,582
of 300,331 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Oecologia
#22
of 62 outputs
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