Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

Raúl Ochoa-Hueso; Elizabeth T. Borer; Eric W. Seabloom; Sarah E. Hobbie; Anita C. Risch; Scott L. Collins; Juan Alberti; Héctor A. Bahamonde; Cynthia S. Brown; Maria C. Caldeira; Pedro Daleo; Chris R. Dickman; Anne Ebeling; Nico Eisenhauer; Ellen H. Esch; Anu Eskelinen; Victoria Fernández; Sabine Güsewell; Blanca Gutierrez-Larruga; Kirsten Hofmockel; Ramesh Laungani; Eric Lind; Andrea López; Rebecca L. McCulley; Joslin L. Moore; Pablo L. Peri; Sally A. Power; Jodi N. Price; Suzanne M. Prober; Christiane Roscher; Judith M. Sarneel; Martin Schütz; Julia Siebert; Rachel J. Standish; Sergio Velasco Ayuso; Risto Virtanen; Glenda M. Wardle; Georg Wiehl; Laura Yahdjian; Tara Zamin

doi:10.1111/gcb.15146

Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

Raúl Ochoa-Hueso
, Elizabeth T. Borer
, Eric W. Seabloom
, Sarah E. Hobbie
, Anita C. Risch
, Scott L. Collins
, Juan Alberti
, Héctor A. Bahamonde
, Cynthia S. Brown
, Maria C. Caldeira
, Pedro Daleo
, Chris R. Dickman
, Anne Ebeling
, Nico Eisenhauer
, Ellen H. Esch
, Anu Eskelinen
, Victoria Fernández
, Sabine Güsewell
, Blanca Gutierrez-Larruga
, Kirsten Hofmockel

Ramesh Laungani, Eric Lind, Andrea López, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, Pablo L. Peri, Sally A. Power, Jodi N. Price, Suzanne M. Prober, Christiane Roscher, Judith M. Sarneel, Martin Schütz, Julia Siebert, Rachel J. Standish, Sergio Velasco Ayuso, Risto Virtanen, Glenda M. Wardle, Georg Wiehl, Laura Yahdjian, Tara Zamin

Plant and Soil Sciences

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Abstract

Microbial processing of aggregate-unprotected organic matter inputs is key for soil fertility, long-term ecosystem carbon and nutrient sequestration and sustainable agriculture. We investigated the effects of adding multiple nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium plus nine essential macro- and micro-nutrients) on decomposition and biochemical transformation of standard plant materials buried in 21 grasslands from four continents. Addition of multiple nutrients weakly but consistently increased decomposition and biochemical transformation of plant remains during the peak-season, concurrent with changes in microbial exoenzymatic activity. Higher mean annual precipitation and lower mean annual temperature were the main climatic drivers of higher decomposition rates, while biochemical transformation of plant remains was negatively related to temperature of the wettest quarter. Nutrients enhanced decomposition most at cool, high rainfall sites, indicating that in a warmer and drier future fertilized grassland soils will have an even more limited potential for microbial processing of plant remains.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4572-4582
Number of pages	11
Journal	Global Change Biology
Volume	26
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15146
State	Published - Aug 1 2020

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This work was generated using data from the Nutrient Network ( http://www.nutnet.org ) experiment, funded at the site‐scale by individual researchers. Coordination and data management have been supported by funding to E. Borer and E. Seabloom from the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (NSF‐DEB‐1042132) and Long Term Ecological Research (DEB‐1234162 & DEB1831944 to Cedar Creek LTER) programs, and the Institute on the Environment (DG‐0001‐13). We also thank the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute for hosting project data and the Institute on the Environment for hosting Network meetings. R.O.H. is financially supported by a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from MICIU (RYC‐2017‐22032). C.S.B. acknowledges support provided by Colorado Agricultural Research Station and the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management. JMS acknowledges the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet for funding. NE acknowledges the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118). MC acknowledges C Lezírias and FCT for UIDB/00239/2020. This work was generated using data from the Nutrient Network (http://www.nutnet.org) experiment, funded at the site-scale by individual researchers. Coordination and data management have been supported by funding to E. Borer and E. Seabloom from the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (NSF-DEB-1042132) and Long Term Ecological Research (DEB-1234162 & DEB1831944 to Cedar Creek LTER) programs, and the Institute on the Environment (DG-0001-13). We also thank the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute for hosting project data and the Institute on the Environment for hosting Network meetings. R.O.H. is financially supported by a Ram?n y Cajal Fellowship from MICIU (RYC-2017-22032). C.S.B. acknowledges support provided by Colorado Agricultural Research Station and the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management. JMS acknowledges the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsr?det for funding. NE acknowledges the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118).?MC acknowledges C Lez?rias and FCT for UIDB/00239/2020.

Funders	Funder number
Colorado Agricultural Research Station
Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment	DG‐0001‐13
Long-Term Ecological Research
MICIU	RYC‐2017‐22032
Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsr?det
Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	1831944, DEB‐1234162, 1655499, DEB1831944, NSF‐DEB‐1042132
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	FZT 118
Fundació Catalana de Trasplantament

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SDG 2 Zero Hunger

Keywords

NutNet
carbon cycling and sequestration
decomposition
eutrophication
fertilization
microbial activity
nutrient (co-)limitation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Chemistry
Ecology
General Environmental Science

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Ochoa-Hueso, R., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., Hobbie, S. E., Risch, A. C., Collins, S. L., Alberti, J., Bahamonde, H. A., Brown, C. S., Caldeira, M. C., Daleo, P., Dickman, C. R., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Esch, E. H., Eskelinen, A., Fernández, V., Güsewell, S., Gutierrez-Larruga, B., ... Zamin, T. (2020). Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands. Global Change Biology, 26(8), 4572-4582. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15146

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