High-resolution dynamics of available N in a grassland ecosystem under a multiple climate manipulation experiment
APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY(2023)
Abstract
Nitrogen (N) is the most important limiting nutrient for plants and soil microorganisms in almost all ecosystems. Global environmental changes significantly affect the terrestrial N cycle but implications for plant available N in-situ remain unclear. Here, we investigated the simultaneous effect of elevated atmospheric CO2, an increase in temperature and a drying-rewetting event on diffusive N fluxes in soil of a managed permanent grassland at the multifactor climate manipulation experimental site ClimGrass (Austria) using microdialysis. Rewetting caused a significant, but short-lived increase in diffusive NH4+ and NO3- fluxes, which subsequently dropped until the end of the experiment. Harvesting induced a significant increase in diffusive NH4+ fluxes in the drying-rewetting treatments. However, elevated CO2 and soil warming had little effect on diffusive N fluxes. Our study suggests that more frequent soil drying-rewetting cycles associated with increased extreme weather events are uppermost among the climate change drivers affecting soil N availability.
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Key words
Microdialysis,Extreme weather event,Climate change,Amino acids,Drying-rewetting,Harvest
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