Urine is an important nitrogen source for plants irrespective of vegetation composition in an Arctic tundra: Insights from a 15N-enriched urea tracer experiment. Barthelemy, H., Stark, S., Michelsen, A., & Olofsson, J. Journal of Ecology, 106(1):367–378, 2018. _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.12820![Urine is an important nitrogen source for plants irrespective of vegetation composition in an Arctic tundra: Insights from a 15N-enriched urea tracer experiment [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Mammalian herbivores can strongly influence nitrogen (N) cycling and herbivore urine could be a central component of the N cycle in grazed ecosystems. Despite its potential role for ecosystem productivity and functioning, the fate of N derived from urine has rarely been investigated in grazed ecosystems. This study explored the fate of 15N-enriched urea in tundra sites that have been either lightly or intensively grazed by reindeer for more than 50 years. We followed the fate of the 15N applied to the plant canopy, at 2 weeks and 1 year after tracer addition, in the different ecosystem N pools. 15N-urea was rapidly incorporated in cryptogams and in above-ground parts of vascular plants, while the soil microbial pool and plant roots sequestered only a marginal proportion. Furthermore, the litter layer constituted a large sink for the 15N-urea, at least in the short term, indicating a high biological activity in the litter layer and high immobilization in the first phases of organic matter decomposition. Mosses and lichens still constituted the largest sink for the 15N-urea 1 year after tracer addition at both levels of grazing intensity demonstrating their large ability to capture and retain N from urine. Despite large fundamental differences in their traits, deciduous and evergreen shrubs were just as efficient as graminoids in taking up the 15N-urea. The total recovery of 15N-urea was lower in the intensively grazed sites, suggesting that reindeer reduce ecosystem N retention. Synthesis. The rapid incorporation of the applied 15N-urea indicates that arctic plants can take advantage of a pulse of incoming N from urine. In addition, δ15N values of all taxa in the heavily grazed sites converged towards the δ15N values for urine, bringing further evidence that urine is an important N source for plants in grazed tundra ecosystems.
@article{barthelemy_urine_2018,
title = {Urine is an important nitrogen source for plants irrespective of vegetation composition in an {Arctic} tundra: {Insights} from a {15N}-enriched urea tracer experiment},
volume = {106},
copyright = {© 2017 The Authors. Journal of Ecology © 2017 British Ecological Society},
issn = {1365-2745},
shorttitle = {Urine is an important nitrogen source for plants irrespective of vegetation composition in an {Arctic} tundra},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.12820},
doi = {10.1111/1365-2745.12820},
abstract = {Mammalian herbivores can strongly influence nitrogen (N) cycling and herbivore urine could be a central component of the N cycle in grazed ecosystems. Despite its potential role for ecosystem productivity and functioning, the fate of N derived from urine has rarely been investigated in grazed ecosystems. This study explored the fate of 15N-enriched urea in tundra sites that have been either lightly or intensively grazed by reindeer for more than 50 years. We followed the fate of the 15N applied to the plant canopy, at 2 weeks and 1 year after tracer addition, in the different ecosystem N pools. 15N-urea was rapidly incorporated in cryptogams and in above-ground parts of vascular plants, while the soil microbial pool and plant roots sequestered only a marginal proportion. Furthermore, the litter layer constituted a large sink for the 15N-urea, at least in the short term, indicating a high biological activity in the litter layer and high immobilization in the first phases of organic matter decomposition. Mosses and lichens still constituted the largest sink for the 15N-urea 1 year after tracer addition at both levels of grazing intensity demonstrating their large ability to capture and retain N from urine. Despite large fundamental differences in their traits, deciduous and evergreen shrubs were just as efficient as graminoids in taking up the 15N-urea. The total recovery of 15N-urea was lower in the intensively grazed sites, suggesting that reindeer reduce ecosystem N retention. Synthesis. The rapid incorporation of the applied 15N-urea indicates that arctic plants can take advantage of a pulse of incoming N from urine. In addition, δ15N values of all taxa in the heavily grazed sites converged towards the δ15N values for urine, bringing further evidence that urine is an important N source for plants in grazed tundra ecosystems.},
language = {en},
number = {1},
urldate = {2024-03-27},
journal = {Journal of Ecology},
author = {Barthelemy, Hélène and Stark, Sari and Michelsen, Anders and Olofsson, Johan},
year = {2018},
note = {\_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.12820},
keywords = {\#nosource, Arctic tundra, N labelling, above- and belowground linkages, cryptogams, grazing intensity, microbial N biomass, nutrient cycling, plant nutrient uptake, plant–herbivore interactions, urine},
pages = {367--378},
}
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