Differential Nutrient Limitation of Soil Microbial Biomass and Metabolic Quotients (qCO2): Is There a Biological Stoichiometry of Soil Microbes?

WH Hartman, CJ Richardson - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Variation in microbial metabolism poses one of the greatest current
uncertainties in models of global carbon cycling, and is particularly poorly understood in …

Fifteen years of climate change manipulations alter soil microbial communities in a subarctic heath ecosystem

R Rinnan, A Michelsen, E Bååth… - Global Change …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Soil microbial biomass in arctic heaths has been shown to be largely unaffected by
treatments simulating climate change with temperature, nutrient and light manipulations …

Microbial carbon limitation: The need for integrating microorganisms into our understanding of ecosystem carbon cycling

JL Soong, L Fuchslueger… - Global change …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have demonstrated that fertilization with nutrients such as nitrogen,
phosphorus, and potassium increases plant productivity in both natural and managed …

Does agricultural crop diversity enhance soil microbial biomass and organic matter dynamics? A meta‐analysis

MD McDaniel, LK Tiemann… - Ecological …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Our increasing dependence on a small number of agricultural crops, such as corn, is leading
to reductions in agricultural biodiversity. Reductions in the number of crops in rotation or the …

Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain

C Shen, J **ong, H Zhang, Y Feng, X Lin, X Li… - Soil Biology and …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The elevational patterns of diversity for plants and animals have been well established over
the past century. However, it is unclear whether there is a general elevational distribution …

Alpine plant life: functional plant ecology of high mountain ecosystems

C Körner, C Kèorner - 1999‏ - Springer
Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life-with the exposure of
organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text …

C: N: P stoichiometry in soil: is there a “Redfield ratio” for the microbial biomass?

CC Cleveland, D Liptzin - Biogeochemistry, 2007‏ - Springer
Well-constrained carbon: nitrogen: phosphorus (C: N: P) ratios in planktonic biomass, and
their importance in advancing our understanding of biological processes and nutrient …

Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities

SD Siciliano, AS Palmer, T Winsley, E Lamb… - Soil Biology and …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Microbial activities in Arctic and Antarctic soils are of particular interest due to uncertainty
surrounding the fate of the enormous polar soil organic matter (SOM) pools and the potential …

Enzymatic stoichiometry reveals phosphorus limitation-induced changes in the soil bacterial communities and element cycling: Evidence from a long-term field …

J Cui, S Zhang, X Wang, X Xu, C Ai, G Liang, P Zhu… - Geoderma, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Soil microbial growth and activity are generally limited by availability of resources such
carbon (C), nitrogen (N), or phosphorus (P) in terrestrial ecosystems. However, how soil …

A frozen feast: Thawing permafrost increases plant‐available nitrogen in subarctic peatlands

F Keuper, PM van Bodegom, E Dorrepaal… - Global Change …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many of the world's northern peatlands are underlain by rapidly thawing permafrost.
Because plant production in these peatlands is often nitrogen (N)‐limited, a release of N …