Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

By Josep Peñuelas, B. Poulter, Jordi Sardans, Philippe Ciais, M. van der Velde, L. Bopp, O. Boucher, Y. Goddéris, P. Hinsinger, Joan Llusià and 4 more. Nature Communications, 2013

1,302 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5e210a3f8e01880986ca1be999e7008eeaed8552

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Environmental Chemistry

In Soil Science

Citations in the corpus

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe (2015, background): “Understanding of soil microbial community responses to elevated P inputs remains more limited, even though many regions experience elevated inputs of both N and P (2), and anthropogenic activities can alter N:P ratios in soil (1, 23).”
Phosphorus availability and microbial community in the rhizosphere of intercropped cereal and legume along a P-fertilizer gradient (2016, background): “In addition, as P fertilizers are derived from mined phosphate rocks that are non-renewable resources, the current rate of use is expected to severely deplete these resources in several decades (Cordell et al. 2009; Dawson and Hilton 2011; Penuelas et al. 2013).”
Diverse Mycorrhizal Associations Enhance Terrestrial C Storage in a Global Model (2019, background): “P limitation is likely to be particularly important in tropical regions (Peñuelas et al., 2013).”
Future agricultural phosphorus demand according to the shared socioeconomic pathways (2018, background): “Historically, however, cropland production has been stimulated mainly via a direct increase of P fertilizer use in croplands (Peñuelas et al., 2013; Van der Velde et al., 2014; Figs.”
Sustainable food production: constraints, challenges and choices by 2050 (2015, background): “The change in the stoichiometry of carbon and nitrogen relative to phosphorus has no equivalent in Earth’s history (Peñuelas et al. 2013).”
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nutrient Resorption in Plants (2015, background): “In terrestrial plants, N:P ratio increases with warming, drought, and N fertilization, creating a shift from N-limitation to P-limitation in plants, whereas N:P ratio decreases with elevated concentrations of CO2, increasing rainfall, and P fertilization (Penuelas et al., 2013; Yuan and Chen, 2015a)”
Response and interaction of Bradyrhizobium japonicum and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the soybean rhizosphere (2018, background): “Plant available P is inherently low in most world soils, where it is the second most (after N) limiting nutrient for crop and forage production (Penuelas et al. 2013).”
Decreased soil organic P fraction associated with ectomycorrhizal fungal activity to meet increased P demand under N application in a subtropical forest ecosystem (2017, background): “…especially in southeast China (where the N deposition rate is over 40 kg N ha−1y−1; Li et al. 2014; Jia et al. 2016), whichmight induce unbalancedN and P ratios (Penuelas et al. 2013) and could further exacerbate the P limitation in the forest ecosystem (Liu et al. 2012; Li et al. 2016).”