Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems

By A. Austin, L. Yahdjian, J. Stark, J. Belnap, Amilcare Porporato, U. Norton, D. Ravetta, Sean Schaeffer. Oecologia, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Common and distinguishing features of the bacterial and fungal communities in biological soil crusts and shrub root zone soils (2014, background): “Although the bacteria appeared to represent the numerically dominant soil population in both locations at this sampling time, the episodic nature and pulse dynamics of rainfall in dryland ecosystems have large effects on shaping arid soil microbial communities and therefore comparisons based on a si”
Translocation of nitrogen and carbon integrates biotic crust and grass production in desert grassland (2008, background): “These microbial processes not only contribute to soil fertility, but they also respond at different, generally lower, soil moisture thresholds than plants (Austin et al. 2004; Huxman et al. 2004).”
Above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity jointly regulate temperate forest multifunctionality along a local‐scale environmental gradient (2020, background): “Also, fungi are known to be more tolerant to harsher condition than other soil microbes (Austin et al., 2004), and thus fungal diversity may have a large effect on temperate FM where soils remain frozen conditions during most time of the year.”
The impact of precipitation change on nitrogen cycling in a semi-arid ecosystem (2014, background): “ity that result in a patchy distribution of vegetation and a heterogeneous distribution of soil water and N on the landscape (Austin et al. 2004).”
Biological Soil Crusts: An Organizing Principle in Drylands (2016, background): “Thus, the dominant microbially driven nutrient transformations are decoupled in time and space from vascular plant production (Austin et al. 2004; Schwinning and Sala 2004; Collins et al. 2014).”
Hierarchy of responses to resource pulses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems (2004, background): “However, the net result of such trophic interactions on carbon and nitrogen fluxes and stores may be quite sensitive to the exact course of soil water recharge and depletion (see also Austin et al. 2004, this issue).”
Variability in amount and frequency of water supply affects roots but not growth of arid shrubs (2009, background): “Nutrients (Schlesinger and Pilmanis 1998; Gallardo 2003) and water (Burgess et al. 1998; Cantón et al. 2004) are not evenly distributed in space in natural soils, and their temporal availability is not regular (Austin et al. 2004; Reynolds et al. 2004).”
Contrasting Relationships between Precipitation and Species Richness in Space and Time (2007, background): “Alternatively, a dry period might lead to a more intense pulse of nitrate upon rewetting (Austin et al. 2004).”