Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen-phosphorus interactions.

By P. Vitousek, S. Porder, B. Houlton, Oliver A. Chadwick. Ecological Applications, 2010

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Soil Science

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Nitrogen enrichment alters plant N: P stoichiometry and intensifies phosphorus limitation in a steppe ecosystem (2017, background): “ratio of N to P in plants or soils, and potentially intensify ecological limitation of P relative to N (Crowley et al., 2012; Vitousek et al., 2010).”
Impacts of Nitrogen and Phosphorus: From Genomes to Natural Ecosystems and Agriculture (2017, background): “This in turn results in faster rates of P removal and increased P limitation (Vitousek et al., 2010).”
Species‐specific responses of foliar nutrients to long‐term nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a lowland tropical forest (2014, background): “This reflects the wide range in P availability and taxonomic diversity in tropical forests (Townsend et al. 2007; Vitousek et al. 2010; AlvarezClare, Mack & Brooks 2013) and genetic constraints on leaf P resorption proficiency (reviewed in McGroddy, Daufresne & Hedin 2004).”
Effects of biochar application on root traits: a meta‐analysis (2017, background): “Additionally, soil P is less mobile than N (Walker & Syers, 1976; Vitousek et al., 2010).”
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus supply on growth rate, leaf stoichiometry, and nutrient resorption of Arabidopsis thaliana (2014, positive): “Understanding plant responses to N and P fertilization and their interactions will help to evaluate whether addition of P could mitigate the negative effects of enhanced N deposition (Güsewell 2005b; Vitousek et al. 2010).”
Soil acidification and adaptations of plants and microorganisms in Bornean tropical forests (2014, background): “Limited P can inhibit NPP in tropical forests via several factors: low availability of P relative to nitrogen (N), soil weathering, and P-deficient bedrock (Vitousek and Howarth 1991; Vitousek et al. 2010).”
Foliar phosphorus fractions reveal how tropical plants maintain photosynthetic rates despite low soil phosphorus availability (2019, result): “Despite several lines of evidence suggesting P limitation in tropical forests (Turner et al., 2018; Vitousek et al., 2010; Wright et al., 2018), photosynthetic capacity was only increased by P addition in the eurytopic species C. cyrtophyllum which is consistent with our second hypothesis and…”
Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above‐ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie (2014, background): “Journal of Ecology © 2014 British Ecological Society ANPP generally increases (Elser et al. 2007; Vitousek et al. 2010).”
Greater root phosphatase activity in nitrogen‐fixing rhizobial but not actinorhizal plants with declining phosphorus availability (2017, background): “1997; Hayes, Richardson & Simpson 1999; Treseder & Vitousek 2001; Olde Venterink 2011) and rates of N fixation (Baker, Hill & Parsons 1997; Hartwig 1998; Pearson & Vitousek 2001; Vitousek et al. 2010; Barron, Purves & Hedin 2011).”
Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies (2010, background): “Such processes include leaching of dissolved organic nitrogen and of nitrate, release of gaseous N in denitrification and nitrification, and combustion of organic N to gaseous products in fire (Bowden and Bormann 1986; Bowden 1986; Vitousek and Field 1999; Vitousek et al. 2010).”
Multi-element regulation of the tropical forest carbon cycle (2011, background): “However, this geological transition alone cannot explain all of the observed patterns in N versus P limitation; rather, the ultimate outcome depends on a suite of processes that determine the balance between N and P inputs, losses, and biological demand (Vitousek et al. 2010), factors that shift ove”
The role of complementarity and selection effects in P acquisition of intercropping systems (2017, background): “Of the nutrients required by crops in large amounts, phosphorus (P) arguably is one of the most important productivity-limiting elements in a wide variety of terrestrial systems (Vitousek et al. 2010).”
Total and active microbial communities and phoD as affected by phosphate depletion and pH in soil (2016, background): “P is often a limiting nutrient for plants and microorganisms in soil (Vitousek et al. 2010) and phosphate fertilizer is therefore commonly applied to agricultural soils to maintain crop productivity.”
Global meta-analysis shows pervasive phosphorus limitation of aboveground plant production in natural terrestrial ecosystems (2020, background): “(4) Ln(RR) weighted by experimental duration.”