The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

By Stefano Manzoni, R. B. Jackson, J. A. Trofymow, Amilcare Porporato. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanics of Materials, Paleontology

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Citations in the corpus

• Potential Benefits and Risks for Soil Health Derived From the Use of Organic Amendments in Agriculture (2019, background): “In particular, its carbon-to-nitrogen (C/N) ratio can limit soil microbial growth and activity and, thus, influence the rate of OM decomposition and the patterns of nutrient release [126].”
• Global drivers and patterns of microbial abundance in soil (2013, background): “Global patterns may be presumed, however, as evidenced by stoichiometric and metabolic constraints determining patterns of microbial abundance and activity across all soils (Cleveland & Liptzin, 2007; Manzoni et al., 2008; Sinsabaugh et al., 2008).”
• The Microbial Efficiency‐Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter? (2013, background): “Because of this different stoichiometry (Manzoni et al., 2008), microbes degrade plant litter with an initial higher N concentration more quickly (Hobbie, 2005).”
• Nitrogen addition stimulates forest litter decomposition and disrupts species interactions in Patagonia, Argentina (2011, background): “Finally, C-use efficiency can vary with N availability (Agren et al., 2001; Manzoni et al., 2008), which could explain why litter decomposition in forests with higher soil N background availability might respond less to N fertilization than in forests with lower N availability (Hobbie, 2005).”
• Microbial carbon use efficiency: accounting for population, community, and ecosystem-scale controls over the fate of metabolized organic matter (2016, background): “2006; Manzoni et al. 2012). Our conceptual model organizes microbial CUE as three nested definitions: CUEP, CUEC, and CUEE (Fig. 2). Each of these terms is associated with 178 Biogeochemistry (2016) 127:173–188”
• Leaf litter decomposition-Estimates of global variability based on Yasso07 model (2009, background): “1a), which are the most important climate factors affecting litter decomposition (Meentemeyer, 1978; Berg et al., 1993; Aerts, 1997; Liski et al., 2003; Parton et al., 2007).”
• Ecological stoichiometry in leaves, roots, litters and soil among different plant communities in a desertified region of Northern China (2018, background): “Litter stores nutrients and plays an important role in element cycling (Melillo et al., 1982; Manzoni et al., 2008); thus, the balance of the C, N, and P ratios is highly complex in a plant-litter-soil system (Moe et al., 2005; Manzoni et al., 2008; Manzoni et al., 2010).”
• Positive effects of tree species diversity on litterfall quantity and quality along a secondary successional chronosequence in a subtropical forest (2017, background): “Because the quality of litterfall is a major controller of litter decomposition and nutrient return rates (Manzoni et al. 2008; Meier and Bowman 2008), the lower initial litter C/N ratio in more species-rich plots in our study could accelerate decomposition and nitrogen mineralization.”
• Decomposition trajectories of diverse litter types: a model selection analysis (2014, background): “It is well-established that litter initial N content is an important driver of decomposition rate (Swift, Heal & Anderson 1979), and patterns ofN immobilization/mineralization (Parton et al. 2007; Manzoni et al. 2008).”
• The elemental stoichiometry of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and its relationships with organismic lifestyle and ecosystem structure and function: a review and perspectives (2011, background): “Moreover, some important groups of heterotrophs such as bacteria and fungi can absorb N and P from organic and also from mineral sources, an ability that endows these groups with more possibilities to control their body C:N:P stoichiometry (Manzoni et al. 2008; Manzoni and Porporato 2009).”