Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale.

By R. Sinsabaugh, C. Lauber, M. Weintraub, Bony Ahmed, S. Allison, C. Crenshaw, Alexandra R Contosta, D. Cusack, Serita Frey, M. E. Gallo and 11 more. Ecology Letters, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science

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Evolutionary-Economic Principles as Regulators of Soil Enzyme Production and Ecosystem Function (2010, background): “This relationship also holds at the global scale, where the ratio of P- to C-acquiring extracellular enzymes increases in tropical ecosystems where P is more likely to limit productivity due to increased P weathering rates (Sinsabaugh et al. 2008).”
Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012, background): “Similarly, soil enzyme activities catalyse limiting steps in organicmatter degradation and are often commonly used as indicators of microbial nutrient demand (Sinsabaugh et al. 2008).”
The biological activities of β-glucosidase, phosphatase and urease as soil quality indicators: a review (2017, background): “The reduction in tillage intensity favors and increases β-glucosidase activity due to improvement in microbial biomass, more substrate availability and reduced soil disturbance (Sinsabaugh et al., 2008).”
Responses of enzymatic activities within soil aggregates to 9-year nitrogen and water addition in a semi-arid grassland (2015, background): “The negative correlation between NAG and soil pH (Table S2) was consistent with the study of Sinsabaugh et al. (2008) who analyzed global enzymatic database from 40 ecosystems.”
The influence of vegetation type, soil properties and precipitation on the composition of soil mite and microbial communities at the landscape scale (2010, result): “pH is similar to the findings of previous studies (Fierer & Jackson, 2006; Sinsabaugh et al., 2008).”
Priming and microbial nutrient limitation in lowland tropical forest soils of contrasting fertility (2012, background): “Activity of these enzymes can indicate microbial mineralization of nutrients from organic matter due to N or P demand (Olander and Vitousek 2000; Allison et al. 2007; Sinsabaugh et al. 2008) and consequently may provide a useful indication of nutrient limitation during priming.”
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).”
Eco-enzymatic stoichiometry and enzymatic vectors reveal differential C, N, P dynamics in decaying litter along a land-use gradient (2016, background): “For instance, the BG:AP ratio is lower in highly weathered tropical soils (Sinsabaugh et al. 2008; Waring et al. 2014), confirming the widespread thought of a shift from N to P limitation from high to low latitudes (McGroddy et al. 2004; Reich and Oleksyn 2004).”
Consequences of More Intensive Forestry for the Sustainable Management of Forest Soils and Waters (2011, background): “easily accessed by the trees [20], the decomposition of large macromolecules to peptides, amino acids and inorganic N-forms, and the relationships between trees and their symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi are particularly important to the supply of N to primary producers [21,22].”
Light, earthworms, and soil resources as predictors of diversity of 10 soil invertebrate groups across monocultures of 14 tree species (2016, neutral): “For example, soil pH is known to in ﬂ uence the relative abundance and diversity of soil bacteria and fungi (Mulder et al., 2005, 2009; Fierer et al., 2009) as well as the activity of soil enzymes (Sinsabaugh et al., 2008), which could cascade into bottom-up effects on soil animal diversity.”
Searching for unifying principles in soil ecology (2009, background): “tion can be predicted remarkably well from a single edaphic variable, soil pH (Fierer and Jackson, 2006; Sinsabaugh et al., 2008).”
Microbial and Enzyme Activities of Saline and Sodic Soils (2016, background): “Soil pH reflects climatic controls on soil weathering and affects the large-scale distribution of soil enzymes through changes in nutrient availability (Sinsabaugh et al., 2008).”