Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Gerschlauer, Friederike; Saiz, Gustavo; Schellenberger Costa, David; Kleyer, Michael; Dannenmann, Michael; Kiese, Ralf

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-409-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-409-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-409-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

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25 Jan 2019

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Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Friederike Gerschlauer, Gustavo Saiz, David Schellenberger Costa, Michael Kleyer, Michael Dannenmann, and Ralf Kiese

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RC1: 'Full peer-review', Anonymous Referee #3, 01 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Answers to reviewer #3', Gustavo Saiz, 25 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of Gerschlauer et al', Anonymous Referee #4, 02 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Answers to reviewer #4', Gustavo Saiz, 26 Dec 2018
RC3: 'Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various tropical ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Nov 2018
- AC3: 'Answers to reviewer #1', Gustavo Saiz, 26 Dec 2018
AC4: 'Authors' changes to the MS (track changes)', Gustavo Saiz, 26 Dec 2018
AC5: 'Revised MS', Gustavo Saiz, 26 Dec 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (27 Dec 2018) by Yakov Kuzyakov

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ED: Publish as is (13 Jan 2019) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Gustavo Saiz on behalf of the Authors (14 Jan 2019)

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Mount Kilimanjaro is an iconic environmental asset under serious threat due to increasing human pressures and climate change constraints. We studied variations in the stable isotopic composition of carbon and nitrogen in plant, litter, and soil material sampled along a strong land-use and altitudinal gradient. Our results show that, besides management, increasing temperatures in a changing climate may promote carbon and nitrogen losses, thus altering the stability of Kilimanjaro ecosystems.