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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
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Department of Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences,
Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción,
Concepción, Chile
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
David Schellenberger Costa
Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of
Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Michael Kleyer
Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of
Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Michael Dannenmann
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Ralf Kiese
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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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.
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