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Century-scale wood nitrogen isotope trajectories from an oak savanna with variable fire frequencies
Department of Geography, Environment, and Society, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Daniel Griffin
Department of Geography, Environment, and Society, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Sarah E. Hobbie
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota,
Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Ian M. Howard
Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
72701, USA
David M. Nelson
Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental
Science, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA
Peter B. Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN
55108, USA
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University,
Penrith, NSW 2753, Australia
Kendra K. McLauchlan
Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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Joel T. Bostic, David M. Nelson, and Keith N. Eshleman
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David P. Pompeani, Kendra K. McLauchlan, Barrie V. Chileen, Kyra D. Wolf, and Philip E. Higuera
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Daniel D. Richter, Sharon A. Billings, Peter M. Groffman, Eugene F. Kelly, Kathleen A. Lohse, William H. McDowell, Timothy S. White, Suzanne Anderson, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Steve Banwart, Susan Brantley, Jean J. Braun, Zachary S. Brecheisen, Charles W. Cook, Hilairy E. Hartnett, Sarah E. Hobbie, Jerome Gaillardet, Esteban Jobbagy, Hermann F. Jungkunst, Clare E. Kazanski, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Daniel Markewitz, Katherine O'Neill, Clifford S. Riebe, Paul Schroeder, Christina Siebe, Whendee L. Silver, Aaron Thompson, Anne Verhoef, and Ganlin Zhang
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David M. Nelson, Urumu Tsunogai, Dong Ding, Takuya Ohyama, Daisuke D. Komatsu, Fumiko Nakagawa, Izumi Noguchi, and Takashi Yamaguchi
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6381–6392, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6381-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6381-2018, 2018
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Atmospheric nitrate may be produced locally and/or come from upwind regions. To address this issue we measured oxygen and nitrogen isotopes of wet and dry nitrate deposition at nearby urban and rural sites. Our results suggest that, relative to nitrate in wet deposition in urban environments and wet and dry deposition in rural environments, nitrate in dry deposition in urban environments results from local NOx emissions more so than wet deposition, which is transported longer distances.
Wenqiang Zhao, Peter B. Reich, Qiannan Yu, Ning Zhao, Chunying Yin, Chunzhang Zhao, Dandan Li, Jun Hu, Ting Li, Huajun Yin, and Qing Liu
Biogeosciences, 15, 2033–2053, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2033-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-2033-2018, 2018
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We found larger shrub leaf C, C : N and lower leaf N, N : P levels compared to other terrestrial ecosystems. Alpine shrubs exhibited the greatest leaf C at low temperatures, whereas the largest leaf N and P occurred in valley deciduous shrubs. The large heterogeneity in nutrient uptake and physiological adaptation of shrub types to environments explained the largest fraction of leaf C : N : P variations, while climate indirectly affected leaf C : N : P via its interactive effects on shrub type or soil.
Deborah A. Clark, Shinichi Asao, Rosie Fisher, Sasha Reed, Peter B. Reich, Michael G. Ryan, Tana E. Wood, and Xiaojuan Yang
Biogeosciences, 14, 4663–4690, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4663-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4663-2017, 2017
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Improved modeling of tropical-forest carbon cycling is urgently needed to project future climate and to guide global policy for greenhouse gases. Tropical forests store and process immense amounts of carbon, and their carbon cycling may be responding to climate change. Our goal with this paper, a multidisciplinary collaboration between modelers and field ecologists, is to identify reference-level field data from tropical forests that can be used to guide the models for these key ecosystems.
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Biogeosciences, 12, 3941–3952, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3941-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3941-2015, 2015
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We used stable nitrogen isotopes from red pine trees to determine the history of nitrogen (N) cycling within the Deming Lake watershed at Itasca State Park. With nearly 250 years of data, results suggest a major decline in N availability in red pine beginning in the early 20th century based on detection of significant breakpoints. We believe this synchronous decline is the result of the fire suppression in the state park, though alternative biological and physical mechanisms cannot be ruled out.
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Gamma ray (GR) fluctuations and K values from downhole logging data obtained in the sediments of Lake Ohrid correlate with the global climate reference record (LR04 stack from δ18O) (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005). GR and K values are considered a reliable proxy to depict glacial-interglacial cycles and document warm, humid and cold, drier periods. A robust age model for the downhole logging data over the past 630kyr was established and will play a crucial role for other working groups.
M. L. Chipman, V. Hudspith, P. E. Higuera, P. A. Duffy, R. Kelly, W. W. Oswald, and F. S. Hu
Biogeosciences, 12, 4017–4027, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4017-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4017-2015, 2015
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Tundra fires may have increased as a result of anthropogenic climate change. To evaluate this hypothesis in the context of natural variability, we reconstructed fire history of the late Quaternary in the Alaskan tundra. Fire-return intervals are spatially variable, ranging from 1648 to 6045 years at our sites. The rarity of historical fires implies that increased fire frequency may greatly alter the structure and function of tundra ecosystems.
Y. F. Yao, X. Y. Song, A. H. Wortley, S. Blackmore, and C. S. Li
Biogeosciences, 12, 1525–1535, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1525-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1525-2015, 2015
L. A. Sullivan and J. F. Parr
Biogeosciences, 10, 977–980, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-977-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-977-2013, 2013
G. Brügmann, J. Krause, T. C. Brachert, B. Stoll, U. Weis, O. Kullmer, I. Ssemmanda, and D. F. Mertz
Biogeosciences, 9, 4803–4817, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4803-2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4803-2012, 2012
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We developed century-scale records of wood nitrogen isotopes (δ15N) from 16 trees across a long-term savanna fire experiment. Results show similar long-term trajectories in three out of four burn treatments. Lack of evidence to support our hypotheses underscores the complexity of nitrogen dynamics inferred from wood δ15N. This is the first study to our knowledge to investigate multi-decadal effects of fire at different return intervals on wood δ15N, a potential proxy of nitrogen availability.
We developed century-scale records of wood nitrogen isotopes (δ15N) from 16 trees across a...
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