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Written in stone?C,N,P interactions in land surface ecosystems
Benjamin Z. Houlton
Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow
Global Environmental Studies Lab
University of California – Davis
www.bzhoulton.com; @BenHoulton; [email protected]
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Why nutrients?
IPCC AR5; after Wang and Houlton, GRL, 2009
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Great progress in coupled nutrient cycles –but many issues remain:
Three concepts (among others) to advance Next Gen ESMs:1. Setting the canvas – linking tectonics, weathering, climate and nutrients to C2. Ultimate vs. proximate controls – “nutrient limitation in disguise” via rock derived elements (include trace metals)3. Stoichiometric flexibility and couplings – mineralization ratios, N and P interactions
Take Home Message: Not all nutrients affect C directly – but can and do affect one another (and C indirectly in some cases)
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0.1
99.9 bedrock
% fixed nitrogen
biosphere
Concept 1. Setting the canvas
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“….the high input of nitrogen from bedrock beneath that forest — which is equivalent to atmospheric nitrogen inputs — probably represents an upper estimate for the extent of this phenomenon.”
see Morford, Houlton, Dahlgren, Nature, 2011
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Model Form: Mass conservation equations parameterized with field data in non-parametric statistical functions (quantile regression and generalized additive models)
Denudation:
Chemical Weathering:
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N Denudation: 20 – 31 Tg yr-1
N Weathering: 11 – 18 Tg yr-1
(~60% of the N denudation flux is chemically weathered)
Chemical FluxModel 1A Lower Est.
Houlton, Morford, Dahlgren, Science, in press
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Rock N inputs increase natural N inputs 8 to 26 %
Houlton, Morford, Dahlgren, Science, in press
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Fig: Δ GPP (global total) or increase in GPP only due to Rock-N -change due to combined impact of climate change and Rock-N
weathering fluxDass, Houlton, Wang, in prep
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• Decades to millennial scales
hypothesis: trace metal and P controls over N fixation(limitation in disguise, after vitousek and howarth, 1991)
reed et al., ann. rev. ess, 2011
Concept 2. Ultimate vs. Proximate Controls
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N fixation increases with Mo (less so with P) and decreases with N
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Concept 3. Stoichiometric flexibility and (un) couplings
Logic:- N is typically bonded to C; mineralizes with C
- P is found in di-esters(DNA, RNA); can be decoupled from Nand C
hypothesis: preferential P mineralization (vs. N) (after mcgill and cole, 1981)
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Terrestrial N/P mineralization ratios
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Global evidence for rapid P mineralization
N/P mineralization < N/P of forest litter
Marklein et al., Global Ecology & Biogeography, 2015
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global meta-analysisreveals an increase in plant and microbial P degrading enzymes (phosphatases) with added N
Marklein and Houlton, New Phytologist, 2012
N inputs accelerate P mineralization rates
root and soil phosphatase activity
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P, Fe, Mo
P mineralization enzymes increase, P availability increases
N fixation
P becomes relatively scarce
N availability increasesN demands increase
uplift, climate, parent material,
geobiology
1. Setting the canvas
2. Ultimate vsproximate“disguisenutrients”
NextGen framework for ESMs
3. Stoichiometric flexibility and couplings
N Deposition +
N
Classes of Interaction:N – limits productivity and P mineralization P – limits productivity and N fixationTrace metals – control N fixation
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Stone forest Yunnan province
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Fig: Δ GPP or increase in GPP only due to Rock-N for 2000s (2000-09 mean) - Units: gC/m2; NOTE: Red spots (GPP reduction) are
model artifacts due to random nature of mortality in ‘cohort’ mode