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Costello, D. M., Tiegs, S. D., Boyero, L., Canhoto, C., Capps, K. A., Danger, M., et al. (2022). Global patterns and controls of nutrient immobilization on decomposing cellulose in riverine ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2021GB007163. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007163

Global patterns and controls of nutrient immobilization on decomposing cellulose in riverine ecosystems

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Author: Costello, David M.1,2; Tiegs, Scott D.3; Boyero, Luz4,5;
Canhoto, Cristina6; Capps, Krista A.7,8; Danger, Michael9; Frost, Paul C.10; Gessner, Mark O.11,12; Griffiths, Natalie A.13,14; Halvorson, Halvor M.15; Kuehn, Kevin A.16; Marcarelli, Amy M.17; Royer, Todd, V18; Mathie, Devan M.1; Albarino, Ricardo J.19; Arango, Clay P.20; Aroviita, Jukka21; Baxter, Colden, V22; Bellinger, Brent J.23; Bruder, Andreas24; Burdon, Francis J.25; Callisto, Marcos26; Camacho, Antonio27; Colas, Fanny28; Cornut, Julien29; Crespo-Perez, Veronica30,31; Cross, Wyatt F.32; Derry, Alison M.33; Douglas, Michael M.34; Elosegi, Arturo4; Eyto, Elvira35; Ferreira, Veronica36; Ferriol, Carmen37; Fleituch, Tadeusz38; Shah, Jennifer J. Follstad39; Frainer, Andre40,41; Garcia, Erica A.42; Garcia, Liliana43; Garcia, Pavel E.44,45; Giling, Darren P.11,46,47; Gonzales-Pomar, R. Karina48; Graca, Manuel A. S.36; Grossart, Hans-Peter11,49; Guerold, Francois9; Hepp, Luiz U.50; Higgins, Scott N.51; Hishi, Takuo52; Iniguez-Armijos, Carlos53; Iwata, Tomoya54; Kirkwood, Andrea E.55; Koning, Aaron A.56; Kosten, Sarian57,58; Laudon, Hjalmar59; Leavitt, Peter R.60; Lemes da Silva, Aurea L.61; Leroux, Shawn J.62; LeRoy, Carri J.63; Lisi, Peter J.64; Masese, Frank O.65; McIntyre, Peter B.66; McKie, Brendan G.67; Medeiros, Adriana O.68; Milisa, Marko69; Miyake, Yo70; Mooney, Robert J.64; Muotka, Timo71; Nimptsch, Jorge72; Paavola, Riku73; Pardo, Isabel43; Parnikoza, Ivan Y.74,75; Patrick, Christopher J.76; Peeters, Edwin T. H. M.77; Pozo, Jesus4; Reid, Brian78; Richardson, John S.79; Rincon, Jose80; Risnoveanu, Geta81; Robinson, Christopher T.25; Santamans, Anna C.27; Simiyu, Gelas M.82; Skuja, Agnija83; Smykla, Jerzy38; Sponseller, Ryan A.84; Teixeira-de Mello, Franco85; Vilbaste, Sirje86; Villanueva, Veronica D.19; Webster, Jackson R.87; Woelfl, Stefan72; Xenopoulos, Marguerite A.10; Yates, Adam G.88,89; Yule, Catherine M.90; Zhang, Yixin91,92; Zwart, Jacob A.93
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5Ikerbasque, Bilbao, Spain.
6Univ Coimbra, Ctr Funct Ecol, Dept Life Sci, Coimbra, Portugal.
7Univ Georgia, Odum Sch Ecol, Athens, GA 30602 USA.
8Univ Georgia, Savannah River Ecol Lab, Athens, GA 30602 USA.
9Univ Lorraine, LIEC CNRS, Metz, France.
10Trent Univ, Dept Biol, Peterborough, ON, Canada.
11Leibniz Inst Freshwater Ecol & Inland Fisheries I, Dept Expt Limnol, Stechlin, Germany.
12Berlin Inst Technol TU Berlin, Dept Ecol, Berlin, Germany.
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14Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Div Environm Sci, POB 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA.
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21Finnish Environm Inst SYKE, Freshwater Ctr, Helsinki, Finland.
22Idaho State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Stream Ecol Ctr, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA.
23City Austin, Watershed Protect Dept, Austin, TX USA.
24Univ Appl Sci & Arts Southern Switzerland, Inst Microbiol, Canobbio, Switzerland.
25Eawag Swiss Fed Inst Aquat Sci & Technol, Dept Aquat Ecol, Dubendorf, Switzerland.
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30Zool Museum QCAZ I, Limnol Lab, Quito, Ecuador.
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35Marine Inst, Galway, Ireland.
36Univ Coimbra, Marine & Environm Sci Ctr MARE, Dept Life Sci, Coimbra, Portugal.
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38Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nat Conservat, Krakow, Poland.
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42Charles Darwin Univ, Res Inst Environm & Livelihoods, Casuarina, NT, Australia.
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44Univ San Carlos, Escuela Biol, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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66Cornell Univ, Dept Nat Resources & Environm, Ithaca, NY USA.
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Version: published version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 2.2 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022092660198
Language: English
Published: American Geophysical Union, 2022
Publish Date: 2022-09-26
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Abstract

Microbes play a critical role in plant litter decomposition and influence the fate of carbon in rivers and riparian zones. When decomposing low-nutrient plant litter, microbes acquire nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from the environment (i.e., nutrient immobilization), and this process is potentially sensitive to nutrient loading and changing climate. Nonetheless, environmental controls on immobilization are poorly understood because rates are also influenced by plant litter chemistry, which is coupled to the same environmental factors. Here we used a standardized, low-nutrient organic matter substrate (cotton strips) to quantify nutrient immobilization at 100 paired stream and riparian sites representing 11 biomes worldwide. Immobilization rates varied by three orders of magnitude, were greater in rivers than riparian zones, and were strongly correlated to decomposition rates. In rivers, P immobilization rates were controlled by surface water phosphate concentrations, but N immobilization rates were not related to inorganic N. The N:P of immobilized nutrients was tightly constrained to a molar ratio of 10:1 despite wide variation in surface water N:P. Immobilization rates were temperature-dependent in riparian zones but not related to temperature in rivers. However, in rivers nutrient supply ultimately controlled whether microbes could achieve the maximum expected decomposition rate at a given temperature. Collectively, we demonstrated that exogenous nutrient supply and immobilization are critical control points for decomposition of organic matter.

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Series: Global biogeochemical cycles
ISSN: 0886-6236
ISSN-E: 1944-9224
ISSN-L: 0886-6236
Volume: 36
Issue: 3
Article number: e2021GB007163
DOI: 10.1029/2021GB007163
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1029/2021GB007163
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 1172 Environmental sciences
Subjects:
cotton strip assay
ecological stoichiometry
nitrogen
nutrient cycling
organic matter
phosphorus
Article
Funding: We thank a large number of assistants who helped field work, G. Moeen and M. Moeen for preparing cotton strips, and N. Johnson, A. Minerovic, and C. Blackwood for help with C:N analysis. This research was supported by awards to S.D.T. from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Science (Secretaria de Educacion Superior Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion, SENESCYT) through the PROMETEO scholar-exchange program, the Oakland University Research Development Grant program, and a Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation research grant. N.A.G. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. PRL was supported by NSERC and Canada Research Chair programs. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Dataset Reference: All data and code for analyses and figures are available on GitHub which can be accessed from the persistent DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5764917
Copyright information: © 2022. American Geophysical Union.