Authors
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Fernando T Maestre, Antonio Gallardo, Matthew A Bowker, Matthew D Wallenstein, Jose Luis Quero, Victoria Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, Miguel García-Gómez, Santiago Soliveres, Pablo García-Palacios, Miguel Berdugo, Enrique Valencia, Cristina Escolar, Tulio Arredondo, Claudia Barraza-Zepeda, Donaldo Bran, José Antonio Carreira, Mohamed Chaieb, Abel A Conceição, Mchich Derak, David J Eldridge, Adrián Escudero, Carlos I Espinosa, Juan Gaitán, M Gabriel Gatica, Susana Gómez-González, Elizabeth Guzman, Julio R Gutiérrez, Adriana Florentino, Estela Hepper, Rosa M Hernández, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Mohammad Jankju, Jushan Liu, Rebecca L Mau, Maria Miriti, Jorge Monerris, Kamal Naseri, Zouhaier Noumi, Vicente Polo, Aníbal Prina, Eduardo Pucheta, Elizabeth Ramírez, David A Ramírez-Collantes, Roberto Romão, Matthew Tighe, Duilio Torres, Cristian Torres-Díaz, Eugene D Ungar, James Val, Wanyoike Wamiti, Deli Wang, Eli Zaady
Publication date
2013/10/31
Journal
Nature
Volume
502
Issue
7473
Pages
672-676
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
The biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are interlinked by primary production, respiration and decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems. It has been suggested that the C, N and P cycles could become uncoupled under rapid climate change because of the different degrees of control exerted on the supply of these elements by biological and geochemical processes,,,,. Climatic controls on biogeochemical cycles are particularly relevant in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid ecosystems (drylands) because their biological activity is mainly driven by water availability,,. The increase in aridity predicted for the twenty-first century in many drylands worldwide,, may therefore threaten the balance between these cycles, differentially affecting the availability of essential nutrients,,. Here we evaluate how aridity affects the balance between C, N and P in soils collected from 224 dryland sites from …
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