NDLI: Trends in Resin and KCl-extractable Soil Nitrogen Across Landscape Gradients in Taylor Valley, Antarctica

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Author	Barrett, John E. Virginia, Ross A. Wall, Diana H.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Previous descriptions of soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, have focused on the dominance of abiotic controls rather than on nutrient cycling. Although free-living N2-fixing and nitrifying microorganisms have been isolated in Antarctic soils, little is known about in situ nitrogen (N) cycling. We measured KCl-extractable NH4 + and NO3 –, as well as anion resin exchangeable NO3 –, across sediment–soil transects and in two positions on a hill slope in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. These landscapes provide gradients of soil moisture, salinity, and texture that influence invertebrate communities and organic matter dynamics. Assuming an N cycle dominated by abiotic inputs, we hypothesized that inorganic N content would be predominantly comprised of NO3 – and most strongly correlated to soil salinity, while NO3 – flux (estimated by resin adsorption) would be most influenced by soil water content, salinity, and total soil NO3 – concentrations. Our results were inconsistent with a physically dominated N cycle. In contrast to previous studies of Dry Valley soils, we found that NH4 + made up a large proportion of inorganic N. Total KCl-extractable N was correlated most strongly with total soil N and soil moisture. The most saline soils in the swale of a hill slope had the highest concentrations of NO3 –, but we found no overall correlation between soil salinity and resin-exchangeable NO3 – or KCl-extractable N. Resin-extractable NO3 – was most strongly correlated with total soil N, soil water content, and KCl-extractable NH4 +, suggesting that accumulation of NO3 – in resins was influenced by the mineralization of organic matter and not strictly by ionic migration, as an abiotic-based model may have predicted. We conclude that biological N cycling is significant in some Dry Valley soils and that the dominance of biological vs physical influences over N cycling is controlled in part by the availability of soil moisture and organic matter.
Starting Page	289
Ending Page	299
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14329840
Journal	Ecosystems
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2002-03-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Environmental Chemistry Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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