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@ARTICLE{Uhlig:884256,
author = {Uhlig, D. and Amelung, W. and Blanckenburg, F.},
title = {{M}ineral nutrients sourced in deep regolith sustain
long‐term nutrition of mountainous temperate forest
ecosystems},
journal = {Global biogeochemical cycles},
volume = {34},
number = {9},
issn = {1944-9224},
address = {Hoboken, NJ},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-03151},
pages = {1-21 e2019GB006513},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Primary productivity of forest ecosystems depends on the
availability of plant‐essential mineral nutrients. Because
nutrient demand of trees often exceeds nutrient supply from
rock, tree nutrition is sustained by efficient reutilization
of organic‐bound nutrients. These nutrients are
continuously returned from trees to the forest floor in
litterfall. However, over millennia nutrient limitation may
develop in landscapes from which nutrients are permanently
lost by drainage and erosion. Such a deficit is prevented if
advection of unweathered bedrock toward the surface as
driven by erosion continuously supplies fresh nutrients. Yet
the mechanisms and the depth range over which this deep
nutrient resource is accessed are poorly known. We show that
in two montane temperate forest ecosystems in the Black
Forest and Bavarian Forest the geogenic source of nutrients
was found within a depth zone of several meters. This deep
zone contains a large pool of biologically available
nutrients. We applied isotope ratios as proxies for nutrient
uptake depth, and we tracked the regolith depth at which the
isotope ratios of 87Sr/86Sr and 10Be(meteoric)/9Be match the
respective values in plant tissue. We mapped the depth
distribution of the biologically available calcium‐bound
form of the most plant‐essential mineral nutrient
phosphorus and found that the depth of phosphorus
availability is as deep or even deeper as the range defined
by the isotope ratios. We conclude that nutrient supply from
a regolith depth of several meters is critical for forest
ecosystem function in landscapes of moderate hillslopes and
rainfall that are affected by permanent nutrient loss.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000576406900018},
doi = {10.1029/2019GB006513},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/884256},
}