
@article {67829,
	title = {Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands.},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2019},
	month = {2019 Oct 31},
	pages = {4981},
	abstract = {<p>Soil nitrogen mineralisation (N), the conversion of organic into inorganic N, is important for productivity and nutrient cycling. The balance between mineralisation and immobilisation (net N) varies with soil properties and climate. However, because most global-scale assessments of net N are laboratory-based, its regulation under field-conditions and implications for real-world soil functioning remain uncertain. Here, we explore the drivers of realised (field) and potential (laboratory) soil net N across 30 grasslands worldwide. We find that realised N is largely explained by temperature of the wettest quarter, microbial biomass, clay content and bulk density. Potential N only weakly correlates with realised N, but contributes to explain realised net N when combined with soil and climatic variables. We provide novel insights of global realised soil net N and show that potential soil net N data available in the literature could be parameterised with soil and climate data to better predict realised N.</p>
},
	issn = {2041-1723},
	doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2},
	author = {Risch, A C and Zimmermann, S and Ochoa-Hueso, R and Sch{\"u}tz, M and Frey, B and Firn, J L and Fay, P A and Hagedorn, F and Borer, E T and Seabloom, E W and Harpole, W S and Knops, J M H and McCulley, R L and Broadbent, A A D and Stevens, C J and Silveira, M L and Adler, P B and B{\'a}ez, S and Biederman, L A and Blair, J M and Brown, C S and Caldeira, M C and Collins, S L and Daleo, P and di Virgilio, A and Ebeling, A and Eisenhauer, N and Esch, E and Eskelinen, A and Hagenah, N and Hautier, Y and Kirkman, K P and MacDougall, A S and Moore, J L and Power, S A and Prober, S M and Roscher, C and Sankaran, M and Siebert, J and Speziale, K L and Tognetti, P M and Virtanen, R and Yahdjian, L and Moser, B}
}
