External nutrient inputs into terrestrial ecosystems of the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic region

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1315-1321

  Bokhorst, S ^a   Huiskes, A ^a   Convey, P ^b   Aerts, R ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nutrient inputs; Sea spray; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GUANO; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPRAY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ANCHORAGE ISLAND; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); SIGNY ISLAND; SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS; WEST ANTARCTICA;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34547843542     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0292-0     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Aerts R, Chapin FS (2000) The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of processes and patterns. Adv Ecol Res 30:1-67
2. Arnold RJ, Convey P, Hughes KA, Wynn-Williams DD (2003) Seasonal periodicity of physical factors, inorganic nutrients and microalgae in Antarctic fellfields. Polar Biol 26:396-403
3. Ayres E, van der Wal R, Sommerkorn M, Bardgett RD (2006) Direct uptake of soil nitrogen by mosses. Biol Lett 2:286-288
4. Beyer L, Bölter M (2000) Chemical and biological properties, formation, occurrence and classification of Spodic Cryosols in a terrestrial ecosystem of East Antarctica (Wilkes Land). Catena 39:95-119
5. Christie P (1987) Nitrogen in two contrasting Antarctic Bryophyte Communities. J Ecol 75:73-93
6. Cocks MP, Balfour DA, Stock WD (1998) On the uptake of ornithogenic products by plants on the inland mountains of Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, using stable isotopes. Polar Biol 20:107-111
7. Crittenden PD (1998) Nutrient exchange in an Antarctic macrolichen during summer snowfall snow melt events. New Phytol 139:697-707
8. Davey MC, Rothery P (1992) Factors causing the limitation of growth of terrestrial algae in Maritime Antarctica during late summer. Polar Biol 12:595-601
9. Dawson TE, Mambelli S, Plamboeck AH, Templer PH, Tu KP (2002) Stable isotopes in plant ecology. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 33:507-559
10. Ellis CJ, Crittenden PD, Scrimgeour CM (2004) Soil as a potential source of nitrogen for mat-forming lichens. Can J Bot 82:145-149
11. Erskine PD, Bergstrom DM, Schmidt S, Stewart GR, Tweedie CE, Shaw JD (1998) Subantarctic Macquarie Island-a model ecosystem for studying animal-derived nitrogen sources using N-15 natural abundance. Oecologia 117:187-193
12. Galimov EM (2000) Carbon isotope composition of Antarctic plants. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 64:1737-1739
13. Gassmann A, Ott S (2000) Growth strategy and the gradual symbiotic interactions of the lichen Ochrolechia frigida. Plant Biol 2:368-378
14. Greenfield LG (1992a) Precipitation nitrogen at Maritime Signy Island and Continental Cape-Bird, Antarctica. Polar Biol 11:649-653
15. Greenfield LG (1992b) Retention of precipitation nitrogen by Antarctic mosses, lichens and Fellfield soils. Antarct Sci 4:205-206
16. Hodgson DA, Johnston NM, Caulkett AP, Jones VJ (1998) Palaeolimnology of Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella populations and implications for Antarctic management. Biol Conserv 83:145-154
17. Holdgate MW (1967) Signy Island. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 252:173-177
18. Huiskes AHL, Boschker HTS, Lud D, Moerdijk-Poortvliet TCW (2006) Stable isotope ratios as a tool for assessing changes in carbon and nutrient sources in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems. Plant Ecol 182:79-86
19. Hyvarinen M, Crittenden PD (1998) Relationships between atmospheric nitrogen inputs and the vertical nitrogen and phosphorus concentration gradients in the lichen Cladonia portentosa. New Phytol 140:519-530
20. Lindeboom HJ (1984) The nitrogen pathway in a penguin rookery. Ecology 65:269-277
21. Lynnes AS, Reid K, Croxall JP (2004) Diet and reproductive success of Adelie and Chinstrap penguins: linking response of predators to prey population dynamics. Polar Biol 27:544-554
22. Mizutani H, Wada E (1988) Nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios in seabird rookeries and their ecological implications. Ecology 69:340-349
23. Ovstedal DO, Smith RIL (2001) Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia. University Press, Cambridge
24. Pearson J, Wells DM, Seller KJ, Bennett A, Soares A, Woodall J, Ingrouille MJ (2000) Traffic exposure increases natural N-15 and heavy metal concentrations in mosses. New Phytol 147:317-326
25. Peck LS, Convey P, Barnes DKA (2006) Environmental constraints on life histories in Antarctic ecosystems: tempos, timings and predictability. Biol Rev 81:75-109
26. Polis GA, Hurd SD (1996) Linking marine and terrestrial food webs: Allochthonous input from the ocean supports high secondary productivity on small islands and coastal land communities. Am Nat 147:396-423
27. Post DM, Taylor JP, Kitchell JF, Olson MH, Schindler DE, Herwig BR (1998) The role of migratory waterfowl as nutrient vectors in a managed wetland. Conserv Biol 12:910-920
28. Robinson D (2001) Delta N-15 as an integrator of the nitrogen cycle. Trends Ecol Evolut 16:153-162
29. Rootes DM (1988) The status of birds at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands. Br Antarct Surv Bull 80:87-119
30. Ryan PG, Watkins BP (1989) The influence of physical factors and ornithogenic products on plant and arthropod abundance at an Inland Nunatak group in Antarctica. Polar Biol 10:151-160
31. Smith RIL (1985) Nutrient cycling in relation to biological productivity in Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. In: Siegfried WR, Condy PR, Laws RM (eds) Antarctic nutrient cycles and food webs. Springer, Berlin
32. Staley JT, Herwig RP (1993) Degradation of particulate organic material in the Antarctic. In: Friedmann EI (ed) Antarctic microbiology. Wiley-Liss, New York
33. Tatur A, Myrcha A, Niegodzisz J (1997) Formation of abandoned penguin rookery ecosystems in the Maritime Antarctic. Polar Biol 17:405-417
34. Theobald MR, Crittenden PD, Hunt AP, Tang YS, Dragosits U, Sutton MA (2006) Ammonia emissions from a Cape fur seal colony, Cape Cross, Namibia. Geophys Res Lett 33
35. Turner J, Lachlan-Cope TA, Marshall GJ, Morris EM, Mulvaney R, Winter W (2002) Spatial variability of Antarctic Peninsula net surface mass balance. J Geophys Res Atmos 107
36. Wainright SC, Haney JC, Kerr C, Golovkin AN, Flint MV (1998) Utilization of nitrogen derived from seabird guano by terrestrial and marine plants at St Paul, Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska. Mar Biol 131:63-71
37. Wasley J, Robinson SA, Lovelock CE, Popp M (2006) Climate change manipulations show Antarctic flora is more strongly affected by elevated nutrients than water. Glob Change Biol 12:1800-1812