Nitrogen transformations in flowpaths leading from soils to streams in amazon forest and pasture

Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 961-972

  Chaves, Joaquín ^a,b   Neill, Christopher ^a   Germer, Sonja ^c   Gouveia Neto, Sergio ^d   Krusche, Alex V ^d   Castellanos Bonilla, Adriana ^d   Elsenbeer, Helmut ^c  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Flowpaths; Forest; Land use; Nitrogen; Pasture; Soils

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATTLE; CULTIVATION; DENITRIFICATION; DOMINANCE; FLOW PATTERN; FOREST SOIL; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; INORGANIC NITROGEN; LAND USE CHANGE; MINERALIZATION; NITROUS OXIDE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PASTURE; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAMWATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSFORMATION; TROPICAL FOREST; UPLAND REGION; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS;

EID: 70349680419     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9270-4     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. F Achard HD Eva HJ Stibig P Mayaux J Gallego T Richards JP Malingreau 2002 Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests Science 297 999 1002 10.1126/science.1070656 (Pubitemid 34856031)
2. EW Boyer CL Goodale NA Jaworski RW Howarth 2002 Anthropogenic nitrogen sources and relationships to riverine nitrogen export in the northeastern U.S.A Biogeochemistry 57-58 137 169 10.1023/A:1015709302073 (Pubitemid 34775870)
3. 15N evidence for the origin and cycling of inorganic nitrogen in a small Amazonian catchment Biogeochemistry 34 45 10.1007/BF02182954
4. JE Chaves C Neill S Germer S Gouveia Neto AV Krusche H Elsenbeer 2008 Land management impacts on runoff sources in small Amazon watersheds Hydrol Process 22 1766 1775 10.1002/hyp.6803 (Pubitemid 351983212)
5. Crawley MJ. 2002. Statistical computing: an introduction to data analysis using S-Plus. Chichester: Wiley.
6. EA Davidson M Keller HE Erickson LV Verchot E Veldkamp 2000 Testing a conceptual model of soil emissions of nitrous and nitric oxides Bioscience 50 667 680 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0667:TACMOS]2.0.CO;2
7. EA Davidson CJR de Carvalho AM Figueira FY Ishida JPHB Ometto GB Nardoto RT Saba SN Hayashi EC Leal ICG Vieira LA Martinelli 2007 Recuperation of nitrogen cycling in Amazonian forests following agricultural abandonment Nature 447 995 998 10.1038/nature05900 (Pubitemid 46975754)
8. JS Denslow PM Vitousek JC Schultz 1987 Bioassays of nutrient limitation in a tropical rain forest soil Oecologia 74 370 376 10.1007/BF00378932
9. H Elsenbeer 2001 Hydrologic flowpaths in tropical rainforest soilscapes-a review Hydrol Process 15 1751 1759 10.1002/hyp.237 (Pubitemid 32680072)
10. PM Fearnside 2005 Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: history, rates, and consequences Conserv Biol 19 680 688 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00697.x (Pubitemid 40764532)
11. 2 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104 14014 14019 10.1073/pnas.0706518104 (Pubitemid 350003328)
12. 2 from terra firme forests in Rondônia, Brazil Ecol Appl 14 S214 S220 10.1890/01-6023
13. S Germer H Elsenbeer JM Moraes 2006 Throughfall and temporal trends of rainfall redistribution in an open tropical rainforest, south-western Amazonia (Rondônia, Brazil) Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 10 383 393
14. S Germer C Neill A Krusche S Neto H Elsenbeer 2007 Seasonal and within-event dynamics of rainfall and throughfall chemistry in an open tropical rainforest in Rondônia, Brazil Biogeochemistry 86 155 174 10.1007/s10533-007-9152-9 (Pubitemid 47595282)
15. S Germer C Neill T Vetter J Chaves AV Krusche H Elsenbeer 2009 Implications of long-term land-use change for the hydrology and solute budgets of small catchments in Amazonia J Hydrol 364 349 363 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.11. 013
16. DA Goolsby WA Battaglin 2001 Long-term changes in concentrations and flux of nitrogen in the Mississippi River Basin, USA Hydrol Process 15 1209 1226 10.1002/hyp.210 (Pubitemid 32555055)
17. SJ Hall PA Matson 1999 Nitrogen oxide emissions after nitrogen additions in tropical forests Nature 400 152 155 10.1038/22094 (Pubitemid 29327541)
18. D Herbert J Fownes 1995 Phosphorus limitation of forest leaf area and net primary production on a highly weathered soil Biogeochemistry 29 223 235 10.1007/BF02186049
19. BZ Houlton DM Sigman LO Hedin 2006 Isotopic evidence for large gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 8745 8750 10.1073/pnas.0510185103 (Pubitemid 43878090)
20. RW Howarth G Billen D Swaney A Townsend N Jaworski K Lajtha JA Downing R Elmgren N Caraco T Jordan F Berendse J Freney V Kudeyarov P Murdoch Z Zhao-Liang 1996 Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: natural and human influences Biogeochemistry 35 75 139 10.1007/BF02179825
21. INPE. 2008. Monitoramento da floresta Amazônica Brasileira por satelite: Projeto PRODES. São José dos Campos: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias.
22. Kabat P, Dolman AJ, Ashby M, Gash JHC, Wright IR, Culf AD, Calvet JC, Delire C, Noilhan J, Jochum A, Silva Dias MA, Fisch GA, Santos Alval RC, Nobre A, Prince SD, Steininger M. 1997. The large scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment: use of integrated modelling for experimental design. Report 145, Wageningen.
23. Kirkby M, Callan J, Weyman D, Wood J. 1976. Measurement and modeling of dynamic contributing areas in very small catchments. Working Paper No. 167, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, p 39.
24. JWL Leal GH Silva DB dos Santos W Texeira MIC de Lima CAC Fernandes A Pinto 1978 Geologia-Folha SC.20 Porto Velho Projeto Radambrasil 17 219 355
25. LFW Lesack 1993 Export of nutrients and major ionic solutes from a rain forest catchment in the central Amazon basin Water Resour Res 29 743 758 10.1029/92WR02372 (Pubitemid 23382733)
26. D Markewitz EA Davidson P Moutinho D Nepstad 2004 Nutrient loss and redistribution after forest clearing on a highly weathered soil in Amazonia Ecol Appl 14 177 199 10.1890/01-6016
27. LA Martinelli MC Piccolo AR Townsend PM Vitousek E Cuevas W McDowell GP Robertson OC Santos K Treseder 1999 Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: tropical versus temperate forests Biogeochemistry 46 45
28. PA Matson PM Vitousek JJ Ewel MJ Mazzarino GP Robertson 1987 Nitrogen transformations following tropical forest felling and burning on a volcanic soil Ecology 68 491 502 10.2307/1938454
29. PA Matson W McDowell AR Townsend PM Vitousek 1999 The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments Biogeochemistry 46 67 83
30. E Matthews 1994 Nitrogenous fertilizers: global distribution of consumption and associated emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia Global Biogeochem Cycles 8 411 440 10.1029/94GB01906
31. Matthews E, Rohweder M, Payne R, Murray S. 2000. Pilot analysis of global ecosystems: forest ecosystems. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
32. ME McClain JE Richey TP Pimentel 1994 Groundwater nitrogen dynamics at the terrestrial-lotic interface of a small catchment in the Central Amazon basin Biogeochemistry 27 113 127 10.1007/BF00002814
33. W McDowell WB Bowden CE Asbury 1992 Riparian nitrogen dynamics in two geomorphologically distinct rain forest watersheds: subsurface solute patterns Biogeochemistry 18 53 75 10.1007/BF00002703 (Pubitemid 23382808)
34. PJ Mulholland AM Helton GC Poole RO Hall SK Hamilton BJ Peterson JL Tank LR Ashkenas LW Cooper CN Dahm WK Dodds SEG Findlay SV Gregory NB Grimm SL Johnson WH McDowell JL Meyer HM Valett JR Webster CP Arango JJ Beaulieu MJ Bernot AJ Burgin CL Crenshaw LT Johnson BR Niederlehner JM O'Brien JD Potter RW Sheibley DJ Sobota SM Thomas 2008 Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading Nature 452 202 205 10.1038/nature06686
35. C Neill MC Piccolo PA Steudler JM Melillo BJ Feigl CC Cerri 1995 Nitrogen dynamics in soils of forests and active pastures in the western Brazilian Amazon Basin Soil Biol Biochem 27 1167 1175 10.1016/0038-0717(95)00036-E
36. C Neill JM Melillo PA Steudler CC Cerri JM De Moraes MC Piccolo M Brito 1997 Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks following forest clearing for pasture in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon Ecol Appl 7 1216 1225 10.1890/1051-0761(1997) 007[1216:SCANSF]2.0.CO;2
37. C Neill MC Piccolo CC Cerri PA Steudler JM Melillo M Brito 1997 Net nitrogen mineralization and net nitrification rates in soils following deforestation for pasture across the southwestern Brazilian Amazon Basin landscape Oecologia 110 243 252 10.1007/s004420050157 (Pubitemid 27185349)
38. C Neill L Deegan S Thomas CC Cerri 2001 Deforestation for pasture alters nitrogen and phosphorus in small Amazonian streams Ecol Appl 11 1817 1828 10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[1817:DFPANA]2.0.CO;2
39. C Neill P Steudler ADC Garcia-Montiel JM Melillo BJ Feigl MC Piccolo CC Cerri 2005 Rates and controls of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide emissions following conversion of forest to pasture in Rondônia Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 71 1 15 10.1007/s10705-004-0378-9 (Pubitemid 40607447)
40. C Neill M Piccolo CC Cerri PA Steudler JM Melillo 2006 Soil solution nitrogen losses during clearing of lowland Amazon forest for pasture Plant Soil 281 233 245 10.1007/s11104-005-4435-1 (Pubitemid 43724198)
41. DC Nepstad CR de Carvalho EA Davidson PH Jipp PA Lefebvre GH Negreiros ED da Silva TA Stone SE Trumbore S Vieira 1994 The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures Nature 372 666 669 10.1038/372666a0
42. BL Peierls NF Caraco ML Pace JJ Cole 1991 Human influence on river nitrogen Nature 350 386 10.1038/350386b0
43. D Peixoto de Melo RC da Costa T Natali Filho 1978 Geomorfologia-Folha SC.20 Porto Velho Projeto Radambrasil 16 187 250
44. MP Perring LO Hedin SA Levin M McGroddy C de Mazancourt 2008 Increased plant growth from nitrogen addition should conserve phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105 1971 1976 10.1073/pnas.0711618105
45. Pires JM, Prance GT. 1986. The vegetation types of the Brazilian Amazon. In: Prance GT, Lovejoy TM, Eds. Key environments: Amazônia. Oxford: Pergamon. p 109-29.
46. A Poszwa E Dambrine B Ferry B Pollier M Loubet 2002 Do deep tree roots provide nutrients to the tropical rainforest? Biogeochemistry 60 97 118 10.1023/A:1016548113624 (Pubitemid 34881713)
47. R Development Core Team. 2006. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
48. Robertson GP. 1989. Nitrification and denitrification in humid tropical ecosystems. In: Proctor J, Ed. Mineral nutrients in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems. Cambridge (MA): Blackwell Scientific. p 55-70.
49. DM Sigman MA Altabet R Michener DC McCorkle B Fry RM Holmes 1997 Natural abundance-level measurements of the nitrogen isotopic composition of oceanic nitrate: an adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method Marine Chem 57 227 242 10.1016/S0304-4203(97)00009-1 (Pubitemid 27369728)
50. Soil Survey Staff. 1999. Soil taxonomy-a basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
51. JM Tiedje AJ Sexstone TB Parkin NP Revsbech 1984 Anaerobic processes in soil Plant Soil 76 197 212 10.1007/BF02205580
52. LV Verchot EA Davidson JH Cattânio IL Ackerman HE Erickson M Keller 1999 Land use change and biogeochemical controls of nitrogen oxide emissions from soils in eastern Amazonia Global Biogeochem Cycles 13 31 46 10.1029/1998GB900019 (Pubitemid 29365962)
53. PM Vitousek 1984 Litterfall, nutrient cycling, and nutrient limitation in tropical forests Ecology 65 285 298 10.2307/1939481
54. Vitousek PM. 2004. Nutrient cycling and limitation. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
55. PM Vitousek H Farrington 1997 Nutrient limitation and soil development: experimental test of a biogeochemical theory Biogeochemistry 37 63 75 10.1023/A:1005757218475 (Pubitemid 27156019)
56. MR Williams JM Melack 1997 Solute export from forested and partially deforested catchments in the central Amazon Biogeochemistry 38 67 10.1023/A:1005774431820 (Pubitemid 27268917)
57. MR Williams TR Fisher JM Melack 1997 Solute dynamics in soil water and groundwater in a central Amazon catchment undergoing deforestation Biogeochemistry 38 303 10.1023/A:1005801303639 (Pubitemid 27324523)
58. B Zimmermann H Elsenbeer JM De Moraes 2006 The influence of land-use changes on soil hydraulic properties: implications for runoff generation Forest Ecol Manag 222 29 38 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.10.070 (Pubitemid 43151172)