Rapid transfer of 15N from labeled beech leaf litter to functional soil organic matter fractions in a Rendzic Leptosol》.pdf

Soil Biology Biochemistry 58 (2013) 323e331 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Soil Biology Biochemistry journal homepage: /locate/soilbio Rapid transfer of 15N from labeled beech leaf litter to functional soil organic matter fractions in a Rendzic Leptosol Carolin Bimüller a, *, Pascale S. Naumann a, Franz Buegger b, Michael Dannenmann c, Bernd Zeller d, Margit von Lützow a, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner a, e a Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center of Life and Food Sciences, Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany b Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Soil Ecology, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany c Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), D-82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany d INRA Centre de Nancy, UR 1138, Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers, F-54280 Champenoux, France e Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 2a, D-85748 Garching, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Our main objective was to trace and to quantify the stabilization of nitrogen released from litter Received 25 May 2012 decomposition in different functional soil organic matter fractions. To identify the fate of nitrogen in Received in revised form a free-range experiment, 15N-labeled beech litter was deposited on the bare soil surface of three 9 November 2012 2 m