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Patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus pools in terrestrial ecosystems in China
Yi-Wei Zhang
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and
Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Yanpei Guo
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and
Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Zhiyao Tang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and
Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Yuhao Feng
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and
Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Xinrong Zhu
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and
Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Wenting Xu
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute
of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Yongfei Bai
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute
of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Guoyi Zhou
Institute of Ecology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Agricultural Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology,
Nanjing 210044, China
Zongqiang Xie
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute
of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Jingyun Fang
Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and
Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are limiting nutrients for ecosystem productivity. For the first time, we mapped N and P densities of living plants, litter, and soil in forest, shrubland, and grassland ecosystems across China using random forest models based on a dataset of 4868 field sites. Our results depicted the spatial distribution pattern, the total pool, and the allocation among ecosystem components of N and P, which could benefit a more precise prediction of the carbon cycle.
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