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ArticleNature communications2025

A general framework for nitrogen deposition effects on soil respiration in global forests.

Xiaoyu Cen, Peter Vitousek, Nianpeng He, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Shuli Niu, Enzai Du, Kailiang Yu, Mianhai Zheng, Kevin Van Sundert, Elizabeth L Paulus and 4 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Global Nitrogen Deposition Promotes Carbon Sink Formation in Terrestrial Ecosystems.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Xiaoyu CenKey Laboratory of Boreal Forest Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Harbin, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4467-9962
Peter VitousekDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4933-2666
Nianpeng HeKey Laboratory of Boreal Forest Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Harbin, China. henp@igsnrr.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0458-5953
Ben Bond-LambertyJoint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9525-4633
Shuli NiuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-2864
Enzai DuState Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Disaster Risk Reduction, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5519-0150
Kailiang YuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0145-0356
Mianhai ZhengKey Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Kevin Van SundertDepartment of System Earth Science, Maastricht University, Innovalaan 1, Venlo, the Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6180-3075
Elizabeth L PaulusDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Liyin HeNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4427-1438
Li XuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Mingxu LiKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6997
Klaus Butterbach-BahlPioneer Center Land-CRAFT, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-6598

Funding

Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Research Foundation) P2National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32430067National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32588202National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42141004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have altered atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition to global forests, affecting carbon dioxide emissions from soils (soil respiration or SR) - one of the largest land-atmosphere carbon fluxes. However, experimental studies have demonstrated both positive and negative effects of N deposition on SR in global forests, leading to debates on how N deposition increases or decreases SR. We developed a framework for generalizing SR responses to N deposition using synthesized data from 168 N addition experiments worldwide and observed SR across the global natural N deposition gradient. The findings indicate that N deposition decreased SR in 2.9% of global forested areas, particularly in eastern China, western Europe, and the eastern USA. However, the net effect of N deposition increased the global forest SR by ~5% (1.7 ± 0.1 PgC yr

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