Nitrogen Cycling and Its Impact on Forest Soil Ecology in the Context of Global Climate Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil Conservation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 2470
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil ecology; greenhouse gas emission; nitrogen transformation; climate change; land use
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: soil ecology; Nitrogen recycling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global climate is projected to change in the coming decades, representing a serious concern for global sustainability and human sustenance. Soil nitrogen dynamics in forest ecosystems (e.g., atmospheric deposition, nutrient uptake, microbial decomposition, and mineralization) is central to understanding ecosystem functioning and processes, such as primary production, nutrient cycling, and changes in water quality at regional and global scales. Soil N pool size and fluxes, N availability in plants, and N2O emissions in terrestrial ecosystems are undoubtedly affected by microbial mediated N cycling such as N immobilization, mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification, while these processes are also highly responsive to climate change. Although studies have been conducted on the soil nitrogen dynamics of global and regional forest ecosystems for several decades, clarifying the nature of unique regional and geographical aspects of soil nitrogen dynamics has not yet been completed. In recent years, experimental techniques, such as isotope or molecular biological analysis, have been applied to forest ecosystems, and comparative, process-based modeling has also been employed to further our understanding of soil nitrogen dynamics.
This Special Issue aims to gather studies focusing on the variation of N cycling of forest soil and plants based on climate change. Submitted studies are expected to employ one or a combination of methodologies, including in situ measurements and field experiments, remote sensing platforms, and/or numerical modeling.
Dr. Zhe Chen
Dr. Syed Turab Raza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nitrogen cycling
- forest soil
- climate change
- greenhouse gas
- carbon
- global warming
- Nitrogen deposition
