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Ecological property data and experimental lab incubation results from a long-term nitrogen deposition simulation experiment in three semi-arid grasslands, Arches National Park, Utah, USA, 2013-2019

These data were compiled to understand the responses of dryland ecosystem properties to long-term simulated atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Objective(s) of our study were to uncover any changes in soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem properties to long-term nitrogen amendments. These data represent ecosystem property data compiled over the nine-year history of a nitrogen deposition simulation exper
By
Southwest Biological Science Center

Restoration research actions to address rapid change in drylands: Insights from the Colorado Plateau

The rapid intensification of ecological extremes in response to climate change and human land use is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in drylands, including the semiarid region of the Colorado Plateau in the southwestern United States. Here, we describe research directions to aid in the restoration of Colorado Plateau ecosystems during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) that 1) a
Authors
Kristina E. Young, Brooke Bossert Osborne, Michala Lee Phillips, Daniel E. Winkler
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry

Drylands, which cover more than 40% of Earth’s terrestrial surface, are dominant drivers of global biogeochemical cycling and home to more than one third of the human population. Climate projections predict warming, drought frequency and severity, and evaporative demand will increase in drylands at faster rates than global means. Due to extreme temperatures and high biological dependency on limite
Authors
Brooke Bossert Osborne, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Courtney M. Currier, Peter M Homyak, Heather L. Throop, Kristina E Young, Sasha C. Reed
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Research and Development Program, Land Management Research Program, Southwest Biological Science Center

Biogeochemical and ecosystem properties in three adjacent semiarid grasslands are resistant to nitrogen deposition but sensitive to edaphic variability

Drylands have low nitrogen stocks and are predicted to be sensitive to modest increases in reactive nitrogen availability, but direct evidence that atmospheric nitrogen deposition will have sustained effects on dryland ecosystems is sparse and conflicting.We used three long-running in situ nitrogen deposition simulation experiments and a complementary laboratory incubation experiment to address fu
Authors
Brooke Bossert Osborne, Carla M Roybal, Robin H. Reibold, Christopher D Collier, Erika L. Geiger, Michala Lee Phillips, Michael N Weintraub, Sasha C. Reed
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Southwest Biological Science Center

Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands

Nutrient enrichment can simultaneously increase and destabilise plant biomass production, with co-limitation by multiple nutrients potentially intensifying these effects. Here, we test how factorial additions of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium with essential nutrients (K+) affect the stability (mean/standard deviation) of aboveground biomass in 34 grasslands over 7 years. Destabilisatio
Authors
Oliver Carroll, Evan Batzer, Siddharth Bharath, Elizabeth T. Borer, Sofía Campana, Ellen Esch, Yann Hautier, Timothy Ohlert, Eric W. Seabloom, Peter B. Adler, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori A. Biederman, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria Caldeira, Qingqing Chen, Kendi F. Davies, Philip A. Fay, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly Komatsu, Jason P. Martina, Kevin S. McCann, Joslin L. Moore, John W. Morgan, Taofeek O. Muraina, Brooke Bossert Osborne, Anita C. Risch, Carly J. Stevens, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Laura Yahdjian, Andrew S. MacDougall
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau

Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition is significantly altering both community structure and ecosystem processes in terrestrial ecosystems across the globe. However, our understanding of the consequences of N deposition in dryland systems remains relatively poor, despite evidence that drylands may be particularly vulnerable to increasing N inputs. In this study, we investigated the influence of 7
Authors
Michala Lee Phillips, Daniel E. Winkler, Robin H. Reibold, Brooke Bossert Osborne, Sasha C. Reed
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

Non-USGS Publications**

Phillips, M.L., D.E. Winkler, R.H. Reibold, B.B. Osborne, S.C. Reed. 2021. Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau. Oecologia. 195(2)
Osborne, B.B., M.K. Nasto, F.M. Soper, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, C.C. Cleveland, P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, S. Porder. 2020. Leaf litter inputs reinforce islands of nitrogen fertility in a lowland tropical forest. Biogeochemistry. 147(3)
Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, B.B. Osborne, A.N. Shaw, L. Philippot, C.C.
Cleveland. 2018. Leaf-cutter ants engineer hot spots of nitrous oxide emissions in
tropical forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286(1894), 20182045
Soper, F.M., M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, C.C. Cleveland. 2018. Nitrogen fixation
and foliar nitrogen do not predict phosphorus acquisition strategies in tropical
trees. Journal of Ecology. 107(1), 118-126
Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, D. Bru, C.S. Balzotti,
P.G. Taylor, G.P. Asner, A.R. Townsend, L. Philippot, S. Porder, C.C. Cleveland.
2018. Remotely-sensed canopy nitrogen correlated with nitrous oxide emissions
in a lowland tropical rainforest. Ecology. 99(9), 2080-2089
Hall, E.K., E.S. Bernhardt, R. Bier, M.A. Bradford, C.M. Boot, J.B. Cotner, P.A.
del Giorgio, S.E. Evans, E.B. Graham, S.E. Jones, J.T. Lennon, K. Locey, D.
Nemergut, B.B. Osborne, J.D. Rocca, J.S. Schimel, M.S. Waldrop, M.W.
Wallenstein. 2018. Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they
inhabit: moving from a correlative to a causal research framework. bioRxiv
Nasto, M.K., B.B. Osborne, Y. Lekberg, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, S. Porder,
P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland. 2017. Nutrient acquisition, soil
phosphorus partitioning, and competition among trees in a lowland tropical rain
forest. New Phytologist. 214(4), 1506-1517
Osborne, B.B., M.K. Nasto, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, C.C. Cleveland, B.W.
Sullivan, P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, S. Porder. 2017. Climate, topography, and
canopy chemistry exert hierarchical control over soil N cycling in a Neotropical
lowland forest. Ecosystems. 20(6), 1089-1103
Conant, R.T., C.E.P. Cerri, B.B. Osborne, K. Paustian. 2017. Grassland
management impacts on soil carbon stocks: a new synthesis. Ecological
Applications. 27(2), 662-668
Balzotti, C.S., G.P. Asner, P.G. Taylor, R. Cole, B.B. Osborne, C.C. Cleveland,
S. Porder, A.R. Townsend. 2017. Topographic distributions of emergent trees in
tropical forests of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Ecography. 40(7), 829-839
Balzotti, C.S., G.P. Asner, P.G. Taylor, C.C. Cleveland, R. Cole, R.E. Martin,
M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, S. Porder, A.R. Townsend. 2016. Environmental
controls on canopy foliar N distributions in a Neotropical lowland
forest. Ecological Applications. 26(8), 2451-2464
Osborne, B.B., J.S. Baron, M.D. Wallenstein. 2016. Moisture and temperature
controls on nitrification differ among ammonia oxidizer communities from three
alpine soil habitats. Frontiers of Earth Science. 10(1), 1-12
Bier, R.L., E.S. Bernhardt, C.M. Boot, E.B. Graham, E.K. Hall, J.T. Lennon, D.R.
Nemergut, B.B. Osborne, C. Ruiz-González, J.P. Schimel, M.P. Waldrop, M.D.
Wallenstein. 2015. Linking microbial community structure and microbial
processes: an empirical and conceptual overview. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
91(10)

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

Science and Products

  • Data

    Ecological property data and experimental lab incubation results from a long-term nitrogen deposition simulation experiment in three semi-arid grasslands, Arches National Park, Utah, USA, 2013-2019

    These data were compiled to understand the responses of dryland ecosystem properties to long-term simulated atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Objective(s) of our study were to uncover any changes in soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem properties to long-term nitrogen amendments. These data represent ecosystem property data compiled over the nine-year history of a nitrogen deposition simulation exper
    By
    Southwest Biological Science Center
  • Publications

    Restoration research actions to address rapid change in drylands: Insights from the Colorado Plateau

    The rapid intensification of ecological extremes in response to climate change and human land use is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in drylands, including the semiarid region of the Colorado Plateau in the southwestern United States. Here, we describe research directions to aid in the restoration of Colorado Plateau ecosystems during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) that 1) a
    Authors
    Kristina E. Young, Brooke Bossert Osborne, Michala Lee Phillips, Daniel E. Winkler
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

    The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry

    Drylands, which cover more than 40% of Earth’s terrestrial surface, are dominant drivers of global biogeochemical cycling and home to more than one third of the human population. Climate projections predict warming, drought frequency and severity, and evaporative demand will increase in drylands at faster rates than global means. Due to extreme temperatures and high biological dependency on limite
    Authors
    Brooke Bossert Osborne, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Courtney M. Currier, Peter M Homyak, Heather L. Throop, Kristina E Young, Sasha C. Reed
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Research and Development Program, Land Management Research Program, Southwest Biological Science Center

    Biogeochemical and ecosystem properties in three adjacent semiarid grasslands are resistant to nitrogen deposition but sensitive to edaphic variability

    Drylands have low nitrogen stocks and are predicted to be sensitive to modest increases in reactive nitrogen availability, but direct evidence that atmospheric nitrogen deposition will have sustained effects on dryland ecosystems is sparse and conflicting.We used three long-running in situ nitrogen deposition simulation experiments and a complementary laboratory incubation experiment to address fu
    Authors
    Brooke Bossert Osborne, Carla M Roybal, Robin H. Reibold, Christopher D Collier, Erika L. Geiger, Michala Lee Phillips, Michael N Weintraub, Sasha C. Reed
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Southwest Biological Science Center

    Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands

    Nutrient enrichment can simultaneously increase and destabilise plant biomass production, with co-limitation by multiple nutrients potentially intensifying these effects. Here, we test how factorial additions of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium with essential nutrients (K+) affect the stability (mean/standard deviation) of aboveground biomass in 34 grasslands over 7 years. Destabilisatio
    Authors
    Oliver Carroll, Evan Batzer, Siddharth Bharath, Elizabeth T. Borer, Sofía Campana, Ellen Esch, Yann Hautier, Timothy Ohlert, Eric W. Seabloom, Peter B. Adler, Jonathan D. Bakker, Lori A. Biederman, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria Caldeira, Qingqing Chen, Kendi F. Davies, Philip A. Fay, Johannes M. H. Knops, Kimberly Komatsu, Jason P. Martina, Kevin S. McCann, Joslin L. Moore, John W. Morgan, Taofeek O. Muraina, Brooke Bossert Osborne, Anita C. Risch, Carly J. Stevens, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Laura Yahdjian, Andrew S. MacDougall
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

    Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau

    Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition is significantly altering both community structure and ecosystem processes in terrestrial ecosystems across the globe. However, our understanding of the consequences of N deposition in dryland systems remains relatively poor, despite evidence that drylands may be particularly vulnerable to increasing N inputs. In this study, we investigated the influence of 7
    Authors
    Michala Lee Phillips, Daniel E. Winkler, Robin H. Reibold, Brooke Bossert Osborne, Sasha C. Reed
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

    Non-USGS Publications**

    Phillips, M.L., D.E. Winkler, R.H. Reibold, B.B. Osborne, S.C. Reed. 2021. Muted responses to chronic experimental nitrogen deposition on the Colorado Plateau. Oecologia. 195(2)
    Osborne, B.B., M.K. Nasto, F.M. Soper, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, C.C. Cleveland, P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, S. Porder. 2020. Leaf litter inputs reinforce islands of nitrogen fertility in a lowland tropical forest. Biogeochemistry. 147(3)
    Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, B.B. Osborne, A.N. Shaw, L. Philippot, C.C.
    Cleveland. 2018. Leaf-cutter ants engineer hot spots of nitrous oxide emissions in
    tropical forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286(1894), 20182045
    Soper, F.M., M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, C.C. Cleveland. 2018. Nitrogen fixation
    and foliar nitrogen do not predict phosphorus acquisition strategies in tropical
    trees. Journal of Ecology. 107(1), 118-126
    Soper, F.M., B.W. Sullivan, M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, D. Bru, C.S. Balzotti,
    P.G. Taylor, G.P. Asner, A.R. Townsend, L. Philippot, S. Porder, C.C. Cleveland.
    2018. Remotely-sensed canopy nitrogen correlated with nitrous oxide emissions
    in a lowland tropical rainforest. Ecology. 99(9), 2080-2089
    Hall, E.K., E.S. Bernhardt, R. Bier, M.A. Bradford, C.M. Boot, J.B. Cotner, P.A.
    del Giorgio, S.E. Evans, E.B. Graham, S.E. Jones, J.T. Lennon, K. Locey, D.
    Nemergut, B.B. Osborne, J.D. Rocca, J.S. Schimel, M.S. Waldrop, M.W.
    Wallenstein. 2018. Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they
    inhabit: moving from a correlative to a causal research framework. bioRxiv
    Nasto, M.K., B.B. Osborne, Y. Lekberg, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, S. Porder,
    P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, C.C. Cleveland. 2017. Nutrient acquisition, soil
    phosphorus partitioning, and competition among trees in a lowland tropical rain
    forest. New Phytologist. 214(4), 1506-1517
    Osborne, B.B., M.K. Nasto, G.P. Asner, C.S. Balzotti, C.C. Cleveland, B.W.
    Sullivan, P.G. Taylor, A.R. Townsend, S. Porder. 2017. Climate, topography, and
    canopy chemistry exert hierarchical control over soil N cycling in a Neotropical
    lowland forest. Ecosystems. 20(6), 1089-1103
    Conant, R.T., C.E.P. Cerri, B.B. Osborne, K. Paustian. 2017. Grassland
    management impacts on soil carbon stocks: a new synthesis. Ecological
    Applications. 27(2), 662-668
    Balzotti, C.S., G.P. Asner, P.G. Taylor, R. Cole, B.B. Osborne, C.C. Cleveland,
    S. Porder, A.R. Townsend. 2017. Topographic distributions of emergent trees in
    tropical forests of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Ecography. 40(7), 829-839
    Balzotti, C.S., G.P. Asner, P.G. Taylor, C.C. Cleveland, R. Cole, R.E. Martin,
    M.K. Nasto, B.B. Osborne, S. Porder, A.R. Townsend. 2016. Environmental
    controls on canopy foliar N distributions in a Neotropical lowland
    forest. Ecological Applications. 26(8), 2451-2464
    Osborne, B.B., J.S. Baron, M.D. Wallenstein. 2016. Moisture and temperature
    controls on nitrification differ among ammonia oxidizer communities from three
    alpine soil habitats. Frontiers of Earth Science. 10(1), 1-12
    Bier, R.L., E.S. Bernhardt, C.M. Boot, E.B. Graham, E.K. Hall, J.T. Lennon, D.R.
    Nemergut, B.B. Osborne, C. Ruiz-González, J.P. Schimel, M.P. Waldrop, M.D.
    Wallenstein. 2015. Linking microbial community structure and microbial
    processes: an empirical and conceptual overview. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
    91(10)

    **Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.