Soil phosphorus crisis in the Tibetan alpine permafrost region

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 6204 - 13
• Main Authors: Hong, Jiangtao, Pang, Bo, Zhao, Lirong, Shu, Shumiao, Feng, Puyu, Liu, Fang, Du, Ziyin, Wang, Xiaodan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 05.07.2025; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/158/47/4112; 704/47/4112; Climate change; Ecosystems; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Net losses; Normal distribution; Nutrients; Permafrost; Phosphorus; Resampling; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Soil dynamics; Water erosion; Tibetan Plateau

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for living systems and is critical to the functioning of ecosystems. Permafrost areas have a huge reservoir of soil P that is currently not used very much; however, the direction and magnitude of changes in soil P stocks across the Tibetan alpine permafrost re...