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About one-third of the stored soil carbon in the world is contained in large organic pools in northern taiga and tundra systems (Oechel and Billings 1992). In these ecosystems, at least 95% of the nutrients were incorporated in the soil (Marion et al. 1982). Therefore, plant growth or net primary production (NPP) is severely constrained by nutrient availability in high-latitude ecosystems, since the cold, wet conditions of arctic soils act to slow the release of nutrients (particularly inorganic N and P) from organic matter and the oxidation of organic C to CO2 (Hobbie et al. 2002). These processes have led to the critical nutrient limitation on plant growth in these ecosystems (Shaver et al. 1992).
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Tokuchi, N. et al. (2010). Soil Nitrogen Dynamics in Larch Ecosystem. In: Osawa, A., Zyryanova, O., Matsuura, Y., Kajimoto, T., Wein, R. (eds) Permafrost Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9693-8_12
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