Nitrogen outputs from fecal and urine deposition of small mammals: implications for nitrogen cycling.

Abstract:

:The contribution of small mammals to nitrogen cycling could have repercussions for the producer community in the maintaining or perhaps magnifying of nitrogen availability. Our objective was to model nitrogen outputs (deposition of feces and urine) of small mammals in an old-field ecosystem and estimate the amount of fecal and urinary nitrogen deposited annually. To address this objective, we used models from laboratory studies and combined these with data from field studies to estimate dietary nitrogen and monthly and annual nitrogen outputs from fecal and urine deposition of five rodent species. The models accounted for monthly fluctuations in density and biomass of small-mammal populations. We estimated that the minimal amount of nitrogen deposited by rodents was 1.0 (0.9-1.1) and 2.7 (2.6-2.9) kg Nha(-1) year(-1) from feces and urine, respectively, for a total contribution of 3.7 (3.5-4.0) kg Nha(-1) year(-1). Hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) accounted for >75% of the total nitrogen output by small mammals. Our estimates of annual fecal and urinary nitrogen deposited by rodents were comparable to nitrogen deposits by larger herbivores and other nitrogen fluxes in grassland ecosystems and should be considered when assessing the potential effects of herbivory on terrestrial nitrogen cycles.

journal_name

Oecologia

journal_title

Oecologia

authors

Clark JE,Hellgren EC,Parsons JL,Jorgensen EE,Engle DM,Leslie DM Jr

doi

10.1007/s00442-005-0004-9

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-07-01 00:00:00

pages

447-55

issue

3

eissn

0029-8549

issn

1432-1939

journal_volume

144

pub_type

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