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Geology; November 1998; v. 26; no. 11; p. 1015-1018; DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1015:CSOBCD>2.3.CO;2
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Changing sources of base cations during ecosystem development, Hawaiian Islands

M. J. Kennedy1, O. A. Chadwick2, P. M. Vitousek3, L. A. Derry4 and D. M. Hendricks5

1 Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
2 Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106
3 Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
4 Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
5 Soil Water and Environmental Science Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0038

87Sr/86Sr evidence from a soil chronosequence in the Hawaiian Islands demonstrates that the atmosphere supplies >85% of putatively rock-derived Sr in older sites. Initially, bedrock is the dominant source for Sr and other lithophile elements such as Ca, but high rates of weathering and leaching of the substrate by 20 ka lead to a shift to atmospheric sources. The loss of weathering inputs coincides with other physio-chemical changes in the soil and results in a steep decline of base cations in the soil pool. While these patterns imply the potential for limitation of biological productivity by low base cation supply, the atmosphere provides a supply of base cations in excess of nutritional needs, even after nearly all rock-derived base cations have been leached from the soil. This raises the possibility that P limitation in terrestrial ecosystems may develop at least as much because of low rates of atmospheric deposition of P (relative to Ca, K, and other rock-derived elements) as because of its chemical interaction in soil.




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