Soil nitrogen cycling potential at watershed scales inferred from soil metagenomes and aboveground proxies detected by remote sensing

Patrick Sorensen1, Eoin Brodie1,2, Dana Chadwick3, Markus Bill4, Nicholas Bouskill5, Brian Joseph Enquist6, Nicola Falco1, Amanda Henderson7, Ulas Karaoz5, Ryan Kenneally8, Aizah Khurram5, Corey R Lawrence9, Alexander Polussa10, Kate Maher11, Hans Singh12, Heidi Steltzer13, Shi Wang5, Haruko M Wainwright14, Kenneth Hurst Williams15, Bizuayehu Whitney16 and Yangquanwei Zhong17, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ecology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (11)Stanford University, Earth Systems Science, Stanford, United States, (12)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (13)Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, United States, (14)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (15)Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (16)Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Boston, CT, United States, (17)NWPU Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Ecology and Environment, Xi'an, China