期刊
JOURNAL OF ARID LAND
卷 13, 期 10, 页码 1041-1053出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s40333-021-0080-7
关键词
leaf nutrient concentration; nutrient resorption efficiency; leaf N; P ratio; N addition; P addition; Seriphidium rhodanthum; Stipa capillata
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41807335]
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China [ZR2020MC040]
- National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China [2019YFC0507602-2]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [2020434]
- National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents [BX201700279]
The study found that N addition significantly affected soil inorganic N and leaf N of Seriphidium rhodanthum and Stipa capillata, while P addition and N+P addition significantly increased leaf P concentration and negatively impacted P resorption efficiency. The two species were more sensitive to P addition than N addition, indicating that P is the major limiting factor in the alpine grassland ecosystem studied.
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are two essential nutrients that determine plant growth and many nutrient cycling processes. Increasing N and P deposition is an important driver of ecosystem changes. However, in contrast to numerous studies about the impacts of nutrient addition on forests and temperate grasslands, how plant foliar stoichiometry and nutrient resorption respond to N and P addition in alpine grasslands is poorly understood. Therefore, we conducted an N and P addition experiment (involving control, N addition, P addition, and N+P addition) in an alpine grassland on Kunlun Mountains (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China) in 2016 and 2017 to investigate the changes in leaf nutrient concentrations (i.e., leaf N, Leaf P, and leaf N:P ratio) and nutrient resorption efficiency of Seriphidium rhodanthum and Stipa capillata, which are dominant species in this grassland. Results showed that N addition have significant effects on soil inorganic N (NO3--N and NH4+-N) and leaf N of both species in the study periods. Compared with green leaves, leaf nutrient concentrations and nutrient resorption efficiency in senesced leaves of S. rhodanthum was more sensitive to N addition, whereas N addition influenced leaf N and leaf N:P ratio in green and senesced leaves of S. capillata. N addition did not influence N resorption efficiency of the two species. P addition and N+P addition significantly improved leaf P and had a negative effect on P resorption efficiency of the two species in the study periods. These influences on plants can be explained by increasing P availability. The present results illustrated that the two species are more sensitive to P addition than N addition, which implies that P is the major limiting factor in the studied alpine grassland ecosystem. In addition, an interactive effect of N+P addition was only discernable with respect to soil availability, but did not affect plants. Therefore, exploring how nutrient characteristics and resorption response to N and P addition in the alpine grassland is important to understand nutrient use strategy of plants in terrestrial ecosystems.
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