Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient

doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12941

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	Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient
	Zhang, Hai-Yang ; Lu, Xiao-Tao ; Knapp, Alan K.; Hartmann, Henrik 6; Bai, Edith ; Wang, Xiao-Bo ; Wang, Zheng-Wen ; Wang, Xiao-Guang ; Yu, Qiang 3; Han, Xing-Guo
刊名	FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
	2018
卷号	32 期号:1 页码:203-213
关键词	competition dryland facilitation Inner Mongolia nurse plant nutrient dynamics shrub encroachment stress gradient hypothesis
ISSN号	0269-8463
DOI	10.1111/1365-2435.12941
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Combining nutrient dynamics (plant nutrient uptake and soil fertility) can help uncover mechanisms of shrub-grass interactions and assess the validity of the stress-gradient hypothesis, which predicts that facilitation between plants increases in stressful environments. However, how facilitation via shrub-mediated nutrient increases varies with precipitation is poorly resolved. We first synthesized a global dataset from 66 studies and evaluated how shrubs affected soil organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in grasslands along a precipitation gradient. We then made new measurements in a single-grassland type encroached by leguminous shrubs from the same genus (Caragana) to constrain the variations caused by combining different grassland types and shrubs traits in the meta-analysis. Specifically, we investigated how shrubs mediated N dynamics and how shrub-grass interactions varied along a precipitation gradient (147-342mm) in a temperate steppe of China. At the global scale, leguminous shrub-mediated effects on soil nutrients increased with precipitation, while no relationship was found for non-leguminous shrub. For the field experiment, greater N and lower N-15 in Caragana compared to non-leguminous shrub (reference shrub, Salsola collina) suggested active N-fixation in Caragana. We found that Caragana enhanced N concentration and leaf quality (low C:N ratio) in neighbouring plants more on mesic sites than on xeric sites. Thus, facilitation increased via higher soil N and with decreasing environmental stress, at least along this relatively arid precipitation gradient. Our results highlight the importance of precipitation in determining the nutritional facilitation to neighbouring grasses from encroaching leguminous shrubs. Conceptual frameworks for plant facilitation may therefore need to include shrub characteristics (N-fixers vs. non-fixers) and positive effects of higher precipitation on this type of facilitation to characterize plant interactions along stress gradients. A is available for this article.
学科主题	Ecology
电子版国际标准刊号	1365-2435
出版地	HOBOKEN
WOS关键词	WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT ; POSITIVE INTERACTIONS ; STRESS ; CARBON ; HYPOTHESIS ; LAND ; COMPETITION ; GRASSLANDS ; COMMUNITY ; NUTRIENT
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000419494600020
资助机构	Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [2014174] ; China Scholarship Council - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (CSC-DAAD) Post-doc Joint Programme ; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31270476, 41320104002, 31170433] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences [XDB15010401] ; National Key Research and Development Programme [2016YFC0500601]
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/20631]
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Max Planck Inst Biogeochem, Jena, Germany 2.Knapp, Alan K.] Colorado State Univ, Dept Biol, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA 3.Dalian Minzu Univ, Coll Environm & Resources, Dalian, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Agr Resources & Reg Planning, Natl Hulunber Grassland Ecosyst Observat & Res St, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, Erguna Forest Steppe Ecotone Res Stn, Shenyang, Liaoning, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Hai-Yang,Lu, Xiao-Tao,Knapp, Alan K.,et al. Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient[J]. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY,2018,32(1):203-213.
APA	Zhang, Hai-Yang.,Lu, Xiao-Tao.,Knapp, Alan K..,Hartmann, Henrik.,Bai, Edith.,...&Han, Xing-Guo.(2018).Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient.FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY,32(1),203-213.
MLA	Zhang, Hai-Yang,et al."Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient".FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 32.1(2018):203-213.