Community Characteristics and Leaf Stoichiometric Traits of Desert Ecosystems Regulated by Precipitation and Soil in an Arid Area of China

doi:10.3390/ijerph15010109

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	Community Characteristics and Leaf Stoichiometric Traits of Desert Ecosystems Regulated by Precipitation and Soil in an Arid Area of China
	Zhang, Xiaolong 1; Guan, Tianyu 1; Zhou, Jihua 1; Cai, Wentao 1; Gao, Nannan 1; Du, Hui ; Jiang, Lianhe ; Lai, Liming ; Zheng, Yuanrun
刊名	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
	2018
卷号	15 期号:1
关键词	precipitation community characteristics leaf stoichiometric traits soil properties desert ecosystem global climate change
DOI	10.3390/ijerph15010109
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Precipitation is a key environmental factor determining plant community structure and function. Knowledge of how community characteristics and leaf stoichiometric traits respond to variation in precipitation is crucial for assessing the effects of global changes on terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, we measured community characteristics, leaf stoichiometric traits, and soil properties along a precipitation gradient (35-209 mm) in a desert ecosystem of Northwest China to explore the drivers of these factors. With increasing precipitation, species richness, aboveground biomass, community coverage, foliage projective cover (FPC), and leaf area index (LAI) all significantly increased, while community height decreased. The hyperarid desert plants were characterized by lower leaf carbon (C) and nitrogen/phosphorus (N/P) levels, and stable N and P, and these parameters did not change significantly with precipitation. The growth of desert plants was limited more by N than P. Soil properties, rather than precipitation, were the main drivers of desert plant leaf stoichiometric traits, whereas precipitation made the biggest contribution to vegetation structure and function. These results test the importance of precipitation in regulating plant community structure and composition together with soil properties, and provide further insights into the adaptive strategy of communities at regional scale in response to global climate change.
学科主题	Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
电子版国际标准刊号	1660-4601
出版地	BASEL
WOS关键词	HEIHE RIVER-BASIN ; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; PHOSPHORUS STOICHIOMETRY ; LOESS PLATEAU ; BIOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY ; TEMPORAL VARIATION ; SPECIES-DIVERSITY ; RIPARIAN FOREST ; VEGETATION
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000424121200109
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [91425301]
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/20389]
专题	中科院北方资源植物重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Key Lab Plant Resources, West China Subalpine Bot Garden, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Xiaolong,Guan, Tianyu,Zhou, Jihua,et al. Community Characteristics and Leaf Stoichiometric Traits of Desert Ecosystems Regulated by Precipitation and Soil in an Arid Area of China[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2018,15(1).
APA	Zhang, Xiaolong.,Guan, Tianyu.,Zhou, Jihua.,Cai, Wentao.,Gao, Nannan.,...&Zheng, Yuanrun.(2018).Community Characteristics and Leaf Stoichiometric Traits of Desert Ecosystems Regulated by Precipitation and Soil in an Arid Area of China.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,15(1).
MLA	Zhang, Xiaolong,et al."Community Characteristics and Leaf Stoichiometric Traits of Desert Ecosystems Regulated by Precipitation and Soil in an Arid Area of China".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 15.1(2018).