| Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau | |
Sun Jian1,2; Zhou Tian-Cai1,3,4; Liu Miao1; Chen You-Chao5 ; Liu Guo-Hua2; Xu Ming1,6,7; Shi Pei-Li1,3; Peng Fei8,9; Tsunekawa Atsushi8; Liu Yu1; Wang Xiao-Dan10; Dong Shi-Kui11; Zhang Yang-Jian1; Li Ying-Nian12
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| Corresponding Author | Liu, Miao(liumiao@igsnrr.ac.cn) |
| 2020 | |
| Source Publication | GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
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| ISSN | 1466-822X |
| EISSN | 1466-8238 |
| Volume | 29Issue:1Pages:50-64 |
| Subtype | Article |
| Abstract | Aim Climate change is expected to have important effects on plant phenology and carbon storage, with further shifts predicted in the future. Therefore, we proposed the community carbon accumulation rate (CAR) from the start of the growing season (SOS) to the peak of the growing season (POS) to fill the gap that the dynamic interactions between plant phenology and plant carbon research. Location Tibetan Plateau. Major taxa Alpine grassland plants. Time period 2015. Methods We conducted a transect survey across grasslands to measure community aboveground net primary production and carbon concentration. Additionally, phenology indicator data (SOS and POS) were extracted from the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) normalized difference vegetation index version 3 database. Next, we used 'changepoint' analysis to detect the patterns of CARs, and performed linear regression and one-way ANOVA to explore the variability of CARs in response to the environmental factors. Ultimately, the total effects of environmental factors on CARs were illustrated by a structural equation model. Results Our results indicated that three CAR patterns were detected, which are low-CAR (0.15 g/m(2)/day), medium-CAR (0.31 g/m(2)/day) and high-CAR (0.84 g/m(2)/day) patterns. We found that the availabilities of water and heat mediated CARs by regulating soil nutrition variability, and that drought climate and insufficient soil resources co-constrained the community CAR at long time-scales. In contrast, high CAR could be explained by more water and heat availability via either direct or indirect effects on soil moisture and soil nutrients. Main conclusions Our findings highlight that water and heat availability are critical driving factors in ecological carbon accumulation processes undergoing climate change. Meanwhile, the vegetative phenology also has important effect on carbon accumulation. Consequently, we propose incorporating the dynamic interactions between plant phenology and plant carbon into the ecological carbon cycle model to improve our understanding of resource utilization and survival strategies of plants under environmental change. |
| Keyword | alpine grassland carbon accumulation rate climate change dryland Tibetan Plateau time-scale |
| DOI | 10.1111/geb.13006 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| WOS Keyword | DELAYED SPRING PHENOLOGY ; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY ; BELOW-GROUND BIOMASS ; PHOSPHORUS STOICHIOMETRY ; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS ; PRECIPITATION PULSE ; NITROGEN ADDITION ; LEAF NITROGEN ; SOIL ; RESPONSES |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Research Area | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Physical Geography |
| WOS Subject | Ecology ; Geography, Physical |
| WOS ID | WOS:000499614900005 |
| Publisher | WILEY |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/33557 |
| Collection | 山地表生过程与生态调控重点实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Liu Miao |
| Affiliation | 1.Synthesis Research Centre of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 2.State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco‐environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 3.College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 4.Lhasa Plateau Ecosystem Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 5.Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; 6.Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; 7.The College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng, China; 8.International Pltform of Dryland Research and Education, Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan; 9.Northwest Institute of Eco‐Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China; 10.Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China; 11.School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; 12.Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China |
| First Author Affilication | 中国科学院水利部成都山地灾害与环境研究所 |
| Corresponding Author Affilication | 中国科学院水利部成都山地灾害与环境研究所 |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Sun Jian,Zhou Tian-Cai,Liu Miao,et al. Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau[J]. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY,2020,29(1):50-64. |
| APA | Sun Jian.,Zhou Tian-Cai.,Liu Miao.,Chen You-Chao.,Liu Guo-Hua.,...&Li Ying-Nian.(2020).Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau.GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY,29(1),50-64. |
| MLA | Sun Jian,et al."Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau".GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 29.1(2020):50-64. |
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