Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow
Climate change is likely to alter the relative abundances of plant functional groups and the interactions between plants and soil microbes that maintain alpine meadow ecosystems. However, little is known about how warming-induced alterations to aboveground biomass (AGB) affect soil nutrients and mic...
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ftchinacascnwipb:oai:210.75.249.4:363003/13280 2023-05-15T15:11:34+02:00 Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow Wang, Changting Wang, Genxu Wang, Yong Zi, Hongbiao Lerdau, Manuel Liu, Wei 2017 http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/13280 https://doi.org/10.1080/15659801.2017.1281201 英语 eng TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD ISRAEL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/13280 doi:10.1080/15659801.2017.1281201 Aboveground Biomass Alpine Meadow Phospholipid Fatty Acids (Plfas) Plant Functional Group Experimental Warming Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine SUB-ARCTIC HEATH CLIMATE-CHANGE TIBETAN PLATEAU TEMPERATE STEPPE ENZYME-ACTIVITIES ELEVATED CO2 RESPONSES ECOSYSTEM BIOMASS CARBON Environmental Sciences & Ecology Evolutionary Biology Ecology Article 期刊论文 2017 ftchinacascnwipb https://doi.org/10.1080/15659801.2017.1281201 2023-03-26T20:23:55Z Climate change is likely to alter the relative abundances of plant functional groups and the interactions between plants and soil microbes that maintain alpine meadow ecosystems. However, little is known about how warming-induced alterations to aboveground biomass (AGB) affect soil nutrients and microbial communities. We investigated plant community characteristics in 2002-2009 and analyzed soil properties and the soil microbial community in 2007-2009 to study the effects of warming in Qinghai Province, China. Sampling involved the use of warmed open top chambers, the monitoring of plant community characteristics, the quantification of total and available amounts of soil nutrients, and the evaluation of microbial community composition using phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis. Experimental warming initially significantly increased the number of plant functional groups and plant community AGB; however, plant community diversity and species richness decreased. Nevertheless, all these variables stabilized over time. Fungal and bacterial abundance, total nitrogen, available nitrogen and soil organic matter increased with warming, while microbial PLFAs decreased. These findings demonstrated that climate change drivers and their interactions may cause changes in soil nutrients and the abundance and content of soil microbial PLFAs. Elevated temperature has strong effects on aboveground grass biomass. Surface conditions and disturbance affect the soil microbial communities of deep soil layers. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology: NWIPB OpenIR (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Arctic Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 1 12 |
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Climate change is likely to alter the relative abundances of plant functional groups and the interactions between plants and soil microbes that maintain alpine meadow ecosystems. However, little is known about how warming-induced alterations to aboveground biomass (AGB) affect soil nutrients and microbial communities. We investigated plant community characteristics in 2002-2009 and analyzed soil properties and the soil microbial community in 2007-2009 to study the effects of warming in Qinghai Province, China. Sampling involved the use of warmed open top chambers, the monitoring of plant community characteristics, the quantification of total and available amounts of soil nutrients, and the evaluation of microbial community composition using phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis. Experimental warming initially significantly increased the number of plant functional groups and plant community AGB; however, plant community diversity and species richness decreased. Nevertheless, all these variables stabilized over time. Fungal and bacterial abundance, total nitrogen, available nitrogen and soil organic matter increased with warming, while microbial PLFAs decreased. These findings demonstrated that climate change drivers and their interactions may cause changes in soil nutrients and the abundance and content of soil microbial PLFAs. Elevated temperature has strong effects on aboveground grass biomass. Surface conditions and disturbance affect the soil microbial communities of deep soil layers. |
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Wang, Changting Wang, Genxu Wang, Yong Zi, Hongbiao Lerdau, Manuel Liu, Wei |
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Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow |
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Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow |
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Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow |
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Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow |
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Effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow |
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effects of long-term experimental warming on plant community properties and soil microbial community composition in an alpine meadow |
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