Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition
Alpine plant communities are highly sensitive to global warming. One of the consequences of the warming is encroachment by herbaceous plants from forests at low elevations into alpine ecosystems. In the Changbai Mountains, narrowleaf small reed (Deyeuxia angustifolia (Kom.) Y. L. Chang) from mountai...
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ftunimissourimos:oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/75223 2023-05-15T18:39:33+02:00 Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition Tan, X. He, H.S. Zong, S. Wu, M. Liu, K. Zhao, D. School of Natural Resources 2019 14 pages : illustration https://hdl.handle.net/10355/75223 https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020170 English eng eng MDPI AG doi:10.3390/f10020170 https://hdl.handle.net/10355/75223 https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10020170 OpenAccess. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Forests Tan, X., He, H.S., Zong, S., Wu, M., Liu, K., Zhao, D. (2019). Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition. Forests, 10(2). 10.3390/f10020170 Alpine tundra Biomass allocation Competition Herbaceous encroachment Article 2019 ftunimissourimos https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020170 2022-12-17T23:25:00Z Alpine plant communities are highly sensitive to global warming. One of the consequences of the warming is encroachment by herbaceous plants from forests at low elevations into alpine ecosystems. In the Changbai Mountains, narrowleaf small reed (Deyeuxia angustifolia (Kom.) Y. L. Chang) from mountain birch forests encroached upward into alpine tundra, gradually replacing native tundra shrubs such as Rhododendron (Rhododendron aureum Georgi). How encroaching plants affect native plant communities is not fully understood. In this study, we analyzed above- and belowground biomass of alpine plant communities at five encroachment levels to investigate how biomass allocation changed at species and community scales. Our research showed that native plants are forced to change their morphology to cope with competition, at both above- and belowground levels, from encroaching plants. We found that (1) R. aureum increased the shoot height and leaf area in order to compete with D. angustifolia; (2) above- and belowground biomass of D. angustifolia increased while above- and belowground biomass of R. aureum decreased with increasing levels of encroachment; and (3) D. angustifolia encroachment reduced the total biomass of alpine tundra. Encroachment by herbaceous plants has a long-term negative impact on the ability of tundra plants to sequester carbon in the alpine tundra of the Changbai Mountains. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra University of Missouri: MOspace Georgi ENVELOPE(-45.133,-45.133,-60.767,-60.767) Forests 10 2 170 |
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Alpine plant communities are highly sensitive to global warming. One of the consequences of the warming is encroachment by herbaceous plants from forests at low elevations into alpine ecosystems. In the Changbai Mountains, narrowleaf small reed (Deyeuxia angustifolia (Kom.) Y. L. Chang) from mountain birch forests encroached upward into alpine tundra, gradually replacing native tundra shrubs such as Rhododendron (Rhododendron aureum Georgi). How encroaching plants affect native plant communities is not fully understood. In this study, we analyzed above- and belowground biomass of alpine plant communities at five encroachment levels to investigate how biomass allocation changed at species and community scales. Our research showed that native plants are forced to change their morphology to cope with competition, at both above- and belowground levels, from encroaching plants. We found that (1) R. aureum increased the shoot height and leaf area in order to compete with D. angustifolia; (2) above- and belowground biomass of D. angustifolia increased while above- and belowground biomass of R. aureum decreased with increasing levels of encroachment; and (3) D. angustifolia encroachment reduced the total biomass of alpine tundra. Encroachment by herbaceous plants has a long-term negative impact on the ability of tundra plants to sequester carbon in the alpine tundra of the Changbai Mountains. |
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Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition |
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Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition |
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Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition |
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Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition |
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Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition |
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herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition |
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