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Leaf P increase outpaces leaf N in an Inner Mongolia grassland over 27 years | |
Mi, Zhaorong ; Huang, Yuanyuan ; Gan, Huijie ; Zhou, Wenjia ; Flynn, Dan F. B. ; He, Jin-Sheng | |
2015 | |
发表期刊 | BIOLOGY LETTERS
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摘要 | The dynamics of leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) have been intensively explored in short-term experiments, but rarely at longer timescales. Here, we investigated leaf N: P stoichiometry over a 27-year interval in an Inner Mongolia grassland by comparing leaf N: P concentration of 2006 with that of 1979. Across 80 species, both leaf N and P increased, but the increase in leaf N lagged behind that of leaf P, leading to a significant decrease in the N: P ratio. These changes in leaf N: P stoichiometry varied among functional groups. For leaf N, grasses increased, woody species tended to increase, whereas forbs showed no change. Unlike leaf N, leaf P of grasses and forbs increased, whereas woody species showed no change. Such changes may reflect N deposition and P release induced by soil acidification over the past decades. The interannual effect of precipitation may somewhat have reduced the soil available N, leading to the more modest increase of leaf N than of leaf P. Thus, leaf N: P stoichiometry significantly responded to long-term environmental changes in this temperate steppe, but different functional groups responded differently. Our results indicate that conclusions of plant stoichiometry under short-term N fertilization should be treated with caution when extrapolating to longer timescales. |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/37827 |
专题 | 中国科学院西北高原生物研究所 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mi, Zhaorong,Huang, Yuanyuan,Gan, Huijie,et al. Leaf P increase outpaces leaf N in an Inner Mongolia grassland over 27 years[J]. BIOLOGY LETTERS,2015. |
APA | Mi, Zhaorong,Huang, Yuanyuan,Gan, Huijie,Zhou, Wenjia,Flynn, Dan F. B.,&He, Jin-Sheng.(2015).Leaf P increase outpaces leaf N in an Inner Mongolia grassland over 27 years.BIOLOGY LETTERS. |
MLA | Mi, Zhaorong,et al."Leaf P increase outpaces leaf N in an Inner Mongolia grassland over 27 years".BIOLOGY LETTERS (2015). |
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