盐碱草地植物种群分布与土壤营养关系的一种分析方法——土壤营养位分析

基于对松嫩盐碱草地植物种群分布特点及影响植物种群分布格局的生态环境因素的分析,提出了盐碱草地植物种群分布与土壤营养关系的一种分析方法--土壤营养位分析。给出了土壤营养位的计测方法,并讨论了土壤营养位效能指标的选择和土壤营养轴上测定指标的处理。     

盐碱草地植物种群分布与土壤营养关系的一种分析方法——土壤营养位 …

基于对松嫩盐碱草地植物种群分布特点及影响植物种群分布格局的生态环境因素的分析,提出了盐碱草地植物种群分布与土壤营养关系的一种分析方法－－土壤营养位分析。给出了土壤营养位的计测方法,并讨论了土壤营养位效能指标的选择和土壤营养轴上测定指标的处理。     

松嫩盐碱草地植物种群的土壤营养位季节动态

针对松嫩盐碱草地的特点,综合评价了18项土壤因子,以植物的相对地上生物量为土壤营养位效能,分析了松嫩盐碱草地植物种群的土壤营养位季节动态。伴随季节的更替,碱蓬等强耐盐碱植物的土壤营养位中心点逐渐向土壤盐碱程度严重的一侧移动,土壤营养位体积也逐月增加,土壤营养位宽度的扩大是土壤营养位体积增加的主要原因。虎尾草(Chloris virgata)和羊草(Aneurolepidium chinense)的土壤营养位中心点数值和土壤营养位体积7月份时最大。7月份时虎尾草的土壤营养位效能峰值明显高于其它月份的,使得虎尾草此月份的土壤营养位体积在整个生长季内最大,而羊草7月份的土壤营养位宽度和土壤营养位效能峰值都较大,共同决定了该月份羊草的土壤营养位体积最大。除上述植物外,其他轻度耐盐碱植物的土壤营养位中心点随季节更替的变化趋势与碱蓬等强耐盐碱植物的刚好相反,是向土壤盐碱程度越轻的方向。其他轻度耐盐碱植物的土壤营养位宽度8月份时最小,但因为此时土壤营养位效能峰值明显高于其它月份的,它们8月份的土壤营养位体积仍是整个生长季内最大的。松嫩盐碱草地植物种群土壤营养位重叠也存在着明显的季节变化。     

松嫩盐碱草地西部的植物群落特征与土壤因子动态关系分析

应用逐步回归法,分析了5~9月松嫩盐碱草地植物群落的生物量、丰富度、多样性和均匀度与同月土壤因子间的关系。松嫩盐碱草地植物群落特征受若干土壤因子的共同影响,不同月份影响因子的变化较复杂。5~7月土壤盐分和养分共同影响着松嫩盐碱草地植物群落生物量,但是土壤盐分因子与群落生物量的相关性更明显（5月的Ca²⁺质量分数,6月和7月的Mg²⁺质量分数）。土壤盐分因子在整个生长季内对松嫩盐碱草地植物群落生物量的直接作用都大于土壤养分因子的。6月时影响松嫩盐碱草地植物群落丰富度、Simpson指数和Shannon指数的土壤养分因子增加,其中土壤全氮质量分数的直接作用是所有土壤因子中最大的。8月植物群落生物量、Simpson指数和Shannon指数仅受土壤盐分因子影响,其中生物量与土壤pH值以及Simpson指数与土壤碱化度都是极显著负相关,Shannon指数与土壤含盐量显著负相关。6~9月的松嫩盐碱草地植物群落均匀度也同时受土壤养分和盐分因子的作用,其中6月和9月时土壤盐分因子对群落均匀度的直接作用更突出。生长末期（9月）松嫩盐碱草地植物群落生物量与土壤因子间的关系以及生长初期（5月）植物群落均匀度与土壤因子间的关系都不明显。     

应用土壤质量退化指数计算松嫩盐碱草地土壤营养位

土壤质量退化指数是一种定量评价土壤质量的方法,以某一土壤类型为基准,计算其他土壤类型与基准土壤类型之间各土壤属性的差异,进而反应土壤质量退化或改善的程度.采用1999年的数据应用该方法评价土壤营养状况,计算土壤营养位,分析松嫩盐碱草地植被种群分布格局与土壤营养的关系,从而探讨应用土壤质量退化指数计算土壤营养位的可行性.应用土壤质量退化指数评价土壤营养位得到的结果与主成分分析法的基本一致,并且方法更为简便,更利于土壤营养位分析在生产实践中应用.     

松嫩盐碱退化草地羊草叶氮、磷化学计量与土壤因子关系研究

顶级群落建群种的N、P化学计量特征对退化草地群落稳定性和生产力维持具有重要意义。本文以松嫩草地顶级群落建群种羊草(Leymus chinensis)为研究对象,分析盐碱退化对羊草N、P化学计量特征的影响。结果表明:松嫩盐碱退化草地羊草相比较于中国北方草地羊草和草地植物具有较低的叶P含量(1.32 g·kg~(-1))、中等的叶N含量(18.90 g·kg~(-1))和略高的N/P(15.83)。叶N含量和N/P与土壤全氮、土壤碱解氮显著正相关;叶P含量与土壤全氮、土壤碱解氮显著负相关,其它因子与叶N、P和N/P相关性不明显。叶P含量与土壤氮的显著相关性和与土壤P含量的背离显示松嫩盐碱退化草地羊草可能存在一定的P限制。     

冬虫夏草生境选择主导因子

采用样方法对冬虫夏草生境的海拔、坡度、植被和土壤等环境因子进行了探索研究。结果表明:(1)冬虫夏草主要分布在海拔4000～4500m、坡度为15°～30°的上坡位高山草甸中。(2)PCA分析表明:植被和地形是影响冬虫夏草分布的主导因子。(3)不同深度土壤养分含量统计分析表明:在不同深度层次的土壤中,水分、pH值、全氮和全磷的差异不显著,有机质、有机碳、水解氮和有效磷的差异极显著。(4)对土壤养分含量判别分析表明:5cm土壤中,吸湿水、有机碳、有机质和水解氮显著影响冬虫夏草种群分布;15cm土壤中,全氮显著影响冬虫夏草种群分布;25cm土壤中,吸湿水、有机碳和有机质显著影响冬虫夏草种群分布;而自由水、pH值、全磷和有效磷对冬虫夏草种群分布的影响不显著。(5)植物盖度、植物数量和坡度直接影响冬虫夏草种群分布,而土壤则通过影响植物和土壤温湿度来间接影响冬虫夏草种群分布。     

基于样带的滨海盐碱地土壤养分和盐分的空间变异

在黄河三角洲北部刁口黄河故道盐碱地设置一条南北土壤样带,采用地统计学方法分析土壤养分指标(有机质、全氮、有效磷、速效钾)和全盐含量的空间分布规律及其影响因素.结果表明:研究区土壤有机质、全氮、有效磷、速效钾和全盐含量的块金系数分别为0.38、0.40、0.50、0.32和0.34,5个土壤指标均具有中等的空间相关性;样带上土壤有机质和全氮含量的分布趋势基本一致,土壤速效钾与全盐含量的分布具有很强的相关性,土壤有效磷含量呈波动式的空间分布.综合土壤有机质和全盐含量,将样带土壤划分为盐大肥低型、盐大肥高型、盐小肥高型3种类型.研究区各土壤指标的空间分布格局与成土母质、土地利用方式、距海距离、道路阻隔等因素密切相关.     

荒漠植物红砂叶绿素和脯氨酸累积与环境因子的相关分析

通过测定中国境内荒漠植物红砂(Reaumuria soongorica)主要分布区内21个自然种群407株叶片的叶绿素和脯氨酸含量,以及不同种群内土壤含水量、可溶性盐分含量、有机质、全氮、全磷含量等土壤理化性状指标,分析了不同自然种群红砂叶绿素和脯氨酸含量的变异特征以及影响其变化的主要环境因子.研究结果表明:红砂种群间叶绿素含量差异显著.土壤因子对叶绿素合成的影响较气象因子大,而土壤含水量和土壤全磷含量是导致不同红砂种群叶绿素含量出现明显差异的主要原因.红砂脯氨酸含量平均值显著高于盐爪爪、骆驼刺、芨芨草等其它荒漠物种,并且与叶片含水量和土壤含水量呈显著负相关,与土壤可溶性盐分含量呈显著正相关.红砂体内脯氨酸的累积是对干旱盐渍环境的适应性反应,与抗旱性和抗盐性之间存在着一定的关系.     

土地利用变化对沙地土壤全氮空间分布格局的影响

利用经典统计学和地统计学相结合的方法,分析了科尔沁沙地东南缘草地和8年前开垦的耕地土壤全氮含量和空间分布格局．结果表明,草地与耕地表层(O～10cm)土壤全氮含量差异不显著,亚表层(10～20cm)含量差异显著(P     

Soil acidification reduces the effects of short‐term nutrient enrichment on plant and soil biota and their interactions in grasslands

Soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents, and soil acidification have greatly increased in grassland ecosystems due to increased industrial and agricultural activities. As major environmental and economic concerns worldwide, nutrient enrichment and soil acidification can lead to substantial changes in the diversity and structure of plant and soil communities. Although the separate effects of N and P enrichment on soil food webs have been assessed across different ecosystems, the combined effects of N and P enrichment on multiple trophic levels in soil food webs have not been studied in semiarid grasslands experiencing soil acidification. Here we conducted a short‐term N and P enrichment experiment in non‐acidified and acidified soil in a semiarid grassland on the Mongolian Plateau. We found that net primary productivity was not affected by N or P enrichment alone in either non‐acidified or acidified soil, but was increased by combined N and P enrichment in both non‐acidified and acidified soil. Nutrient enrichment decreased the biomass of most microbial groups in non‐acidified soil (the decrease tended to be greatest with combined N and P enrichment) but not in acidified soil, and did not affect most soil nematode variables in non‐acidified or acidified soil. Nutrient enrichment also changed plant and microbial community structure in non‐acidified but not in acidified soil, and had no effect on nematode community structure in non‐acidified or acidified soil. These results indicate that the responses to short‐term nutrient enrichment were weaker for higher trophic groups (nematodes) than for lower trophic groups (microorganisms) and primary producers (plants). The findings increase our understanding of the effects of nutrient enrichment on multiple trophic levels of soil food webs, and highlight that soil acidification, as an anthropogenic stressor, reduced the responses of plants and soil food webs to nutrient enrichment and weakened plant–soil interactions.     

祁连山不同类型草地的土壤理化性质与植被特征

祁连山草地生态系统在维护我国西部生态安全方面起着举足轻重的作用。为了解祁连山不同类型草地土壤水分、养分等理化性质与植被分布特征,及土壤理化性质与植被特征的相关关系,于祁连山选取7种类型的草地,测定土壤水分含量、养分含量、容重、颗粒组成和植被特征,计算土壤颗粒的分形维数、0～40 cm土层土壤有机碳、全氮和全磷储量、植物多样性指数。结果表明: 祁连山不同类型草地的土壤理化性质与植被特征差异显著,高寒草甸相比于其他类型草地具有较高的土壤水分、养分和黏粒含量,及较低的容重和砂粒含量;0～40 cm土层土壤有机碳、全氮、全磷储量变化范围分别为3084～45247、164～2358、100～319 g·m^-2,整体表现为有机碳和全氮含量高、全磷含量低;土壤全磷储量与植物多样性指数呈显著正相关关系,表明土壤全磷含量是祁连山草地植物多样性的关键影响因素。相比其他草地类型,高寒草甸具有较好的植被状况和土壤水分、养分条件。     

Projected ecosystem impact of the Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment

The Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment (PHACE) experiment has been initiated at a site in southern Wyoming (USA) to simulate the impact of warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 on ecosystem dynamics for semiarid grassland ecosystems. The DAYCENT ecosystem model was parametrized to simulate the impact of elevated CO2 at the open-top chamber (OTC) experiment in north-eastern Colorado (1996-2001), and was also used to simulate the projected ecosystem impact of the PHACE experiments during the next 10 yr. Model results suggest that soil water content, plant production, soil respiration, and nutrient mineralization will increase for the high-CO2 treatment. Soil water content will decrease for all years, while nitrogen mineralization, soil respiration, and plant production will both decrease and increase under warming depending on yearly differences in water stress. Net primary production (NPP) will be greatest under combined warming and elevated CO2 during wet years. Model results are consistent with empirical field data suggesting that water and nitrogen will be critical drivers of the semiarid grassland response to global change.     

Irrigation and enhanced soil carbon input effects on below-ground carbon cycling in semiarid temperate grasslands

Global climate change is generally expected to increase net primary production, resulting in increased soil carbon (C) inputs. To gain an understanding of how such increased soil C inputs would affect C cycling in the vast grasslands of northern China, we conducted a field experiment in which the responses of plant and microbial biomass and respiration were studied. Our experiment included the below-ground addition of particulate organic matter (POM) at rates equivalent to 0, 60, 120 and 240 g C m(-2), under either natural precipitation or under enhanced precipitation during the summer period (as predicted for that region in recent simulations using general circulation models). We observed that addition of POM had a large effect on soil microbial biomass and activity and that a major part of the added C was rapidly lost from the system. This suggests that microbial activity in the vast temperate grassland ecosystems of northern China is energy-limited. Moreover, POM addition (and the associated nutrient release) affected plant growth much more than the additional water input. Although we performed no direct fertilization experiments, the response of plant productivity to POM addition (and associated release of nutrients) leads us to believe that plant productivity in the semiarid grassland ecosystems of northern China is primarily limited by nutrients and not by water.     

草原群落退化演替过程中微斑块土壤碳氮的空间异质动态

微斑块变化是草原退化过程中的活跃成分。分析了呼伦贝尔克氏针茅草原逆行演替过程中微斑块土壤全碳、全氮和碱解氮含量的空间异质性,提出了"养分聚集效应"的概念。研究结果表明:随着群落退化演替的加剧,土壤全碳、全氮和碱解氮的含量均表现为演替前期演替后期演替中期(P0.05)。从土壤全碳、全氮和碱解氮的变异系数和变异函数综合分析来看,10 cm×10 cm微尺度上,草原退化演替过程中土壤全碳、全氮和碱解氮的空间异质性具有明显的不一致性;全碳的空间异质性表现为演替中期演替前期演替后期,全氮表现为演替后期演替前期演替中期,碱解氮表现为演替中期演替后期演替前期。草原退化过程中土壤养分在微斑块上的富积和迁移表现出尺度依赖性和变异性。     

不同植物种植对松嫩平原盐碱地土壤理化性质与细根生长的影响

土地利用方式如何影响土壤理化性质及其作用深度一直是土壤生态学的研究热点,但是对松嫩平原退化盐碱地的相关研究匮乏。以肇东实验林场为研究对象,对8种植被类型的3个土层0~60 cm进行采样,共测定13个相关指标,结果显示：不同植被对根系密度、土壤pH、速效磷含量、土壤含水量、电导率、有机碳含量、全氮含量具有显著影响：其中前3个在不同土层的种间差异显著不同,而其余4个指标在60 cm土壤内种间差异一致。具体表现为：0~40 cm水曲柳根系密度最大,但在40~60 cm草地根系密度最大;黄檗的pH值在0~20 cm最大,但是在40~60 cm最小,而草地的pH值在20~60 cm均大于其他植物种类;速效磷含量在0~20、40~60 cm均是樟子松最小,但在20~40 cm层樟子松速效磷含量最高。草地土壤含水量26.7%,显著高于其它,是落叶松的1.8倍,其土壤电导率为503.4 μs·cm^-1,明显大于其它各植被类型;杨树、樟子松的土壤有机碳含量显著低于黄檗、榆树、草地和水曲柳;土壤全氮含量最低的樟子松和杨树仅为草地的72.3%。所有其他养分包括全磷、全钾、速效钾不同植被间没有差异。上述结果说明,与原有植被草地相比,松嫩平原盐碱化土壤造林虽然能降低盐碱化,但同时对水分消耗较大,造林各个树种对土壤养分消耗相差不大,多体现在有机碳和氮。这些发现可为今后该地区种间差异比较、土壤肥力评价、土壤养分收支平衡等研究提供指导。     

模拟氮沉降对土壤酶活性和微生物组成的影响

氮沉降改变了草地生态系统的氮(N)素循环过程,由此带来的生态学效应已成为当前研究的热点。以乌鲁木齐周边短期围封草地为研究对象,通过模拟氮沉降实验,分析了自由放牧地和围封草地土壤酶活性和微生物组成,结合土壤养分及化学计量特征,探讨了氮沉降对短期围封草地土壤微生物组成及酶活性的影响,为该地区放牧草地的保护、恢复及管理提供理论依据。结果表明:(1)土壤有机碳(SOC)、全氮(TN)、全磷(TP)含量随围封年限的增加总体呈升高趋势,表明围封有利于提高土壤养分含量。与中国草地平均值相比,该草地土壤碳氮比(C/N)相对较高,碳磷比(C/P)、氮磷比(N/P)相对较低,表明该草地土壤有机质分解良好,有利于土壤碳(C)、磷(P)的释放,而土壤N素较为缺乏。(2)就不同围封年限而言,围封3年草地5-20cm层土壤真菌数量高于其它样地;围封3年草地表层土壤蔗糖酶与过氧化氢酶活性最高;围封7年草地放线菌数量最多,说明围封能够促进土壤微生物生长及酶活性的提高。(3)氮素添加对土壤真菌具有抑制作用,N5(4.6gN m^-2 a^-1)、N10(9.8gN m^-2 a^-1)处理显著增加了各样地土壤细菌数量,氮素添加对围封7年草地0-10cm层土壤放线菌无显著影响,而氮沉降显著增加了其它样地5-20cm层土壤放线菌数量,其中N5、N10处理下促进作用最明显;氮素添加对该草地土壤脲酶、蔗糖酶、过氧化氢酶均具有促进作用,N5、N10处理促进作用最明显。综合分析表明,氮沉降可直接或间接影响土壤微生物及酶活性,短期围封作为一种草地管理手段,对退化草地生态系统的修复具有一定作用,并可通过改善土壤理化性质、调节养分含量及其化学计量比来加速退化草地的恢复。     

Soil feedback does not explain mowing effects on vegetation structure in a semi-natural grassland

Due to its ability to create aboveground conditions that favour plant diversity, mowing is often used to preserve the high conservation value of semi-natural species-rich grasslands. However, mowing can also affect belowground conditions. By decreasing plant carbon supply to soil, mowing can suppress the activity of soil decomposers, diminish plant nutrient availability and thus create a feedback on plant growth. In this study, we first documented the effects of three-year mowing on plant community structure in a species-rich grassland. We found that mowing decreased the total areal cover of woody plants and increased the total cover of leguminous forbs. At the species level, mowing further increased the cover of two non-leguminous forbs, Prunella vulgaris and Sagina procumbens. Mowing did not affect the species number, diversity or evenness of the plant community. To study whether any of these effects could be explained by mowing-induced changes in the soil, and particularly by reduced nutrient availability, we then collected soil from different treatment plots and monitored the growth of nine plant species in these soils in a greenhouse. Plant growth did not differ between soils collected from mowed and unmowed plots, suggesting that our mowing regimes did not impose such changes in soil decomposer activity and nutrient supply that would feedback on plant growth. Moreover, each of the nine species responded equally to the different nutrient availability in different parts of the grassland, which indicates that even if mowing had reduced plant nutrient supply, this would not have led to changes in plant community structure. It appears that those changes in aboveground vegetation that we recorded after three years of mowing were purely due to the aboveground effects, such as frequent cutting of woody plants and enhanced light availability for low-growing forbs.     

放牧强度对高寒嵩草草甸土壤养分特性的影响

植物-土壤系统是草地生态和生产服务价值实现的基础,放牧是草地植物群落演替的重要因素。植物、土壤亚系统对放牧的敏感性是评价草地稳定性和提高草地恢复力的重要依据。以不同放牧强度下的高寒嵩草(Kobresia)草甸为研究对象,探讨土壤养分特征对放牧强度的响应及作用位点,结果表明:改变放牧强度可以明显改变植物群落数量特征,但没有明显改变土壤层次分类特征,说明土壤养分特征对一定范围内放牧强度具有自我稳定维持功能;但放牧干扰强度不同时,土壤剖面过渡层养分含量存在差异,说明长期放牧强度的差异会对土壤剖面养分性质产生影响,且这种影响起源于土壤剖面过渡层。在放牧高寒嵩草草甸植物-土壤系统中土壤剖面养分特征较植物群落数量特征更稳定;土壤剖面过渡层养分特征是土壤亚系统中对放牧的敏感因素;而放牧引起土壤剖面养分特征的改变主要表现在各过渡层上,并构成土壤发生层迁移的风险,因此推测,更为持久和更高强度的放牧干扰将最终改变土壤剖面特征及养分性质。     

Development of microtopography in a semi-arid grassland: Effects of disturbance size and soil texture

Our objective was to evaluate effects of disturbance size and soil texture on the development of microtopography for a shortgrass plant community in north central Colorado USA. Disturbances, defined as the death of individual plants, were created in 1984 and 1985 to evaluate development through time of the small-scale pattern of perennial bunchgrasses and bare soil openings that characterize this semiarid grassland. Disturbed plots of three sizes (50, 100, 150 cm-diameter) comparable in size to naturally-occurring disturbances were produced by killing plants at two sites differing in soil texture (sandy loam, clay loam). Disturbed plots were not manipulated after being created. In 1993, a laser surveying instrument was used to measure heights of crowns of individual plants of the dominant species, the perennial bunchgrass Bouteloua gracilis ([H.B.K.] Lag. ex Griffiths), and bare soil openings between plants for two locations: within each disturbance and in the surrounding undisturbed landscape.Differences between crown heights of plants and bare soil openings were comparable for both the undisturbed landscape and inside disturbances indicating that small-scale microtopography had recovered within nine years after disturbance occurred. However, complete recovery to the undisturbed state had not occurred since crown heights of plants relative to bare soil openings were significantly less on disturbed than undisturbed locations. Differences in height between plant crowns and bare soil openings on disturbed plots increased as disturbance size increased, indicating greater soil redistribution with increasing plot size. Larger differences in height were also found on plots on the fine- than the coarse-textured soil, indicating the importance of soil particle size and plant cover type to the development of microtopography. Differences in height between microsites on disturbed plots were positively related to total plant cover and negatively related to cover of B. gracilis indicating the importance of this species to reducing erosion on disturbed areas.In this semiarid grassland, patterns in microtopography were heterogeneous, likely as a result of the small-scale redistribution of soil between bare soil openings and B. gracilis plants through time. Our results indicate that this redistribution of soil is affected by disturbance size, soil texture, and patchy plant cover. The major effect of small-scale disturbances on patterns in microtopography of the shortgrass steppe are causing plant death and exposing soil to erosional and depositional processes.