青藏高原东缘窄叶鲜卑花灌丛生长季土壤无机氮对增温和植物去除的响应

为了揭示气候变暖背景下高寒灌丛土壤氮转化过程, 该文研究了青藏高原东缘窄叶鲜卑花(Sibiraea angustata)灌丛生长季节土壤硝态氮和铵态氮含量对增温和去除植物的响应。结果表明: 窄叶鲜卑花灌丛土壤硝态氮和铵态氮含量具有明显的季节动态。整个生长季节, 土壤硝态氮含量呈先增加后降低的趋势, 而铵态氮含量均表现为一直增加的趋势。在生长季初期和中期, 各处理土壤硝态氮含量均显著高于铵态氮含量, 而在生长季末期土壤硝态氮含量均显著低于铵态氮含量, 说明该区域土壤氮转化过程在生长季初期和中期以硝化作用为主, 而在生长季末期以氨化作用为主。不同时期土壤硝态氮和铵态氮含量对增温和去除植物的响应不同: 增温对硝态氮的影响主要发生在生长季中期和末期, 且因植物处理的不同而有显著差异, 增温仅在生长季中期使不去除植物样方铵态氮含量显著升高。去除植物对土壤硝态氮的影响仅表现在对照样方(不增温), 去除植物显著提高了生长季初期和中期土壤硝态氮含量, 显著降低了生长季末期土壤硝态氮含量; 同时去除植物显著降低了增温样方生长季中期土壤铵态氮含量。灌丛植被在生长季初期和中期可能主要吸收土壤硝态氮, 其吸收过程不受土壤增温的影响。     

Responses of soil inorganic nitrogen to increased temperature and plant removal during the growing season in a Sibiraea angustata scrub ecosystem of eastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

为了揭示气候变暖背景下高寒灌丛土壤氮转化过程, 该文研究了青藏高原东缘窄叶鲜卑花(Sibiraea angustata)灌丛生长季节土壤硝态氮和铵态氮含量对增温和去除植物的响应。结果表明: 窄叶鲜卑花灌丛土壤硝态氮和铵态氮含量具有明显的季节动态。整个生长季节, 土壤硝态氮含量呈先增加后降低的趋势, 而铵态氮含量均表现为一直增加的趋势。在生长季初期和中期, 各处理土壤硝态氮含量均显著高于铵态氮含量, 而在生长季末期土壤硝态氮含量均显著低于铵态氮含量, 说明该区域土壤氮转化过程在生长季初期和中期以硝化作用为主, 而在生长季末期以氨化作用为主。不同时期土壤硝态氮和铵态氮含量对增温和去除植物的响应不同: 增温对硝态氮的影响主要发生在生长季中期和末期, 且因植物处理的不同而有显著差异, 增温仅在生长季中期使不去除植物样方铵态氮含量显著升高。去除植物对土壤硝态氮的影响仅表现在对照样方(不增温), 去除植物显著提高了生长季初期和中期土壤硝态氮含量, 显著降低了生长季末期土壤硝态氮含量; 同时去除植物显著降低了增温样方生长季中期土壤铵态氮含量。灌丛植被在生长季初期和中期可能主要吸收土壤硝态氮, 其吸收过程不受土壤增温的影响。     

高寒灌丛生长季根际和非根际土壤多酚氧化酶和过氧化氢酶活性对增温的响应

研究青藏高原东部窄叶鲜卑花高寒灌丛生长季根际和非根际土壤多酚氧化酶和过氧化氢酶活性对增温(1.3 ℃)的响应,分析全球气候变暖对高寒灌丛根际土壤生态过程的影响.结果表明:生长季中期根际和非根际土壤多酚氧化酶活性显著高于生长季初期和末期;而土壤过氧化氢酶活性在非根际土壤中随生长季节逐步提高,在根际土壤中没有表现出明显的季节变化.在非根际土壤中,增温使生长季末期土壤多酚氧化酶活性和生长季中期土壤过氧化氢酶活性显著提高17.5%和2.2%,而在其他时期对2种土壤酶活性没有显著影响.而在根际土壤中,增温仅在生长季初期使土壤多酚氧化酶和过氧化氢酶活性显著提高6.5%和1.3%.在整个生长季,土壤多酚氧化酶活性均表现为正根际效应,土壤过氧化氢酶活性的根际效应不明显,而增温仅在生长季末期使土壤多酚氧化酶活性的根际效应显著降低15.2%.这表明,未来气候变暖背景下青藏高原东部高寒灌丛生态系统根际与非根际土壤多酚氧化酶和过氧化氢酶活性将发生不同的变化,进而影响高寒灌丛根际土壤生态过程.     

增温对高寒灌丛根际和非根际土壤微生物生物量碳氮的影响

本文对青藏高原东缘窄叶鲜卑花高寒灌丛生长季根际和非根际土壤微生物生物量碳和氮对增温的响应进行研究.结果表明: 窄叶鲜卑花灌丛生长季初期根际和非根际土壤微生物生物量碳和氮均显著高于生长季中期和末期.在多数时期,增温对根际土壤微生物生物量碳和氮的影响不显著.在非根际土壤中,增温对土壤微生物生物量碳和氮的影响因不同生长季节而不同: 增温使生长季初期土壤微生物生物量碳显著降低,而使土壤微生物生物量氮显著提高;生长季中期增温使土壤微生物生物量碳和氮显著提高;而在生长季末期增温对土壤微生物生物量碳和氮的影响不显著.土壤微生物生物量碳和氮的根际效应也因不同生长季节而不同: 土壤微生物生物量碳和氮在生长季初期表现为负根际效应,而在生长季中期表现为正根际效应;在生长季末期,土壤微生物生物量碳表现为负根际效应,土壤微生物生物量氮则表现为正根际效应.增温在生长季初期使土壤微生物生物量碳和氮的根际效应显著提高,而在生长季中期和末期使土壤微生物生物量碳和氮的根际效应降低.本研究初步阐明了气候变暖背景下高寒灌丛根际和非根际土壤生物学过程变化机理.     

模拟增温对川西亚高山两类针叶林土壤酶活性的影响

采用开顶式生长室(open top chamber,OTC)模拟增温,同步监测了亚高山人工针叶林和天然针叶林表层土壤温、湿度的变化,以及模拟增温初期土壤转化酶、脲酶、过氧化氢酶和多酚氧化酶活性的变化.结果表明：在整个生长季节中,OTC使人工林和天然林5 cm土壤日平均温度分别增加0.61 ℃和0.56 ℃,10 cm体积含水量分别下降4.10%和2.55%;模拟增温增加了土壤转化酶、脲酶、过氧化氢酶和多酚氧化酶活性.增温与林型的交互作用对土壤脲酶和过氧化氢酶活性有显著影响,而对转化酶和多酚氧化酶影响不显著.增温对过氧化氢酶活性的影响与季节变化相关.在各处理下,天然林土壤酶活性显著高于人工林.土壤酶活性季节动态与土壤温度有着较大相关性,而与土壤水分季节变化关系不明显.模拟增温易于增加土壤酶活性,但增温效应和林型、酶种类和季节变化有一定关系;亚高山针叶林土壤酶活性主要受控于土壤温度,而与土壤水分关系不大.     

模拟增温对川西亚高山西类针叶林土壤酶活性的影响

采用开顶式生长室(open top chamber,OTC)模拟增温,同步监测了亚高山人工针叶林和天然针叶林表层土壤温、湿度的变化,以及模拟增温初期土壤转化酶、脲酶、过氧化氢酶和多酚氧化酶活性的变化.结果表明:在整个生长季节中,OTC使人工林和天然林5 am土壤日平均温度分别增加0.61 oC和0.56 ℃,10 am体积含水量分别下降4.10%和2.55%;模拟增温增加了土壤转化酶、脲酶、过氧化氢酶和多酚氧化酶活性.增温与林型的交互作用对土壤脲酶和过氧化氢酶活性有显著影响,而对转化酶和多酚氧化酶影响不显著.增温对过氧化氢酶活性的影响与季节变化相关.在各处理下,天然林土壤酶活性显著高于人工林.土壤酶活性季节动态与土壤温度有着较大相关性,而与土壤水分季节变化关系不明显.模拟增温易于增加土壤酶活性,但增温效应和林型、酶种类和季节变化有一定关系;亚高山针叶林土壤酶活性主要受控于土壤温度,而与土壤水分关系不大.     

川西高山森林不同时期土壤转化酶和脲酶活性对模拟气候变暖的响应

为了解气候变化对不同时期川西高山森林土壤生态过程的影响,于2010年5月—2011年4月期间,通过原状土柱移位实验,模拟理论增温1.78℃和3.52℃对岷江冷杉原始林(3582 m)土壤转化酶和脲酶活性的影响。结果表明,海拔下降284 m和559 m分别使全年平均气温实际增高1.39℃和2.64℃,但由于季节性雪被的影响,海拔降低559 m后土柱的土壤有机层和矿质土壤层的全年平均温度分别增加了0.84℃和0.82℃,而海拔降低284 m后土柱的土壤有机层和矿质土壤层的全年平均温度分别降低了0.55℃和0.56℃。随着海拔降低,土壤有机层和矿质土壤层的转化酶和脲酶活性均表现出明显的变化,且土壤有机层的变化幅度大于矿质土壤层。海拔降低284 m显著提高了两个土层生长季初期和冻结阶段(冻结初期和深冻期)的转化酶活性,而海拔降低559 m则显著提高了两个土层冻结阶段的脲酶活性。采样时期均温也在一定程度上影响了土壤转化酶和脲酶的活性,土壤有机层和矿质土壤层转化酶活性表现为从生长季初期到生长季末期显著下降,随后在冻结阶段和融化期显著升高并分别在深冻期和融化期达到全年最高;土壤脲酶活性表现为从生长季初期到深冻期显著增加,随后在融化期显著下降的过程。可见,受季节性雪被影响,不同关键时期的高山森林土壤转化酶和脲酶活性对模拟增温的响应不同。     

模拟增温对西藏高原高寒草甸土壤供氮潜力的影响

过去几十年青藏高原呈现显著的增温趋势,冬季增温幅度显著高于生长季的季节非对称特征。气候变暖会对生态系统氮素循环产生重要影响,但关于全年增温与冬季增温对高寒生态系统氮循环的不同影响仍缺乏研究。在青藏高原高寒草甸区开展模拟增温试验,研究季节非对称增温对高寒草甸生态系统氮循环的影响。该试验布设于2010年7月,设置3种处理(不增温、冬季增温与全年增温)。研究结果发现,开顶箱增温装置造成了小环境的暖干化:显著提高了地表空气温度和表层土壤温度,降低了表层土壤含水量。冬季增温会加剧土壤中氮素的流失,所以在经历了冬季增温后土壤氮含量显著降低;在生长季节,土壤氮素周转速率受土壤水分的调控,在降雨较少的季节,增温引起的土壤含水量降低会抑制土壤氮周转速率。对于土壤微生物量而言,高寒草甸土壤微生物量碳表现出明显的季节动态,在生长季旺盛期较低,在生长季末期和初冬季节反而较高,这说明为了降低对土壤养分的竞争,高寒草甸植物氮吸收与土壤微生物氮固持在时间上存在分离。研究结果表明,冬季增温导致的土壤养分含量变化会影响随后生长季植物群落的生产力、结构组成与碳氮循环等过程,对生态系统过程产生深远的影响。     

川西亚高山森林林窗不同时期土壤转化酶和脲酶活性的特征

为了解川西亚高山森林林窗对不同时期土壤生态过程的影响,于2012年6月—2013年5月期间,根据温度动态过程,对比研究了生长季节(土壤完全融化期、生长季节前期和生长季节后期)与非生长季节(冻结初期、深冻期和融化期)川西亚高山粗枝云杉(Picea asperata)人工林林窗中心、林缘和林下土壤有机层和矿质土壤层转化酶和脲酶活性变化过程。结果表明:林窗不同区域中,土壤有机层转化酶活性均高于矿质土壤层;在生长季节,土壤有机层和矿质土转化酶活性表现为:林窗中心林下林缘,而脲酶活性表现为:林窗中心林缘林下。冻结初期和深冻期林窗中心土壤转化酶活性均高于林缘和林下,而在融化期林下转化酶活性高于林窗中心和林缘;冻结初期和融化期林下土壤脲酶活性显著高于林窗中心和林缘,而在深冻期林窗不同区域土壤脲酶活性没有显著差异。林窗不同区域在不同时期对土壤转化酶和脲酶活性的响应有着深刻影响。     

模拟增温对青藏高原东部高寒灌丛土壤氮转化的影响

本文研究了青藏高原东部窄叶鲜卑花高寒灌丛生长季前期、生长季后期和非生长季3个生育期的土壤氮转化速率对模拟增温的响应,分析全球气候变暖对高寒灌丛土壤氮循环过程的影响。结果表明: 模拟增温使高寒灌丛土壤温度显著升高1.2 ℃,土壤水分显著降低2.5%。高寒灌丛生长季土壤净氮矿化(氨化和硝化)速率显著高于非生长季,但土壤净氮固持速率显著低于非生长季。土壤氮矿化在生长季前期以硝化作用为主,在生长季后期和非生长季以氨化作用为主。模拟增温对高寒灌丛土壤氮转化过程的影响在不同时期存在显著差异。模拟增温显著增加了生长季前期土壤净氨化、净硝化、净氮矿化、净氮固持速率和非生长季土壤净硝化、净氮矿化速率,并显著降低了生长季后期土壤净硝化、净氮矿化、净氮固持速率和非生长季土壤净氨化速率。但模拟增温对高寒灌丛非生长季净氮固持速率和生长季后期净硝化速率的影响不显著。未来气候变暖将显著改变青藏高原东部高寒灌丛土壤氮转化,进而加速高寒灌丛土壤氮循环过程。     

Responses of soil inorganic nitrogen to increased temperature and plant removal during the growing season in a Sibiraea angustata scrub ecosystem of eastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau北大核心CSCD

Aims Little information has been available on the soil nitrogen transformation process of alpine scrubland under global warming and changing climate. This study aimed at clarifying seasonal dynamics of the soil nitrate and ammonium contents and their responses to increased temperature under different plant treatments. Methods We conducted a field experiment including two plant treatments (removal- or unremoval-plant) subjected to two temperature conditions (increased temperature or control) in Sibiraea angustata scrub ecosystem on the eastern Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. The contents of soil nitrate and ammonium were measured at the early, middle and late growing seasons. Important findings The results showed that soil nitrate and ammonium contents exhibited obvious seasonal dynamics. Throughout the entire growing season, the soil nitrate contents increased firstly and then decreased, while the soil ammonium contents increased continually. Particularly, in the early and middle growing season, the soil nitrate contents were significantly higher than those of ammonium, regardless of increased temperature and plant treatments; however, in the late growing season, the soil nitrate contents were significantly lower than those of ammonium. These results implied that soil nitrification was the major process of soil nitrogen transformation in the early and middle growing season; soil ammonification contributed mostly to soil nitrogen transformation in the late growing season. Furthermore, different responses of soil nitrate and ammonium contents to increased temperature and plant removal treatments were observed at the different stages in the growing season. The effects of increased temperature on soil nitrate contents mainly occurred in the middle and late growing season, but the effects varied with plant treatments. Increased temperature only significantly increased soil ammonium contents in the unremoval-plant plots during the middle growing season. The effects of plant treatments on soil nitrate contents only occurred in the control plots (controlled temperature). Plant removal only increased soil nitrate contents in the early and middle growing season, but significantly decreased soil nitrate contents in the late growing season. Plant removal significantly decreased soil ammonium contents in the increased temperature plots during the middle growing season. Probably, in the early and middle growing season, scrub vegetation mainly absorbed soil nitrate and the absorption process was not affected by increased temperature. These results would increase our understanding of the soil nitrogen cycling process in these alpine scrub ecosystems under global warming and changing climate. © 2018 Editorial Office of Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. All rights reserved.     

潮棕壤免耕农田土壤酶活性的动态变化

研究了潮棕壤免耕和常规耕作农田土壤蔗糖酶、脲酶和酸性磷酸酶活性在玉米不同生育时期和不同土层深度的动态变化.结果表明,免耕可显著提高表层(0～10 cm)土壤酶活性,其蔗糖酶活性在玉米拔节期、大喇叭口期和成熟期显著高于常规耕作,脲酶活性在拔节期和孕穗期显著高于常规耕作,酸性磷酸酶活性在孕穗期和成熟期显著高于常规耕作(P＜0.05);在10～20cm土层,免耕土壤蔗糖酶活性在苗期、拔节期和大喇叭口期与常规耕作差异显著,脲酶活性除孕穗期外均显著高于常规耕作(P＜0.05);在20～30 cm土层,免耕土壤蔗糖酶活性在玉米各生育期均显著低于常规耕作,土壤脲酶活性在苗期、酸性磷酸酶活性在成熟期与常规耕作差异显著(P＜0.05).随土层深度的增加,免耕农田土壤酶活性总体呈下降趋势;常规耕作农田土壤蔗糖酶和酸性磷酸酶活性总体呈上升趋势,而脲酶活性呈下降趋势.     

青藏高原东缘高山森林-苔原交错带土壤微生物生物量碳、氮和可培养微生物数量的季节动态

为了了解青藏高原东缘高山森林-苔原交错带土壤微生物的特征和季节变化, 研究了米亚罗鹧鸪山原始针叶林、林线、树线、密灌丛、疏灌丛和高山草甸土壤微生物生物量碳(MBC)、氮(MBN)和可培养微生物数量的季节动态。结果表明, 植被类型和季节动态对MBC、MBN和微生物数量都有显著影响。不同时期的微生物在各植被类型间分布有差异, 植物生长季初期和生长季中期, 树线以上群落的MBC高于树线下的群落, 而到生长季末期恰恰相反, 暗针叶林、林线和树线的MBC显著升高, 各植被之间MBC的差异减小; 微生物数量基本上也是以树线为界, 树线以下群落土壤微生物数量显著低于树线以上群落, 其中密灌丛的细菌数量最高; 可培养微生物数量为生长季末期>生长季初期>生长季中期。生长季末期真菌数量显著增加, 且MBC/MBN最高。统计分析表明, MBN与细菌、真菌、放线菌数量存在显著的相关关系, 而MBC仅与真菌数量存在显著相关关系( p < 0.05)。植物生长季末期大量的凋落物输入和雪被覆盖可能是微生物季节变异的外在因素, 而土壤微生物和高山植物对有效氮的竞争可能是微生物季节变异的内在因素。植物生长季初期对氮的吸收和土壤微生物在植物生长季末期对氮的固定加强了高山生态系统对氮的利用。气候变暖可能会延长高山植物的生长季, 增加高山土壤微生物生物量, 加速土壤有机质的分解, 进而改变高山土壤碳的固存速率。     

Effects of warming on root diameter,distribution, and longevity in an alpine meadow

Roots form one of the most important carbon (C) pools in alpine ecosystems. Uncertainty about the effects of warming on root dynamics limits our ability to predict how C will transfer between biological and atmospheric pools in alpine regions under global warming. We used a minirhizotron technique to gain a better understanding of the response of alpine plant roots to warming. We looked for effects on root diameter, root depth in the soil, and root lifespan under a controlled asymmetrical warming (1.2/1.7 °C during daytime/nighttime) experiment during the growing season of 2009 in an alpine meadow on the northern Tibetan plateau. Roots became smaller in diameter, moved toward the upper soil layers, and showed significantly shorter lifespans in heated (H) than in unheated (UH) plots. Furthermore, in H treatment plots root lifespan was more strongly influenced by the time of root emergence rather than by root diameter. These results provide evidence that alpine plants may respond to climate change by altering their roots so that they are thinner, distributed shallower and turning over faster, suggesting that soil C flow and nutrient cycling would be accelerated resulting from the fast turnover of fine roots under elevated temperatures.     

Effects of temperature and date of snowmelt on growth, reproduction, and flowering phenology in the arctic/alpine herb, Ranunculus glacialis

Changes in growing season temperature and duration may have profound effects on the population dynamics of arctic and alpine plant species in snow-bed and fell-field habitats. We examined how a typical herbaceous pioneer species, Ranunculus glacialis, responded to experimental climate change in open-top chambers for three seasons at an alpine site in southern Norway. Warming had no significant effect on any reproductive, growth or phenological variables, except for seed weight, which increased significantly during the first 2 ears. Despite large differences in average date of snowmelt among years, average reproductive output and ramet size differed little among years. Within-year variation in date of snowmelt had no impact on seed number or weight in either control or warmed plots. Leaf width and ramet leaf number decreased significantly with later snowmelt within a year. Experimental warming reduced the negative effect on ramet size of late snowmelt within a year to some extent. In general, R. glacialis reacts contrary to most other arctic/alpine species to experimental warming. Species with such low responsiveness to environmental conditions may be particularly vulnerable to climatic change, especially if their habitat is invaded by other species with higher phenotypic plasticity and a better competitive ability.     

Responses of a rice–wheat rotation agroecosystem to experimental warming

Climate change is likely to affect agroecosystems in many ways. This study was performed to investigate how a rice–winter wheat rotation agroecosystem in southeast China would respond to global warming. By using an infrared heater system, the soil surface temperature was maintained about 1.5 °C above ambient milieu over 3 years. In the third growing season (2009–2010), the evapotranspiration (ET) rate, crop production, soil respiration, and soil carbon pool were monitored. The ET rate was 23 % higher in the warmed plot as compared to the control plot during the rice paddy growing season, and the rice grain yield was 16.3 % lower, but there was no significant difference in these parameters between the plots during the winter wheat-growing season. The phenology of the winter wheat shifted under experimental warming, and ET may decrease late in the winter wheat-growing season. Experimental warming significantly enhanced soil respiration, with mean annual soil respiration rates of 2.57 ± 0.17 and 1.96 ± 0.06 μmol CO₂ m^?2 s^?1 observed in the warmed and control plots, respectively. After 3 years of warming, a significant decrease in the total organic carbon was observed, but only in the surface soil (0–5 cm). Warming also stimulated the belowground biomass, which may have compensated for any heat-induced loss of soil organic carbon. Paddy rice seemed to be more vulnerable to warming than winter wheat in terms of water-use efficiency and grain production.