草原区不同植物群落蒸发蒸腾的研究

 在中国科学院内蒙古草原生态系统定位研究站,采用“土柱称重法”对典型草原群落蒸发蒸腾进行实验观测,主要研究结果如下：1．草原沙地、羊草草原和河漫滩草甸是本地区差异明显的三种群落。草甸蒸腾最大(9.2 mm·d-1),比另两种群落高2—3倍;草甸蒸发最小(0.4mm·d-1),约为沙地的1／4,草原 的l／8。2．羊草草原在本区分布广,大针茅草原是本区半干旱地带性代表。由于这两种群落主要有关背景值的不同,羊草群落蒸散值(4.4—5.Omm·d-1)明显高于大针茅群落(3.5—3.8 mm·d-1),而且羊草群落的T／E1)值(～2)也明显大于大针茅(～1)。在生长季节中,羊草草原蒸散随气温升高而升高,在盛夏达最高值,然后随气温降低而降低。然而由于降雨变化的影响,羊草草原蒸发蒸腾的季节变化时而出现较大幅度的波动。3．根据1989年实测的降水和羊草群落蒸发蒸腾的季节变化,分析羊草群落的水分收支,可以看到实验区羊草草原的水分收支是大体平衡的。     

羊草草原不同退化阶段群落蒸散量比较

运用微型蒸渗仪法对重度、中度和无退化羊草草原群落的日蒸散量进行了测定,并对其与土壤含水量、日均气温、大气湿度等因子的相关关系进行了分析。结果表明:各群落的日蒸散量均随着生长季推移逐渐增大,于6月中旬至7月中旬达到最大,而后逐渐降低;表层土壤含水量和日均气温是影响群落日蒸散量的主要因子,这2个因子与群落日蒸散量的回归关系极显著;群落生长季的累积蒸散量随着羊草草原群落的退化程度加深逐渐降低,且该值均低于生长季累积降水量。     

大棚甜瓜蒸腾规律及其影响因子

研究大棚甜瓜的蒸腾规律和影响因子,可以为大棚甜瓜水分优化管理提供理论依据。利用大棚盆栽试验,设定了4个水分梯度,定量分析了大棚甜瓜蒸腾规律及蒸腾量与植株生理特性、气象环境因子、土壤水分含量的关系。结果表明:(1)各水分处理条件下甜瓜蒸腾强度日变化曲线均呈"双峰型",有明显的"午休"现象。(2)甜瓜生理需水系数与叶面积指数、有效积温关系显著,分别呈线性和抛物线函数关系。(3)甜瓜全生育期累计蒸腾量呈现出"慢—快—慢"的变化规律,可以用Logistic函数进行模拟。(4)甜瓜叶面积指数、日平均空气温度、日平均空气相对湿度、日太阳辐射累积、土壤相对含水量均与单株日蒸腾量呈显著性相关关系;甜瓜叶面积指数对蒸腾的综合作用最大,是决策变量;土壤水分含量是限制变量,主要通过对其他因子的影响间接作用于蒸腾。(5)气象环境因子对甜瓜蒸腾量的影响力很大程度上取决于土壤水分含量;气象环境因子与蒸腾量的相关性随土壤水分含量的增大而增大,在土壤相对含水量为70%—80%范围内达到最高值,当土壤含水量接近田间持水量时,与各因子的相关系数逐渐下降。(6)甜瓜水分胁迫指数与土壤相对有效含水量关系显著,二者呈现线性关系。     

黄土高原半干旱区柠条(Caragana korshinskii)树干液流动态及其影响因子

应用热脉冲技术在黄土高原神木县六道沟小流域于2006年6月13至25日测定了两种不同密度柠条(Caragana korshinskii)群落的树干液流动态.同时测量了土壤水分、太阳辐射、大气温度、相对湿度、风速、水汽压亏缺和作物参考蒸散等环境因子,并根据植物蒸腾的P-M公式,反推计算冠层导度.结果表明,除风速外,柠条树木液流与太阳辐射、大气温度、相对湿度、水汽压亏缺、作物参考蒸散均显著相关,且可用太阳辐射的线性表达式来估测.不同密度群落的日蒸腾量随叶面积指数增大而增加,叶面积指数为2.3的群落平均日蒸腾为3.83mm d-1m-2,而叶面积指数为1.1的林分平均日蒸腾1.64mm d-1m-2.冠层导度与气象因子关系复杂,当土壤水分不存在亏缺时,冠层导度与太阳辐射、大气温度、作物参考蒸散因子显著相关,与水汽亏缺和相对湿度因子无相关性;当土壤水分存在亏缺时,冠层导度与太阳辐射、大气温度、作物参考蒸散因子无相关关系,而与水汽亏缺和相对湿度因子显著相关.     

重牧退化草地的植被、土壤及其耦合特征

重牧退化的肃南高山草原和环县典型草原,群落的α多样性,Cody指数描述的β多样性,营养功能群多样性和生活型功能群多样性随牧压下降呈上洚趋势,固N功能群多样性和高山草原Bray-Curtis指数描述的β多样性呈相反变化趋势,2种草地0-40cm土壤全N,速效N,有机质含量和高山草原土壤速效P含量与牧压呈负相关,高山草原土壤全P含量与牧压呈正相关。典型草原土壤全N,速效N和速效P含量以及速效P/全P和C/N比值低于高山草原,但速效N/全N比值和全P含量高于后者,重牧草地土壤要素与群落活根生物量的垂直分布格局之间的灰色关联系数与牧压呈正相关,土壤要素与毒杂草和劣质牧草的关系密切,草地退化不仅是植被与土壤的衰退,也是2个子系统耦合关系的丧失和系统相悖的发展,可用耦合度与相悖度定量,综合分析,环县草原退化较肃南严重。     

内蒙古草原退化群落恢复演替的研究—群落演替的数学模型

根据１９８３年至今１２年定位监测的结果,提出了一个描述典型草原在过大的牧压下退化和封育恢复演替的数学模型。建模的生态学公设是：１．植物群落占据的空间范围内环境因素视为均匀一致;２．退化和恢复演替进程中尚未发生植物种的消失和侵入;３．牲畜采食将增大牧草死亡率;４．草原群落内植物种群的竞争存在一个优胜顺序;５．植物种群增长遵循逻辑斯蒂克规律。对这一模型的稳定性分析说明：１．退化草原长期围封后可恢复到顶极状态;２．随着牧压的增强,草原群落将达到一个新的退化状态;３．退化过程和恢复过程的轨迹是不同的;４．草场改良措施改变了草原群落的演替轨迹和速率,使优质牧草在较大的种群尺度下向顶极状态演替。     

内蒙古锡林河流域羊草草原和大针茅草原在放牧影响下的分异和趋同

在两个具有代表性的牧压梯度上,对羊草草原和大针茅草原的群落结构与牧压的关系借助模糊聚类的方法进行分析,揭示了不同牧压下植物群落的分异和不同群落在重牧压下的趋同,其总模式是：大针茅草原—持续牧压——→冷蒿草原 羊草草原—持续牧压———→冷蒿草原 把“群落趋同”的概念广延到放牧退化演替即次生逆向演替的生态学范畴。     

黄土区荒草地和裸地土壤水分的循环特征

在人工、天然降雨条件下,研究了黄土高原地区荒草地和裸地土壤水分循环特征.结果表明,干旱年(天然降雨条件),荒草地和裸地剖面内土壤水分变异系数随土层深度的增加而降低,基于标准差和变异系数两个指标,采用聚类分析可以将土壤剖面水分垂直变化划分为4层.丰水年(人工降雨条件),由于持续降雨入渗和强烈的蒸发蒸腾作用,荒草地和裸地剖面内土壤水分变异系数随土层深度的增加呈现“降-升-降”的变化趋势,且表层土壤水分变异程度明显降低.与裸地相比,荒草地土壤水分循环深度和强度加剧,表现为活跃层、次活跃层深度和蒸散量增大.土壤水分的动态变化主要受降雨和蒸散过程的影响,尤其是浅层,而深层具有相对滞后性.土壤水分的动态变化具有明显的季节性,一般可划分为3个主要时期,如春季失墒期、夏秋增失交替期和冬季相对稳定期.干旱年,土壤水分收支负平衡,入渗雨量全为蒸发蒸腾所消耗;丰水年,土壤水分收支正平衡,但入渗雨量的大部分(＞80%)为强烈蒸发蒸腾所消耗.     

小流域土层厚度对土壤水分时空格局的影响

以丹江口库区五龙池小流域为研究区,通过定点观测,探讨了土层厚度对土壤水分时空格局的影响.结果表明：土壤含水量在降雨后立即升高,随后逐渐降低,空间异质性则相反.不同土层厚度剖面含水量差异显著.其中,0～20 cm厚度的土壤剖面含水量较低,与降雨有相似的变化趋势,季节变异大;中等厚度（20～40 cm）的土壤水分受降雨特征影响,剖面含水量居中,季节变异中等;较大厚度（>40 cm)的土壤的剖面含水量较高,季节变异小.土壤水分的剖面格局是降雨、蒸发蒸腾和渗漏综合作用的结果,半湿润期呈增长型,湿润期呈波动型,干旱期包括增长型和波动型.土壤剖面含水量与土层厚度呈显著正相关,相关系数在0.630～0.855.土层厚度与表层（0～15 cm）土壤水分相关不显著,但与中下层（20～55 cm）土壤水分显著相关.     

内蒙古荒漠草原主要草食动物食性及其营养生态位

为探讨荒漠草原主要食草动物(绵羊、达乌尔黄鼠和亚洲小车蝗)的食性及其种间生态位变化与草原退化的关系,以内蒙古苏尼特右旗荒漠草原为研究对象,于2003年7-8月运用饱和链烷技术研究小针茅群落不同放牧强度下绵羊、达乌尔黄鼠和亚洲小车蝗的食性及其生态位变化.结果表明:随牧压的增大,群落中小针茅数量显著减少,猪毛菜比例随着增加;绵羊、达乌尔黄鼠、亚洲小车蝗3种食草动物的主要食物均来源于猪毛菜,且采食比例随牧压增大而递增;3种食草动物对牧草的选择性指数随牧压的变化而变化,双齿葱和多根葱优先被采食;三者生态位重叠程度很高且生态位宽度随牧压的增加而变窄.重度放牧改变了小针茅群落的植物组成,使其演替为猪毛菜群落,3种食草动物对草地资源存在激烈的竞争,因此,控制鼠、虫的种群密度,防止鼠、虫害的发生对保证放牧家畜的食物安全具有十分重要的现实意义.     

Crop row spacing and its influence on the partitioning of evapotranspiration by winter-grown wheat in Northern Syria

A study was conducted during the 1996–97 crop growth season at ICARDA in northern Syria, to investigate the influence of wheat canopy architecture on the partitioning of moisture between soil evaporation and crop transpiration, on a soil with high hydraulic conductivity. The study was conducted on the long-term two course wheat-lentil rotation trial, established on a swelling clay soil (Calcixerollic xerochrept). The wheat canopy architecture was manipulated by sowing the crop at either of two row-spacings, 0.17 or 0.30 m, both at a constant sowing rate equivalent to 120 kg ha^–1. In this study, evapotranspiration from the crop was inferred from changes in soil moisture content over time, evaporation and rainfall interception were measured daily using microlysimetry, drainage was estimated as being the difference between potential daily evapotranspiration, and the evapotranspiration estimated from the soil water deficit. Between sowing and day 80 (tillering stage), evapotranspiration was calculated to consist mainly of soil evaporation. However, after day 80, transpiration became an increasingly dominant component of evapotranspiration. For both row-spacings, cumulative evapotranspiration over the season was approximately 373 mm. In the narrow-row crop, transpiration and soil evaporation were approximately 185 mm and 183 mm of water respectively. Conversely for the wide row-spaced crop, 172 mm of water was transpired while about 205 mm of water evaporated from the soil surface. While green leaf area index did not differ between row-spacings, the architecture of the crops as a result of sowing affected solar radiation penetration such that more incident radiation was intercepted at the soil surface of the wide row-spaced crop. This is likely to have made some contribution to the elevated levels of evaporation from the soil beneath the canopy of the wide-sown crop.     

玉米农田蒸散过程及其对气候变化的响应模拟

应用基于生理生态学过程的EALCO模型,对玉米农田生态系统的蒸散(ET)过程进行了模拟,在模型检验基础上,使用该模型模拟了玉米农田生态系统ET过程对未来气候变化的响应。结果表明,EALCO模型中能量与水过程的动态耦合机制使模型能够较好地模拟农田蒸散过程,基于涡度相关法的观测值与模型模拟值在小时、日尺度上均吻合较好,模型可以解释67%的日蒸散的变化特征。对土壤蒸发与冠层蒸腾的分别模拟显示,生长季土壤蒸发约占ET的36%。温度的升高会引起ET与冠层蒸腾的增加,同时土壤蒸发减少;ET对降水减少的响应较为敏感,主要表现在土壤蒸发的下降。大气CO2浓度升高对冠层蒸腾影响显著,该情景下冠层蒸腾下降幅度最大。研究所假设的2100年气候情景下,该农田生态系统生长季蒸散将减少,然而相对于降水的减少而言,蒸散的减少量较小,即水分支出项相对增加,因此,发生土壤水分匮乏的可能性加大,这可能会加剧该地区的暖干化趋势,给作物产量及生态环境带来威胁。     

渗漏型蒸渗仪对梭梭和柠条蒸腾蒸发的研究

利用非称量蒸渗仪对梭梭、柠条的蒸散进行了研究,结果表明：3年生的梭梭的单株蒸散量是515．3mm,3年生柠条的单株蒸散量是499．1mm。供水量和蒸散量之间存在着一定的正相关关系。3年生和2年生梭梭的单株平均蒸腾量分别是105．8mm和202.77mm;3年生和2年生柠条的单株平均蒸腾量分别为120．67mm和128．72mm。在3种供水条件下,柠条的蒸腾量都是梭梭的81％左右。在水分充足的情况下,梭梭和柠条的蒸腾量呈单峰曲线;在土壤水分亏缺的情况下,它们的蒸腾量呈双峰曲线。在干旱胁迫情况下,柠条和梭梭的蒸腾量与土壤含水率之间存在着极显著的线性关系,它们分别是:ET＝－33．29＋3217.93x（r＝0.8643）和ET＝－35．63＋1674．42x（r＝0．8273）。全年的沙面蒸发量是104.6mm-131．6mm,6－9月份的沙面蒸发量占全年沙面蒸发量的76．84％。沙面蒸发呈明显的双峰曲线。在供水条件下,沙面蒸发量随供水量的增加而增大。在无供水条件下,降水量的90．88％用于蒸发,9．12％保留于土壤中。对3年3个不同供水量蒸渗仅实测值进行多因子回归分析,得出沙面蒸发量与环境因子的关系：Ee＝－42．5131＋730．2497x1＋0．7422x2＋0．5494x3．其中Ee为月蒸发量,x1为0—40cm沙层月均含水率,x2为月均日辐射强度,x3为某月日平     

Effects of long-term rainfall variability on evapotranspiration and soil water distribution in the Chihuahuan Desert: A modeling analysis

We used the patch arid land simulator (PALS-FT) – a simple, mechanistic ecosystem model – to explore long-term variation in evapotranspiration (ET) as a function of variability in rainfall and plant functional type (FT) at a warm desert site in southern New Mexico. PALS-FT predicts soil evaporation and plant transpiration of a canopy composed of five principal plant FTs: annuals, perennial forbs, C₄ grasses, sub-shrubs, and evergreen shrubs. For each FT, the fractional contribution to transpiration depends upon phenological activity and cover as well as daily leaf stomatal conductance, which is a function of plant water potential, calculated from root-weighted soil water potential in six soil layers. Simulations of water loss from two plant community types (grass- vs. shrub-dominated) were carried out for the Jornada Basin, New Mexico, using 100 years of daily precipitation data (1891–1990). In order to emphasize variability associated with rainfall and fundamental differences in FT composition between communities, the seasonal patterns cover of perennials were held constant from year to year. Because the relative amount of year to year cover of winter and summer annual species is highly variable in this ecosystem, we examined their influence on model predictions of ET by allowing their cover to be variable, fixed, or absent.Over the entire 100-yr period, total annual ET is highly correlated with total annual rainfall in both community types, although T and E alone are less strongly correlated with rainfall, and variation in transpiration is nearly 3 times greater than evaporation and 2 times greater than variation in rainfall (CV of rainfall = 35%). Water use shows a relatively high similarity between the grass- and shrub-dominated communities, with a 100-yr average T/ET of 34% for both communities. However, based on a year-by-year comparison between communities, T/ET was significantly greater in the grass-dominated community, reflecting the fact that over the long term more than half of the rain occurs in the summer and is used slightly more efficiently (T¿E) by the C₄-grass community than the shrub community, although we found some rainfall patterns that resulted in much greater T/ET in the shrub community in a given year. Percent of water lost as transpiration (T/ET) suggests that while there is a general trend toward increased T/ET with rainfall in both community types, T/ET is extremely variable over the 100-yr simulation, especially for normal and below normal amounts of rainfall (T/ET values range from 1 to 58% for the grass-dominated site and 6 to 60% for the shrub-dominated site).These predictions suggest that because of the relatively shallow distribution of soil water, there is little opportunity for vertical partitioning of the soil water resource by differential rooting depths of the plant FTs, in contrast to the two-layer hypothesis of Walter (1971). However, functional types may avoid competition by keying on particular `windows' of moisture availability via differences in phenologies. We found very little differences in average, long-term model predictions of T, E, and ET when annual plant cover was variable, fixed, or absent. The results of our simulations help reconcile some of the disparate conclusions drawn from experimental studies about the relative contribution of transpiration vs. evaporation to total evapotranspiration, primarily by revealing the great year-to-year variability that is possible.     

Indirect vegetation–soil moisture feedback with application to Holocene North Africa climate1

Using a fully coupled climate–terrestrial ecosystem model, we demonstrate explicitly that an initial perturbation on vegetation induces not only a direct positive vegetation feedback, but also a significant indirect vegetation–soil moisture feedback. The indirect feedback is generated through either fractional cover change or soil moisture depletion. Both indirect feedback mechanisms are triggered by a vegetation perturbation, but involve subsequent effects of soil moisture and evaporation, indirectly. An increase in vegetation tends to reduce bare‐ground evaporation through either the area reduction in bare ground or the depletion of soil moisture; the reduced evaporation may then counter the initial plant transpiration, favoring a negative net vegetation feedback. Furthermore, grasses are more effective in inducing the indirect vegetation–soil feedbacks, because of their limited plant evapotranspiration and shallower roots that tend to change surface soil moisture, and, in turn, evaporation, effectively. In comparison, trees favor a direct positive vegetation feedback due to their strong plant transpiration on subsurface soil moisture as well as a lower albedo.     

Interannual Invariability of Forest Evapotranspiration and Its Consequence to Water Flow Downstream

Although drought in temperate deciduous forests decreases transpiration rates of many species, stand-level transpiration and total evapotranspiration is often reported to exhibit only minor interannual variability with precipitation. This apparent contradiction was investigated using four years of transpiration estimates from sap flux, interception–evaporation estimates from precipitation and throughfall gauges, modeled soil evaporation and drainage estimates, and eddy covariance data in a mature oak-hickory forest in North Carolina, USA. The study period included one severe drought year and one year of well above-average precipitation. Normalized for atmospheric conditions, transpiration rates of some species were lower in drought than in wet periods whereas others did not respond to drought. However, atmospheric conditions during drought periods are unlike conditions during typical growing season periods. The rainy days that are required to maintain drought-free periods are characterized by low atmospheric vapor pressure deficit, leading to very low transpiration. In contrast, days with low air vapor pressure deficit were practically absent during drought and moderate levels of transpiration were maintained throughout despite the drying soil. Thus, integrated over the growing season, canopy transpiration was not reduced by drought. In addition, high vapor pressure deficit during drought periods sustained appreciable soil evaporation rates. As a result, despite the large interannual variation in precipitation (ranging from 934 to 1346 mm), annual evapotranspiration varied little (610–668 mm), increasing only slightly with precipitation, due to increased canopy rainfall interception. Because forest evapotranspiration shows only modest changes with annual precipitation, lower precipitation translates to decreased replenishment of groundwater and outflow, and thus the supply of water to downstream ecosystems and water bodies.     

黄土高原不同土地利用类型土壤含水量的地带性与影响因素

通过对黄土高原南北样带大面积(北纬34°05'—40°75'、东经107°14'—111°09')土壤含水量(0—500 cm剖面)测定和相应植被类型调查,研究了黄土高原农田、草地、灌木林地和乔木林地4种土地利用类型土壤含水量的空间变化及它们之间的差异性。结果表明:黄土高原4种土地利用类型的土壤含水量皆呈现南北向地带性变化,自南向北土壤含水量有明显递减趋势,与多年平均降雨量、潜在蒸散量、土壤质地等的分布具有一致性;同一地点不同土地利用类型下土壤水分含量具有显著差异(农地草地灌木和乔木林地),不同植被类型根系分布、蒸散耗水量的不同是造成含水量差异性的原因。植被建设应遵循土壤水分分布规律,研究结果对黄土高原植被恢复建设具有一定参考价值。     

Cessation of Burning Dries Soils Long Term in a Tallgrass Prairie

Soil moisture is a critical variable in grassland function, yet how fire regimes influence ecohydrology is poorly understood. By altering productivity, species composition, and litter accumulation, fire can indirectly increase or decrease soil water depletion on a range of time scales and depths in the soil profile. To better understand how fire influences soil moisture in grasslands, we analyzed 28 years of soil moisture data from two watersheds in a central North American grassland which differ in their long-term fire frequency. Across 28 years, cessation of prescribed burning initially led to wetter soils, likely as litter accumulated and both transpiration and evaporation were suppressed. Long-term, cessation of burning led to soils drying more, especially at depths greater than 75 cm. The long-term drying of deep soils is consistent with the increase in woody species in the infrequently burned grassland as woody species likely have a greater reliance on soil water from deeper soil layers compared to co-occurring herbaceous species. Despite the ecohydrological changes associated with the cessation of prescribed burning, watersheds with different burn regimes responded similarly to short-term variation in climate variation. In both watersheds, low precipitation and high temperatures led to drier soils with greater responses in soil moisture to climate variation later in the season than earlier. There is no current evidence that the cessation of burning in this ecosystem will qualitatively alter how evapotranspiration responds to climate variation, but the use of deeper soil water by woody plants has the potential for greater transpiration during dry times. In all, modeling the depth-specific responses of soil moisture and associated ecosystem processes to changes in burn regimes will likely require including responses of plant community composition over short and long time scales.     

基于涡度相关法和树干液流法评价杨树人工林 生态系统蒸发散及其环境响应

 运用涡度相关(Eddy covariance)开路系统、树干液流(Sap flow)、土壤水分以及微气象观测系统, 于2006年生长季(5~10月)对北京大兴区永定河沿河沙地杨树(Populus euramericana)人工林生态系统的水量和能量平衡进行了连续测定; 分析了该系统能量平衡闭合水平及其组分分配特征, 不同水分条件下蒸发散及其各组分变化过程和分配特征, 以及影响蒸发散的主要环境因子; 并对组分求和法、土壤水分平衡法与涡度相关法测得该生态系统生长季蒸发散总量的结果进行了对比。结果表明: 生长季内该生态系统的能量闭合水平较高, 能量平衡各组分在不同土壤水分环境条件下所占比例变化较大; 在水分充足的条件下, 潜热通量在可利用能量分配过程中占优势, 显热通量在水分胁迫条件下占可提供能量的比例比潜热通量大。雨季到来之前, 土壤蒸发与植被蒸腾强度相差较小; 进入雨季后, 土壤深层水分得到补偿, 植被蒸腾显著增强而土壤蒸发强度减弱。涡度相关法所得的总蒸发散量与基于树干液流法等组分求和法得到的蒸发散结果较接近, 分别为513和492 mm。土壤水分平衡法的观测结果略高于前二者的观测结果, 雨季研究界面以下的土体也有水分交换是该方法高估蒸发散的主要原因。与环境因子的响应关系表明, 蒸发散以及蒸腾的变化过程对净辐射的响应程度比对饱和水汽压差高; 水分条件较好情况下, 蒸发散以及蒸腾的变化过程与水汽压差关系不明显, 说明水分充足时, 水汽压差不是蒸散强弱的限制因子。