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Nitrogen availability and uptake by grassland in mesocosms at two water levels and two water qualities 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
We studied the effect of water table (-5 or -30 cm) and water type (rain- or groundwater) on the above- and below-ground phytomass production, species composition and nitrogen uptake of grassland.Nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, methane production, redox potential and pH at different depths in the profile were measured and used to monitor gradual changes in variables influencing phytomass production.The rise in the water level lowered the nitrogen uptake in the above-ground phytomass from 14.1 to 11.4 g N per m2, but the DM production did not decrease and varied from 566 to 690 g per m2. The total root mass increased from 82 to 363 g DM per m2, with the proportion in the 5 to 10 cm layer increasing the most from 13 to 24%.The high water level lowered the potential N mineralization in the upper 5 cm of the soil from 16.1 to 4.3 g N per m2 and in the deeper 5 to 30 cm layer from 12.6 to 9.4 g N per m2 respectively, so the importance of the deeper layer as a source of N increased. The total amount of mineral N that accumulated in the 40 cm deep soil cores decreased from 31.3 to 15.5 g N per m2. The above-ground vegetation took up 71 to 76% of this amount in the high water level treatment and only 37 to 57% under drier conditions.Redox potential and methane production indicated anaerobic conditions below 5 cm in both level treatments and in the top 5 cm of the high water level treatment. But some nitrification was measured there also, thus aerobic and anaerobic conditions occurred together. The low N mineralization was attributed to low soil respiration.Raising the water level brought about an increase in the above ground biomass of Glyceria fluitans and an increase in root mass, especially deeper in the soil. Both are responsible for the relatively greater fraction of nitrogen that was taken up from the soil, although less N was available. The nitrification indicates that oxygen is transported by the root system to soil microsites and partly compensates for the anaerobic conditions caused by water saturation.The calcareous groundwater raised the pH in the upper soil layer from 5.3 to 5.8 but no effect on N mineralization was measured. 相似文献
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We examined the relation between the local density of species and the size of the geographic range for French riverine fishes. As for most other taxonomic groups, a positive interspecific relationship is found for this group. This relationship is robust to the confounding effects of phylogeny and is not a priori a product of other potential mechanistic artefacts. We formally tested two of the principal biological mechanisms already proposed (i.e. the niche breadth hypothesis and the resource availability hypothesis). We found no support for the niche breadth hypothesis. In contrast, we found consistent support for the closely related resource availability hypothesis. Species utilising resources (habitats) that are marginal tend to appear at low density and to have narrow distribution whereas species utilising widespread habitats tend to be more abundant and more widely distributed. Using data on body size and reproductive traits we explored the potential influence of these variables in explaining significant variation around the density-range size relationship. Only body size explains significant variation around the relationship, being negatively correlated with local density and positively correlated with range size. 相似文献
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Changes in frequency and intensity of drought events are anticipated in many areas of the world. In pasture, drought effects on soil nitrogen (N) cycling are spatially and temporally heterogeneous due to N redistribution by grazers. We studied soil N cycling responses to simulated summer drought and N deposition by grazers in a 3-year field experiment replicated in two grasslands differing in climate and management. Cattle urine and NH4NO3 application increased soil NH4 + and NO3 ? concentrations, and more so under drought due to reduced plant uptake and reduced nitrification and denitrification. Drought effects were, however, reflected to a minor extent only in potential nitrification, denitrifying enzyme activity (DEA), and the abundance of functional genes characteristic of nitrifying (bacterial and archaeal amoA) and denitrifying (narG, nirS, nirK, nosZ) micro-organisms. N2O emissions, however, were much reduced under drought, suggesting that this effect was driven by environmental limitations rather than by changes in the activity potential or the size of the respective microbial communities. Cattle urine stimulated nitrification and, to a lesser extent, also DEA, but more so in the absence of drought. In contrast, NH4NO3 reduced the activity of nitrifiers and denitrifiers due to top-soil acidification. In summary, our data demonstrate that complex interactions between drought, mineral N availability, soil acidification, and plant nutrient uptake control soil N cycling and associated N2O emissions. These interactive effects differed between processes of the soil N cycle, suggesting that the spatial heterogeneity in pastures needs to be taken into account when predicting changes in N cycling and associated N2O emissions in a changing climate. 相似文献
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Thierry Boujard 《Environmental Biology of Fishes》1992,34(3):235-246
Synopsis A riverine fish assemblage in French Guiana was examined over several consecutive years. Fish distribution was highly structured on at least 3 different scales: between rivers, between the different zones of the rivers and between the different biotopes studied in sampling areas. A temporal organisation of fish communities was also found, superimposed on the spatial structure. The latter was due to the seasonal variations of the water level, and allowed temporary access to flooded areas. The different space-time factors of organisation of fish communities presented here are discussed in regard to their contribution to the maintenance of the observed high species diversity. 相似文献
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Questions: What are the effects of raised water levels on wet grassland plant communities and dynamics? To what extent do time since raised water levels, vegetation management and water regime influence community composition? Location: Pevensey Levels, southeast England, UK. Methods: Plant communities and hydrology were monitored during 2001‐03 within 23 wet grassland meadows and pastures where water levels had been raised for nature conservation at different times over 21 years. Community variations were examined using species abundance and ecological traits. Results: Water regime, measured as duration of flooding, groundwater level and soil moisture was significantly related to plant community variation. Communities were divided into grasslands where inundation was shallow (≤8 cm) and relatively short (≤3 months) and sites where deeper flooding was prolonged (≥5 months), supporting a variety of wetland vegetation. With increasing wetness, sites were characterised by more bare ground and wetland plants such as sedges, helophytes and hydrophytes, and species with a stress‐tolerating competitive strategy. All sites showed considerable annual dynamics, especially those with substantially raised water levels. There were no significant relationships between time since water levels were raised and plant community composition. Grassland management exerted a limited influence upon vegetation compared to water regime. Conclusions: Grassland plant communities are responsive to raised water levels and have potential for a rapid transition to wetland vegetation, irrespective of grazing or cutting management. Creation or restoration of wet grasslands by (re)wetting is feasible but challenging due to the high dynamism of wetland plant communities and the need for substantially raised water levels and prolonged flooding to produce significant community changes. 相似文献
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水分含量是与土壤氮转化相关微生物活性的重要影响因素。本研究以黑龙江省北安市的草地和林地土壤为对象,通过室内培养试验,利用15N同位素标记技术和FLUAZ数值优化模型研究60%和100%田间持水量(WHC)条件下土壤氮初级矿化速率、初级固定速率、初级硝化速率和初级反硝化速率,以探讨土壤氮初级转化速率对水分含量变化的响应,阐明不同水分条件下土壤中氮的产生、消耗、保存机制及其生态环境效应。结果表明: 土壤水分变化不影响草地和林地土壤氮初级矿化速率和铵态氮固定速率,水分含量由60% WHC增加至100% WHC后显著增加了林地土壤的初级硝化速率,但对草地土壤的初级硝化速率没有显著影响。60% WHC条件下草地和林地土壤的初级反硝化速率可以忽略不计,水分含量增加至100% WHC后土壤初级反硝化速率显著提高,且草地土壤的初级反硝化速率显著低于林地土壤。100% WHC条件下林地土壤初级硝化速率与铵态氮固定速率比值(gn/ia)和N2O排放量均显著高于60% WHC;100% WHC条件下草地土壤的N2O排放量显著高于60% WHC,但两个水分条件下的gn/ia值无显著差异。表明短期内水分含量的增加可能会增加草地和林地土壤氮转化的负面环境效应,且对林地土壤的影响尤为显著。 相似文献
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A conceptual diagram of the S cycle in grassland soils is presented as a framework for discussing S cycling process studies. Changes in the mineralization of S and in the redistribution of35S-labeled sulfate among soil organic matter fractions were investigated during incubation of cropped and uncropped soils.Little mineralization or net immobilization of sulfur occurred in closed system incubations where the soils were left undisturbed throughout the incubations. Significantly more S was mineralized in open system incubations where the soils were leached periodically. Net mineralization was significantly greater in cropped soils compared with uncropped soils. The distribution of35S was significantly affected by the addition of various substrates (sulfate, cellulose or a combination of both) and by the presence of plants. Under conditions of high solution sulfate, the majority of35S incorporated was observed in the HI-reducible S fraction. When the solution sulfate concentrations were lower, there was a reduction in the proportion of35S incorporated into the HI-reducible S fraction. The results of these experiment will be discussed in relation to the hypotheses presented by McGill and Cole (1981) and the conceptual diagram of the S cycle in grassland soils.Contribution from a symposium on the role of sulfur in ecosystem processes held August 10, 1983, at the annual meeting of the A.I.B.S., Grand Forks, ND; Myron Mitchell, convenor.Publication No. R 353 of the Saskatchewan Institute of Pedology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N OWO 相似文献
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Hamed Zakikhani Mohd. Khanif Yusop Mohamed Musa Hanafi Radziah Othman Amin Soltangheisi 《Chemical Speciation and Bioavailability》2016,28(1-4):170-181
Intermittently submergence and drainage status of paddy fields can cause alterations in morphological and chemical characteristics of soils. We conducted a sequential fractionation study to provide an insight into solubility of Sulfur (S) and Molybdenum (Mo) in flooded alluvial paddy soils. The samples (0–15 and 15–30 cm) were taken from marine and riverine alluvial soils in Kedah and Kelantan areas, respectively, and were sequentially extracted with NaHCO3, NaOH, HCl, and HClO4–HNO3. Total S in upper and lower layers of Kedah and Kelantan ranged between 273 and 1121 mg kg?1, and 177 to 1509 mg kg?1, respectively. In upper layers and subsoil of Kedah, average total Mo were 0.34 and 0.27 mg kg?1, respectively. Average total Mo in Kelantan were 0.25 mg kg?1 (surface layer) and 0.28 mg kg?1 (subsoil). Cation exchange capacity (CEC) was positively correlated with plant available amounts of Mo in upper layers of Kedah area. Also, total and medium-term plant-available S was correlated with total carbon (C) at lower layers of Kelantan soil series. But in surface layers of Kelantan soil series, CEC was strongly correlated with total and medium-term plant-available S. Our results indicates that the influence of flooding conditions on soil S and Mo contents in paddy fields may cause long-term changes in S and Mo chemical reactivities. 相似文献
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放牧对草原土壤的影响 总被引:79,自引:7,他引:79
介绍了放牧对草原土壤物理性质 (容重、渗透率 )、化学性质 (有机质、N素 )和微生物的影响。由于草原土壤系统本身的复杂性、滞后性和弹性 ,放牧对土壤性质的影响不尽相同。一般而言 ,随放牧强度的增大 ,动物践踏作用的增强 ,土壤孔隙分布的空间格局发生变化 ,土壤的总孔隙减少 ,特别是大孔隙 (>5 0μm)和较大中等孔隙 (9~ 5 0μm)减少 ,使土壤容重增加 ,土壤的渗透阻力加大 ,土壤的保水和持水能力下降。但在有机质含量很低的沙质土壤中 ,超载过牧 ,造成有机质含量降低 ,土壤的团粒结构减少 ,稳定性团聚体减少 ,土壤结构遭到破坏 ,使得土壤容重反而降低。土壤有机质和放牧之间存在复杂的相互关系 ,土壤有机质对放牧的响应受多种因素的影响 ,这些因素包括植被和土壤的初始状况 ;环境因素 ,特别是水分和温度 ;放牧历史 (强度、频率、持续时间和动物类型 )。同时 ,土壤有机质含量低的土壤比含量高的土壤更易受放牧的影响 ,而使有机质发生变化。土壤微生物量碳是最具活性的土壤碳库 ,对环境的变化敏感 ,能较早地指示生态系统功能的变化。当考虑时间尺度时 ,高强度放牧对土壤肥力有负面的影响 ,短期内 ,由于加速了养分的循环效率 ,产生有利的影响 ,但长期无管理的超载放牧必然造成系统物质 (资源 )输入和输 相似文献
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John F. Lehmkuhl 《Plant Ecology》1994,111(1):29-43
Eight grassland associations with ten phases and two riverine forest associations were identified on the floodplains of Chitwan National Park in lowland Nepal. TwoThemeda arundinacea associations were primarily stable edaphic associations on mollic soils, often with aquic moisture regimes.Themeda associations were floristically similar to adjacent sal forest. Four mixed tall-grass associations primarily ofNarenga porphyrocoma, Saccharum bengalense, andSaccharum spontaneum were identified. These andThemeda arundinacea types were characterized by a very weak component of woody species. Two grass-shrub associations ofSaccharum bengalense andNarenga porphyrocoma with a strong woody species component typical of riverine forest were described.Trewia nudiflora-Bombax ceiba riverine forest and mixed riverine forest types also were identified on the basis of understory composition. Mixed tall-grass and grass-shrub associations appeared to represent early and late phases of grassland succession to riverine forest. Trajectories of succession are controlled primarily by fire and wildlife grazing. The classification refines the general classifications applied to the central Terai of Nepal and India, and should provide insight for classification of other Terai riverine grasslands.Abbreviations DS
Dabadghao and Shankarnarayan's 1973 grassland classification for India
- IMCY
Imperata cylindrica
- NAFA
Narenga fallax
- NAPO
Narenga porphyrocoma
- PHKA
Phragmites karka
- SABE
Saccharum bengalense
- SASP
Saccharum spontaneum
- THAR
Themeda arundinacea 相似文献
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M. Miletto P. L. E. Bodelier T. G. Ferdelman B. B. Jørgensen H. J. Laanbroek 《Plant and Soil》2013,370(1-2):73-87
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The research aimed at studying the effect of flooding with sulfate-rich water on the activity, abundance and diversity of sulfate-reducing micro-organisms present in the root zone of an oxygen-releasing plant growing on two riparian grassland soils with contrasting amounts of iron.Methods
A series of microcosms was used to investigate the effects. Plants were grown under controlled conditions in microcosms containing a rhizosphere and bulk soil compartment for a period of 12 weeks in the presence of sulfate-rich flood water. Molybdate-treated systems served as non-sulfate-reducing controls.Results
At harvest, activity and numbers of sulfate-reducing micro-organisms were higher in the absence of molybdate, but a rhizosphere effect and an impact of the presence of high levels of iron were not observed on activity and numbers. Both soils had in common a diverse community of sulfate-reducing micro-organisms covering all major cultured bacterial taxa. The appearance of members of the Desulfovibrionaceae exclusively in the rhizosphere of G. maxima was the only unambiguous indication of a plant effect.Conclusion
The presence of sulfate-rich flood water stimulated the activity and growth of a part of the sulfate-reducing community leading to a change in community composition. The proximity of aerenchymatous plant roots and the abundance of iron in the soil had a negligible effect on the sulfate-reducing community. 相似文献15.
Relatively high most probable number (MPN) counts of chemolithotrophic nitrite oxidizers were present in water-saturated soils compared with MPNs and activity of ammonia oxidizers. These high numbers of nitrite oxidizers were confirmed by fluorescent antibody counts and potential activity measurements. Application of different nitrite concentrations in the MPN procedure discriminated within the community of nitrite oxidizers and revealed a large number of nitrite-sensitive nitrite oxidizers and a subcommunity of nitrite-insensitive nitrite oxidizers. The size of this subcommunity was small but corresponded with the low numbers of ammonium oxidizers. Numbers of nitrite-sensitive nitrite oxidizers outnumbered the ammonia oxidizing bacteria by 2–4 orders of magnitude in these soils. The possibility is discussed that the fraction of the nitrite-insensitive cells was active as aerobic nitrite oxidizers, whereas the nitrite-sensitive cells represented an inactive group of nitrite oxidizers growing as heterotrophs or as anaerobes reducing nitrite. In this situation, both MPN enumerations at a low nitrite concentration and activity measurements could give false information about the size of the in situ nitrite-oxidizing community. 相似文献
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Experimental manipulation of desmosome structure 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
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An experiment was carried out in two heathland ecosystems, one dominated by Calluna vulgaris and the other by Molinia caerulea, to analyse the effects of soil organic matter accumulation and nutrient mineralization on plant species dynamics during succession. The experiment included one treatment that received nutrient solution and two treatments where the rate of soil organic matter accumulation was reduced by removing litter or accelerated by adding litter. In a fourth treatment the C. vulgaris litter produced in the C. vulgaris-dominated plots was replaced by litter of M. caerulea and vice versa. Treatments were applied over 8 years. Addition of nutrient solution caused C. vulgaris to decline, and grass species to increase sharply, compared to the control plots. Addition of litter enhanced both N mineralization and the biomass of M. caerulea and Deschampsia flexuosa but reduced the biomass of C. vulgaris. The effects of replacing C. vulgaris litter by M. caerulea litter, or vice versa, on N mineralization and species dynamics could not be attributed to differences between the decomposability of the different litter materials that were transferred. The results confirm the hypothesis that increased litter inputs accelerate the rate of species replacement during succession. 相似文献
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Abstract Two hypotheses on repression of nitrification in climax vegetations (i.e. nitrogen immobilization and allelopathy) were investigated. In this study the potential nitrification activities and numbers of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria were established in a nature reserve with a series of natural grasslands with vegetational different stages of succession of plants species. The pastures had not been fertilized for 3, 7, 20 and 46 years, respectively, and the gradual decrease in availability of nutrients had led to pastures dominated by different grass species. In each field soil parameters, potential nitrification activities (PNA) and numbers of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria were determined in the root zone of Holcus lanatus as well as in that of a grass species characteristic of the stage of succession. In the rhizosphere of H. lanatus decreasing PNA and numbers of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria were observed as the period of non fertilization increased. Within each field no significant differences in PNA were observed between the root zones of H. lanatus and those of the dominant grass species. From these results it is concluded that, in these fields, decreasing nitrification was related only to decreasing ammonium availability and not to species composition. No indications were obtained that allelochemicals were involved in the flow nitrification potentials of late stages of succession. The optimum pH of the ammonium-oxidizing community, measured as PNA, decreased as the period of non fertilization increased. It is suggested that impoverishment of the grassland soil with respect to nitrogen availability selects against ammonium-oxidizing bacteria with a relatively high pH optimum. 相似文献
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The natural relationship13C/12C determined in three soil profiles under grass vegetation indicated a depletion in organic13C at depth: theδ
13C was between −18‰ and −15‰ in the A horizons and ranged from −18 to −22‰ at depth. Previous work showed that in forest soils,
whereδ
13C was near −28‰ in the upper horizon, there was, on the contrary, a relative enrichment of the lower strata. This meant thatδ
13C, initially different in the various topsoils, became more equal at depth. Comparison between dark, deep horizons (sombric
horizons), which are certainly of illuvial origine, would confirm this:δ
13C of grassland and a forest sombric horizon were almost equal at around −22‰. These results might mean that, in natural ecosystems,
the isotopic carbon composition of the soil underlying humus would be independent of the vegetation type. This would have
practical implications for the use of13C as a tracer for soil organic matter studies. 相似文献