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Yunlong He1, Yangjian Zhang1,2, Juntao Zhu1,2,*, Qiang Yu3, Dashuan Tian1, Xiaoan Zuo4, Changhui Wang5,*, Jielin Liu6, Cunzheng Wei7, Hui An8, Fawei Zhang9, Bo Zhang10, Yann Hautier11, Lin Jiang12
6Grass and Science Institute of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150086, China
7State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
8School of Ecology and Environment, Ningxia University, Ningxia 750021, China
9Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810001, China
10Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Desert Plant Roots Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
11Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
12School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
*Corresponding authors. E-mail: zhujt@igsnrr.ac.cn (J.Z.); wangch@ibcas.ac.cn (C.W.)
摘要: 养分富集会对各类生态系统的稳定性产生负面影响。然而,养分影响效应是否依赖于植物多样性、气候等生物和非生物因素,目前尚不明确。本研究依托中国7个跨越气候梯度的草地养分添加试验平台(年平均温度:–0.38至8.75 °C;年降水量:134.60至462.40 mm),通过4年观测,探究了气候因子和植物多样性对氮、磷添加下地上净初级生产力时间稳定性影响特征及其生物调控机制。研究发现,在所有样地中,氮添加和氮、磷共同添加显著降低了地上净初级生产力时间稳定性,而单独添加磷对其影响效应较弱。尤为重要的是,养分对各样点的影响效应并不一致,且与样点的初始物种丰富度和温度季节性密切相关。结构方程模型分析表明,单独氮或磷添加主要通过降低优势种稳定性进而降低群落稳定性;此外,在氮或磷富集条件下,物种丰富度较高的样点,其优势种稳定性和群落稳定性均更低。上述研究结果强调,养分添加对草地生态系统稳定性的影响取决于由样点的特定气候因子塑造的植物多样性,这一认识对于全球环境变化背景下的草地有效管理至关重要。