Journal of Plant Ecology

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长期高氮沉降加速了亚热带豆科人工林“磷获取优势”的消失

  

  • 收稿日期:2025-04-27 接受日期:2025-09-18

Long-term high nitrogen deposition accelerates the disappearance of the phosphorus-acquiring advantage of leguminous species in a subtropical forest

Senhao Wang 1,2,3,4#, Kaijun Zhou 5,#, Taiki Mori 1,2,3,6, Andi Li 1,2,3, Cheng Peng 1,2,3,7, Guangcan Yu 1,2,3, Enqing Hou 1, 2, 3, Sihan Yao8, Linjie Fan 1,2,3,9, Baixin Zhang 1,2,3,9, Yufang Wang 1,2,3,10, Qing Ye 1,2,3, Weiren Wang 1,2,3,9, Shun Zou11, Xiangping Tan 1,2,3, Qinggong Mao 1,2,3, Mianhai Zheng 1,2,3, Juan Huang 1,2,3, Zhanfeng Liu1,2,3, Jiangming Mo 1, 2, 3, Wei Zhang 1, 2, 3 *   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China 2South China National Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China

    3Key laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Plant Conservation and Utilization in Southern China, Guangzhou 510650, China 

    4Guangzhou Academy of Agricultural and Rural Sciences, Guangzhou 510300, China 

    5The protection center of agricultural environment and cultivated land quality of Guangdong province, Guangzhou 510000, China 

    6Kyushu Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research, Kumamoto, Japan 

    7Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany 

    8The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510630, China 

    9College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 

    10Shiyan Forestry Science Research Institute, Shiyan 442700, China 

    11Guizhou University of Engineering Science, Bijie 551700, China 

    *Corresponding author, Zhangwei@scbg.ac.cn 

    #These authors contributed equally to this work.

  • Received:2025-04-27 Accepted:2025-09-18
  • Supported by:
    The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 32401387, 42077311, 32271725, 42173077), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2024M763314, 2023M743548), and the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2023A1515110826).

摘要: 豆科树种比非豆科树种具备更强的固氮能力,这一特性使其能为磷酸酶合成提供更多氮源,从而具有“磷获取优势”。然而,这种优势能否在长期氮沉降下持续,目前尚不清楚。基于此,本研究在开展长期模拟氮沉降实验研究的第7年,分别采集了豆科与非豆科树种主导的人工林表层土壤,测定其酸性磷酸酶活性。同 时,为评估持续氮添加的效应,本研究还整合了实验第2、8、12、13年的磷酸酶活 性数据。研究发现,长期氮输入后,两种人工林土壤酸性磷酸酶活性的差异逐渐消失,且高氮添加会加速这一过程。其原因在于非豆科树种的磷限制加剧促使其合成更多磷酸酶,而豆科树种土壤氮含量对磷酸酶活性的贡献效率与非豆科相比持续降低,表明土壤氮含量不再主导酸性磷酸酶的活性变化。本研究证实,长期高氮沉降会加速豆科人工林“磷获取优势”的消失。为阐明全球变化下豆科与非豆科树种在 磷利用策略上的差异,未来仍需开展更为系统的研究。

关键词: 磷获取优势, 氮沉降, 豆科树种, 亚热带森林, 磷限制

Abstract: Leguminous species have an advantage in acquiring phosphorus (P) compared to non-leguminous species. Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether this advantage would diminish under long-term nitrogen (N) deposition. In the seventh year of a simulated long-term N deposition experiment, we sampled surface soil to measure acid phosphatase activity (ACP) in stands dominated by leguminous and non-leguminous species, respectively. To assess the response of ACP to prolonged N addition, we also collected data on ACP in the second, eighth, twelfth, and thirteenth years of the experiment.We found that the difference in soil ACP between the two plantation types disappeared after long-term N input, and this process was accelerated under high N addition. This occurs due to an exacerbated P-limitation, which primarily prompting ACP production merely in non-leguminous species. Additionaly, there is a relatively decreased N contribution efficiency to ACP in the stand with leguminous species, this indicates that soil N content no longer primarily governs ACP. This study demonstrates that prolonged high N deposition accelerates the loss of the “P-acquiring advantage” in leguminous plantations. To elucidate the differences in P usage strategies between leguminous and non leguminous species under global change, more systematic research is warranted in the future

Key words: P-acquiring advantage, N deposition, leguminous species, subtropical forest, P limitation