2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02423.x
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Plant community responses to nitrogen addition and increased precipitation: the importance of water availability and species traits

Abstract: Global nitrogen (N) enrichment and changing precipitation regimes are likely to alter plant community structure and composition, with consequent influences on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Responses of plant community structure and composition to N addition and increased precipitation were examined in a temperate steppe in northern China. Increased precipitation and N addition stimulated and suppressed community species richness, respectively, across 6 years (2005-2010) of the manipulative experiment… Show more

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“…In our study site, soil P concentration is 0.28 g kg À1 at the upper limit of the typical alpine grassland ecosystem (0.09e 0.28 g kg À1 , Thiel-Egenter et al, 2007). Instead, other environmental factors such as water could play a key role in limiting plant growth in this steppe (Yang et al, 2011). Furthermore, the nonsignificant changes in AMF communities in response to P fertilization may also be explained by non-significant changes in the host plant community compositions in the P fertilized plots compared to the CK plots.…”
Section: Effects Of Fertilization On Amf Abundance and Community Strumentioning
confidence: 81%
“…In our study site, soil P concentration is 0.28 g kg À1 at the upper limit of the typical alpine grassland ecosystem (0.09e 0.28 g kg À1 , Thiel-Egenter et al, 2007). Instead, other environmental factors such as water could play a key role in limiting plant growth in this steppe (Yang et al, 2011). Furthermore, the nonsignificant changes in AMF communities in response to P fertilization may also be explained by non-significant changes in the host plant community compositions in the P fertilized plots compared to the CK plots.…”
Section: Effects Of Fertilization On Amf Abundance and Community Strumentioning
confidence: 81%
“…La estructura de correlación espacial entre los datos observados permite estimar la distribución espacial de precipitación (Hofstra et al, 2008;Ashiq et al, 2010). Este método es utilizado en particular para la representación mensual y anual de la precipitación (Goovaerts, 2000;Ninyerola et al, 2000;Diodato, 2005;Yang et al, 2011).…”
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“…Predicting ecosystem responses to global change is a fundamental issue in ecology. It has been well documented that the aboveground plant community is sensitive to precipitation change (Cleland et al, 2013;Eskelinen and Harrison, 2015) and N deposition (Stevens et al, 2004;Clark and Tilman, 2008), particularly in arid and semi-arid grassland ecosystems, where water and N are generally considered to be limiting resources (Harpole et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2011;Xu et al, 2012b). A growing body of evidence suggests that higher precipitation increases plant species richness (Bai et al, 2008;Xu et al, 2015b), whereas N fertilization is reported as the main driver of the loss of species richness (Gough et al, 2000;Stevens et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%