Land Degradation Changes the Role of Above- and Belowground Competition in Regulating Plant Biomass Allocation in an Alpine Meadow

doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.822594

	Land Degradation Changes the Role of Above- and Belowground Competition in Regulating Plant Biomass Allocation in an Alpine Meadow
	Zhang, Yong 1; Zheng, Qiuzhu 1; Gao, Xiaoxia 2; Ma, Yandan 1; Liang, Kemin 1; Yue, Haitao 1; Huang, Xiaoxia 3; Wu, Kaiting 1; Wang, Xiaorong 1
	2022
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
ISSN	1664-462X
卷号	13
摘要	The allocation pattern of plant biomass presents the strategy of the plant community to adopt environmental changes, while the driver of biomass allocation is still unclear in degraded alpine grassland ecosystems. To explore the issue, this study investigated the shoot-to-root (R/S) ratio, plant aboveground traits, and root competition of three functional groups (i.e., grasses, sedges, and forbs) at three degradation levels (i.e., no obvious degradation, ND; moderate degradation, MD; and severe degradation, SD) in an alpine meadow in the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The relationships among plant aboveground traits, root competition, and R/S ratio were tested using the structural equation model (SEM). The results showed that the shoot and root biomass tended to decrease, but the R/S ratio of the plant community did not change along the degradation gradient. Plant height, lateral spread, and leaf length of most plant functional groups reduced, while leaf width and leaf area of most plant functional groups did not change along the degradation gradients. The root competition ability (presented as the fraction of root biomass in total biomass) of sedges in MD was the lowest, while that of grasses was the highest. The effects of aboveground competition on the R/S ratio were non-linear because of the different roles of plant height, lateral spread, and leaf area in regulating the R/S ratio along the degradation gradient. In contrast, the effects of belowground competition on the R/S ratio were linear because belowground competition promoted the R/S ratio, and the strength of this effect reduced along the degradation gradient. These results indicate that plant competition might be a critical factor to maintain the high R/S ratio in degraded alpine meadows.
关键词	land degradation aboveground traits root competition R S ratio alpine meadow eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
学科领域	Plant Sciences
DOI	10.3389/fpls.2022.822594
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	ROOT BIOMASS ; ECOSYSTEM ; GRASSLAND ; SOIL ; PRODUCTIVITY ; DIVERSITY ; HERBIVORY ; REGION ; LEAVES ; RATIOS
WOS研究方向	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000759866000001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
文献子类	Article
出版地	LAUSANNE
作者邮箱	zhy1902@126.com
作品OA属性	Green Published, gold
引用统计	被引频次：2[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/28986
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Southwest Forestry Univ, Yunnan Key Lab Plateau Wetland Conservat Restorat, Coll Wetlands, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Southwest Forestry Univ, Natl Plateau Wetlands Res Ctr, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Yunnan Univ, Sch Earth Sci, Kunming, Yunnan, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yong,Zheng, Qiuzhu,Gao, Xiaoxia,et al. Land Degradation Changes the Role of Above- and Belowground Competition in Regulating Plant Biomass Allocation in an Alpine Meadow[J]. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,2022,13.
APA	Zhang, Yong.,Zheng, Qiuzhu.,Gao, Xiaoxia.,Ma, Yandan.,Liang, Kemin.,...&Wang, Xiaorong.(2022).Land Degradation Changes the Role of Above- and Belowground Competition in Regulating Plant Biomass Allocation in an Alpine Meadow.FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,13.
MLA	Zhang, Yong,et al."Land Degradation Changes the Role of Above- and Belowground Competition in Regulating Plant Biomass Allocation in an Alpine Meadow".FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 13(2022).

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