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Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows
Precipitation and temperature are major controls on multiple ecosystem functions in alpine grasslands. There is scant evidence for the interactive effects of temperature and precipitation changes on the ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in alpine meadows. To explore the interactive effects of tempe...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.824296 |
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author | Ma, Yunhe Tian, Lihua Qu, Guangpeng Li, Ruicheng Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Jingxue |
author_facet | Ma, Yunhe Tian, Lihua Qu, Guangpeng Li, Ruicheng Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Jingxue |
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description | Precipitation and temperature are major controls on multiple ecosystem functions in alpine grasslands. There is scant evidence for the interactive effects of temperature and precipitation changes on the ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in alpine meadows. To explore the interactive effects of temperature and precipitation changes on the EMF in alpine meadows, we transplanted meadow blocks reciprocally among three altitudes (4,650, 4,950, and 5,200 m) on the central Tibetan Plateau. Compared with the home sites (control), the EMF has a trend to increase when meadow blocks were downward transplanted (experimental warming) to the high-precipitation sites but decrease as meadow blocks were downward transplanted to the low-precipitation sites. However, the experimental cooling (upward transplantation) consistently reduced the EMF regardless of the precipitation change. The increase of EMF under the experimental warming was closely related to the variation of both plant and soil functions, whereas the reduction of EMF under the cooling was highly correlated with the decrease of plant function. Our results highlight that climate warming effects on the EMF are greatly associated with precipitation changes in the semi-arid alpine ecosystems. |
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spelling | pubmed-88640762022-02-24 Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows Ma, Yunhe Tian, Lihua Qu, Guangpeng Li, Ruicheng Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Jingxue Front Plant Sci Plant Science Precipitation and temperature are major controls on multiple ecosystem functions in alpine grasslands. There is scant evidence for the interactive effects of temperature and precipitation changes on the ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) in alpine meadows. To explore the interactive effects of temperature and precipitation changes on the EMF in alpine meadows, we transplanted meadow blocks reciprocally among three altitudes (4,650, 4,950, and 5,200 m) on the central Tibetan Plateau. Compared with the home sites (control), the EMF has a trend to increase when meadow blocks were downward transplanted (experimental warming) to the high-precipitation sites but decrease as meadow blocks were downward transplanted to the low-precipitation sites. However, the experimental cooling (upward transplantation) consistently reduced the EMF regardless of the precipitation change. The increase of EMF under the experimental warming was closely related to the variation of both plant and soil functions, whereas the reduction of EMF under the cooling was highly correlated with the decrease of plant function. Our results highlight that climate warming effects on the EMF are greatly associated with precipitation changes in the semi-arid alpine ecosystems. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8864076/ /pubmed/35222457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.824296 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ma, Tian, Qu, Li, Wang and Zhao. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Ma, Yunhe Tian, Lihua Qu, Guangpeng Li, Ruicheng Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Jingxue Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows |
title | Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows |
title_full | Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows |
title_fullStr | Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows |
title_full_unstemmed | Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows |
title_short | Precipitation Alters the Effects of Temperature on the Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Alpine Meadows |
title_sort | precipitation alters the effects of temperature on the ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine meadows |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.824296 |
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