Evaluating soil acidification risk and its effects on biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in the drylands of ChinaOACSTPCD
Background:Soil acidifcationn caused by anthropogenic activities may aft soil biochemical cydling,bidiversity,productivity,and multiple eosystem-related functions in drylands.However,to date,such information is lacking to support this hypothesis.Methods Based on a transect survey of 78 naturally assembled shrub communities,we caloulated acid deposition flux in Northwest China and evaluated its likely ecological ffets by testing three altemnative hypotheses,namely:.nidche complementarity,mass ratio,and vegetation quantity hypotheses Rao''s quadratic entopy and community-weighted mean traits were employed to represent the complementary aspect of niche complementarity and mass ratio effects,respectively.Resulbs:We observed that in the past four decades,the concentrations of exchangeable base cations in soil in Northwest China have decreased significantly to the extent of having faced the risk of depletion,whereas changes in the calium carbonate content and pH of soil were not significant.Adid deposition primani ly increased the aboweground biomass and shrub density in shrublands but had no sigmificant effect on shrub richness and ecasystem multifunctionality(EMF),indicating that acid deposition had positive but weak ecological effects on dryland ecosystems.Community wd ghted mean of functional traits(representing the mass ratio hypothesis)correlated negatively with EMF,whereas both Rao''s quadratic entropy(representing the niche complementarity hypothesis)and aboveground biomass(representing the vegetation quantity hypothesis)correlated positively but insignifcantly with EMF.These biodiversity-EMF relationships highlight the fragility and instability of drylands relative to forest ecasystems.Concuions:The findings from this study serve as important reference points to understand the ris of soil acidification in arid regions and its impacts on biodiversity-EMF relationships.
Lan Du;Shengchuan Tian;Nan Zhao;Bin Zhang;Xiaohan Mu;Lisong Tang;Xinjun Zheng;Yan Li;
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology,Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Urumqi,830011,Xinjiang,China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100049,China Fukang Station of Desert Ecology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Fukang,831505,Xinjiang,ChinaState Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology,Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Urumqi,830011,Xinjiang,China Fukang Station of Desert Ecology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Fukang,831505,Xinjiang,ChinaState Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology,Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Urumqi,830011,Xinjiang,China Fukang Station of Desert Ecology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Fukang,831505,Xinjiang,China State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture,Zhejiang A and F University,Hangzhou,311300,Zhejiang,China
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Soil acidification riskBiodiversityEcosystem multifunctionalityNiche complementarity hypothesisMass ratio hypothesisVegetation quantity hypothesis
《Forest Ecosystems》 2024 (002)
P.162-171 / 10
financially supported by the third xinjiang scientific expedition program (grant no.2022xjkk0901);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.XDA2006030102);the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(No.42171068 and No.42330503)。
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