Negative impacts of plant diversity loss on carbon sequestration exacerbate over time in grasslands

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Wang, Chao

作者： Wang, Chao;Li, Xiaona;Zhang, Weiwei;Zhao, Chunqiao;Li, Cui;Tang, Yujia

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关键词： plant diversity; carbon attributes; experimental duration; complementary effects; grasslands

期刊名称：ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS （ 影响因子：6.793； 五年影响因子：7.801 ）

ISSN： 1748-9326

年卷期： 2020 年 15 卷 10 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Positive relationships between plant species diversity and carbon attributes have been observed in grasslands, but synthesis studies of how plant diversity affects the carbon balance of grasslands and how the response ratio changes over time both remain limited. By conducting a global meta-analysis with 811 paired observations of plant mixtures and monocultures from 83 studies in natural and manipulated grasslands, we investigated the impacts of plant diversity on six carbon attributes, its interaction with experimental duration, and the changes in carbon balance under different plant diversity loss scenarios in the future. We found that the aboveground biomass (AGB), belowground biomass (BGB), total biomass (TB), soil organic carbon (SOC), soil respiration (Rs), and heterotrophic respiration (Rh) significantly increased in the plant mixtures, and the response ratio for all carbon attributes increased logarithmically with species richness. We also found that the response ratio for all carbon attributes except Rs increased linearly with experimental duration. The increase in response ratio of AGB, BGB, TB, and SOC with species richness was more pronounced with the long-term experimental duration. Importantly, our results showed that the declines in carbon sequestration will be exacerbated by different plant diversity loss scenarios in the future. Our meta-analysis revealed that plant diversity loss has ubiquitous negative impacts on multiple carbon attributes in grasslands, underlined the interactive effects of plant diversity loss and experimental duration on carbon attributes, and suggested that the reduction of carbon storage in grasslands following biodiversity loss will be greater in the future.

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