Leaf physiological and morphological constraints of water-use efficiency in C3 plants

P Petrík, A Petek-Petrik, M Mukarram, B Schuldt… - AoB Plants, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The increasing evaporative demand due to climate change will significantly affect the
balance of carbon assimilation and water losses of plants worldwide. The development of …

Above-and belowground linkages during extreme moisture excess: Leveraging knowledge from natural ecosystems to better understand implications for row-crop …

CD Sprunger, A Lindsey… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Above-and belowground linkages are responsible for some of the most important ecosystem
processes in unmanaged terrestrial systems including net primary production …

Non-growing/growing season non-uniform-warming increases precipitation use efficiency but reduces its temporal stability in an alpine meadow

F Han, C Yu, G Fu - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
There are still uncertainties on the impacts of season-non-uniform-warming on plant
precipitation use efficiency (PUE) and its temporal stability (PUEstability) in alpine areas …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-soil warming shifts species composition without affecting diversity, biomass and productivity of the plant community in an alpine meadow

W Qin, Y Chen, X Wang, H Zhao, Y Hou, Q Zhang… - Fundamental …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The structure and function of plant communities in alpine meadow ecosystems are
potentially susceptible to climate warming. Here, we utilized a unique field manipulation …

[HTML][HTML] Species richness and dominant functional groups enhance aboveground biomass, with no effect on belowground biomass in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau's …

ML Hossain, J Li - Ecological Informatics, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Understanding the role of plant diversity in maintaining grassland ecosystem functioning is
of great importance in ecological research. Despite decades of research, ecologists have …

[HTML][HTML] Sustained increases in soil respiration accompany increased carbon input under long-term warming across global grasslands

Y Yan, J Wang, D Tian, Y Luo, X Xue, F Peng, JS He… - Geoderma, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Respiratory effluxes of carbon (C) from the soil to the atmosphere are expected to rise with
temperature, potentially intensifying future climate warming. However, whether and how this …

Threshold response of ecosystem water use efficiency to soil water in an alpine meadow

T Li, D Tian, Y He, R Zhang, J Wang, F Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) is a coupled index of carbon (gross ecosystem
productivity, GEP) and water fluxes (transpiration, Tr or evapotranspiration, ET), reflecting …

Precipitation-induced biomass enhancement and differential allocation in Inner Mongolia's herbaceous and shrub communities

X Li, Y Hu, Z Song, P Cong, H Cheng, X Zheng… - Science of The Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in precipitation patterns induced by global climate change have profound
implications for the structure and function of grassland ecosystems. However, the …

Precipitation differentially regulates above-and belowground productivity in response to nitrogen enrichment in an alpine meadow

J Peng, R Zhang, F Ma, Q Quan, J Liao, Q Zhou… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The fertilization effect of nitrogen (N) deposition on global productivity may be limited by
water availability due to the coupling effect of N and water on ecosystem carbon cycling …

Shifting biomass allocation and light limitation co-regulate the temporal stability of an alpine meadow under eutrophication

H Guo, Q Quan, S Niu, T Li, Y He, Y Fu, J Li… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Eutrophication generally promotes but destabilizes grassland productivity. Under
eutrophication, plants tend to decrease biomass allocation to roots but increase …