植物生态学报 ›› 2024, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (7): 858-871.DOI: 10.17521/cjpe.2023.0358  cstr: 32100.14.cjpe.2023.0358

所属专题: 植物功能性状

• 研究论文 • 上一篇    下一篇

基于种内与种间性状变异的放牧过滤作用及其尺度效应

秦嘉晨1,2, 王欢2,3, 朱江2,4, 王扬2, 田晨1,2, 白永飞2, 杨培志1,*(), 郑淑霞2,*()()   

  1. 1西北农林科技大学草业与草原学院, 陕西杨凌 712100
    2中国科学院植物研究所植被与环境变化国家重点实验室, 北京 100093
    3山东农业大学生命科学学院, 山东泰安 271001
    4内蒙古大学生态与环境学院, 呼和浩特 010021
  • 收稿日期:2023-12-01 接受日期:2024-05-10 出版日期:2024-07-20 发布日期:2024-05-10
  • 通讯作者: * (杨培志,yangpeizhi@126.com; 郑淑霞,zsx@ibcas.ac.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-6818-3796)
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(32192461);国家自然科学基金(32192461和32371779(32371779)

Grazing filtering effect based on intraspecific and interspecific trait variation and its scale effects

QIN Jia-Chen1,2, WANG Huan2,3, ZHU Jiang2,4, WANG Yang2, TIAN Chen1,2, BAI Yong-Fei2, YANG Pei-Zhi1,*(), ZHENG Shu-Xia2,*()()   

  1. 1College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China
    2State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
    3College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong 271001, China
    4School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
  • Received:2023-12-01 Accepted:2024-05-10 Online:2024-07-20 Published:2024-05-10
  • Contact: * (YANG Pei-Zhi,yangpeizhi@126.com;ZHENG Shu-Xia,zsx@ibcas.ac.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-6818-3796)
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(32192461);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32371779)

摘要:

放牧是草原生态系统最主要的人为干扰因素, 也是草原群落构建的重要“外部”过滤因子。然而, 关于放牧强度对草原群落构建的作用机制, 尤其是在这一过程中种内性状分化和种间性状差异的相对作用目前的了解还比较有限。为此, 该研究利用在内蒙古典型草原建立的长期放牧控制实验平台, 采用土芯法(环刀)取样, 系统分析了植物群落地上(株丛、叶片)和地下(根系)性状对放牧的响应。通过环刀-小区和小区-样地两个推绎尺度, 研究了基于种内与种间性状变异的放牧强度过滤作用。研究结果表明: (1)随着放牧强度的增加, 大多数地上性状的种内和种间变异呈增加趋势, 而根系性状的种内和种间变异则显著降低。(2)随着放牧强度的增加, 在环刀尺度上, 基于地上性状的种内变异和种间差异的放牧过滤强度先增大后减小, 在中度放牧时达到最大; 然而基于地下性状的种内变异和种间差异的放牧过滤强度逐渐增加。在小区尺度上, 基于地上性状的种内变异和种间差异的放牧过滤强度呈线性降低趋势; 而基于地下性状种内变异的放牧过滤强度增加, 基于种间差异的放牧过滤强度减弱。(3)随着空间尺度增大, 放牧强度对草原群落构建的影响由基于种间性状差异的过滤作用逐渐转变为基于种内性状变异的过滤作用, 此过程受土壤水分和养分的调控。这些研究结果为深入揭示放牧对草原群落构建的调控机制提供了科学依据, 也为正确理解长期放牧导致的植被景观异质性和尺度效应评估提供了重要参考。该研究中叶片和根系性状主要考虑了结构性状, 因此具有一定的局限性, 未来研究可结合叶片和根系碳氮含量等化学性状指标, 以全面理解放牧对植物地上、地下性状变异的调控机制。

关键词: 植物功能性状, 种内变异, 种间变异, 群落构建, 放牧强度, 环境过滤, 尺度效应, 典型草原

Abstract:

Aims Grazing is the primary human disturbance in grassland ecosystems and serves as a key external filtering factor in the grassland community assembly. However, the specific mechanisms about the influence of grazing intensity on community assembly in grasslands, particularly the relative roles of intraspecific and interspecific trait variation, remain unclear. This study systematically analyzed the responses of aboveground (shoots and leaves) and belowground (roots) plant traits to grazing, and examined the filtering effect of grazing intensity by considering intraspecific and interspecific trait variation at two spatial scales: from the auger coring to plot scale, and from the plot to site scale.
Methods In this study, we conducted field investigation based on a long-term grazing manipulation experiment in a typical steppe in Nei Mongol, China. Samples of plant aboveground parts and root systems were acquired at the individual plant level using the auger coring method. The filtering effects of grazing intensity were assessed at both the auger coring and plot scales. Furthermore, we explored the regulatory mechanisms of soil moisture and nutrients on grazing filtration.
Important findings (1) Intraspecific and interspecific variations in most aboveground traits tended to increase with higher grazing intensity, they were opposite in root traits. (2) At the auger coring scale, the filtering intensity of grazing based on intraspecific variation and interspecific variation of aboveground traits initially increased, peaked at moderate grazing intensity, and then decreased. However, the filtering intensity based on intraspecific and interspecific variations of root traits consistently increased. At the plot scale, the filtering intensity of grazing based on intraspecific and interspecific variations of aboveground traits linearly decreased; the grazing filtration intensity based on intraspecific variation of roots traits increased, while the grazing filtration intensity based on interspecific differences weakened. (3) As the spatial scale increased, the influence of grazing intensity on grassland community assembly shifted from filtering based on interspecific trait variation to filtering based on intraspecific trait variation. This shift was regulated by soil moisture and nutrient availability. These findings provide new insights into the regulatory mechanisms of grazing on grassland community assembly and provide important bases for understanding vegetation landscape heterogeneity and assessing scale effects resulting from long-term grazing. There were certain limitations in this study, where leaf and root traits mainly focused on structural characteristics. we could integrate chemical traits, such as leaf and root carbon and nitrogen contents, to comprehensively exploring the regulatory mechanisms of grazing on the variation of aboveground and belowground plant traits in future studies.

Key words: plant functional trait, intraspecific variation, interspecific variation, community assembly, grazing intensity, environmental filtering, scale effect, typical steppe