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A change in the vegetation of UK moorland from Calluna vulgaris-dominated heath to Molinia caerulea- or Nardus stricta-dominated grassland is frequently deemed undesirable on economic and biodiversity grounds. Moorland vegetation restoration is an increasingly practiced management option. However there has been little research on the effectiveness of such management for aiding the restoration of other aspects of moorland biodiversity such as associated insect populations.We sampled Hemiptera and Lepidoptera assemblages from restored, degraded and C. vulgaris-dominated (target) moorland at eight restoration sites in England and Scotland. Vegetation assemblages and additional environmental variables were sampled at the same locations.Vegetation restoration aided the reassembly of moorland insects to a variable extent. Hemiptera restoration success was greatest at mechanically restored sites dominated by C. vulgaris. In addition to treatment, latitude best explained variation in the Hemiptera assemblage. A range of plant species, all either dwarf shrubs or graminoids, acted as further determinants. Lepidoptera restoration success was correlated most closely with the success of restoring the full diversity of the vegetation assemblage and was highest at sites restored by grazing control.The results demonstrate that vegetation restoration brings wider biodiversity benefits and that the form these take may depend on the restoration method used and consequent characteristics of the resultant vegetation assemblage. 相似文献
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Upland heather moors are high priority biotopes for conservation in Britain, but are under threat from a number of sources. One such threat is a change from a vegetation dominated by dwarf shrubs, mainly Calluna vulgaris, to a grassland dominated by Molinia caerulea. Restoration of a dwarf shrub community has proved problematic with studies showing that herbicide use may be necessary to control Molinia. Previously the non-selective herbicide, glyphosate, has been recommended, but this herbicide may damage Calluna and other moorland species severely. Here, we tested a range of selective herbicides (graminicides) for use in an herbicide-based conservation strategy under field conditions. Two selective herbicides, propaquizafop and quizalofop-ethyl, gave a short-term check to Molinia and another, cycloxydim, provided a reduction for at least 1 year, but this effect disappeared after 3 years. Damage to Calluna was less than that caused by glyphosate, and the selective herbicides had little effect on other moorland species present. Our findings suggest that selective herbicides have a potential role in reducing Molinia during moorland restoration, although follow-up applications, and appropriate moorland management, will also be needed. 相似文献
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Across large areas of upland Britain Molinia caerulea and Nardus stricta are replacing Calluna vulgaris as the dominant plant species of the vegetation assemblage. Associated changes in the composition of the whole plant assemblage and a phytophagous insect group, the Hemiptera, were investigated. Vegetation and hemipteran assemblages were sampled at six moorland sites in northern England and Scotland. Sampling at each site was carried out in Calluna vulgaris-dominated areas and grass-dominated areas that had previously been dominated by C. vulgaris. Vegetation assemblages of heath and grass sites differed significantly even when species by which sites were selected for sampling (C. vulgaris, M. caerulea and N. stricta) were removed from the analysis with the highest species richness in dry grassland sites. Hemipteran assemblages differed significantly between heath and grass sites with greater species richness also being in grass sites. Plant species composition was the most important explanatory variable of hemipteran assemblages with temperature, latitude, soil loss on ignition and vegetation height also explaining a significant proportion of the variation. Overall a range of vegetation composition and structural variables explained 40.8% of variation in the Hemiptera species data with ranges of soil and biogeographic variables explaining an additional 8.7%.This research demonstrates that the replacement of one dominant plant species by another is associated with a change in other aspects of moorland biodiversity. In particular the loss of C. vulgaris actually leads to an increase in the species richness of Hemiptera and plants although the number of specialist species declines. 相似文献
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The maps of vegetation in the northern Peak District given by Moss (1913) suggest that there were then the equivalent of 154 km2 of moorland dominated by heather and bilberry. At present, the same area has the equivalent of only 99 km2 of this moorland, a loss of 36%. Sheep numbers in the hill parishes trebled between 1930 and 1976, and the changes in vegetation are consistent with those produced elsewhere, experimentally, by sheep grazing. It is considered therefore that these changes are cause and effect. The repercussions on wildlife of this loss of moorland are largely undocumented, but red grouse stocks seem to have declined to about a third of their 1930s level. 相似文献
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Enclosure experiments have been carried out in two shallow acidified moorland pools in order to study the effects of liming on the water chemistry. The addition of buffering substances (sodium bicarbonate and calcium chloride or powdered marlstone) to enclosures in the Ven bij Schaijk, an oligotrophic acidified moorland pool with a mineral sediment, did not demonstrate internal eutrophication. After addition of NaHCO3 and CaCl2 the pH and alkalinity increased and all macronutrient concentrations, such as that of phosphate, remained low. After treatment with powdered marlstone, there was only a slight increase of pH and alkalinity, due to the slow weathering of marlstone. The alkalinity in this moorland pool remained more stable on a mineral sandy substrate than on an organic substrate, probably as a result of a higher acid release from the organic sediment. In enclosures in the Padvindersven, an eutrophied, acidified moorland pool with an organic gyttja-type of sediment, internal eutrophication took place after adding buffering substances. The phosphate concentration and turbidity of the water increased significantly after treatments with NaHCO3 and CaCl2 as well as with powdered marlstone. The acid release was even higher than from the organic sediment from the Ven bij Schaijk. It was concluded from these experiments that in case of the Ven bij Schaijk, liming with marlstone would be a sufficient way to restore the original water chemistry. In the Padvindersven, however, recovery of the non acidified poorly buffered conditions is only possible by liming in combination with the removal of the organic top layer of the sediment. 相似文献
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An analysis is undertaken to examine the potential impacts of a global climate change on patterns of potential terrestrial C storage and resulting fluxes between terrestrial and atmospheric pools. A bioclimatic model relating the current distribution of vegetation to global climate patterns is used to examine the potential impacts of a global climate change on the global distribution of vegetation. Climate change scenarios are based on the predictions of two general circulation model equilibrium simulations for a 2XCO2 atmosphere. Current estimates of C reserves in the vegetation types and associated soils are then used to calculate changes in potential terrestrial C storage under the two climate change scenarios. Results suggest a potential negative feedback to increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2, with the potential for terrestrial C storage increasing under both scenarios. These results represent an equilibrium analysis, assuming the vegetation and soils have tracked the spatial changes in climate patterns. An approach for providing an estimate of the transient response between the two equilibria (i.e., current and 2XCO2 climates) is presented. The spatial transitions in vegetation predicted by the equilibrium analyses are classified as to the processes controlling the transition (eg., succession, dieback, species immigration). Estimates of the transfer rates related to these processes are then used to estimate the temporal dynamics of the vegetation/soils change and the associated C pools. Results suggest that although the equilibrium analyses show an increased potential for C storage under the climate change, in the transient case the terrestrial surface acts as a source of CO2 over the first 50 to 100 yrs following climate change. 相似文献
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David A. Patrick Aram J.K. Calhoun Malcolm L. Hunter Jr. 《Biological conservation》2008,141(3):807-814
Current silvicultural practices in the northeastern United States create diverse vegetation patterns and microclimates that provide a mosaic of terrestrial habitats for amphibian species. We inferred patterns of habitat use by the spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, by studying colonization of four newly created breeding pools each surrounded by four different forest treatments: a control, partial cut, clearcut with coarse woody debris (CWD) removed, and clearcut with CWD retained. Created pools were rapidly colonized, indicating that breeding salamanders readily bred in new pools they encountered. This suggests that in our study area pool-specific philopatry and site fidelity may not be high and that particular pools may not define local breeding populations. In the experimental silvicultural treatments, juvenile salamanders preferred the control forest to the clearcuts, whereas adult salamanders showed no significant preferences among the treatments. Although silvicultural practices such as clearcutting may reduce juvenile movement between pools, inter-pool movement by adults that are more tolerant of habitat change may ameliorate this effect in our study area. If juveniles are the primary life-history stage dispersing between local populations (i.e., moving between more isolated groups of pools), however, there is potential for clearcutting to reduce the connectivity between local populations. 相似文献
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Two processes contribute to changes of the δ13C signature in soil pools: 13C fractionation per se and preferential microbial utilization of various substrates with different δ13C signature. These two processes were disentangled by simultaneously tracking δ13C in three pools - soil organic matter (SOM), microbial biomass, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) - and in CO2 efflux during incubation of 1) soil after C3-C4 vegetation change, and 2) the reference C3 soil.The study was done on the Ap horizon of a loamy Gleyic Cambisol developed under C3 vegetation. Miscanthus giganteus - a perennial C4 plant - was grown for 12 years, and the δ13C signature was used to distinguish between ‘old’ SOM (>12 years) and ‘recent’ Miscanthus-derived C (<12 years). The differences in δ13C signature of the three C pools and of CO2 in the reference C3 soil were less than 1‰, and only δ13C of microbial biomass was significantly different compared to other pools. Nontheless, the neglecting of isotopic fractionation can cause up to 10% of errors in calculations. In contrast to the reference soil, the δ13C of all pools in the soil after C3-C4 vegetation change was significantly different. Old C contributed only 20% to the microbial biomass but 60% to CO2. This indicates that most of the old C was decomposed by microorganisms catabolically, without being utilized for growth. Based on δ13C changes in DOC, CO2 and microbial biomass during 54 days of incubation in Miscanthus and reference soils, we concluded that the main process contributing to changes of the δ13C signature in soil pools was preferential utilization of recent versus old C (causing an up to 9.1‰ shift in δ13C values) and not 13C fractionation per se.Based on the δ13C changes in SOM, we showed that the estimated turnover time of old SOM increased by two years per year in 9 years after the vegetation change. The relative increase in the turnover rate of recent microbial C was 3 times faster than that of old C indicating preferential utilization of available recent C versus the old C.Combining long-term field observations with soil incubation reveals that the turnover time of C in microbial biomass was 200 times faster than in total SOM. Our study clearly showed that estimating the residence time of easily degradable microbial compounds and biomarkers should be done at time scales reflecting microbial turnover times (days) and not those of bulk SOM turnover (years and decades). This is necessary because the absence of C reutilization is a prerequisite for correct estimation of SOM turnover. We conclude that comparing the δ13C signature of linked pools helps calculate the relative turnover of old and recent pools. 相似文献
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《European Journal of Soil Biology》1999,35(1):39-43
At Ile de la Possession (Iles Crozet), an Indian Ocean sub-Antarctic island, the two typical habitats are the fell-field above 150 m in altitude and the moorland in low altitude zones. The boundary between fell-field and moorland is usually very sharp (less than 5 m). This paper presents the first full-year pitfall trapping study of insect activity on both sides of this boundary, with particular reference to the habitat distribution and annual distribution of surface activity of the two endemic carabids of Iles Crozet: Amblystogenium pacificum Putzeys and A. minimum Luff. A. pacificum was abundant in moorland (399 specimens) while A. minimum was vanishingly rare (three specimens). In fell-field in contrast, both species were taken in similar although small numbers (86 and 92, respectively). A. pacificum remained active in the moorland for the whole year, with no winter reduction in trap catches. Pitfall trapping results also showed no surface activity by A. pacificum in winter on fell-field, where both sexes here likely maintain the required level of both feeding and mate encounter in the inter-stone crevices of the multi-layered stony part of the fellfield. 相似文献
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Uffe N. Nielsen Graham H.R. Osler Colin D. Campbell David F.R.P. Burslem René van der Wal 《Pedobiologia》2012,55(2):83-91
Soils support highly diverse communities, but due to the great spatial complexity at very fine scales and small size of soil organisms, our knowledge of what structures belowground communities remains limited. We used a spatially nested sampling regime (distances between samples of 0.06–122 m) to develop an understanding of the relationship between soil mite and microbial community composition and properties of vegetation and underlying soil within two habitats: birch woodland and heather moorland. We found that variation in community composition of all four biotic groups investigated (Oribatida, Mesostigmata, fungi and bacteria – thus representing multiple trophic levels) was related to variation in soil properties and vegetation, but also space. These three factors (i.e. vegetation, soil properties and space) accounted for 17–36% of the variation in community composition of the biotic groups. The remaining, rather large, proportion of unexplained variation in community composition (64–87%) is likely to represent either random variation or variation related to unmeasured variables that are not spatially auto-correlated. Soil properties generally explained more variance in belowground communities than could vegetation composition. This should not be interpreted as evidence that soil properties exert a greater influence on belowground communities than vegetation composition per se, as the vegetation composition within a habitat is likely to vary at a larger spatial scale than the soil properties we measured. Vegetation composition had stronger explanatory power in the birch woodland and was more strongly related to fungal community composition than that of any other biotic group, particularly in heather moorland. This relationship may reflect the strong association between plants and their fungal symbionts and pathogens. We conclude that both vegetation composition and variation in soil properties influence belowground communities. However, the relative importance of these two factors depends on both habitat and the type of organism being studied. 相似文献
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Carbon isotopic composition of soils subjected to C3-C4 vegetation change is a suitable tool for the estimation of C turnover in soil organic matter (SOM) pools. We hypothesized that the biological availability of SOM pools is inversely proportional to their thermal stability. Soil samples from a field plot with 10.5 years of cultivation of the C4 plant Miscanthus×gigantheus and from a reference plot under C3 grassland vegetation were analysed by thermogravimetry coupled with differential scanning calorimetry (TG-DSC). According to differential weight losses (dTG) and energy release or consumption (DSC), five SOM pools with increasing thermal stability were distinguished: (I) 20-190 °C, (II) 190-310 °C, (III) 310-390 °C, (IV) 390-480 °C, and (V) 480-1000 °C. Their δ13C values were analysed by EA-IRMS. The weight losses in pool I were connected with water evaporation, since no significant C losses were measured and δ13C values remained unchanged. The δ13C of pools II and III in soil samples under Miscanthus were closer to the δ13C of the Miscanthus plant tissues (−11.8‰) compared to the thermally stable SOM pool V (−19.5‰). The portion of the Miscanthus-derived C4-C in total SOM in 0-5 cm reached 55.4% in the 10.5 years. The C4-C contribution in pool II was 60% and decreased down to 6% in pool V. The mean residence times (MRT) of SOM pools II, III, and IV were similar (11.6, 12.2, and 15.4 years, respectively), while pool V had a MRT of 163 years. Therefore, we concluded that the biological availability of thermal labile SOM pools (<480 °C) was higher, than that of the thermal stable pool decomposed above 480 °C. However, the increase of SOM stability with rising temperature was not gradual. Therefore, the applicability of the TG-DSC for the separation of SOM pools with different biological availability is limited. 相似文献
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Trevor J.C. Beebee 《Biological conservation》1981,21(2):127-139
Ponds on about 80 km2 of farmland in Sussex were investigated with regard to breeding amphibians. The survey covered five different geological strata and included 60 ponds (out of a total of more than 200) marked on 1:25000 ordnance maps. Eighteen of these ponds were found on inspection not to exist; the remainder were characterised with respect to surface area, depth, pH, ionic score, aquatic vegetation, fish fauna and surrounding terrestrial habitats as well as for amphibian species. 14 pools contained amphibians; Triturus vulgaris was the most widespread (9 ponds) closely followed by T. helveticus (8 ponds). T. cristatus occurred at 5 sites, Rana temporaria at 2 and Bufo bufo not at all. The 2 frog sites were very shallow pools on pasture/woodland interfaces; the ideal newt pond had no fish, was 0·5–1·0 m deep and < 200 m2 in surface area with 5–50% aquatic vegetation cover and a low ionic score (< 400 parts/106). Callitriche-containing ponds were particularly favoured, and with terrestrial habitat there was a requirement for a scrub or woodland component. 相似文献
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S. Hughes D. A. Norris P. A. Stevens B. Reynolds T. G. Williams C. Woods 《Water, air, and soil pollution》1994,77(1-2):115-139
The influence of forest development on soil solution and surface drainage water aluminium chemistry was investigated in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) plantations in Wales. Comparisons with semi-natural grassland and moorland sites are described. A highly significant positive relationship was shown between increasing forest age and soilwater aluminium concentrations in the B horizons. Shortterm/episodic peaks in Al concentrations were strongly related to incidences of high concentrations of neutral, marine-derived, salts in the soilwater. Nitrification may be an important factor in soil acidification and the mobilization of Al in soilwaters beneath the older mature-forest plantations in Wales. Labile monomeric Al concentrations were largest in surface waters draining the oldest forestry plantations compared with younger forest catchments and moorland, although response to discharge of soilwater acidity to the surface waters at individual sites was dependent on the acid neutralizing capacity of the groundwater component of the surface waters. 相似文献
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S.M. Smart R.G.H. Bunce M. LeDuc L.C. Maskell K. Thompson 《Biological conservation》2005,124(3):355-371
Presence of higher plant species was recorded in 1455 permanently marked quadrats located across Britain in 1978, 1990 and 1998 in a stratified, random sample of 259 1 km squares. Significant increases and decreases in frequency of each species were summarised as changes in the representation of simple traits, each of which had an established relationship with varying levels of fertility or disturbance. By testing the null hypothesis that the trait values represented among increasing or decreasing species were a random draw from the 1978 species pool, we determined the consistency of botanical change with changes in land-use in different vegetation types and landscape locations across Britain.Overall, 63% of significant changes in species occupancy were decreases and 37% increases. Trait changes were largely consistent with the impact of increased nutrient availability across vegetation types associated with inherently low fertility, such as infertile grassland, heath, bog and moorland. Linear habitats in lowland Britain saw trait changes consistent with secondary succession. Although trait changes were highly consistent with eutrophication in upland vegetation, the identity of the changing species left open the possibility that increased N deposition, sheep grazing intensity and local improvement could all have played a part.Recent changes in common plant species across Britain suggest that objectives for large-scale restoration and maintenance of plant communities must address four problems: (a) the increasing scarcity of stress-tolerant species in lowland species pools, (b) exploitation and maintenance of species populations on habitat fragments and linear features in the lowlands, (c) the spread and persistence of generalist species in upland Britain, (d) systemic nutrient enrichment in both lowland and upland environments. 相似文献
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In the Yucatan, cenotes or water sinkholes formed by the dissolution of limestone and surrounded with a characteristic dense layer of heterogeneous vegetation, are the main sources of water for plant and animal assemblages. We investigated their importance to bats by comparing the assemblage structure and diversity between tropical forest and pastureland, with and without cenotes. We set ground level mist nets, sub-canopy nets and harp traps for 96 nights and caught 2819 bats of 26 species and six families. Forest had a greater bat species diversity and abundance than pastureland, as well as rare and threatened species. In forest, sites with and without cenotes had a similar bat assemblage structure and diversity, whereas in pastureland there was a greater species diversity and abundance and number of rare and threatened species at cenotes than sites without cenotes. Chrotopterus auritus and Micronycteris schmidtorum, both threatened in Mexico, and Eptesicus furinalis, were exclusively captured at cenotes. We suggest that it may be the vegetation around cenotes rather than the water bodies per se that attracts many bat species in pastureland. Cenotes are threatened by nitrate contamination from untreated domestic and animal waste and fertilizers and the removal of vegetation to allow livestock access to water. In Yucatan’s agricultural landscapes, protection of cenotes and their characteristic vegetation is key not only for bat conservation but also because they represent potential seed sources for the regeneration of the lowland forest, in which bats play key roles as pollinators and seed dispersers. 相似文献
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《Applied soil ecology》2011,48(3):160-166
We studied the effect of water table on CO2 and CH4 fluxes at different time scales in the littoral zone of Lake Obuchi, a brackish lake in northern Japan. The vegetation formed three distinct zones along the water table gradient, two dominated by emergent aquatic macrophytes (the Phragmites australis-dominated zone and the Juncus yokoscensis-dominated zone) and one dominated by terrestrial macrophytes (Miscanthus sinensis and Cirsium inundatum-dominated zone). To clarify the impact of variations in water table on monthly and yearly summed CO2 and CH4 fluxes, we examined the relationship between water table and the ratio of observed flux to calculated flux, whereby the calculated flux was based solely on the exponential relationship between flux and soil temperature for each gas. This study revealed that the impact of variations in water table on monthly and yearly summed CO2 and CH4 fluxes differed markedly between the vegetation zones. By taking the temporal change in water table into account in the estimation of both the CO2 and CH4 fluxes, the monthly summed CO2 and CH4 fluxes in the Phragmites-zone were markedly greater in every month of the year compared to estimation based on temperature alone. In the Juncus-zone, the effect of water table on monthly summed CO2 and CH4 fluxes differed between months. In addition, the magnitude of water-table effects controlling monthly summed CO2 and CH4 fluxes differed with atmospheric conditions, i.e., between the pressure-falling and low-pressure phase on the one hand and other pressure phases on the other hand. After weighting all the impacts of temporal changes in water table on fluxes, the yearly summed CO2 and CH4 fluxes showed a 1.26–6.64-fold increase compared with not taking water table effects into account, and the increase differed among the three vegetation zones. 相似文献
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G.R. BrassardStanley Frost Ph.D Marshall LairdO.A. Olsen Ph.D D.H. Steele Ph.D 《Biological conservation》1971
In 1970, with the cooperation of the Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Limited, an intensive biological research programme was commenced in the Churchill Falls area. The initial objective is to study the spray zone of the Falls before it is altered by the diversion of the Churchill River. Spray from the Falls is apparently responsible for the maintenance of three spray pools and for the enriched flora and vegetation in the spray zone, which contains an abundance of moisture-loving plants. The vegetation shows abrupt changes with exposure to spray and there is a general retardation of the phenology. The forest in the spray zone is luxuriant in comparison with that outside the spray's influence. Bryophytes are the dominant cryptogams of the zone and have a high percentage fertility there. Permanent quadrats have been set up to monitor succession in typical sprayzone bryophyte communities. Work has also begun on black-fly pathogens and parasites. An intensified research programme is being continued in the spray zone and surrounding area by Memorial University through 1971 and hopefully in subsequent years. 相似文献
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Ian D. Leith Lucy J. Sheppard Carole E.R. Pitcairn J. Neil Cape Paul W. Hill Valerie H. Kennedy Y. Sim Tang Ron I. Smith David Fowler 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2001,130(1-4):1043-1048
Increases in N deposition (wet and dry) have been associated with a decline in semi-natural plant communities, adapted for growth on nutrient poor soils in the UK and Europe. The impacts of N deposition applied as either wet NH4 + or gaseous NH3 on vegetation (7 species) from acid moorland in SE Scotland were compared in a dose-response study. Wet N deposition at 0, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 kg N ha?1 y?1 was applied as NH4Cl, and dry deposition as gaseous NH3 (2, 6, 20, 50, 90 µg NH3 m?3) under controlled conditions in open-top chambers. A strong linear dose-response relationship (p<0.05) was found between foliar N content in all seven plant species and applied NH4?N. However, in the NH3 treatment, only C. vulgaris and P. commune showed a significant response to increasing N additions. NH3 was found to increase the rate of water loss in Calluna in both autumn and winter by comparison with wet deposition. For Eriophorum vaginatum, the NH3 and NH4 + treatments showed significant N dose response relationships for biomass. A significant increase in above ground biomass, proportional to the added N, was found for Narthecium ossifragum when N was applied as NH3 compared to NH4 +. 相似文献
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人工修复措施对严重退化红壤固碳效益的影响 总被引：6，自引：1，他引：5
固碳效益是侵蚀退化地水土保持效益的重要组成部分,其对全面评价生态修复意义重大.从人工促进生态修复林分固碳功能出发,以裸露地为对照,不同人工修复措施林分为研究对象,对其碳储量及固碳价值进行了研究.结果表明,人工修复显著增加了植被碳库和土壤碳库的碳储量,强烈干扰马尾松、竹节沟马尾松、种草竹节沟马尾松和竹节沟湿地松植被碳库分别为6.12,6.83,8.20和32.69 t/hm2,其土壤碳库分别为裸露地的1.16,1.37,1.60和2.71倍,固碳总价值分别比裸露地增加了0.36,0.60,0.87和2.78倍. 相似文献