Track 2-11: Plant Nutrition and Nutrient Cycling
Description
The mass ratio of C:N:P (Carbon: Nitrogen: Phosphorus) in plant tissue can reflect the utilization efficiency of these basic elements (Piao et al. 2005). Additionally, the N:P ratio in plant tissue can be used to detect nutrient limita-tions as N, P or both are most often the driving force for ecosystem development and change (Koerselman and Meuleman 1996). N deposition has been increasing dramatically and it has great influence on the productivity, stability and nutrient supply conditions in the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in recent years (Wang and Yu 2008). Many scholars have focused on the C:N:P stoichiometry of individual plant or the whole plant communities which were based on weighted average of important key species and their element contents, rather than by collecting bio-mass samples of all the plants in the community level. Moreover, less is known of the effects of N deposition on C:N:P stoichiometry characteristics of plant communities, especially the grasslands of the Loess Plateau. An experiment was set to study the effects of N deposition on C, N,P stoichiometry characteristics by simulating N deposition by way of N addition.
Citation
Su, Shulan; Li, Xudong; Niu, Decao; Wen, Haiyan; Han, Huige; Wu, Caixia; and Fu, Hua, "Plant C, N, P Stoichiometry Was Effected with Nitrogen Deposition on the Loess Plateau, China" (2020). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 34.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/2-11/34
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Plant C, N, P Stoichiometry Was Effected with Nitrogen Deposition on the Loess Plateau, China
The mass ratio of C:N:P (Carbon: Nitrogen: Phosphorus) in plant tissue can reflect the utilization efficiency of these basic elements (Piao et al. 2005). Additionally, the N:P ratio in plant tissue can be used to detect nutrient limita-tions as N, P or both are most often the driving force for ecosystem development and change (Koerselman and Meuleman 1996). N deposition has been increasing dramatically and it has great influence on the productivity, stability and nutrient supply conditions in the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in recent years (Wang and Yu 2008). Many scholars have focused on the C:N:P stoichiometry of individual plant or the whole plant communities which were based on weighted average of important key species and their element contents, rather than by collecting bio-mass samples of all the plants in the community level. Moreover, less is known of the effects of N deposition on C:N:P stoichiometry characteristics of plant communities, especially the grasslands of the Loess Plateau. An experiment was set to study the effects of N deposition on C, N,P stoichiometry characteristics by simulating N deposition by way of N addition.
