| Large-Scale Distribution of Molecular Components in Chinese Grassland Soils: The Influence of Input and Decomposition Processes | |
| Dai, Guohua1; Ma, Tian1,2; Zhu, Shanshan1,2; Liu, Zongguang1; Chen, Dima1; Bai, Yongfei1,2; Chen, Litong3; He, Jin-Sheng3,4; Zhu, Juntao5; Zhang, Yangjian2,5; Lue, Xiaotao6; Wang, Xiaobo6; Han, Xingguo1,2; Feng, Xiaojuan1,2 | |
| Corresponding Author | Feng, Xiaojuan(xfeng@ibcas.ac.cn) |
| 2018 | |
| Source Publication | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES
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| ISSN | 2169-8953 |
| Volume | 123Issue:1Pages:239-255 |
| Abstract | Chinese grasslands hold a third of the national soil organic carbon (OC) stocks but remain poorly investigated in terms of soil molecular components and their distribution patterns. Such information is important for understanding mechanisms governing grassland soil OC dynamics and its response to global changes. Here employing solvent-extractable compounds as a group of widely used biomarkers, we present a large-scale study on the distribution of different soil OC components (including plant- and microbial-derived carbohydrates and aliphatic and cyclic lipids) in the surface soils of Chinese grasslands, spanning from temperate grasslands in the arid/semiarid regions to alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We show that alpine grassland soils are more enriched with carbohydrates and plant-derived compounds relative to the temperate counterparts due to temperature-inhibited decomposition. While plant belowground biomass plays a key role in explaining the spatial variation of compounds in the alpine grasslands, climatic variables do in the temperate region. In particular, aliphatic lipids accumulate with increasing mean annual temperature in the temperate grasslands due to a preferential decay of labile soil OC, whereas they decrease in the alpine grasslands owing to dilution by an enhanced plant input of nonlipid components. Collectively, these results demonstrate different mechanisms governing the distribution of solvent-extractable compounds in grassland soils, with climate-mediated decomposition processes dominating in the temperate grasslands and plant inputs being more important in the alpine region. In the context of climate change, alterations to soil OC input and decomposition processes may have varied impacts on soil carbon cycling in these two regions. |
| Keyword | soil organic carbon biomarker Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Inner Mongolia aliphatic lipid carbohydrate |
| Funding Organization | Chinese National Key Development Program for Basic Research ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Thousand Young Talents Program of China |
| DOI | 10.1002/2017JG004233 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| Funding Project | Chinese National Key Development Program for Basic Research[2015CB954201] ; Chinese National Key Development Program for Basic Research[2016YFC0500701] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31370491] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41422304] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41503073] ; International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[151111KYSB20160014] ; Thousand Young Talents Program of China |
| WOS Research Area | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geology |
| WOS Subject | Environmental Sciences ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS ID | WOS:000425517800018 |
| Publisher | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.imr.ac.cn/handle/321006/127384 |
| Collection | 中国科学院金属研究所 |
| Corresponding Author | Feng, Xiaojuan |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Plateau Biol, Key Lab Adaptat & Evolut Plateau Biota, Xining, Qinghai, Peoples R China 4.Peking Univ, Dept Ecol, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, Key Lab Forest Ecol & Management, Shenyang, Liaoning, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Dai, Guohua,Ma, Tian,Zhu, Shanshan,et al. Large-Scale Distribution of Molecular Components in Chinese Grassland Soils: The Influence of Input and Decomposition Processes[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES,2018,123(1):239-255. |
| APA | Dai, Guohua.,Ma, Tian.,Zhu, Shanshan.,Liu, Zongguang.,Chen, Dima.,...&Feng, Xiaojuan.(2018).Large-Scale Distribution of Molecular Components in Chinese Grassland Soils: The Influence of Input and Decomposition Processes.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES,123(1),239-255. |
| MLA | Dai, Guohua,et al."Large-Scale Distribution of Molecular Components in Chinese Grassland Soils: The Influence of Input and Decomposition Processes".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES 123.1(2018):239-255. |
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