ArticleScientific reports2016
Allometric biomass partitioning under nitrogen enrichment: Evidence from manipulative experiments around the world.
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- Soil Fungal Community Composition, Not Assembly Process, Was Altered by Nitrogen Addition and Precipitation Changes at an Alpine Steppe.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Precipitation and nitrogen addition enhance biomass allocation to aboveground in an alpine steppe.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Nitrogen fertilizer regulates soil respiration by altering the organic carbon storage in root and topsoil in alpine meadow of the north-eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Biomass Allocation in Response to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability: Insight From Experimental Manipulations ofFrontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- Differential responses of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration to nitrogen addition and precipitation changes in a Tibetan alpine steppe.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Drought effect on plant biomass allocation: A meta-analysis.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Allometric and optimal hypotheses have been widely used to explain biomass partitioning in response to resource changes for individual plants; however, little evidence has been reported from measurements at the community level across a broad geographic scale. This study assessed the nitrogen (N) effect on community-level root to shoot (R/S) ratios and biomass partitioning functions by synthesizing global manipulative experiments. Results showed that, in aggregate, N addition decreased the R/S ratios in various biomes. However, the scaling slopes of the allometric equations were not significantly altered by the N enrichment, possibly indicating that N-induced reduction of the R/S ratio is a consequence of allometric allocation as a function of increasing plant size rather than an optimal partitioning model. To further illustrate this point, we developed power function models to explore the relationships between aboveground and belowground biomass for various biomes; then, we generated the predicted root biomass from the observed shoot biomass and predicted R/S ratios. The comparison of predicted and observed N-induced changes of the R/S ratio revealed no significant differences between each other, supporting the allometric allocation hypothesis. These results suggest that allometry, rather than optimal allocation, explains the N-induced reduction in the R/S ratio across global biomes.
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