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DOI	10.7717/peerj.10986
	Soil fertility evaluation and spatial distribution of grasslands in Qilian Mountains Nature Reserve of eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
	Li, Qiang; Yang, Junyin; Guan, Wenhao; Liu, Zhigang; He, Guoxing; Zhang, Degang; Liu, Xiaoni
通讯作者	Liu, XN (corresponding author), Gansu Agr Univ, Coll Grassland Sci, Key Lab Grassland Ecosyst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou, Peoples R China.
来源期刊	PEERJ
ISSN	2167-8359
出版年	2021
卷号	9
英文摘要	The study assessed the overall soil characteristics of grasslands on Qilian Mountains and rated the soil nutrient status with classification standard of the second national soil survey of China. Nemerow index method was used to evaluate the soil fertility of different grassland types. GIS was used to analyze the spatial distribution of the soil nutrients and provided a database for the grassland's ecological protection and restoration. The study graded the soil organic matter (SOM), total N, and available K at level 2 (high) or above for most regions, available soil-P at level 4, while the soil bulk density, total porosity and pH were 0.77-1.32 g cm(-3), 35.36-58.83% and 7.63-8.54, respectively. The rank of comprehensive soil fertility index was temperate steppe (TS) > alpine meadow (AM) > alpine steppe (AS) > upland meadow (UM) > alpine desert (AD) > lowland meadow (LM) > temperate desert steppe (TDS) > temperate desert (TD). The areas with high, medium and low soil fertility accounted for 63.19%, 34.24% and 2.57% of the total grassland area. Soil fertility of different grassland types had different main limiting factors, for instance, the pH, total N and SOM were the main factors limiting soil fertility in LM, while pH and available P were the main factors limiting soil fertility in UM, AM, TS and AS. In summary, the grassland soil fertility was generally at the mid-upper level, and the main limiting factors were found in the different types of the grasslands and their spatial distributions were figured out. Our findings also indicated that the typical grasslands and meadows may require phosphorus application, while for desert grasslands, both nitrogen and phosphorus were required to improve their comprehensive soil fertility and grassland productivity.
英文关键词	Grasslands Soil fertility Qilian natural reserve Spatial distribution Nemerow index Soil fertility index
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000643559200002
WOS关键词	ORGANIC-MATTER ; LAND ; DEGRADATION ; QUALITY ; VARIABILITY ; NITROGEN ; GIS
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351297
作者单位	[Li, Qiang; Yang, Junyin; Guan, Wenhao; Liu, Zhigang; He, Guoxing; Zhang, Degang; Liu, Xiaoni] Gansu Agr Univ, Coll Grassland Sci, Key Lab Grassland Ecosyst, Minist Educ, Lanzhou, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Qiang,Yang, Junyin,Guan, Wenhao,et al. Soil fertility evaluation and spatial distribution of grasslands in Qilian Mountains Nature Reserve of eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau[J],2021,9.
APA	Li, Qiang.,Yang, Junyin.,Guan, Wenhao.,Liu, Zhigang.,He, Guoxing.,...&Liu, Xiaoni.(2021).Soil fertility evaluation and spatial distribution of grasslands in Qilian Mountains Nature Reserve of eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.PEERJ,9.
MLA	Li, Qiang,et al."Soil fertility evaluation and spatial distribution of grasslands in Qilian Mountains Nature Reserve of eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau".PEERJ 9(2021).