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DOI	10.1111/1365-2435.14425
	Ecosystem-level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland
	Yang, Tianxue; Zhong, Xiaoyue; Chen, Junda; Nielsen, Uffe N.; Ochoa-Hueso, Raul; Qu, Yanan; Sui, Yushu; Gao, Weifeng; Sun, Wei
通讯作者	Sun, W
来源期刊	FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
ISSN	0269-8463
EISSN	1365-2435
出版年	2023
卷号	37 期号:11 页码:2910-2926
英文摘要	1. Grasslands across arid and semi-arid regions are predicted to experience reductions in precipitation frequency. Besides, grassland degradation has become a serious problem in many of these areas. Despite increasing evidence suggesting compound effects of these synchronous alterations on biotic and abiotic ecosystem constituents, we still do not know how they will impact the coupling among ecosystem constituents and its consequences on ecosystem functioning.2. Here, we assessed the effects of decreased precipitation frequency and grassland degradation on ecosystem coupling, quantified based on the mean strength of pairwise correlations among multispecies communities and their physicochemical environment, individual functions and ecosystem multifunctionality, and reported their relationships within a mechanistic plant-nematode-micro-organism-soil interactions framework.3. Decreased precipitation frequency led to poorly coupled ecosystems, and reduced aboveground plant biomass, soil water content, soil nutrient levels, soil biota abundance and multifunctionality. By contrast, belowground plant biomass and soil potential enzyme activities increased under decreased precipitation frequency treatment. Severe degradation resulted in decoupled ecosystems and suppressed most of individual functions and multifunctionality. Using structural equation modelling, we showed that coupling had a strong direct positive effect on multifunctionality (standardized total effect: 0.74), while multifunctionality was weakened by greater soil water variation (-0.54) and higher soil pH (-0.53).4. The great sensitivity of ecosystem coupling to altered precipitation regimes and degradation highlights the importance of considering interactions among biotic and abiotic components when predicting early ecological impacts under changing environments. Moreover, the positive relationship between ecosystem coupling and functioning suggests that restoration of degraded grasslands may be achieved by intensifying ecological interactions.
英文关键词	ecological interactions ecosystem multifunctionality global change multitrophic communities nematodes plants soil micro-organisms
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, Bronze
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:001062694900001
WOS关键词	SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES ; NITROGEN ADDITION ; CARBON ; PRODUCTIVITY ; DIVERSITY ; NEMATODES ; BACTERIA ; REGIMES ; RESPIRATION ; VARIABILITY
WOS类目	Ecology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/396657
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Tianxue,Zhong, Xiaoyue,Chen, Junda,et al. Ecosystem-level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland[J],2023,37(11):2910-2926.
APA	Yang, Tianxue.,Zhong, Xiaoyue.,Chen, Junda.,Nielsen, Uffe N..,Ochoa-Hueso, Raul.,...&Sun, Wei.(2023).Ecosystem-level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland.FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY,37(11),2910-2926.
MLA	Yang, Tianxue,et al."Ecosystem-level decoupling in response to reduced precipitation frequency and degradation in steppe grassland".FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 37.11(2023):2910-2926.