11温度和降雨对植物群落结构之影响.pdf

Interactive Effects of Warming and Increased Precipitation on Community Structure and Composition in an Annual Forb Dominated Desert Steppe Yanhui Hou1,2, Guangsheng Zhou1,3*, Zhenzhu Xu1*, Tao Liu1,2, Xinshi Zhang1* 1 State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3 Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China Abstract To better understand how warming, increased precipitation and their interactions influence community structure and composition, a field experiment simulating hydrothermal interactions was conducted at an annual forb dominated desert steppe in northern China over 2 years. Increased precipitation increased species richness while warming significantly decreased species richness, and their effects were additive rather than interactive. Although interannual variations in weather conditions may have a major affect on plant community composition on short term experiments, warming and precipitation treatments affected individual species and functional group composition. Warming caused C4 grasses such as Cleistogenes squarrosa to increase while increased precipitation caused the proportions of non-perennial C3 plants like Artemisia capillaris to decrease and perennial C4 plants to increase. Citation: Hou Y, Zhou G, Xu Z, Liu T, Zhang X (2013) Interactive Effects of Warming and Increased Precipitation on Community Structure and Composition in an Annual Forb Dominated Desert Steppe. PLoS ONE 8(7): e70114. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070114 Editor: Kurt O. Reinhart, USDA-ARS, United States of America Received November 13, 2012; Accepted June 17, 2013; Published July 19, 2013 Copyright: ? 2013 Hou et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and repr