Nitrogen uptake pattern of herbaceous plants: coping strategies in altered neighbor species

• Published in: Biology and fertility of soils Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 729 - 735
• Main Authors: Hong, Jiangtao, Ma, Xingxing, Zhang, Xiaoke, Wang, Xiaodan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.10.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Absorption; Agriculture; ammonium nitrogen; Aridity; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Capacity; Carex; China; Community ecology; Complementarity; coping strategies; Dominant species; Ecological effects; Ecosystems; Extreme environments; Flowers & plants; Glycine; Glycine (amino acid); herbaceous plants; Interspecific; Interspecific relationships; Leontopodium; Life Sciences; Mineral nutrients; Neighborhoods; Niches; nitrate nitrogen; Nitrogen; Nitrogen isotopes; Phenotypic plasticity; Plant communities; Plant diversity; Plant ecology; Plant species; Plastic properties; Plasticity; Resource partitioning; Resource utilization; Short Communication; Soil Science & Conservation; Species diversity; stable isotopes; Steppes; Stipa; Tracer techniques; Tracers; Uptake; China; Nitrogen forms; Niche complementarity; Nitrogen uptake; Neighbor removals; Species coexistence

The mechanisms for maintaining the species diversity of plant communities under conditions of resource limitation is an important subject in ecology. How interspecific relationships influence the pattern of nutrient absorption by coexisting species in N-limited ecosystems is still disputed. We inves...