Nutrient effects on drought responses vary across common temperate grassland species.

ABSTRACT: Drought and nutrient input are two main global change drivers that threaten ecosystem function and services. Resolving the interactive effects of human-induced stressors on individual species is necessary to improve our understanding of community and ecosystem responses. This study comparatively assessed how different nutrient conditions affect whole-plant drought responses across 13 common temperate grassland species. We conducted a fully factorial drought-fertilization experiment to examine the effect of nutrient addition [nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and combined NP] on species' drought survival, and on drought resistance of growth as well as drought legacy effects. Drought had an overall negative effect on survival and growth, and the adverse drought effects extended into the next gro

SUBMITTER: Kiene C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10229692 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature