Driving factors of community-level leaf stoichiometry patterns in a typical temperate mountain meadow ecosystem of northern China

ABSTRACT: In ecological stoichiometry, the stoichiometry and spatial distribution of leaf carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus are important research topics. Various studies have assessed leaf stoichiometry and its relationships with environmental factors at different scales. However, how the leaf carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometric characteristics of the same vegetation type at the community level vary with environmental factors along a continuous altitudinal gradient remains poorly understood. In this paper, 13 sampling sites along an altitudinal gradient of 1,800—3,011 m in a typical temperate mountain meadow ecosystem on the southern slope of the Wutai Mountain in North China were sampled to explore the response of leaf carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometric characteristics to alt

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10435321 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature