Does genotypic diversity of Hydrocotyle vulgaris affect CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes?

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity plays important roles in ecosystem functions and genetic diversity is a key component of biodiversity. While effects of genetic diversity on ecosystem functions have been extensively documented, no study has tested how genetic diversity of plants influences greenhouse gas fluxes from plant-soil systems. We assembled experimental populations consisting of 1, 4 or 8 genotypes of the clonal plant Hydrocotyle vulgaris in microcosms, and measured fluxes of CO₂ and CH₄ from the microcosms. The fluxes of CO₂ and CO₂ equivalent from the microcosms with the 1-genotype populations of H. vulgaris were significantly lower than those with the 4- and 8-genotype populations, and such an effect increased significantly with increasing t

SUBMITTER: Zhu JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10591177 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature