Contrasting responses of steppe Stipa ssp. to warming and precipitation variability.

ABSTRACT: Climate change, characterized by warming and precipitation variability, restricted the growth of plants in arid and semiarid areas, and various functional traits are impacted differently. Comparing responses of functional traits to warming and precipitation variability and determining critical water threshold of dominate steppe grasses from Inner Mongolia facilitates the identification and monitoring of water stress effects. A combination of warming (ambient temperature, +1.5°C and +2.0°C) and varying precipitation (-30%, -15%, ambient, +15%, and +30%) manipulation experiments were performed on four Stipa species (S. baicalensis, S. bungeana, S. grandis, and S. breviflora) from Inner Mongolia steppe. The results showed that the functional traits of the fo

SUBMITTER: Lv X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706196 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature