Influence of Simulated Warming to the Carbon, Nitrogen and Their Stability Isotope(δ13C,δ15N) Contents in Alpine Meadow Plant Leaves
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    Based on the research methods that simulated warming effect on plants of tundra plan (ITEX), we used four kinds of plants at alpine Kobresia humilis meadow: K. humilis, Elymus nutans, Oxytropis ochrocephala, Gentiana straminea, set a big(OTC1) and a small(OTC2) warming room, to determine the carbon, nitrogen and their stability isotopes(δ13C,δ15N) content changes after three years of warming. The result showed that: in addition to the C/N ratio of K. humilis was reduced by 14.1% in small warming room (OTC2), the C/N ratios of the other three species were all increased in the two warming rooms than that in the control, while the differences were all not significant(P>0.05). The δ13C of the four kinds of plant leaves was between -24.12 ‰ ~ -28.34 ‰, the δ13C of K. humilis leaf was increased with raising temperature, while the δ13C of O. ochrocephala and G. straminea was reduced with the raising temperature. The δ13C change of K. humilis leaf reached significant level(P<0.05).The δ15N of K. humilis and G. straminea were all increased in the two warming rooms than that in the control, the δ15N change of G. straminea reached significant level (P<0.05); the δ15N change of E. nutans reduced 18.7% and 26.9% in OTC1 and OTC2 respectively, while the differences were all not significant (P>0.05); the δ15N change of O. ochrocephala was reduced by 11.0% in small warming room (OTC2) than that in control, while increased by 2.8% in big warming room (OTC1) than that in control. It is observed that the carbon, nitrogen and their stability isotopes (δ13C,δ15N) of different functional group of plant species have different response patterns and rules to shortterm warming.

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ZHAO Yanyan, XU Longhua, YAO Buqing, MA Zhen, ZHANG Chunhui, WANG Fangping, ZHOU Huakun. Influence of Simulated Warming to the Carbon, Nitrogen and Their Stability Isotope(δ13C,δ15N) Contents in Alpine Meadow Plant Leaves[J]. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica,2016,36(4):777-783

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