Simulating phenological characteristics of two dominant grass species in a semi-arid steppe ecosystem

Ecological Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 784-791

  Yuan, Wenping ^a,c   Zhou, Guangsheng ^a   Wang, Yuhui ^a   Han, Xi ^b   Wang, Yingshun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b Xilingol Grazing and Meteorological Station   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cumulative temperature model; Leymus chinensis; Phenology; Soil moisture; Stipa krylovii

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; GRASS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PHENOLOGY; RADIATION BUDGET; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; STEPPE; TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; XILINGOL;

LEYMUS CHINENSIS; STIPA KRYLOVII;

EID: 36148995821     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-006-0318-z     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Bahmani I, Hazard L, Varlet-Grancher C, Betin M, Lemaire G, Matthew C, Thom ER (2000) Differences in tillering of long-and short-leaved perennial ryegrass genetic lines under full light and shade treatments. Crop Sci 40:1095-1102
2. Bai YF (1999) The influence of seasonal distribution of precipitation on primary productivity of Stipa krylovii community. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica 23(2):155-160
3. Bartholomew PW, Williams RD (2005) Cool-season grass development response to accumulated temperature under a range of temperature regimes. Crop Sci 45:529-534
4. Beaubien EG, Freeland HJ (2000) Spring phenology trends in Alberta, Canada: Links to ocean temperature. Int J Biometeorol 44:53-59
5. Borchert R, Robertson K, Schwartz MD, Williams-Linera G (2005) Phenology of temperate trees in tropical climates. Int J Biometeorol 50(1):57-65
6. Botta A, Viovy N, Ciais P, Friedlingstein P, Monfray P (2000) A global prognostic scheme of leaf onset using satellite data. Global Change Biol 6:709-725
7. Burk IH (1982) Phenology, germination, and survival of desert ephemerals in deep canyon, Riverside county, California. Madrono 29:154-163
8. Cao W, Moss DN (1989) Temperature effect on leaf emergence and phyllochron in wheat and barley. Crop Sci 29:1018-1021
9. Cesaraccio C, Spano D, Snyder RL, Duce P (2004) Chilling and forcing model to predict bud-burst of crop and forest species. Agric Forest Meteorol 126:1-13
10. Chen ZZ, Wang SP (2000) Typical grassland ecosystem in China. Science Press, Beijing, pp 58
11. Chen XQ, Tan ZJ, Schwartz MD, Xu CX (2000) Determining the growing season of land vegetation on the basis of plant phenology and satellite data in Northern China. Int J Biometeorol 44:97-101
12. Chen XQ, Hu B, Yu R (2005) Spatial and temporal variation of phenological growing season and climate change impacts in temperature eastern China. Global Change Biol 11:1118-1130
13. Chmielewski FM, Rötzer T (2001) Response of tree phenology to climate change across Europe. Agric Forest Meteorol 108:101-112
14. Chmielewski FM, Müller A, Küchler W (2005) Possible impacts of climate change on natural vegetation in Saxony (Germany). Int J Biometeorol 50(2):96-104
15. Chuine I, Cour P (1999) Climatic determinants of bud-bursting seasonality in four temperate- zone tree species. New Phytol 143:339-349
16. Defila C, Clot B (2001) Phytophenological trends in Switzerland. Int J Biometeorol 45:203-207
17. Dickinson CE, Dodd IL (1976) Phenological patterns in the shortgrass prairie. Am Midland Naturalist 96:367-378
18. Foley JA, Prentice IC, Ramunkutty N, Levis S, Pollard D, Sitch S, Haxeltine A (1996) An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics (IBIS). Global Biogeochem Cycles 10:603-628
19. French N, Sauer RH (1974) Phenological studies and modeling in grasslands. In: Leith H (ed) Phenology and seasonality modeling. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 227-236
20. Fuchigami LH, Nee C (1987) Degree growth stage model and rest-breaking mechanism in temperate woody perennials. HortScience 22(5):836-845
21. Hannerz M (1999) Evaluation of temperature models for predicting bud burst in Norway spruce. Can J Forest Res 29:1-11
22. Hanninen H (1994) Effects of climate change on trees from cool and temperate regions: An ecophysiological approach to modeling of bud burst phenology. Can J Bot 73:183-199
23. IPCC (2001) Climate change 2001: the scientific basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [Houghton JT, Ding Y, Griggs DJ, Noguer M, Linden PJ, Dai X, Maskell K, and Johnson CA (ed)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA
24. Kemp PR (1983) Phenological patterns of Chihuahuan desert plants in relationship to the timing of water availability. J Ecol 71:427-436
25. Kendall MG (1975) Rank correlation methods. Charles Griffin, London, pp 202
26. Kirby EJM (1995) Factors affecting rate of leaf emergence in barley and wheat. Crop Sci 35:11-19
27. Knapp AK (1984) Water relations and growth of three grasses during wet and drought years in tall grass prairie. Oecologia 65:35-43
28. Kramer K (1994) Selecting a model to predict the onset of growth of Fagus sylvatica. J Appl Ecol 31:172-181
29. Kuo PC (1987) Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, vol9. Science Press, Beijing, pp 19
30. Leith H (1975) Primary productivity of the biosphere. In: Ecological Studies. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 237-264
31. Lemaire G, Salette J (1982) The effects of temperature and fertilizer nitrogen on the spring growth of tall fescue and cocksfoot. Grass Forage Sci 37:191-198
32. Linkosalo T (2000) Mutual regularity of spring phenology of some boreal tree species: predicting with other species and phenological models. Can J Forest Res 30:667-673
33. Ma YQ (1994) Flora intramongolica, Tomus 5. Typis intramongolicae popularis, Hohot, pp 199
34. Mann HB (1945) Non-parametric test against trend. Econometrika 13:245-259
35. Menzel A, Fabian P (1999) Growing season extended in Europe. Nature 397:659
36. Murray MB, Cannell GR, Smith RI (1989) Date of bud-bursting of fifteen tree species in Britain following climatic warming. J Appl Ecol 26:693-700
37. Ni J (2003) Plant functional types and climate along a precipitation gradient in temperate grasslands, north-east China and south-east Mongolia. J Arid Environ 53:501-516
38. Piao SL, Fang JY, Zhou LM, Philippe C, Zhu B (2006) Variations in satellite-derived phenology in China's temperate vegetation. Global Change Biol 12:672-685
39. Pitt MD, Wikeem BM (1990) Phenological patterns and adaptations in an Artemisia/Agropyron plant community. J Range Manage 43(4):350-358
40. Running SW, Hunt ER (1993) Generalization of a forest ecosystem process model for other biomes, BIOME-BGC and an application for global-scale models. In: Ehleringer JR, Field CB (eds) Scaling physiological processes: leaf to globe. Academic, San Diego, pp 141-158
41. Schwartz MD (1998) Green-wave phenology. Nature 394: 839-840
42. Schwartz MD, Reiter BE (2000) Changes in North American spring. Int J Climatol 20:929-932
43. Sharifi MR, Meinzer FC, Nilsen ET, Rundel PW, Virginia RA, larrell WM, Herman Dl, Clark PC (1988) Effect of manipulation of water and nitrogen supplies on the quantitative phenology of Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) in the Sonoran Desert of California. Am J Bot 75:1163-1174
44. Sitch S, Smith B, Prentice IC, Arneth A, Bondeau A, Cramer W, Kaplan JO, Levis S, Lucht W, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Venevsky S (2003) Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model. Global Change Biol 9:161-185
45. Sparks TH, Jeffree EP, Jefree CE (2000) An examination of relationships between flowering times and temperature at the national scale using long-term phenological record from the UK. Int J Biometeorol 44:82-87
46. Stewart DW, Dwyer LM (1994) A model of expansion and senescence of individual leaves of field-grown maize. Can J Plant Sci 74(1):37-42
47. Sugiura T, Kobayashi H, Iwase S (1998) Low input improvement of degraded grassland in semiarid area of China. 1. Evaluation of sheep dung as a water retention agent. Grassland Sci 44:352-356
48. Tanja S, Berninger F, Vesala T, Markkanen T, Hari P Makela A, Ilvesniemi H, Hanninen H, Nikinmaa E, Huttula T, Laurila T, Aurela M, Grelle A, Lindroth A, Arneth A, Shibistova O, Lloyd J (2003) Air temperature triggers the recovery of evergreen boreal forest photosynthesis in spring. Global Change Biol 9:1410-1426
49. Verseghy D, McFarlane NA, Lazare M (1993) CLASS - a Canadian land surface scheme for GCMs, II. Vegetation model and coupled runs. Int J Climatol 13:347-370
50. Walkovszky A (1998) Changes in phenology of the locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) in Hungary. Int J Biometeorol 41:155-160
51. Wan MW, Liu XZ (1979) Phenological observation method in China. Science Press, Beijing, pp 56
52. Wang Y, Guo Y (1993) Establishment of artificial grasslands on the degraded Stipa steppe in the Alpine area and high latitude zone of China. J Jpn Grassland Sci 89:343-348
53. Wang YH, Zhou GS (2003) Response of Leymus chinensis grassland vegetation in inner Mongolia to temperature change. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica 28(4):507-514
54. White MA, Thornton PE, Running SW (1997) A continental phenology model for monitoring vegetation responses to interannual climatic variability. Global Biogeochem Cycles 11(2):217-234
55. White MA, Running SW, Thornton PE (1999) The impact of growing-season length variability on carbon assimilation and evapotranspiration over 88 years in the eastern US deciduous forest. Int J Biometeorol 42:139-145
56. Wolfe DW, Schwartz MD, Lakso AN, Otsuki Y, Pool RM, Shaulis NJ (2005) Climate change and shifts in spring phenology of three horticultural woody perennials in northeastern USA. Int J Biometeorol 49(5):303-309
57. Wu ZY (1980) Vegetation in China. Science press, Beijing, pp 537
58. Xu LK, Baldocchi DD (2004) Seasonal variation in carbon dioxide exchange over a Mediterranean annual grassland in California. Agric Forest Meteorol 123:79-96
59. Yuan WP, Zhou GS (2005) Responses of three Stipa communities net primary productivity along Northeast China Transect to seasonal distribution of precipitation. Chinese J Appl Ecol 16(4):605-609