Increasing phosphorus limitation along three successional forests in southern China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 364, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 181-191

  Huang, Wenjuan ^a,b   Liu, Juxiu ^a   Wang, Ying Ping ^c   Zhou, Guoyi ^a   Han, Tianfeng ^a,d   Li, Yin ^a,d  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acid phosphatase activity; Forest succession; N:P ratio; Phosphorus limitation; Subtropics.

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MONSOON; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; SOIL NUTRIENT; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUCCESSION; TREE;

CHINA;

EID: 84873719465     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1355-8     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Aerts R, Chapin FS (2000) The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of processes and patterns. Adv Ecol Res 30: 1-67.
2. Binkley D, Giardina C (1998) Why do tree species affect soils? The warp and woof of tree-soil interactions. Biogeochemistry 42: 89-106.
3. Binkley D, Giardina C, Bashkin MA (2000) Soil phosphorus pools and supply under the influence of Eucalyptus saligna and nitrogen-fixing Albizia facaltaria. Forest Ecol Manag 128: 241-247.
4. Bray RH, Kurtz LT (1945) Determination of total, organic, and available forms of phosphorus in soils. Soil Sci 59: 39-45.
5. Buol SW, Southard RJ, Graham RC, McDaniel PA (2003) Soil genesis and classification, 5th edn. Iowa State Press, Iowa.
6. Chen CR, Condron LM, Davis MR, Sherlock RR (2000) Effects of afforestation on phosphorus dynamics and biological properties in a New Zealand grassland soil. Plant Soil 220: 151-163.
7. 2 flux from organic matter decomposition of mountain soil profiles in the subtropical area, south China. Catena 49: 217-229.
8. Chen CR, Condron LM, Xu ZH (2008) Impacts of grassland afforestation with coniferous trees on soil phosphorus dynamics and associated microbial processes: a review. Forest Ecol Manag 255: 396-409.
9. Dong M (1996) Survey, observation and analysis of terrestrial bio-communities. Standards Press of China, Beijing (in Chinese).
10. Fang YT, Gundersen P, Mo JM, Zhu WX (2008) Input and output of dissolved organic and inorganic nitrogen in subtropical forests of South China under high air pollution. Biogeosciences 5: 339-352.
11. Güsewell S (2004) N: P ratios in terrestrial plants: variation and functional significance. New Phytol 164: 243-266.
12. Houlton BZ, Wang YP, Vitousek PM, Field CB (2008) A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere. Nature 454: 327-330.
13. Huang WJ, Zhou GY, Liu JX (2011) Nitrogen and phosphorus status and their influence on aboveground production under increasing nitrogen deposition in three successional forests. Acta Oecol. doi: 10. 1016/j. actao. 2011. 06. 005.
14. Johnson D, Leake JR, Lee JA (1999) The effects of quantity and duration of simulated pollutant nitrogen deposition on root-surface phosphatase activities in calcareous and acid grasslands: a bioassay approach. New Phytol 141: 433-442.
15. Juma NG, Tabatabai MA (1978) Distribution of phosphomonoesterases in soils. Soil Sci 126: 101-108.
16. Krämer S, Green DM (2000) Acid and alkaline phosphatase dynamics and their relationship to soil microclimate in a semiarid woodland. Soil Biol Biochem 32: 179-188.
17. Liu GS, Jiang NH, Zhang LD, Liu ZL (1996) Soil physical and chemical analysis and description of soil profiles. Standards Press of China, Beijing (in Chinese).
18. Marklein AR, Houlton BZ (2012) Nitrogen inputs accelerate phosphorus cycling rates across a wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems. New Phytol 193: 696-704.
19. McGill WB, Cole CV (1981) Comparative aspects of cycling of organic C, N, S and P through soil organic matter. Geoderma 26: 267-286.
20. Mo JM, Brown S, Xue JH, Fang YT, Li ZA (2006) Response of litter decomposition to simulated N deposition in disturbed, rehabilitated and mature forests in subtropical China. Plant Soil 282: 135-151.
21. Murphy J, Riley JB (1962) A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters. Anal Chim Acta 27: 31-36.
22. Odum EP (1969) The strategy of ecosystem development. Science 164: 262-270.
23. Olander LP, Vitousek PM (2000) Regulation of soil phosphatase and chitinase activity by N and P availability. Biogeochemistry 49: 175-190.
24. Pregitzer KS, Euskirchen ES (2004) Carbon cycling and storage in world forests: biome patterns related to forest age. Global Change Biol 10: 2052-2077.
25. Read DJ (1993) Plant-microbe mutualisms and community structure. In: Schulza ED, Mooney HA (eds) Biodiversity and ecosystem function. Springer, Berlin, pp 181-209.
26. Schneider K, Turrion MB, Gallardo JF (2000) Modified method for measuring acid phosphatase activities in forest soils with high organic matter content. Commun Soil Sci Plant 31: 3077-3088.
27. 14C measurement of forest soils in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve. Chinese Science Bulletin 44: 251-256.
28. 13 in forest soils of the Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve. Radiocarbon 43: 671-678.
29. Sinsabaugh R, Lauber CL, Weintraub MN, Ahmed B, Allison S, Crenshaw C, Contosta AR, Cusack D, Frey S, Gallo ME (2008) Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale. Ecol Lett 11: 1252-1264.
30. Smethurst PJ (2000) Soil solution and other soil analyses as indicators of nutrient supply: a review. Forest Ecol Manag 138: 397-411.
31. Speir TW, Ross DJ (1978) Soil phosphatase and sulphatase. In: Burns RG (ed) Soil enzymes. Academic, London, pp 197-250.
32. Spiers GA, McGill WB (1979) Effects of phosphorus addition and energy supply on acid phosphatase production and activity in soils. Soil Biol Biochem 11: 3-8.
33. Tabatabai MA, Bremner JM (1969) Use of p-nitrophenyl phosphate for assay of soil phosphatase activity. Soil Biol Biochem 1: 301-307.
34. Tang XL, Wang YP, Zhou GY, Zhang DQ, Liu S, Liu SZ, Zhang QM, Liu JX, Yan JH (2011) Different patterns of ecosystem carbon accumulation between a young and an old-growth subtropical forest in Southern China. Plant Ecol 212: 1385-1395.
35. Treseder KK, Vitousek PM (2001) Effects of soil nutrient availability on investment in acquisition of N and P in Hawaiian rain forests. Ecology 82: 946-954.
36. Turner BL, Baxter R, Whitton BA (2002) Seasonal phosphatase activity in three characteristic soils of the English uplands polluted by long-term atmospheric nitrogen deposition. Environ Pollut 120: 313-317.
37. Ushio M, Kitayama K, Balser TC (2010) Tree species effects on soil enzyme activities through effects on soil physicochemical and microbial properties in a tropical montane forest on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo. Pedobiologia 53: 227-233.
38. Wang BS, Ma MJ (1982) The successions of the forest community in Dinghushan. Tropical and Subtropical Forest Ecosystem Research 1: 142-156 (in Chinese).
39. Wardle DA, Walker LR, Bardgett RD (2004) Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences. Science 305: 509-513.
40. Yan ER, Wang XH, Huang JJ (2006a) Shifts in plant nutrient use strategies under secondary forest succession. Plant Soil 334: 335-351.
41. Yan JH, Wang YP, Zhou GY, Zhang DQ (2006b) Estimates of soil respiration and net primary production of three forests at different succession stages in South China. Global Change Biol 12: 810-821.
42. Zhou GY, Liu SG, Li ZA, Zhang DQ, Tang XL, Zhou CY, Yan JH, Mo JM (2006) Old-growth forests can accumulate carbon in soils. Science 314: 1417.
43. Zhou GY, Guan LL, Wei XH, Zhang DQ, Zhang QM, Yan JH, Wen DZ, Liu JX, Liu SG, Huang ZL, Kong GH, Mo JM, Yu QF (2007) Litterfall production along successional and altitudinal gradients of subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaved forests in Guangdong, China. Plant Ecol 188: 77-89.