LUO Lijiao, GAO Xiaodong, ZHAO Lianhao, et al. Response of Water Use Strategies of Vegetation Community to Drought Stress in the Loess Hilly Region[J]. 2023, 37(1): 280-288.
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LUO Lijiao, GAO Xiaodong, ZHAO Lianhao, et al. Response of Water Use Strategies of Vegetation Community to Drought Stress in the Loess Hilly Region[J]. 2023, 37(1): 280-288. DOI: 10.13870/j.cnki.stbcxb.2023.01.036.
Response of Water Use Strategies of Vegetation Community to Drought Stress in the Loess Hilly Region
To explore the differences in water sources and dynamic changes of major plants in shrub communities under climate change
the response characteristics of water use sources and growth of typical natural recovery plants (Artemisia ordosica
Medicago Sativa and Chenopodium album) to drought stress in the Loess Plateau were studied. And the droughts were controlled by reducing natural precipitation by 15% (moderate drought) and 30% (extreme drought). The potential water sources of vegetation communities were divided into shallow (0—20 cm)
middle (20—60 cm) and deep (60—120 cm) soil water. The stable water isotope technique and MixSIAR model were used to quantitatively analyze the water absorption characteristics of vegetation roots under different drought stress levels (30%
15% and the control). The results showed that: (1) The stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope values (δD and δ18O) of soil water and plant water were both located at the lower right of the local atmospheric precipitation line
which indicated that the isotope of soil water was enriched by evaporation. (2) Water sources of three typical plants could be flexibly converted to different soil layers under drought stress
specifically
the proportion of shallow soil moisture utilization decreased
while the proportion of middle and deep soil moisture utilization increased
which became more obvious with the increase of drought stress levels. (3) Different vegetation responsed to drought stress through different water use strategy
Artemisia ordosica mainly used shallow soil water (contribution rates were 48.2%
52.7% and 57.6%
respectively) under flat land
rainfall reduction of 30%
15% and CK treatments
while Chenopodium album mainly used middle (43.5%)
shallow (49.6%) and shallow soil water (53.6%)
respectively. In slope land
rainfall reduction of 30%
15% and CK treatment
Artemisia ordosica mainly used shallow soil water (contribution rates were 42.5%
44.5% and 58.1%
respectively)
while Medicago Sativa mainly used the middle (40.9%)
middle (46.7%) and shallow (53.9%) soil water. This indicated that the main species of vegetation community in semi-arid loess hilly region could respond to drought stress by converting water sources through plasticity. And the community water sources were divided in space to effectively reduce the competitive pressure on water resources
which would promote the coexistence of species through niche differentiation in water resources utilization.
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