Post-drought compensatory growth in perennial grasslands is determined by legacy effects of the soil and not by plants
© 2023 The Authors New Phytologist © 2023 New Phytologist Foundation.
| Veröffentlicht in: | The New phytologist. - 1979. - 240(2023), 6 vom: 18. Dez., Seite 2265-2275 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2023
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | The New phytologist |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article compensatory growth drought grassland nitrogen recovery rewetting Soil |
| Zusammenfassung: | © 2023 The Authors New Phytologist © 2023 New Phytologist Foundation. Grasslands recovering from drought have repeatedly been shown to outperform non-drought-stressed grasslands in biomass production. The mechanisms that lead to the unexpectedly high biomass production in grasslands recovering from drought are, however, not understood. To disentangle plant-intrinsic and plant-extrinsic (soil) drought legacy effects on grassland recovery from drought, we designed a factorial field experiment where Lolium perenne plants that were exposed to either a 2-month drought or to well-watered control conditions were transplanted into control and drought-stressed soil and rewetted thereafter. Drought and rewetting (DRW) resulted in negative drought legacy effects of formerly drought-stressed plants (DRWp ) compared with control plants (Ctrp ) when decoupled from soil-mediated DRW effects, with DRWp showing less aboveground productivity (-13%), restricted N nutrition, and higher δ13 C compared with Ctrp . However, plants grown on formerly drought-stressed soil (DRWs ) showed enhanced aboveground productivity (+82%), improved N nutrition, and higher δ13 C values relative to plants grown on control soil (Ctrs ), irrespective of the plants' pretreatment. Our study shows that the higher post-drought productivity of perennial grasslands recovering from drought relative to non-drought-stressed controls is induced by soil-mediated DRW legacy effects which improve plant N nutrition and photosynthetic capacity and that these effects countervail negative plant-intrinsic drought legacy effects |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 17.11.2023 Date Revised 17.11.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1469-8137 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/nph.19291 |