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Responses of Biogeochemical Characteristics and Enzyme Activities in Sediment to Climate Warming under a Simulation Experiment in Geographically Isolated Wetlands of the Hulunbuir Grassland, China

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  • Liliang Han

    (Research Center for Grassland Ecology and Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Derong Su

    (Research Center for Grassland Ecology and Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Shihai Lv

    (State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Regional Eco-process and Function Assessment, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), Beijing 100012, China)

  • Yan Luo

    (Research Center for Grassland Ecology and Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Xingfu Li

    (Research Center for Grassland Ecology and Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Jian Jiao

    (Research Center for Grassland Ecology and Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China)

  • Zhaoyan Diao

    (State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Regional Eco-process and Function Assessment, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), Beijing 100012, China)

  • He Bu

    (Hui River National Nature Reserve Administration of Inner Mongolia, Hailar 021100, Inner Mongolia, China)

Abstract

Climate warming generates a tremendous threat to the stability of geographically-isolated wetland (GIW) ecosystems and changes the type of evaporation and atmospheric precipitation in a region. The intrinsic balance of biogeochemical processes and enzyme activity in GIWs may be altered as well. In this paper, we sampled three types of GIWs exhibiting different kinds of flooding periods. With the participation of real-time temperature regulation measures, we assembled a computer-mediated wetland warming micro-system in June 2016 to simulate climate situation of ambient temperature (control group) and two experimental temperature differences (+2.5 °C and +5.0 °C) following a scientific climate change circumstance based on daily and monthly temperature monitoring at a two-minutes scale. Our results demonstrate that the contents of the total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP) in the warmed showed, roughly, a balance or a slight decrease than the control treatment. Warming obstructed the natural subsidence of sediment, but reinforced the character of the ecological source, and reduced the activity of urease (URE), but promoted the activity of alkaline phosphatase (AKP) and sucrase (SUC). Redundancy analysis showed that sucrase, urease, available phosphorus (AP), and pH were the major correlating factors under warming conditions in our research scope. Total organic carbon, total nitrogen, sucrase, catalase (CAT), and alkaline phosphatase were the principal reference factors to reflect the ambient temperature variations. Nutrient compositions and enzyme activities in GIW ecosystems could be reconstructed under the warming influence.

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  • Liliang Han & Derong Su & Shihai Lv & Yan Luo & Xingfu Li & Jian Jiao & Zhaoyan Diao & He Bu, 2017. "Responses of Biogeochemical Characteristics and Enzyme Activities in Sediment to Climate Warming under a Simulation Experiment in Geographically Isolated Wetlands of the Hulunbuir Grassland, China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-17, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:14:y:2017:i:9:p:968-:d:109954
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