Nature Ecology & Evolution ( IF 13.9 ) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 , DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02500-x Andrew S MacDougall 1, 2 , Ellen Esch 1 , Qingqing Chen 3 , Oliver Carroll 1 , Colin Bonner 1 , Timothy Ohlert 4 , Matthias Siewert 2 , John Sulik 5 , Anna K Schweiger 6 , Elizabeth T Borer 7 , Dilip Naidu 8 , Sumanta Bagchi 8 , Yann Hautier 9 , Peter Wilfahrt 7 , Keith Larson 2 , Johan Olofsson 2 , Elsa Cleland 10 , Ranjan Muthukrishnan 11 , Lydia O'Halloran 12 , Juan Alberti 13 , T Michael Anderson 14 , Carlos A Arnillas 15 , Jonathan D Bakker 16 , Isabel C Barrio 17 , Lori Biederman 18 , Elizabeth H Boughton 19 , Lars A Brudvig 20 , Martin Bruschetti 13 , Yvonne Buckley 21 , Miguel N Bugalho 22 , Marc W Cadotte 23 , Maria C Caldeira 24 , Jane A Catford 25 , Carla D'Antonio 26 , Kendi Davies 27 , Pedro Daleo 13 , Christopher R Dickman 28 , Ian Donohue 21 , Mary Ellyn DuPre 29 , Kenneth Elgersma 30 , Nico Eisenhauer 31, 32 , Anu Eskelinen 31, 33, 34 , Catalina Estrada 35 , Philip A Fay 36 , Yanhao Feng 37 , Daniel S Gruner 38 , Nicole Hagenah 39 , Sylvia Haider 40 , W Stanley Harpole 31, 33, 41 , Erika Hersch-Green 42 , Anke Jentsch 43 , Kevin Kirkman 44 , Johannes M H Knops 45 , Lauri Laanisto 46 , Lucíola S Lannes 47 , Ramesh Laungani 48 , Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva 49 , Petr Macek 50 , Jason P Martina 51 , Rebecca L McCulley 52 , Brett Melbourne 27 , Rachel Mitchell 53 , Joslin L Moore 54, 55, 56 , John W Morgan 57 , Taofeek O Muraina 51, 58 , Yujie Niu 42, 59 , Meelis Pärtel 60 , Pablo L Peri 61 , Sally A Power 62 , Jodi N Price 63 , Suzanne M Prober 64 , Zhengwei Ren 65 , Anita C Risch 66 , Nicholas G Smith 67 , Grégory Sonnier 19 , Rachel J Standish 68 , Carly J Stevens 69 , Michelle Tedder 44 , Pedro Tognetti 70 , G F Ciska Veen 71 , Risto Virtanen 34 , Glenda M Wardle 28 , Elizabeth Waring 72 , Amelia A Wolf 73 , Laura Yahdjian 70 , Eric W Seabloom 7
Global change is associated with variable shifts in the annual production of aboveground plant biomass, suggesting localized sensitivities with unclear causal origins. Combining remotely sensed normalized difference vegetation index data since the 1980s with contemporary field data from 84 grasslands on 6 continents, we show a widening divergence in site-level biomass ranging from +51% to −34% globally. Biomass generally increased in warmer, wetter and species-rich sites with longer growing seasons and declined in species-poor arid areas. Phenological changes were widespread, revealing substantive transitions in grassland seasonal cycling. Grazing, nitrogen deposition and plant invasion were prevalent in some regions but did not predict overall trends. Grasslands are undergoing sizable changes in production, with implications for food security, biodiversity and carbon storage especially in arid regions where declines are accelerating.
中文翻译:
自 1980 年代以来草原生物量的全球变异性不断扩大
全球变化与地上植物生物量年产量的可变变化有关,表明因果来源不明的局部敏感性。将自 1980 年代以来的遥感归一化差异植被指数数据与来自 6 大洲 84 个草原的当代实地数据相结合,我们显示了全球站点级生物量的差异不断扩大,范围从 +51% 到 -34%。生物量通常在生长季节较长的温暖、潮湿和物种丰富的地点增加,而在物种贫乏的干旱地区则下降。物候变化广泛,揭示了草原季节性循环的实质性转变。放牧、氮沉积和植物入侵在一些地区普遍存在,但不能预测总体趋势。草原的生产正在发生相当大的变化,这对粮食安全、生物多样性和碳储存产生了影响,尤其是在干旱地区,那里的产量正在加速下降。