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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Agrobiologia.
Data corrente: | 11/07/2003
Data da última atualização: | 11/07/2003
Autoria: | BRIGGS, J. M.; KNAPP, A. K.
Título: | Interannual variability in primary production in tallgrass prairie: Climate, soil moisture, topographic position, and fire as determinants of aboveground biomass.
Ano de publicação: | 1995
Fonte/Imprenta: | American Journal of Botany, v. 82, n. 8, p. 1024-1030, 1995.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | From 1915 to 1993, aboveground net primary production (NPP) at the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area in NE Kansas varied from 179 g/m2 to 756 g/m2. Across a variety of sites, NPP was significantly related to precipitation (r2 = 0.37), but much variability was unexplained. Thus, we evaluated the relationship between NPP with meteorological variables and soil moisture measurements in tallgrass prairie sites that varied in fire frequency and topographic position. Annually bumed lowland sites had significantly higher NPP than either annually bumed upland or unbumed sites. NPP in bumed sites was more strongly related to meteorological variables and soil moisture when compared to unbumed sites. The lack ofsignificant correlation between soil moisture with NPP on unbumed sites suggests that factors other than water availability limit production in these sites. When NPP data were analyzed separately by life forrns, interannual variability in forb NPP was not correlated with any meteorological variables, but was negatively correlated with grass NPP (r = -0.49). The inability of a single factor, such as precipitation to explain a large portion of the interannual variability in NPP is consistent with the concept that pattems of NPP in tallgrass prairie are a product of spatial and temporal variability in light, water, and nutrients, driven by a combination of topography, fire history, and climate.
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Registro original: | Embrapa Agrobiologia (CNPAB)
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