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A preliminary study of water use strategy of desert plants in Dunhuang, China

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Water is a restrictive factor for plant growth and ecosystem stability in arid and semiarid areas.The dynamics of water availability in soils and water use by plants are consequently critical to ecosystem functions,e.g.maintaining a high resistance to the changing climate.Plant water use strategies,including water-use efficiency (WUE) and the main water source that a plant species utilizes,play an important role in the evaluation of stability and sustainability of a plantation.The water use strategies of desert plants (Tamarix chinensis,Alhagi sparsifolia,Elaeagnus angustifolia,Sophora alopecuroides,Bassia dasyphylla and Nitraria sphaerocarpa) in three different habitats (saline land,sandy land and Gobi) in Dunhuang (located in the typical arid area of northwestern China) were studied.The stable isotope of oxygen was used to determine the main water source and leaf carbon isotope discrimination was used to estimate the long-term WUE of plant species in the summer of 2010.The results suggest that:1) the studied desert plants took up soil water below the depth of 80 cm;2) T.chinensis in the three habitats used deeper soil water and T.chinensis in the Gobi site had higher WUE than those in the saline land and the sandy land.The results indicated that desert plants in Dunhuang depended on stable water source and maintained high WUE to survive in water limited environments.

desert plantstable isotopewater sourcewater-use efficiencyDunhuang

YongQin CUI、JianYing MA、Wei SUN、JiaHuan SUN、ZhengHu DUAN

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Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China

Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University,Changchun 130024, China

research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaresearch was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProgram for New Century Excellent Talents in UniversityThousand Talents Program of ChinaWest Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

4107103231270445NCET-12-08420132009

2015

10.1007/s40333-014-0037-1

干旱区科学
中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所,科学出版社

干旱区科学

CSTPCDCSCDSCI
影响因子：1.743
ISSN：1674-6767
年,卷(期)：2015.7(1)
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