Effects of gerbil disturbance on the ecological stoichiometric characteristics and nutrient uptake and utilization of H. ammodendron

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Study area

Experimental design

Determination of biomass

Determination of stoichiometric ratios of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in plant and soil

Determination of PPUE and PNUE

Determination of biological absorption coefficient

Statistical analysis

Results

Effects of gerbil disturbance on the biomass of H. ammodendron

Effects of gerbils disturbance and growth stage and their interaction on C: N: P in plants and soil around roots of H. ammodendron

Effects of gerbils disturbance on the stoichiometric ratio of soil and assimilating branches around the roots of H. ammodendron

Effects of gerbil disturbance and growth stage on nutrient absorption coefficient and photosynthetic nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency of H. ammodendron

Effects of gerbils disturbance on nutrient uptake and photosynthetic nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency of H. ammodendron

Correlation between soil nutrients and their stoichiometric ratios and nutrient uptake and utilization of H. ammodendron

Discussion

Effects of the disturbance of great gerbils on the biomass of H. ammodendron

Effects of gerbils disturbance, growth stage and interaction on C: N: P of H. ammodendron

Effects of disturbance and growth stage and their interaction on biological absorption coefficient and photosynthetic nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency of H. ammodendron

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Jinshun Shi conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Shuyue Pang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Xingming Hao analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Hongling Liu performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Li Zhuang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw measurements are available in the Supplementary File.

Funding

This work was supported by the Open Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology (KH0054). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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