Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production
Abstract
The resource-driven concept, which is an important school for investigating ecosystem production, has been applied for decades. However, the regulatory mechanisms of production by multiple resources remain unclear. We formulated a new algorithm model that integrates multiple resource uses to study ecosystem production and tested its applications on a water-availability gradient in semi-arid grassland. The result of our experiment showed that changes in water availability significantly affected the resources of light and nitrogen, and altered the relationships among multiple resource absorption rate (ε), multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE), and available resource (Ravail). The increased water availability suppressed ecosystem mRUE (i.e., “declining marginal returns”); The changes in mRUE had a negative effect on ε (i.e., “inverse feedback”). These two processes jointly regulated that the stimulated single resource availability would promote ecosystem production rather than suppress it, even when mRUE was reduced. This study illustrated the use of the mRUE model in exploring the coherent relationships among the key parameters on regulating the ecosystem production for future modeling, and evaluated the sensitivity of this conceptual model under different dataset properties. Furthermore, this model needs extensive validation by the ecological community before it can extrapolate this method to other ecosystems in the future.
- Authors:
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- Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing (China)
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Henan Univ., Henan (China)
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- Research Org.:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1363948
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-07ER64494
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; climate-change ecology; ecosystem ecology
Citation Formats
Han, Juanjuan, Chen, Jiquan, Miao, Yuan, and Wan, Shiqiang. Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep37453.
Han, Juanjuan, Chen, Jiquan, Miao, Yuan, & Wan, Shiqiang. Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37453
Han, Juanjuan, Chen, Jiquan, Miao, Yuan, and Wan, Shiqiang. Mon .
"Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37453. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1363948.
@article{osti_1363948,
title = {Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production},
author = {Han, Juanjuan and Chen, Jiquan and Miao, Yuan and Wan, Shiqiang},
abstractNote = {The resource-driven concept, which is an important school for investigating ecosystem production, has been applied for decades. However, the regulatory mechanisms of production by multiple resources remain unclear. We formulated a new algorithm model that integrates multiple resource uses to study ecosystem production and tested its applications on a water-availability gradient in semi-arid grassland. The result of our experiment showed that changes in water availability significantly affected the resources of light and nitrogen, and altered the relationships among multiple resource absorption rate (ε), multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE), and available resource (Ravail). The increased water availability suppressed ecosystem mRUE (i.e., “declining marginal returns”); The changes in mRUE had a negative effect on ε (i.e., “inverse feedback”). These two processes jointly regulated that the stimulated single resource availability would promote ecosystem production rather than suppress it, even when mRUE was reduced. This study illustrated the use of the mRUE model in exploring the coherent relationships among the key parameters on regulating the ecosystem production for future modeling, and evaluated the sensitivity of this conceptual model under different dataset properties. Furthermore, this model needs extensive validation by the ecological community before it can extrapolate this method to other ecosystems in the future.},
doi = {10.1038/srep37453},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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