Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production

Han, Juanjuan; Chen, Jiquan; Miao, Yuan; Wan, Shiqiang

doi:10.1038/srep37453

Title: Multiple resource use efficiency (mRUE): A new concept for ecosystem production

Journal Article · Mon Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37453· OSTI ID:1363948

Han, Juanjuan ^[1]; Chen, Jiquan ^[2]; Miao, Yuan ^[3]; Wan, Shiqiang ^[3]

Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing (China)
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Henan Univ., Henan (China)

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 (R_avail). 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.

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Research Organization:: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1363948

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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