Miaomiao Cui , Jie Dong , Bin Yang , Haochen Yu , Xue Fan , Zhaoqi Zhu , Guangqian Ren , Daolin Du
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Abstract
Many studies have examined the interactions among multiple global change factors, but their combined effects on plant and soil stoichiometry, particularly in invasive and native plants, remain poorly understood. This study investigated how warming and phosphorus influence plant biomass, and carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus of a native and an invasive plant species and their soils, and how stoichiometry mediates biomass responses to environmental change. Artemisia argyi (native) and Solidago canadensis (invasive) were treated with warming (2 °C above ambient temperature), phosphorus (4 g m−2 yr−1, NaH₂PO₄), and their combination under single planting. Warming significantly inhibited the total biomass accumulation of S. canadensis (-69.7 %) and A. argyi (-49.0 %). The C:P and N:P of A. argyi significantly increased under warming due to decreased total phosphorus. Structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that the effect of warming on total biomass accumulation of A. argyi resulted from its direct negative influence. Conversely, phosphorus input increased the total biomass of S. canadensis (+22.8 %) and A. argyi (+11.6 %). SEM showed that phosphorus could promote the total biomass accumulation of S. canadensis directly or indirectly through soil C:N:P. The warming * phosphorus treatment significantly inhibited total biomass accumulation of S. canadensis (-56.4 %) and A. argyi (-50.3 %). Both species exhibited higher N:P under combined environmental treatment, driven by reduced total phosphorus concentration in A. argyi (-24.2 %) and increased total nitrogen concentration in S. canadensis (+70.3 %). Compared with A. argyi, the total biomass of S. canadensis was higher under warming * phosphorus treatment, though its growth stimulation by phosphorus input was significantly inhibited by high temperature. This indicates that rising environment temperature may gradually weaken the growth advantage of invasive plants. In addition, the coupling relationship between plant and soil stoichiometry jointly regulates plant responses to global change, emphasizing the importance of stoichiometry in plant–soil systems.
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