陆生植物稳定碳同位素组成与全球变化

Terrestrial plant stable carbon isotope composition and global change.

分析了大气CO2浓度、温度、降水和海拔高度等环境因素对陆生植物稳定性碳同位素组分的影响及其作用机理,综述了国内外碳稳定同位素技术在全球变化研究中的进展和应用,如重建大气CO2浓度变化,揭示温度、降水对树木生长的“滞后效应”和“幼龄效应”,确定不同光合型植物随海拔高度的分布变化,以及通过碳稳定同位素技术揭示不同时间尺度上和不同气候条件下的植物水分利用效率变化及不同生活型植物的水分利用效率差异,并探讨研究中存在的问题及其研究前景.

Stable carbon isotope analysis is a rapid and reliable technique developed in recent years, and has been widely applied to reconstruct the sequences of atmospheric CO2 concentration changes, clarify the hysteresis effect and junior effect of temperature and precipitation on tree growth, and distinguish the distributions of plants with different photosynthetic pathways. The water use efficiency （WUE） of different plant functional groups and the variations of plant WUE with tempo-spatial and climatic changes can be also indicated by determining plant carbon isotope composition. In this paper, the effects of environmental factors, e. g., atmospheric CO2 concentration, air temperature, precipitation, and altitude on terrestrial plant carbon isotope composition were discussed, and the advances and applications of carbon isotope technique in global change research were summarized. Furthermore, the existing and disputed problems in carbon isotope analysis were discussed, and the future trends of carbon isotope technique in global change research were prospected, aimed to widen people＇s knowledge and promote the development of this technique.