Effect of six years of nitrogen additions on soil chemistry in a subtropical Pleioblastus amarus forest, Southwest China

Soil chemistry influences plant health and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Increasing nitrogen(N) deposition has potential effect on soil chemistry. We studied N deposition effects on soil chemistry in subtropical Pleioblastus amarus bamboo forest ecosystems. An experiment with four N treatment levels(0, 50, 150,and300 kg N ha-1a-1,applied monthly, expressed as CK,LN,MN, HN,respectively) in three replicates. After6 years of N additions, soil base cations, acid-forming cations, exchangeable acidity(EA), organic carbon fractions and nitrogen components were measured in all four seasons. The mean soil pH values in CK,LN,MN and HN were 4.71, 4.62, 4.71, and 4.40, respectively, with a significant difference between CK and HN. Nitrogen additions significantly increased soil exchangeable Al3+,EA, and Al/Ca,and exchangeable Al3+ in HN increased by 70%compared to CK. Soil base cations(Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, and Na+) did not respond to N additions. Nitrogen treatments significantly increased soil NO3--N but had little effect on soil total nitrogen, particulate organic nitrogen, or NH4~+-N. Nitrogen additions did not affect soil total organic carbon, extractable dissolved organic carbon,incorporated organic carbon, or particulate organic carbon.This study suggests that increasing N deposition could increase soil NO3--N, reduce soil pH, and increase mobilization of Al3+. These changes induced by N deposition can impede root grow and function, further may influence soil carbon storage and nutrient cycles in the future.

Optimal design of a large dual-polarization microstrip reflectarray with China-coverage patterns for satellite communications

A large dual-polarization microstrip reflectarray with China-coverage patterns in two operating bands is designed.To sufficiently compensate for the spatial phase delay differences in two operating bands separately,a three-layer rectangular patch element is addressed,which is suitable for the large dual-polarization reflectarray.Due to the complexly shaped areas and high gain requirements,there are more than 25000 elements in the reflectarray,making it difficult to design,due to more than 150000 optimization variables.First,the discrete fast Fourier transform(DFFT)and the inverse DFFT are used to establish a one-to-one relationship between the aperture distribution and the far field,which lays a foundation for optimizing the shaped-beam reflectarray.The intersection approach,based on the alternating projection,is used to obtain the desired reflection phases of all the elements at some sample frequencies,and a new method for producing a suitable initial solution is proposed to avoid undesired local minima.To validate the design method,a dual-polarization shaped-beam reflectarray with 7569 elements is fabricated and measured.The measurement results are in reasonable agreement with the simulation ones.Then,for the large broadband reflectarray with the minimum differential spatial phase delays in the operating band,an approach for determining the optimal position of the feed is discussed.To simultaneously find optimal dimensions of each element in two orthogonal directions,we establish a new optimization model,which is solved by the regular polyhedron method.Finally,a dual-band dual-polarization microstrip reflectarray with 25305 elements is designed to cover the continent of China.Simulation results show that patterns of the reflectarray meet the China-coverage requirements in two operating bands,and that the proposed optimization method for designing large reflectarrays with complexly shaped patterns is reliable and efficient.