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Clarifying the changing trends and driving factors of soil respiration in fragile habitats under the background of climate change is of great significance for understanding the regional carbon cycle and the conversion of ecosystem carbon source and sink functions. This research focused on grasslands that had been naturally abandoned and restored for 12 years in the loess hilly region of northern Shaanxi, using an open top chamber (OTC) and artificially increased natural rainfall to simulate climate warming and precipitation increase and their interaction. Furthermore, we used a combination of field monitoring and indoor analysis to explore soil water content, temperature, and nutrient characteristics and the response characteristics of soil respiration rate to warming and increased precipitation and further analyzed the key factors driving changes in soil respiration. The results showed that:① warming (W) significantly increased the 5 cm soil temperature, with an average increase of 1.34℃ throughout the sampling year, whereas the increased precipitation (P50%) treatment significantly reduced the 5 cm soil temperature, reducing the average 5 cm soil temperature during the entire sampling year by 0.88℃ and increasing the soil water content (SWC) at the same time. The SWC was 13.12% and 16.45% higher than that in the control (CK), respectively. In addition, compared with that in the CK, the treatment of warming and increased precipitation (WP50%) not only increased soil temperature but also increased SWC; in general, the increase in temperature and precipitation played an antagonistic effect on the influence of soil temperature and humidity. ② P50% significantly increased the content of soil organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and labile organic carbon, causing changes in the soil stoichiometric ratio and the distribution characteristics of labile-recalcitrant carbon components, whereas W did not have a significant impact on organic carbon. In addition, soil total nitrogen and phosphorus and available nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients were not significantly different between treatments. ③ P50% significantly increased the

To reveal the change in the characteristics of soil microbial C-degrading enzyme activities and the response to the components of C during the restoration process of

Clarifying the characteristic of soil enzymatic activity and stoichiometry variations as well as their influencing factors following farmland abandonment have important implications for understanding soil nutrient availability after revegetation and for illuminating the underlying mechanisms of soil nutrient cycling in ecosystems. To determine microbial nutrient limitations after farmland abandonment and to explore the driving factors of the variations in soil enzymatic activity and stoichiometry along a chronosequence of abandoned farmlands (0-, 10-, 20-, and 30-year-old) in the Loess Hilly Region, China, the potential activities of carbon (C)-, nitrogen (N)-, and phosphorus (P)-acquiring enzymes, soil physicochemical properties, and plant diversity and family composition were measured. The results showed that the activities of

To reveal nutrient resorption characteristics of为揭示丘陵沟壑区刺槐的养分重吸收特征及其驱动因素,研究该区不同林龄刺槐叶片全氮和全磷的浓度,以及土壤有机碳、全氮、全磷、铵态氮、硝态氮和速效磷浓度及其化学计量,分析了叶片氮磷重吸收效率与土壤养分特性之间的关系。结果表明: 植物和土壤的养分随林龄增长发生显著变化,而土壤总磷和速效磷浓度较低。氮重吸收效率随林分生长先增加后降低,范围为48.2%～54.0%,平均为48.5%;磷重吸收效率则显著增加,范围为45.2%～49.4%,平均为46.9%。氮重吸收效率与土壤氮素和氮磷比呈负向响应,而磷重吸收效率与氮磷比呈显著正相关,与土壤速效磷呈负相关。表明土壤养分有效性的变化负向驱动养分重吸收效率。由于该生境中刺槐林的固氮效应及磷限制,叶片养分重吸收策略对土壤氮磷比响应强烈。.

The trends of and relationships among the plant community, soil nutrients, and four soil enzymes were investigated after being abandoned for 10, 15, 20, 30, and 45 years to reveal the soil properties during the restoration in the Loess Hilly Region. The results indicate the following ranking of dominant plant community species