文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Meltwater is the dominant water source controlling α-cellulose δ18O in a vascular-plant-dominated alpine peatland in the Altai Mountains, Central Asia

作者：Shi, Fuxi[1]; Rao, Zhiguo[1,2]; Cao, Jiantao[1]; Huang, Chao[3]; Wu, Dandan[2]; Yang, Wen[2]; Sun, Weizhen[4]

机构：[1] Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems [Ministry of Education], College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China; [2] College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China; [3] Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, 524088, China; [4] State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China

年份：2019

卷号：572

起止页码：192

外文期刊名：Journal of Hydrology

收录：EI(收录号：20191006592904)、Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85062354799)

基金：We thank Muhtar Abdunnasir, Min Tang, Jin Wang, Haiying Ma and other staff members of the Xinjiang Wuqilike National Wetland Park for their help in field sampling. We also thank Dr. Matt Amesbury (Helsinki University & Exeter University) and other anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions, which improved the quality of this paper. We are particularly grateful to Dr. Jan. Bloemendal for improving the English language. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 41772373 and 41601056 ), the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 2018JJ1017 ), the Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province, China , and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (grant no. lzujbky-2018-it77 ).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Cellulose - Frozen soils - Isotopes - Oxygen - Plants (botany) - Soil moisture - Water piping systems

外文摘要：Few studies have fully considered how hydrological inputs and climate influence the linkage between the oxygen isotopic composition of α-cellulose (δ18Ocell) and their source waters in vascular-plant-dominated alpine peatlands. In this study, in order to test whether δ18Ocell can be used as a hydroclimatic indicator, we investigated the relationship between the δ18O values of cellulose extracted from the dominant plant species (Carex pamirensis) and those of potential source waters during two growing seasons (from May to September) in the Sahara sand peatland in the southern Altai Mountains. Concurrently, the Roden–Lin–Ehleringer (RLE) mechanistic model was applied to better understand oxygen isotopic fractionation during cellulose synthesis. We found that the meltwater from snow/ice cover and seasonally-frozen soil played a critical role in controlling the hydrological processes in this alpine peatland. The δ18O values of both swale water and soil water responded more sensitively to variations in inflow meltwater than did summer precipitation. IsoSource modelling demonstrated that the mean 76–24% split between meltwater and summer precipitation inputs determined the overall isotopic composition of the peatland water. The slopes of the peatland water line (6.38) and meltwater line (6.87) were slightly lower than that of the local meteoric water line (LMWL) (7.72), suggesting limited evaporation from these external water sources due to the relatively high humidity (73–80%) in the studied fen. However, the slopes of the stem water line (4.53) and leaf water line (3.57) were generally lower than that of the LMWL, indicating that the internal plant waters have experienced isotopic enrichment during transpiration. Interestingly, the variations of δ18Ocell (of shoots, stems and leaves) fall within a relatively narrow range (18O enrichment factor (11.13 ± 1.07‰ for ΔModelled), together with a smoothing effect. Furthermore, empirical correlation and RLE modeling both showed the co-variation of external source water and cellulose synthesis, demonstrating that the cellulose oxygen isotope composition of C. pamirensis can faithfully reflect variations in soil/swale water. These findings strongly suggest that inflow meltwater is the dominant water source in determining δ18Ocell, implying that the δ18Op signals of precipitation in the winter half-year (October–April) may be inherited by the δ18Ocell values of C. pamirensis at the study site. Therefore, our results provide important insights for the hydroclimatic interpretation of past variations in δ18Ocell values in vascular plants in alpine peatlands. ? 2019 Elsevier B.V.