HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2023, Vol. 62 ›› Issue (9): 44-50.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2023.09.008

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The variation characteristics of soil nutrient, enzyme activity and microbial count under different vegetation types of Heihe wetland

PENG Yi-nan1, QI Hong-shan1, PEI Yan-li2, XI Peng1, JI Bin1   

  1. 1. Institute of Biology, Gansu Academy of Sciences/Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources Exploitation and Application of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    2. Heihe Wetland National Nature Reserve Administration of Gaotai County, Gaotai 734300, Gansu, China
  • Received:2022-08-05 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2023-10-24

Abstract: To provide a scientific basis for improving the restoration strategy of the Heihe wetlands, the effectiveness of planting different vegetation on the restoration of wetland ecosystems was studied. In 2016, a vegetation restoration project was carried out to plant 2-year-old Elaeagnus angustifolia, Tamarix chinensis and Populus euphratica respectively in the west of the Red Army Memorial Forest on the northern bank of the Heihe, and the rhizosphere soil of each vegetation was collected in December 2020, while the natural restoration without vegetation was used as a control to study the differences and correlations of soil nutrients, enzyme activities and microbial quantity among planting different vegetations. The results showed that vegetation restoration improved the ecological environment and alleviated the salinization of Heihe wetland; planting Elaeagnus angustifolia had the most significant effect on reducing soil salinity, and increasing the content of soil organic matter and alkali-hydrolyzale nitrogen; planting Populus euphratica had the most significant effect on increasing the content of available phosphorus and available potassium, as well as the activity of urease and alkaline phosphatase in soil; planting Tamarix chinensis had the most significant effect on increasing the total soil microbial quantity; there was a close correlation between soil nutrients content, enzyme activity and microbial quantity. In total, the vegetation restoration project reduced soil salinity in the wetland, and increased the nutrients content, enzyme activity and microbial quantity of soil, and the vegetation restoration was effective for ecosystem restoration in the Heihe wetland.

Key words: vegetation restoration, soil nutrient, soil enzyme activity, microbial quantity, Heihe wetland

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