Effects of riparian vegetation patterns on the distribution and potential loss of soil nutrients: a case study of the Wenyu River in Beijing

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Effects of riparian vegetation patterns on the distribution and potential loss of soil nutrients: a case study of the Wenyu River in Beijing

Erhui GUO^1,²,Liding CHEN^1,^*(

),Ranhao SUN¹,Zhaoming WANG^1,²

1. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Abstract

A riparian ecosystem is an ecological transition zone between a river channel and terrestrial ecosystems. Riparian ecosystems play a vital role in maintaining stream health and bank stabilization. The types of riparian vegetation have changed greatly because of human activities along the Wenyu River. This study examines the impact of riparian vegetation patterns on water pollution due to soil nutrient loss. Four riparian vegetation patterns from the river channel to the upland were chosen as the focus of this study: grassland, cropland, grassland-cropland, and grassland-manmade lawn. The different distributions of soil nutrients along vegetation patterns and the potential risk of nutrient loss were observed and compared. The results showed that riparian cropland has the lowest value of total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), and organic matter (OM), but it has the highest soil bulk density (BD). The distributions of soil TN, TP, AN, AP, and OM exhibited a declining trend from the upland toward the river channel for riparian cropland, whereas a different trend was observed for the riparian grassland. The vegetation patterns of grassland-cropland and grassland-manmade lawn show that the grassland in the lower slope has more nutrients and OM but lower soil BD than the cropland or manmade lawn in the upper slope. So, the lower-slope grassland may intercept and infiltrate surface runoff from the upland. The lower-slope grassland has higher levels of soil TN, TP, AN, and AP, and thus it may become a new source of nutrient loss. Our results suggest that the management of the riparian vegetation should be improved, particularly in densely populated areas, to control soil erosion and river pollution.

Keywords riparian vegetation patterns soil nutrient distribution nutrient loss management

Corresponding Author(s): Liding CHEN

Online First Date: 18 March 2014 Issue Date: 13 February 2015

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Erhui GUO,Liding CHEN,Ranhao SUN, et al. Effects of riparian vegetation patterns on the distribution and potential loss of soil nutrients: a case study of the Wenyu River in Beijing[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 0, (): 279-287.

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Fig.1 Sample location of the Wenyu River in Beijing, China

Fig.2 The four riparian vegetation patterns from the river channel to the upland of the riparian. I, Grassland; II, Cropland; III, Grassland-cropland; IV, Grassland-manmade lawn

Fig.3 Distribution of the soil nutrient contents and the soil BD in different riparian vegetation patterns (n = 3). I, Grassland; II, Cropland; III, Grassland-cropland; IV, Grassland-manmade lawn

Tab.1 Distribution of average soil TN, TP, AN, AP, OM, and BD in the riparian vegetation pattern of grassland-cropland

Tab.2 Distribution of average soil TN, TP, AN, AP, OM, and BD in the riparian vegetation pattern of grassland-manmade lawn

Fig.4 Comparison of the soil nutrient contents and the soil BD in the four riparian vegetation patterns (n = 21). Note: I, Grassland; II, Cropland; III, Grassland-cropland; IV, Grassland-manmade lawn

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