Research Article

Responses of Ecosystem CO2 Fluxes to Short-Term Experimental Warming and Nitrogen Enrichment in an Alpine Meadow, Northern Tibet Plateau

Table 1

Repeated-measure analyses of variance (ANOVAs) for ecosystem respiration (Reco), aboveground biomass (AGB), soil inorganic N content, and mineralization rate in 2012. and values represent value of ANOVA results and statistical significance, respectively. The significant level is .

ModelRecoAGBSoil inorganic
N content
Soil N
mineralization rate

Warming (W)8.0630.01562.290<0.0010.0040.94832.108<0.001
Nitrogen (N)3.9110.07153.157<0.00130.078<0.00133.617<0.001
W × N0.0340.8752.7100.1263.6840.03410.375<0.001
Date (D)31.2080.000147.502<0.00160.798<0.001494.949<0.001
D × W0.9450.41411.565<0.00115.222<0.001251.430<0.001
D × N0.8920.43611.300<0.00113.242<0.00154.143<0.001
D × W × N0.2680.8014.6140.02362.886<0.00146.345<0.001