Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions
Abstract Aim To examine how snow cover and permafrost affect plant species distributions at a subcontinental extent. Location Mountain realm of Fennoscandia, northern Europe. Time period Species data from 1 January 1990–25 February 2019. Major taxa studied Arctic‐alpine and boreal vascular plants. M...
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crwiley:10.1111/geb.13315 2024-06-02T08:01:08+00:00 Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Luoto, Miska Bjorkman, Anne Koneen Säätiö 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13315 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/geb.13315 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/geb.13315 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Global Ecology and Biogeography volume 30, issue 7, page 1502-1513 ISSN 1466-822X 1466-8238 journal-article 2021 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13315 2024-05-03T11:18:23Z Abstract Aim To examine how snow cover and permafrost affect plant species distributions at a subcontinental extent. Location Mountain realm of Fennoscandia, northern Europe. Time period Species data from 1 January 1990–25 February 2019. Major taxa studied Arctic‐alpine and boreal vascular plants. Methods We examined the effect of snow persistence and permafrost occurrence on the distributions of arctic‐alpine and boreal plant species while controlling for climate, topography and geological factors. Data comprised 475,811 observations from 671 species in the Fennoscandian mountains. We investigated the relationships between species distributions and environmental variables using four modelling methods and ensemble modelling building on both non‐spatial and spatial models. Results Snow persistence was the most important driver of plant species distributions, with the greatest variable importance for both arctic‐alpine (38.2%) and boreal (49.9%) species. Permafrost had a consistent minor effect on the predicted distributions. Arctic‐alpine plants occur in areas with long snow persistence and permafrost, whereas boreal species showed the opposite habitat preferences. Main conclusions Our results highlight the importance of snow persistence in driving the distribution of vascular plant species in cold environments at a subcontinental scale. The notable contribution of the cryosphere to plant species distribution models indicates that the inclusion of snow information in particular may improve our understanding and model predictions of biogeographical patterns in cold regions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Fennoscandia Fennoscandian permafrost Wiley Online Library Arctic Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 7 1502 1513 |
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Abstract Aim To examine how snow cover and permafrost affect plant species distributions at a subcontinental extent. Location Mountain realm of Fennoscandia, northern Europe. Time period Species data from 1 January 1990–25 February 2019. Major taxa studied Arctic‐alpine and boreal vascular plants. Methods We examined the effect of snow persistence and permafrost occurrence on the distributions of arctic‐alpine and boreal plant species while controlling for climate, topography and geological factors. Data comprised 475,811 observations from 671 species in the Fennoscandian mountains. We investigated the relationships between species distributions and environmental variables using four modelling methods and ensemble modelling building on both non‐spatial and spatial models. Results Snow persistence was the most important driver of plant species distributions, with the greatest variable importance for both arctic‐alpine (38.2%) and boreal (49.9%) species. Permafrost had a consistent minor effect on the predicted distributions. Arctic‐alpine plants occur in areas with long snow persistence and permafrost, whereas boreal species showed the opposite habitat preferences. Main conclusions Our results highlight the importance of snow persistence in driving the distribution of vascular plant species in cold environments at a subcontinental scale. The notable contribution of the cryosphere to plant species distribution models indicates that the inclusion of snow information in particular may improve our understanding and model predictions of biogeographical patterns in cold regions. |
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Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Luoto, Miska Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Luoto, Miska |
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Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions |
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