A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations
International audience Strong climate warming is predicted at higher latitudes this century, with potentially major consequences for productivity and carbon sequestration. Although northern peatlands contain one-third of the world's soil organic carbon, little is known about the long-term respo...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00609003v1 2023-05-15T15:14:36+02:00 A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations Keuper, Frida Dorrepaal, Ellen Van Bodegom, Peter M Aerts, Rien Van Logtestijn, Richard Callaghan, Terry V Cornelissen, Johannes HC Department of Systems Ecology University of Amsterdam Amsterdam (UvA) Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC) Umeå University Dept of Systems Ecology Department of Animal and Plant Sciences Sheffield Centre for Arctic Ecology, University of Sheffield Abisko Naturvetenskapliga Station, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2011-01-17 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003/file/PEER_stage2_10.1111%252Fj.1365-2486.2010.02377.x.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02377.x en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02377.x hal-00609003 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003/file/PEER_stage2_10.1111%252Fj.1365-2486.2010.02377.x.pdf doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02377.x info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1354-1013 EISSN: 1365-2486 Global Change Biology https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609003 Global Change Biology, Wiley, 2011, 17 (6), pp.2162. ⟨10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02377.x⟩ Life Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2011 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02377.x 2021-09-19T01:34:16Z International audience Strong climate warming is predicted at higher latitudes this century, with potentially major consequences for productivity and carbon sequestration. Although northern peatlands contain one-third of the world's soil organic carbon, little is known about the long-term responses to experimental climate manipulations of vascular plant communities in these Sphagnum-dominated ecosystems. We aimed to see how long-term experimental climate change in and outside the growing season affects total vascular plant abundance and species composition when the community is dominated by mosses. During 8 years, we investigated how the vascular plant community of a Sphagnum fuscum-dominated subarctic peat bog responded to six experimental climate scenarios, including factorial combinations of summer as well as spring warming and a thicker snow cover. Vascular plant species composition in our peat bog was more stable than is typically observed in (sub)arctic experiments: neither changes in total vascular plant abundance, nor in individual species abundances, Shannon's diversity or evenness were found in response to the climate manipulations. For three key species (Empetrum hermaphroditum, Betula nana and S. fuscum) we also measured whether the treatments had a sustained effect on plant length growth responses and how these responses interacted. Contrasting with the stability at the community level, both key shrubs and the peatmoss showed sustained positive growth responses at the plant level to the climate treatments. However, a higher percentage of overgrown E. hermaphroditum shoots and a lack of change in B. nana net shrub height indicated encroachment by S. fuscum, resulting in long-term stability of the vascular community composition: in a warmer world, vascular species of subarctic peat bogs appear to just keep pace with growing Sphagnum in their race for space. Our findings contribute to general ecological theory by demonstrating that community resistance to environmental changes does not necessarily ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Betula nana Climate change Subarctic Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic Global Change Biology 17 6 2162 2171 |
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International audience Strong climate warming is predicted at higher latitudes this century, with potentially major consequences for productivity and carbon sequestration. Although northern peatlands contain one-third of the world's soil organic carbon, little is known about the long-term responses to experimental climate manipulations of vascular plant communities in these Sphagnum-dominated ecosystems. We aimed to see how long-term experimental climate change in and outside the growing season affects total vascular plant abundance and species composition when the community is dominated by mosses. During 8 years, we investigated how the vascular plant community of a Sphagnum fuscum-dominated subarctic peat bog responded to six experimental climate scenarios, including factorial combinations of summer as well as spring warming and a thicker snow cover. Vascular plant species composition in our peat bog was more stable than is typically observed in (sub)arctic experiments: neither changes in total vascular plant abundance, nor in individual species abundances, Shannon's diversity or evenness were found in response to the climate manipulations. For three key species (Empetrum hermaphroditum, Betula nana and S. fuscum) we also measured whether the treatments had a sustained effect on plant length growth responses and how these responses interacted. Contrasting with the stability at the community level, both key shrubs and the peatmoss showed sustained positive growth responses at the plant level to the climate treatments. However, a higher percentage of overgrown E. hermaphroditum shoots and a lack of change in B. nana net shrub height indicated encroachment by S. fuscum, resulting in long-term stability of the vascular community composition: in a warmer world, vascular species of subarctic peat bogs appear to just keep pace with growing Sphagnum in their race for space. Our findings contribute to general ecological theory by demonstrating that community resistance to environmental changes does not necessarily ... |
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Department of Systems Ecology University of Amsterdam Amsterdam (UvA) Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC) Umeå University Dept of Systems Ecology Department of Animal and Plant Sciences Sheffield Centre for Arctic Ecology, University of Sheffield Abisko Naturvetenskapliga Station, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
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A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations |
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