Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome.
The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate. A better understanding of how environmental factors shape plant structure and function is crucial for predicting the c...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org/ark:/13030/qt5jw2c0ws 2023-05-15T18:39:39+02:00 Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Bjorkman, Anne D Myers-Smith, Isla H Elmendorf, Sarah C Normand, Signe Rüger, Nadja Beck, Pieter SA Blach-Overgaard, Anne Blok, Daan Cornelissen, J Hans C Forbes, Bruce C Georges, Damien Goetz, Scott J Guay, Kevin C Henry, Gregory HR HilleRisLambers, Janneke Hollister, Robert D Karger, Dirk N Kattge, Jens Manning, Peter Prevéy, Janet S Rixen, Christian Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela Thomas, Haydn JD Vellend, Mark Wilmking, Martin Wipf, Sonja Carbognani, Michele Hermanutz, Luise Lévesque, Esther Molau, Ulf Petraglia, Alessandro Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A Spasojevic, Marko J Tomaselli, Marcello Vowles, Tage Alatalo, Juha M Alexander, Heather D Anadon-Rosell, Alba Angers-Blondin, Sandra Beest, Mariska Te Berner, Logan Björk, Robert G Buchwal, Agata Buras, Allan Christie, Katherine Cooper, Elisabeth J Dullinger, Stefan Elberling, Bo Eskelinen, Anu Frei, Esther R Grau, Oriol Grogan, Paul Hallinger, Martin Harper, Karen A Heijmans, Monique MPD Hudson, James Hülber, Karl Iturrate-Garcia, Maitane Iversen, Colleen M Jaroszynska, Francesca Johnstone, Jill F Jørgensen, Rasmus Halfdan Kaarlejärvi, Elina Klady, Rebecca Kuleza, Sara Kulonen, Aino Lamarque, Laurent J Lantz, Trevor Little, Chelsea J Speed, James DM Michelsen, Anders Milbau, Ann Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Ninot, Josep M Oberbauer, Steven F Olofsson, Johan Onipchenko, Vladimir G Rumpf, Sabine B Semenchuk, Philipp Shetti, Rohan Collier, Laura Siegwart Street, Lorna E Suding, Katharine N Tape, Ken D Trant, Andrew Treier, Urs A Tremblay, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Venn, Susanna Weijers, Stef Zamin, Tara Boulanger-Lapointe, Noémie Gould, William A Hik, David S Hofgaard, Annika Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S Jorgenson, Janet Klein, Julia Magnusson, Borgthor 57 - 62 2018-10-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jw2c0ws unknown eScholarship, University of California qt5jw2c0ws https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jw2c0ws public Nature, vol 562, iss 7725 Plants Water Soil Humidity Temperature Biometry Phenotype Plant Physiological Phenomena Global Warming Spatio-Temporal Analysis Geographic Mapping Tundra General Science & Technology article 2018 ftcdlib 2020-10-13T16:03:42Z The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate. A better understanding of how environmental factors shape plant structure and function is crucial for predicting the consequences of environmental change for ecosystem functioning. Here we explore the biome-wide relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits both across space and over three decades of warming at 117 tundra locations. Spatial temperature-trait relationships were generally strong but soil moisture had a marked influence on the strength and direction of these relationships, highlighting the potentially important influence of changes in water availability on future trait shifts in tundra plant communities. Community height increased with warming across all sites over the past three decades, but other traits lagged far behind predicted rates of change. Our findings highlight the challenge of using space-for-time substitution to predict the functional consequences of future warming and suggest that functions that are tied closely to plant height will experience the most rapid change. They also reveal the strength with which environmental factors shape biotic communities at the coldest extremes of the planet and will help to improve projections of functional changes in tundra ecosystems with climate warming. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra University of California: eScholarship |
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Plants Water Soil Humidity Temperature Biometry Phenotype Plant Physiological Phenomena Global Warming Spatio-Temporal Analysis Geographic Mapping Tundra General Science & Technology Bjorkman, Anne D Myers-Smith, Isla H Elmendorf, Sarah C Normand, Signe Rüger, Nadja Beck, Pieter SA Blach-Overgaard, Anne Blok, Daan Cornelissen, J Hans C Forbes, Bruce C Georges, Damien Goetz, Scott J Guay, Kevin C Henry, Gregory HR HilleRisLambers, Janneke Hollister, Robert D Karger, Dirk N Kattge, Jens Manning, Peter Prevéy, Janet S Rixen, Christian Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela Thomas, Haydn JD Vellend, Mark Wilmking, Martin Wipf, Sonja Carbognani, Michele Hermanutz, Luise Lévesque, Esther Molau, Ulf Petraglia, Alessandro Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A Spasojevic, Marko J Tomaselli, Marcello Vowles, Tage Alatalo, Juha M Alexander, Heather D Anadon-Rosell, Alba Angers-Blondin, Sandra Beest, Mariska Te Berner, Logan Björk, Robert G Buchwal, Agata Buras, Allan Christie, Katherine Cooper, Elisabeth J Dullinger, Stefan Elberling, Bo Eskelinen, Anu Frei, Esther R Grau, Oriol Grogan, Paul Hallinger, Martin Harper, Karen A Heijmans, Monique MPD Hudson, James Hülber, Karl Iturrate-Garcia, Maitane Iversen, Colleen M Jaroszynska, Francesca Johnstone, Jill F Jørgensen, Rasmus Halfdan Kaarlejärvi, Elina Klady, Rebecca Kuleza, Sara Kulonen, Aino Lamarque, Laurent J Lantz, Trevor Little, Chelsea J Speed, James DM Michelsen, Anders Milbau, Ann Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Ninot, Josep M Oberbauer, Steven F Olofsson, Johan Onipchenko, Vladimir G Rumpf, Sabine B Semenchuk, Philipp Shetti, Rohan Collier, Laura Siegwart Street, Lorna E Suding, Katharine N Tape, Ken D Trant, Andrew Treier, Urs A Tremblay, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Venn, Susanna Weijers, Stef Zamin, Tara Boulanger-Lapointe, Noémie Gould, William A Hik, David S Hofgaard, Annika Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S Jorgenson, Janet Klein, Julia Magnusson, Borgthor Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
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Plants Water Soil Humidity Temperature Biometry Phenotype Plant Physiological Phenomena Global Warming Spatio-Temporal Analysis Geographic Mapping Tundra General Science & Technology |
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The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate. A better understanding of how environmental factors shape plant structure and function is crucial for predicting the consequences of environmental change for ecosystem functioning. Here we explore the biome-wide relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits both across space and over three decades of warming at 117 tundra locations. Spatial temperature-trait relationships were generally strong but soil moisture had a marked influence on the strength and direction of these relationships, highlighting the potentially important influence of changes in water availability on future trait shifts in tundra plant communities. Community height increased with warming across all sites over the past three decades, but other traits lagged far behind predicted rates of change. Our findings highlight the challenge of using space-for-time substitution to predict the functional consequences of future warming and suggest that functions that are tied closely to plant height will experience the most rapid change. They also reveal the strength with which environmental factors shape biotic communities at the coldest extremes of the planet and will help to improve projections of functional changes in tundra ecosystems with climate warming. |
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Bjorkman, Anne D Myers-Smith, Isla H Elmendorf, Sarah C Normand, Signe Rüger, Nadja Beck, Pieter SA Blach-Overgaard, Anne Blok, Daan Cornelissen, J Hans C Forbes, Bruce C Georges, Damien Goetz, Scott J Guay, Kevin C Henry, Gregory HR HilleRisLambers, Janneke Hollister, Robert D Karger, Dirk N Kattge, Jens Manning, Peter Prevéy, Janet S Rixen, Christian Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela Thomas, Haydn JD Vellend, Mark Wilmking, Martin Wipf, Sonja Carbognani, Michele Hermanutz, Luise Lévesque, Esther Molau, Ulf Petraglia, Alessandro Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A Spasojevic, Marko J Tomaselli, Marcello Vowles, Tage Alatalo, Juha M Alexander, Heather D Anadon-Rosell, Alba Angers-Blondin, Sandra Beest, Mariska Te Berner, Logan Björk, Robert G Buchwal, Agata Buras, Allan Christie, Katherine Cooper, Elisabeth J Dullinger, Stefan Elberling, Bo Eskelinen, Anu Frei, Esther R Grau, Oriol Grogan, Paul Hallinger, Martin Harper, Karen A Heijmans, Monique MPD Hudson, James Hülber, Karl Iturrate-Garcia, Maitane Iversen, Colleen M Jaroszynska, Francesca Johnstone, Jill F Jørgensen, Rasmus Halfdan Kaarlejärvi, Elina Klady, Rebecca Kuleza, Sara Kulonen, Aino Lamarque, Laurent J Lantz, Trevor Little, Chelsea J Speed, James DM Michelsen, Anders Milbau, Ann Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Ninot, Josep M Oberbauer, Steven F Olofsson, Johan Onipchenko, Vladimir G Rumpf, Sabine B Semenchuk, Philipp Shetti, Rohan Collier, Laura Siegwart Street, Lorna E Suding, Katharine N Tape, Ken D Trant, Andrew Treier, Urs A Tremblay, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Venn, Susanna Weijers, Stef Zamin, Tara Boulanger-Lapointe, Noémie Gould, William A Hik, David S Hofgaard, Annika Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S Jorgenson, Janet Klein, Julia Magnusson, Borgthor |
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Bjorkman, Anne D Myers-Smith, Isla H Elmendorf, Sarah C Normand, Signe Rüger, Nadja Beck, Pieter SA Blach-Overgaard, Anne Blok, Daan Cornelissen, J Hans C Forbes, Bruce C Georges, Damien Goetz, Scott J Guay, Kevin C Henry, Gregory HR HilleRisLambers, Janneke Hollister, Robert D Karger, Dirk N Kattge, Jens Manning, Peter Prevéy, Janet S Rixen, Christian Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela Thomas, Haydn JD Vellend, Mark Wilmking, Martin Wipf, Sonja Carbognani, Michele Hermanutz, Luise Lévesque, Esther Molau, Ulf Petraglia, Alessandro Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A Spasojevic, Marko J Tomaselli, Marcello Vowles, Tage Alatalo, Juha M Alexander, Heather D Anadon-Rosell, Alba Angers-Blondin, Sandra Beest, Mariska Te Berner, Logan Björk, Robert G Buchwal, Agata Buras, Allan Christie, Katherine Cooper, Elisabeth J Dullinger, Stefan Elberling, Bo Eskelinen, Anu Frei, Esther R Grau, Oriol Grogan, Paul Hallinger, Martin Harper, Karen A Heijmans, Monique MPD Hudson, James Hülber, Karl Iturrate-Garcia, Maitane Iversen, Colleen M Jaroszynska, Francesca Johnstone, Jill F Jørgensen, Rasmus Halfdan Kaarlejärvi, Elina Klady, Rebecca Kuleza, Sara Kulonen, Aino Lamarque, Laurent J Lantz, Trevor Little, Chelsea J Speed, James DM Michelsen, Anders Milbau, Ann Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Ninot, Josep M Oberbauer, Steven F Olofsson, Johan Onipchenko, Vladimir G Rumpf, Sabine B Semenchuk, Philipp Shetti, Rohan Collier, Laura Siegwart Street, Lorna E Suding, Katharine N Tape, Ken D Trant, Andrew Treier, Urs A Tremblay, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Venn, Susanna Weijers, Stef Zamin, Tara Boulanger-Lapointe, Noémie Gould, William A Hik, David S Hofgaard, Annika Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S Jorgenson, Janet Klein, Julia Magnusson, Borgthor |
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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
title_full |
Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
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plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. |
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Nature, vol 562, iss 7725 |
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