RESPONSE OF ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITY TO SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE: TWO-YEAR RESULTS OF RECIPROCAL TRANSLOCATION EXPERIMENT (TIBETAN PLATEAU)

• Main Authors: Zhang, Fa-Wei, Li, Ying-Nian, Gao, Guang-Min, Wang, Shi-Ping, Zhao, Xin-Quan, Du, Ming-Yuan, Wang, Qin-Xue
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Species Richness; Shannon-weaver Index; Function Group; Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; ALASKAN ARCTIC TUNDRA; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES; MEADOW ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE; DOMINANCE; IMPACTS; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Ecology; Arctic; Weaver; Climate change; Global warming; Tundra
• Online Access: http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/6933

The great sensitivity of the response of alpine plant community to climate change makes the identification of these responses important. In 2007, we conducted a reciprocal translocation experiment on 100 x 100 x 40 cm coherent turf and soil along an elevation gradient of 3200-3800 m on the south slo...