SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT
Alpine and arctic ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to climate change. We know little about alpine plant community responses to the predicted abiotic changes, or to possible changes in the biotic environment caused by climate change. Four years of experimental warming and nutrient addition a...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298682.v1 2023-05-15T15:07:31+02:00 SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT Klanderud, Kari Totland, Ørjan 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298682.v1 https://figshare.com/collections/SIMULATED_CLIMATE_CHANGE_ALTERED_DOMINANCE_HIERARCHIES_AND_DIVERSITY_OF_AN_ALPINE_BIODIVERSITY_HOTSPOT/3298682/1 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/04-1563 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298682 CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us CC-BY Environmental Science Ecology FOS Biological sciences Collection article 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298682.v1 https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1563 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3298682 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Alpine and arctic ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to climate change. We know little about alpine plant community responses to the predicted abiotic changes, or to possible changes in the biotic environment caused by climate change. Four years of experimental warming and nutrient addition altered dominance hierarchies, community structure, and diversity of an alpine biodiversity hotspot in south Norway. The previously dominant dwarf shrub Dryas octopetala was replaced by graminoids and forbs under nutrient addition and warming with nutrients. Community diversity declined due to decreased bryophyte and lichen richness and abundances, and dwarf shrub abundances. In controls and in plots with only warming, where Dryas maintained dominance, the relationships between changes in Dryas cover and changes in community parameters were negative, suggesting that Dryas controls community processes. Under nutrient addition, bryophyte and lichen diversity decreased with decreasing Dryas cover, probably due to increased competition from graminoids and forbs. The shift in dominance hierarchies changed community structure and dynamics through increased biomass, vegetation height, and competition for light. Community diversity dropped primarily because changes in the abiotic environment modified biotic interactions, highlighting that species interaction must be considered in climate change experiments and in models predicting climate change effects. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Dryas octopetala DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Norway |
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Alpine and arctic ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to climate change. We know little about alpine plant community responses to the predicted abiotic changes, or to possible changes in the biotic environment caused by climate change. Four years of experimental warming and nutrient addition altered dominance hierarchies, community structure, and diversity of an alpine biodiversity hotspot in south Norway. The previously dominant dwarf shrub Dryas octopetala was replaced by graminoids and forbs under nutrient addition and warming with nutrients. Community diversity declined due to decreased bryophyte and lichen richness and abundances, and dwarf shrub abundances. In controls and in plots with only warming, where Dryas maintained dominance, the relationships between changes in Dryas cover and changes in community parameters were negative, suggesting that Dryas controls community processes. Under nutrient addition, bryophyte and lichen diversity decreased with decreasing Dryas cover, probably due to increased competition from graminoids and forbs. The shift in dominance hierarchies changed community structure and dynamics through increased biomass, vegetation height, and competition for light. Community diversity dropped primarily because changes in the abiotic environment modified biotic interactions, highlighting that species interaction must be considered in climate change experiments and in models predicting climate change effects. |
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SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT |
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SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT |
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SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT |
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SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT |
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SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT |
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simulated climate change altered dominance hierarchies and diversity of an alpine biodiversity hotspot |
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