Plant diversity, physiology, and function in the face of global change ...
One central goal in ecology is to understand how biodiversity, and key organismal traits, interact with ecosystem properties and processes, and ultimately to understand and predict how these interactions will be affected by rapid environmental change. Thus, global change experiments and observationa...
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Columbia University
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8k361m3 https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8K361M3 |
| Summary: | One central goal in ecology is to understand how biodiversity, and key organismal traits, interact with ecosystem properties and processes, and ultimately to understand and predict how these interactions will be affected by rapid environmental change. Thus, global change experiments and observational gradients in diversity provide the opportunity to examine and test hypotheses about how organismal traits, multiple dimensions of biodiversity, and ecosystem function will respond to environmental change. In Arctic tundra, increased nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability accompanying rapid warming is thought to significantly alter plant community composition and ecosystem function. The following four chapters examine hypotheses about the responses of species’ traits, multiple dimensions of biodiversity, and ecosystem function to the effects Arctic warming. Chapter 1 examines plant community composition and the capacity for ecosystem function (net ecosystem exchange, ecosystem respiration, and gross primary ... |
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