Dominance hierarchies, diversity and species richness of vascular plants in an alpine meadow: contrasting short and medium term responses to simulated global change

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Alatalo, Juha M., Little, Chelsea, J., Jägerbrand, Annika K., Molau, Ulf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Visby, Sweden 2014
• Subjects: Vegetation; Global warming; Impact study; Environmental Sciences; Miljövetenskap; Arctic; Latnjajaure; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40281; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.406

We studied the impact of simulated global change on a high alpine meadow plant community. Specifically, we examined whether short-term (5 years) responses are good predictors for medium-term (7 years) changes in the system by applying a factorial warming and nutrient manipulation to 20 plots in Latn...