Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales
Patterns and processes shaping ecosystems vary across spatiotemporal scales. As plant functional traits reflect ecosystem properties, investigating their relationships with environment provides an important tool to understand and predict ecosystem structure and functioning. This is particularly impo...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/87190 2024-05-19T07:35:54+00:00 Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Virkkala, Anna‐Maria Luoto, Miska 2023 application/pdf fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202305253254 eng eng Wiley Ecography 0906-7590 7 2023 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119775 10.1111/ecog.06397 Rissanen, T., Niittynen, P., Soininen, J., Virkkala, A., & Luoto, M. (2023). Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales. Ecography , 2023 (7), Article e06397. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06397 CONVID_183191511 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202305253254 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202305253254 CC BY 3.0 © 2023 The Authors. Ecography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ arctic–alpine vegetation functional traits snow summer temperature vascular plants ekosysteemit (ekologia) putkilokasvit tundra lumi kasvillisuus kesä lämpötila ilmastonmuutokset paikkatietoanalyysi article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 publishedVersion A1 2023 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119775 2024-04-23T23:38:28Z Patterns and processes shaping ecosystems vary across spatiotemporal scales. As plant functional traits reflect ecosystem properties, investigating their relationships with environment provides an important tool to understand and predict ecosystem structure and functioning. This is particularly important in the tundra where a changing climate may trigger severe alterations in plant communities as both summer and winter conditions are changing. Here, we investigate the relationships between key environmental drivers including summer temperature, snow persistence, topographic position and soil pH, and species height, specific leaf area (SLA) and seed mass as plant traits. The study is carried out at three spatial extents in the arctic–alpine region of Fennoscandia, modelling the trait-environment relationships at each scale to investigate whether the relationships are scale dependent. Our results show that summer temperature and snow persistence are the most important variables explaining community trait composition. Temperature is important especially to vegetation height, which increased towards higher temperatures, whereas seed mass and SLA are related to snow persistence. Seed mass decreased towards longer snow persistence, while SLA responded in scale-dependent ways. Topographic position and soil pH affect community trait composition moderately. Overall, our study demonstrates that trait-environment relationships in the tundra are largely consistent across spatial scales. Our findings highlight the ecological relevance of snow for all three functional traits regardless of scale, showing that snow information could be particularly important to better understand large-scale trends in plant community composition and ecosystem functioning as seasonal snow cover is shrinking globally. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Fennoscandia Tundra JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive |
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arctic–alpine vegetation functional traits snow summer temperature vascular plants ekosysteemit (ekologia) putkilokasvit tundra lumi kasvillisuus kesä lämpötila ilmastonmuutokset paikkatietoanalyysi Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Virkkala, Anna‐Maria Luoto, Miska Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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Patterns and processes shaping ecosystems vary across spatiotemporal scales. As plant functional traits reflect ecosystem properties, investigating their relationships with environment provides an important tool to understand and predict ecosystem structure and functioning. This is particularly important in the tundra where a changing climate may trigger severe alterations in plant communities as both summer and winter conditions are changing. Here, we investigate the relationships between key environmental drivers including summer temperature, snow persistence, topographic position and soil pH, and species height, specific leaf area (SLA) and seed mass as plant traits. The study is carried out at three spatial extents in the arctic–alpine region of Fennoscandia, modelling the trait-environment relationships at each scale to investigate whether the relationships are scale dependent. Our results show that summer temperature and snow persistence are the most important variables explaining community trait composition. Temperature is important especially to vegetation height, which increased towards higher temperatures, whereas seed mass and SLA are related to snow persistence. Seed mass decreased towards longer snow persistence, while SLA responded in scale-dependent ways. Topographic position and soil pH affect community trait composition moderately. Overall, our study demonstrates that trait-environment relationships in the tundra are largely consistent across spatial scales. Our findings highlight the ecological relevance of snow for all three functional traits regardless of scale, showing that snow information could be particularly important to better understand large-scale trends in plant community composition and ecosystem functioning as seasonal snow cover is shrinking globally. peerReviewed |
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Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Virkkala, Anna‐Maria Luoto, Miska |
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Rissanen, Tuuli Niittynen, Pekka Soininen, Janne Virkkala, Anna‐Maria Luoto, Miska |
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Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales |
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Arctic Fennoscandia Tundra |
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Arctic Fennoscandia Tundra |
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Ecography 0906-7590 7 2023 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119775 10.1111/ecog.06397 Rissanen, T., Niittynen, P., Soininen, J., Virkkala, A., & Luoto, M. (2023). Plant trait‐environment relationships in tundra are consistent across spatial scales. Ecography , 2023 (7), Article e06397. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06397 CONVID_183191511 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202305253254 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202305253254 |
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CC BY 3.0 © 2023 The Authors. Ecography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
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