Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra

Climate change is expected to cause (sub)arctic plant species to move polewards to track their climatic niche. However, rapid migration requires recruitment from seed, which is rare in arctic regions where most plants reproduce vegetatively. Here, we examined whether recruitment from seed would impr...

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Main Authors: Milbau, Ann, Vandeplas, Nicolas, Kockelbergh, Fred, Nijs, Ivan
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Subjects:
Research Article
Arctic
Climate change
Subarctic
Tundra
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629451/
https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx040
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5629451 2023-05-15T14:34:34+02:00 Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra Milbau, Ann Vandeplas, Nicolas Kockelbergh, Fred Nijs, Ivan 2017-09-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629451/ https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx040 en eng Oxford University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629451/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx040 © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2017 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx040 2017-10-15T00:14:30Z Climate change is expected to cause (sub)arctic plant species to move polewards to track their climatic niche. However, rapid migration requires recruitment from seed, which is rare in arctic regions where most plants reproduce vegetatively. Here, we examined whether recruitment from seed would improve under warmer and more fertile future conditions. We found that seedling establishment was little affected by warming and fertilization, suggesting that (sub)arctic species may experience difficulties in tracking their climatic niche. Predictions of future species distributions in arctic regions solely based on abiotic factors may therefore overestimate species’ ranges. Text Arctic Climate change Subarctic Tundra PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic AoB PLANTS 9 5
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Milbau, Ann
Vandeplas, Nicolas
Kockelbergh, Fred
Nijs, Ivan
Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
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description Climate change is expected to cause (sub)arctic plant species to move polewards to track their climatic niche. However, rapid migration requires recruitment from seed, which is rare in arctic regions where most plants reproduce vegetatively. Here, we examined whether recruitment from seed would improve under warmer and more fertile future conditions. We found that seedling establishment was little affected by warming and fertilization, suggesting that (sub)arctic species may experience difficulties in tracking their climatic niche. Predictions of future species distributions in arctic regions solely based on abiotic factors may therefore overestimate species’ ranges.
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author Milbau, Ann
Vandeplas, Nicolas
Kockelbergh, Fred
Nijs, Ivan
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Kockelbergh, Fred
Nijs, Ivan
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title Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
title_short Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
title_full Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
title_fullStr Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
title_full_unstemmed Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
title_sort both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra
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