Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra
Abstract Understanding the full range of biodiversity patterns from local to global scales, through the study of the drivers of multiscale plant community composition and diversity, is a current goal of biogeography. A synthetic understanding of to what extent vegetation compositional patterns are p...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe2020091069220 2023-07-30T04:07:21+02:00 Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra Malanson, G. P. (George P.) Virtanen, R. (Risto) Britton, A. J. (Andrea J.) Jiménez-Alfaro, B. (Borja) Qian, H. (Hong) Petraglia, A. (Alessandro) Tomaselli, M. (Marcello) Cooper, D. (David) Damm, C. (Christian) Pemble, R. H. (Richard H.) Brett, R. B. (Robert B.) 2020 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020091069220 eng eng Informa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2019 by American Association of Geographers. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of the American Association of Geographers on 27 Nov 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1677450. Alpine beta diversity climate distance oroarctic info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2020 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:57:04Z Abstract Understanding the full range of biodiversity patterns from local to global scales, through the study of the drivers of multiscale plant community composition and diversity, is a current goal of biogeography. A synthetic understanding of to what extent vegetation compositional patterns are produced by biotic factors, geography, or climate and how these patterns vary across scales is needed. This lack hinders prediction of the effects of climate change in global vegetation. Variation in community composition is examined in relation to climatic difference and geographic distance at hemispheric and continental scales. Vascular plants and bryophytes in thirteen mountain regions were analyzed: eight in Europe and five in North America, nine midlatitude and four oroarctic. Species composition differed between continents and between oroarctic and midlatitude regions. Patterns of paired regional similarity with distance were significant for all pairs and intercontinental pairs but not for those within Europe and North America. Climatic variables accounted for most of the variance in vegetation patterns revealed by general linear models of ordinations, but geographic variables of Moran eigenvectors and latitudinal zones were also important and significant. The effects of geography were typically twice as strong for vascular plants as for bryophytes. The importance of geography at these scales suggests that past evolutionary and ecological processes are as important as current fit to any climatic niche. Interpretation of observations of the impacts of global climate change should recognize geographic context and phylogeny, and policies to mitigate them, such as assisted migration, should be cautious. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra Jultika - University of Oulu repository |
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Alpine beta diversity climate distance oroarctic Malanson, G. P. (George P.) Virtanen, R. (Risto) Britton, A. J. (Andrea J.) Jiménez-Alfaro, B. (Borja) Qian, H. (Hong) Petraglia, A. (Alessandro) Tomaselli, M. (Marcello) Cooper, D. (David) Damm, C. (Christian) Pemble, R. H. (Richard H.) Brett, R. B. (Robert B.) Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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Abstract Understanding the full range of biodiversity patterns from local to global scales, through the study of the drivers of multiscale plant community composition and diversity, is a current goal of biogeography. A synthetic understanding of to what extent vegetation compositional patterns are produced by biotic factors, geography, or climate and how these patterns vary across scales is needed. This lack hinders prediction of the effects of climate change in global vegetation. Variation in community composition is examined in relation to climatic difference and geographic distance at hemispheric and continental scales. Vascular plants and bryophytes in thirteen mountain regions were analyzed: eight in Europe and five in North America, nine midlatitude and four oroarctic. Species composition differed between continents and between oroarctic and midlatitude regions. Patterns of paired regional similarity with distance were significant for all pairs and intercontinental pairs but not for those within Europe and North America. Climatic variables accounted for most of the variance in vegetation patterns revealed by general linear models of ordinations, but geographic variables of Moran eigenvectors and latitudinal zones were also important and significant. The effects of geography were typically twice as strong for vascular plants as for bryophytes. The importance of geography at these scales suggests that past evolutionary and ecological processes are as important as current fit to any climatic niche. Interpretation of observations of the impacts of global climate change should recognize geographic context and phylogeny, and policies to mitigate them, such as assisted migration, should be cautious. |
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Malanson, G. P. (George P.) Virtanen, R. (Risto) Britton, A. J. (Andrea J.) Jiménez-Alfaro, B. (Borja) Qian, H. (Hong) Petraglia, A. (Alessandro) Tomaselli, M. (Marcello) Cooper, D. (David) Damm, C. (Christian) Pemble, R. H. (Richard H.) Brett, R. B. (Robert B.) |
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Malanson, G. P. (George P.) Virtanen, R. (Risto) Britton, A. J. (Andrea J.) Jiménez-Alfaro, B. (Borja) Qian, H. (Hong) Petraglia, A. (Alessandro) Tomaselli, M. (Marcello) Cooper, D. (David) Damm, C. (Christian) Pemble, R. H. (Richard H.) Brett, R. B. (Robert B.) |
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Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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Hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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hemispheric- and continental-scale patterns of similarity in mountain tundra |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2019 by American Association of Geographers. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of the American Association of Geographers on 27 Nov 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1677450. |
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