Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic
The Arctic ecosystems and their species are exposed to amplified climate warming and, in some regions, to rapidly developing economic activities. This study assesses, models, and maps the geographic patterns of community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic and estimates the r...
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ftunivzuerich:oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:259095 2024-06-23T07:48:36+00:00 Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic Zemlianskii, Vitalii Brun, Philipp Zimmermann, Niklaus E Ermokhina, Ksenia Khitun, Olga Koroleva, Natalia Schaepman‐Strub, Gabriela 2024-03 application/pdf https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/259095/ https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/259095/1/ZORA_Zemlianskii_2024_Current_and_past_climate_co_shape__28published_version_29.pdf https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-259095 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11140 eng eng Wiley Open Access https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/259095/1/ZORA_Zemlianskii_2024_Current_and_past_climate_co_shape__28published_version_29.pdf doi:10.5167/uzh-259095 doi:10.1002/ece3.11140 info:pmid/38495434 urn:issn:2045-7758 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Zemlianskii, Vitalii; Brun, Philipp; Zimmermann, Niklaus E; Ermokhina, Ksenia; Khitun, Olga; Koroleva, Natalia; Schaepman‐Strub, Gabriela (2024). Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic. Ecology and Evolution, 14(3):e11140. Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies 590 Animals (Zoology) 570 Life sciences biology Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Journal Article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2024 ftunivzuerich https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-25909510.1002/ece3.11140 2024-06-05T00:30:03Z The Arctic ecosystems and their species are exposed to amplified climate warming and, in some regions, to rapidly developing economic activities. This study assesses, models, and maps the geographic patterns of community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic and estimates the relative impact of environmental and anthropogenic factors driving these patterns. With our study, we aim at contributing toward conservation efforts for Arctic plant diversity in the Western Siberian Arctic. We investigated the relative importance of environmental and anthropogenic predictors of community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic using macroecological models trained with an extensive geobotanical dataset. We included vascular plants, mosses and lichens in our analysis, as non‐vascular plants substantially contribute to species richness and ecosystem functions in the Arctic. We found that the mean community‐level plant species richness in this vast Arctic region does not decrease with increasing latitude. Instead, we identified an increase in species richness from South‐West to North‐East, which can be well explained by environmental factors. We found that paleoclimatic factors exhibit higher explained deviance compared to contemporary climate predictors, potentially indicating a lasting impact of ancient climate on tundra plant species richness. We also show that the existing protected areas cover only a small fraction of the regions with highest species richness. Our results reveal complex spatial patterns of community‐level species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic. We show that climatic factors such as temperature (including paleotemperature) and precipitation are the main drivers of plant species richness in this area, and the role of relief is clearly secondary. We suggest that while community‐level plant species richness is mostly driven by environmental factors, an improved spatial sampling will be needed to robustly and more precisely assess the impact of human ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Tundra University of Zurich (UZH): ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive Arctic |
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The Arctic ecosystems and their species are exposed to amplified climate warming and, in some regions, to rapidly developing economic activities. This study assesses, models, and maps the geographic patterns of community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic and estimates the relative impact of environmental and anthropogenic factors driving these patterns. With our study, we aim at contributing toward conservation efforts for Arctic plant diversity in the Western Siberian Arctic. We investigated the relative importance of environmental and anthropogenic predictors of community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic using macroecological models trained with an extensive geobotanical dataset. We included vascular plants, mosses and lichens in our analysis, as non‐vascular plants substantially contribute to species richness and ecosystem functions in the Arctic. We found that the mean community‐level plant species richness in this vast Arctic region does not decrease with increasing latitude. Instead, we identified an increase in species richness from South‐West to North‐East, which can be well explained by environmental factors. We found that paleoclimatic factors exhibit higher explained deviance compared to contemporary climate predictors, potentially indicating a lasting impact of ancient climate on tundra plant species richness. We also show that the existing protected areas cover only a small fraction of the regions with highest species richness. Our results reveal complex spatial patterns of community‐level species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic. We show that climatic factors such as temperature (including paleotemperature) and precipitation are the main drivers of plant species richness in this area, and the role of relief is clearly secondary. We suggest that while community‐level plant species richness is mostly driven by environmental factors, an improved spatial sampling will be needed to robustly and more precisely assess the impact of human ... |
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Zemlianskii, Vitalii Brun, Philipp Zimmermann, Niklaus E Ermokhina, Ksenia Khitun, Olga Koroleva, Natalia Schaepman‐Strub, Gabriela |
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Zemlianskii, Vitalii Brun, Philipp Zimmermann, Niklaus E Ermokhina, Ksenia Khitun, Olga Koroleva, Natalia Schaepman‐Strub, Gabriela |
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Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic |
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Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic |
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Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic |
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Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic |
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Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic |
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current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the western siberian arctic |
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Zemlianskii, Vitalii; Brun, Philipp; Zimmermann, Niklaus E; Ermokhina, Ksenia; Khitun, Olga; Koroleva, Natalia; Schaepman‐Strub, Gabriela (2024). Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic. Ecology and Evolution, 14(3):e11140. |
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