scholarly journals Unequal contributions of species’ persistence and migration on plant communities’ response to climate warming throughout forests

Ecography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-213
Author(s):  
Romain Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Species Persistence ◽  
And Migration

scholarly journals Unequal contributions of species’ persistence and migration on plant communities’ response to climate warming throughout forests

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romain Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Species Persistence ◽  
Species Migration ◽  
Alpine Forest ◽  
Herbaceous Communities ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Mediterranean Communities

Community reshuffling is lagging behind climate warming for many taxa, thereby generating a climatic debt. However, only few studies have attempted to assess the underlying factors that explain this debt, and none has gone further to explore this issue from a biogeographical perspective. Here I examine how effects of species’ migration and persistence on the current climatic debt vary spatially in forest herbaceous communities throughout the French territory. I show that Mediterranean communities are responding to climate warming through both high species’ migration and persistence effects, while alpine forest is the only ecosystem where species’ migration overtakes species’ persistence mechanisms. Such an approach seems promising in assessing the underlying mechanisms of the biodiversity response to climate change locally, and it can be applied for conservation issues to assess biodiversity sensitivity and optimize its management.

scholarly journals Revised distribution and phytosociological data of Orobanche coerulescens Stephan in Willd. (Orobanchaceae): Poland in relation to Central Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Piwowarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Range Limits ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Original Field ◽  
Critical Revision ◽  
And Migration ◽  
North Western

Abstract Orobanche coerulescens has a Eurasian distribution. The species is classified as extinct at most of its localities at the western limit of its range. Its populations are very scarce and critically endangered in Central Europe. This work presents the current distribution of O.coerulescens in Poland, based on a critical revision of herbarium and literature data as well as results of original field research, and reviews its distribution in Central Europe (partly in Eastern Europe). Habitats, plant communities, and migration routes of O.coerulescens in Central Europe are discussed. The species was initially known in Poland from now historical localities in Pomerania and the valley of the lower Vistula. In 2000-2011 it was recorded at 9 localities in Podlasie, the Małopolska Upland (Wyżyna Małopolska), and the Łódź Hills (Wzniesienia Łódzkie). Its abundance at the localities ranged from a few to over 1000 shoots. These are the largest populations of O.coerulescens at its western and north-western range limits.

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1470-1481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lenoir ◽  
Bente Jessen Graae ◽  
Per Arild Aarrestad ◽  
Inger Greve Alsos ◽  
W. Scott Armbruster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Spatial Buffering

scholarly journals Species turnover reveals hidden effects of decreasing nitrogen deposition in mountain hay meadows

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Roth ◽  
Lukas Kohli ◽  
Christoph Bühler ◽  
Beat Rihm ◽  
Reto Giulio Meuli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Community Change ◽  
N Deposition ◽  
Indicator Values ◽  
Hay Meadows ◽  
Random Expectation

Nitrogen (N) deposition is a major threat to biodiversity in many habitats. The recent introduction of cleaner technologies in Switzerland has led to a reduction in the emissions of nitrogen oxides, with a consequent decrease in N deposition. We examined different drivers of plant community change, that is, N deposition, climate warming, and land-use change, in Swiss mountain hay meadows, using data from the Swiss biodiversity monitoring program. We compared indicator values of species that disappeared from or colonized a site (species turnover) with the indicator values of randomly chosen species from the same site. While oligotrophic plant species were more likely to colonize, compared to random expectation, we found only weak shifts in plant community composition. In particular, the average nutrient value of plant communities remained stable over time (2003–2017). We found the largest deviations from random expectation in the nutrient values of colonizing species, suggesting that N deposition or other factors that change the nutrient content of soils were important drivers of the species composition change over the last 15 years in Swiss mountain hay meadows. In addition, we observed an overall replacement of species with lower indicator values for temperature with species with higher values. Apparently, the community effects of the replacement of eutrophic species with oligotrophic species was outweighed by climate warming. Our results add to the increasing evidence that plant communities in changing environments may be relatively stable regarding average species richness or average indicator values, but that this apparent stability is often accompanied by a marked turnover of species.

scholarly journals Species turnover reveals hidden effects of decreasing nitrogen deposition in mountain hay meadows

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Roth ◽  
Lukas Kohli ◽  
Christoph Bühler ◽  
Beat Rihm ◽  
Reto Giulio Meuli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Community Change ◽  
N Deposition ◽  
Indicator Values ◽  
Hay Meadows ◽  
Random Expectation

Nitrogen (N) deposition is a major threat to biodiversity in many habitats. The recent introduction of cleaner technologies in Switzerland has led to a reduction in the emissions of nitrogen oxides, with a consequent decrease in N deposition. We examined different drivers of plant community change, i.e. N deposition, climate warming, and land-use change, in Swiss mountain hay meadows, using data from the Swiss biodiversity monitoring program. We compared indicator values of species that disappeared from or colonized a site (species turnover) with the indicator values of randomly chosen species from the same site. While oligotrophic plant species were more likely to colonize, compared to random expectation, we found only weak shifts in plant community composition. In particular, the average nutrient value of plant communities remained stable over time (2003-2017). We found the largest deviations from random expectation in the nutrient values of colonizing species, suggesting that N deposition or other factors that change the nutrient content of soils were important drivers of the species composition change over the last 15 years in Swiss mountain hay meadows. In addition, we observed an overall replacement of species with lower indicator values for temperature with species with higher values. Apparently, the community effects of the replacement of eutrophic species with oligotrophic species was outweighed by climate warming. Our results add to the increasing evidence that plant communities in changing environments may be relatively stable regarding average species richness or average indicator values, but that this apparent stability is often accompanied by a marked turnover of species.

Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 898-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Marini ◽  
Hans Henrik Bruun ◽  
Risto K. Heikkinen ◽  
Aveliina Helm ◽  
Olivier Honnay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Species Persistence

scholarly journals Species turnover reveals hidden effects of decreasing nitrogen deposition in mountain hay meadows

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Roth ◽  
Lukas Kohli ◽  
Christoph Bühler ◽  
Beat Rihm ◽  
Reto Giulio Meuli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Community Change ◽  
N Deposition ◽  
Indicator Values ◽  
Hay Meadows ◽  
Random Expectation

Nitrogen (N) deposition is a major threat to biodiversity in many habitats. The recent introduction of cleaner technologies in Switzerland has led to a reduction in the emissions of nitrogen oxides, with a consequent decrease in N deposition. We examined different drivers of plant community change, i.e. N deposition, climate warming, and land-use change, in Swiss mountain hay meadows, using data from the Swiss biodiversity monitoring program. We compared indicator values of species that disappeared from or colonized a site (species turnover) with the indicator values of randomly chosen species from the same site. While oligotrophic plant species were more likely to colonize, compared to random expectation, we found only weak shifts in plant community composition. In particular, the average nutrient value of plant communities remained stable over time (2003-2017). We found the largest deviations from random expectation in the nutrient values of colonizing species, suggesting that N deposition or other factors that change the nutrient content of soils were important drivers of the species composition change over the last 15 years in Swiss mountain hay meadows. In addition, we observed an overall replacement of species with lower indicator values for temperature with species with higher values. Apparently, the community effects of the replacement of eutrophic species with oligotrophic species was outweighed by climate warming. Our results add to the increasing evidence that plant communities in changing environments may be relatively stable regarding average species richness or average indicator values, but that this apparent stability is often accompanied by a marked turnover of species.

Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming

2019 ◽  
pp. 297-346
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Winkler ◽  
Kaitlin C. Lubetkin ◽  
Alyssa A. Carrell ◽  
Meredith D. Jabis ◽  
Yan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Alpine Plant ◽  
Alpine Plant Communities
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