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Vild O, Chudomelová M, Macek M, Kopecký M, Prach J, Petřík P, Halas P, Juříček M, Smyčková M, Šebesta J, Vojík M, Hédl R. Long-term shift towards shady and nutrient-rich habitats in Central European temperate forests. New Phytol 2024; 242:1018-1028. [PMID: 38436203 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
Abstract
Biodiversity world-wide has been under increasing anthropogenic pressure in the past century. The long-term response of biotic communities has been tackled primarily by focusing on species richness, community composition and functionality. Equally important are shifts between entire communities and habitat types, which remain an unexplored level of biodiversity change. We have resurveyed > 2000 vegetation plots in temperate forests in central Europe to capture changes over an average of five decades. The plots were assigned to eight broad forest habitat types using an algorithmic classification system. We analysed transitions between the habitat types and interpreted the trend in terms of changes in environmental conditions. We identified a directional shift along the combined gradients of canopy openness and soil nutrients. Nutrient-poor open-canopy forest habitats have declined strongly in favour of fertile closed-canopy habitats. However, the shift was not uniform across the whole gradients. We conclude that the shifts in habitat types represent a century-long successional trend with significant consequences for forest biodiversity. Open forest habitats should be urgently targeted for plant diversity restoration through the implementation of active management. The approach presented here can be applied to other habitat types and at different spatio-temporal scales.
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- Ondřej Vild
- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, 128 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic
- Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 11 000, Prague 1, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geonics, Studentská 1768/9, 708 00, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00, Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, 128 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University, Zemědělská 3, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21, Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Kaplanova 1931/1, 148 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Padullés Cubino J, Lenoir J, Li D, Montaño-Centellas FA, Retana J, Baeten L, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Chudomelová M, Closset D, Decocq G, De Frenne P, Diekmann M, Dirnböck T, Durak T, Hédl R, Heinken T, Jaroszewicz B, Kopecký M, Macek M, Máliš F, Naaf T, Orczewska A, Petřík P, Pielech R, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Świerkosz K, Teleki B, Verheyen K, Vild O, Waller D, Wulf M, Chytrý M. Evaluating plant lineage losses and gains in temperate forest understories: a phylogenetic perspective on climate change and nitrogen deposition. New Phytol 2024; 241:2287-2299. [PMID: 38126264 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
Abstract
Global change has accelerated local species extinctions and colonizations, often resulting in losses and gains of evolutionary lineages with unique features. Do these losses and gains occur randomly across the phylogeny? We quantified: temporal changes in plant phylogenetic diversity (PD); and the phylogenetic relatedness (PR) of lost and gained species in 2672 semi-permanent vegetation plots in European temperate forest understories resurveyed over an average period of 40 yr. Controlling for differences in species richness, PD increased slightly over time and across plots. Moreover, lost species within plots exhibited a higher degree of PR than gained species. This implies that gained species originated from a more diverse set of evolutionary lineages than lost species. Certain lineages also lost and gained more species than expected by chance, with Ericaceae, Fabaceae, and Orchidaceae experiencing losses and Amaranthaceae, Cyperaceae, and Rosaceae showing gains. Species losses and gains displayed no significant phylogenetic signal in response to changes in macroclimatic conditions and nitrogen deposition. As anthropogenic global change intensifies, temperate forest understories experience losses and gains in specific phylogenetic branches and ecological strategies, while the overall mean PD remains relatively stable.
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- Josep Padullés Cubino
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain
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- UMR CNRS 7058 'Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés' (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, 80037, France
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
- Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
- Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain
- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Spain
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, B-9090, Belgium
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, 07743, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, 60200, Czech Republic
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- UMR CNRS 7058 'Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés' (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, 80037, France
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- UMR CNRS 7058 'Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés' (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, 80037, France
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, B-9090, Belgium
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- Institute of Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Environment Agency Austria, Ecosystem Research and Environmental Information Management, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Institute of Biology, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, 35601, Poland
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, 60200, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Olomouc, 78371, Czech Republic
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- General Botany, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, 14469, Germany
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, 17230, Poland
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, 25243, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, 16521, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, 25243, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, 96001, Slovakia
- National Forest Centre, Zvolen, 96001, Slovakia
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, 15374, Germany
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- Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, Katowice, 40007, Poland
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, 25243, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, 16500, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, 30387, Poland
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, 50328, Poland
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- Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary
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- Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, 50335, Poland
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- HUN-REN-UD Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, B-9090, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, 25243, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, 15374, Germany
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- Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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Landuyt D, Perring MP, Blondeel H, De Lombaerde E, Depauw L, Lorer E, Maes SL, Baeten L, Bergès L, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Brūmelis G, Brunet J, Chudomelová M, Czerepko J, Decocq G, den Ouden J, De Frenne P, Dirnböck T, Durak T, Fichtner A, Gawryś R, Härdtle W, Hédl R, Heinrichs S, Heinken T, Jaroszewicz B, Kirby K, Kopecký M, Máliš F, Macek M, Mitchell FJG, Naaf T, Petřík P, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Swierkosz K, Smart SM, Van Calster H, Vild O, Waller DM, Wulf M, Verheyen K. Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests. Glob Chang Biol 2024; 30:e17086. [PMID: 38273496 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
Abstract
Plant communities are being exposed to changing environmental conditions all around the globe, leading to alterations in plant diversity, community composition, and ecosystem functioning. For herbaceous understorey communities in temperate forests, responses to global change are postulated to be complex, due to the presence of a tree layer that modulates understorey responses to external pressures such as climate change and changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition rates. Multiple investigative approaches have been put forward as tools to detect, quantify and predict understorey responses to these global-change drivers, including, among others, distributed resurvey studies and manipulative experiments. These investigative approaches are generally designed and reported upon in isolation, while integration across investigative approaches is rarely considered. In this study, we integrate three investigative approaches (two complementary resurvey approaches and one experimental approach) to investigate how climate warming and changes in nitrogen deposition affect the functional composition of the understorey and how functional responses in the understorey are modulated by canopy disturbance, that is, changes in overstorey canopy openness over time. Our resurvey data reveal that most changes in understorey functional characteristics represent responses to changes in canopy openness with shifts in macroclimate temperature and aerial nitrogen deposition playing secondary roles. Contrary to expectations, we found little evidence that these drivers interact. In addition, experimental findings deviated from the observational findings, suggesting that the forces driving understorey change at the regional scale differ from those driving change at the forest floor (i.e., the experimental treatments). Our study demonstrates that different approaches need to be integrated to acquire a full picture of how understorey communities respond to global change.
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- Dries Landuyt
- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), Bangor, UK
- The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- Laboratoire ecosystèmes et sociétés en montagne (LESSEM), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), St-Martin d'Hères, France
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Lomma, Sweden
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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- Institute of Biology, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland
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- Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- General Botany, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, Poland
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), Lancaster University, Bailrigg, UK
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Forest&Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle, Belgium
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Staude IR, Pereira HM, Daskalova GN, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Diekmann M, Pauli H, Van Calster H, Vellend M, Bjorkman AD, Brunet J, De Frenne P, Hédl R, Jandt U, Lenoir J, Myers-Smith IH, Verheyen K, Wipf S, Wulf M, Andrews C, Barančok P, Barni E, Benito-Alonso JL, Bennie J, Berki I, Blüml V, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Dick J, Dirnböck T, Durak T, Eriksson O, Erschbamer B, Graae BJ, Heinken T, Schei FH, Jaroszewicz B, Kopecký M, Kudernatsch T, Macek M, Malicki M, Máliš F, Michelsen O, Naaf T, Nagel TA, Newton AC, Nicklas L, Oddi L, Ortmann-Ajkai A, Palaj A, Petraglia A, Petřík P, Pielech R, Porro F, Puşcaş M, Reczyńska K, Rixen C, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Steinbauer K, Świerkosz K, Teleki B, Theurillat JP, Turtureanu PD, Ursu TM, Vanneste T, Vergeer P, Vild O, Villar L, Vittoz P, Winkler M, Baeten L. Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecol Lett 2021; 25:466-482. [PMID: 34866301 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Revised: 08/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Species turnover is ubiquitous. However, it remains unknown whether certain types of species are consistently gained or lost across different habitats. Here, we analysed the trajectories of 1827 plant species over time intervals of up to 78 years at 141 sites across mountain summits, forests, and lowland grasslands in Europe. We found, albeit with relatively small effect sizes, displacements of smaller- by larger-ranged species across habitats. Communities shifted in parallel towards more nutrient-demanding species, with species from nutrient-rich habitats having larger ranges. Because these species are typically strong competitors, declines of smaller-ranged species could reflect not only abiotic drivers of global change, but also biotic pressure from increased competition. The ubiquitous component of turnover based on species range size we found here may partially reconcile findings of no net loss in local diversity with global species loss, and link community-scale turnover to macroecological processes such as biotic homogenisation.
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- Ingmar R Staude
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.,CIBIO (Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources)-InBIO (Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology), Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology, FB 2, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- GLORIA Coordination, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW-IGF), Vienna, Austria.,GLORIA Coordination, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR7058 CNRS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Gontrode, Belgium
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.,Swiss National Park, Zernez, Switzerland
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, Exeter University, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary
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- UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR7058 CNRS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, Midlothian, UK
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- Institute of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, Poland
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.,Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, Poland
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.,National Forest Centre, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Muencheberg, Germany
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- Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Environment UJEP, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Biodiversity, University of Agriculture, Kraków, Poland.,Foundation for Biodiversity Research, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Al. Borza Botanic Garden, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.,Center for Systematic Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources - 3B, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.,Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research Center CERC, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- GLORIA Coordination, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW-IGF), Vienna, Austria.,GLORIA Coordination, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Debrecen Egyetem, Debrecen, Hungary.,PTE KPVK Institute for Regional Development, Szekszárd, Hungary
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- Fondation J.-M.Aubert, Champex-Lac, Switzerland.,Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
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- Center for Systematic Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources - 3B, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.,Centre for Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources (3B), Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.,Emil G. Racoviță Institute, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE-CSIC, Jaca, Huesca, Spain
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- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- GLORIA Coordination, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW-IGF), Vienna, Austria.,GLORIA Coordination, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Gontrode, Belgium
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Zellweger F, De Frenne P, Lenoir J, Vangansbeke P, Verheyen K, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Baeten L, Hédl R, Berki I, Brunet J, Van Calster H, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Dirnböck T, Durak T, Heinken T, Jaroszewicz B, Kopecký M, Máliš F, Macek M, Malicki M, Naaf T, Nagel TA, Ortmann-Ajkai A, Petřík P, Pielech R, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Świerkosz K, Teleki B, Vild O, Wulf M, Coomes D. Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming". Science 2020; 370:370/6522/eabf2939. [PMID: 33303585 DOI: 10.1126/science.abf2939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Schall and Heinrichs question our interpretation that the climatic debt in understory plant communities is locally modulated by canopy buffering. However, our results clearly show that the discrepancy between microclimate warming rates and thermophilization rates is highest in forests where canopy cover was reduced, which suggests that the need for communities to respond to warming is highest in those forests.
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- Florian Zellweger
- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK. .,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Box 49, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of Rzeszów, PL-35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
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- General Botany, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, CZ-165 21 Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia.,National Forest Centre, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany
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- Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Regional Development, University of Pécs, H-7100 Szekszárd, Hungary.,Department of Ecology, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany
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- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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Zellweger F, De Frenne P, Lenoir J, Vangansbeke P, Verheyen K, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Baeten L, Hédl R, Berki I, Brunet J, Van Calster H, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Dirnböck T, Durak T, Heinken T, Jaroszewicz B, Kopecký M, Máliš F, Macek M, Malicki M, Naaf T, Nagel TA, Ortmann-Ajkai A, Petřík P, Pielech R, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Świerkosz K, Teleki B, Vild O, Wulf M, Coomes D. Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming". Science 2020; 370:370/6520/eabd6193. [PMID: 33243862 DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Bertrand et al question our interpretation about warming effects on the thermophilization in forest plant communities and propose an alternative way to analyze climatic debt. We show that microclimate warming is a better predictor than macroclimate warming for studying forest plant community responses to warming. Their additional analyses do not affect or change our interpretations and conclusions.
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- Florian Zellweger
- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK. .,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Box 49, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of Rzeszów, PL-35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
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- General Botany, Insitute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic.,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, CZ-165 21 Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia.,National Forest Centre, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany
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- Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute for Regional Development, University of Pécs, H-7100 Szekszárd, Hungary.,Department of Ecology, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany
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- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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Zellweger F, De Frenne P, Lenoir J, Vangansbeke P, Verheyen K, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Baeten L, Hédl R, Berki I, Brunet J, Van Calster H, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Dirnböck T, Durak T, Heinken T, Jaroszewicz B, Kopecký M, Máliš F, Macek M, Malicki M, Naaf T, Nagel TA, Ortmann-Ajkai A, Petřík P, Pielech R, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Świerkosz K, Teleki B, Vild O, Wulf M, Coomes D. Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming. Science 2020; 368:772-775. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aba6880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Climate warming is causing a shift in biological communities in favor of warm-affinity species (i.e., thermophilization). Species responses often lag behind climate warming, but the reasons for such lags remain largely unknown. Here, we analyzed multidecadal understory microclimate dynamics in European forests and show that thermophilization and the climatic lag in forest plant communities are primarily controlled by microclimate. Increasing tree canopy cover reduces warming rates inside forests, but loss of canopy cover leads to increased local heat that exacerbates the disequilibrium between community responses and climate change. Reciprocal effects between plants and microclimates are key to understanding the response of forest biodiversity and functioning to climate and land-use changes.
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- Florian Zellweger
- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EA, UK
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- UR “Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés” (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 800037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
| | - Hans Van Calster
- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- UR “Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés” (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 800037 Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of Rzeszów, PL-35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
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- General Botany, Insitute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
| | - Bogdan Jaroszewicz
- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, CZ-165 21 Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
- National Forest Centre, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 50 Wrocław, Poland
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany
| | - Thomas A. Nagel
- Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Kraków, PL-32-425 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 50 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany
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- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EA, UK
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Perring MP, Diekmann M, Midolo G, Schellenberger Costa D, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Otto JCJ, Gilliam FS, Hedwall PO, Nordin A, Dirnböck T, Simkin SM, Máliš F, Blondeel H, Brunet J, Chudomelová M, Durak T, De Frenne P, Hédl R, Kopecký M, Landuyt D, Li D, Manning P, Petřík P, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Świerkosz K, Vild O, Waller DM, Verheyen K. Understanding context dependency in the response of forest understorey plant communities to nitrogen deposition. Environ Pollut 2018; 242:1787-1799. [PMID: 30115529 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
Understorey communities can dominate forest plant diversity and strongly affect forest ecosystem structure and function. Understoreys often respond sensitively but inconsistently to drivers of ecological change, including nitrogen (N) deposition. Nitrogen deposition effects, reflected in the concept of critical loads, vary greatly not only among species and guilds, but also among forest types. Here, we characterize such context dependency as driven by differences in the amounts and forms of deposited N, cumulative deposition, the filtering of N by overstoreys, and available plant species pools. Nitrogen effects on understorey trajectories can also vary due to differences in surrounding landscape conditions; ambient browsing pressure; soils and geology; other environmental factors controlling plant growth; and, historical and current disturbance/management regimes. The number of these factors and their potentially complex interactions complicate our efforts to make simple predictions about how N deposition affects forest understoreys. We review the literature to examine evidence for context dependency in N deposition effects on forest understoreys. We also use data from 1814 European temperate forest plots to test the ability of multi-level models to characterize context-dependent understorey responses across sites that differ in levels of N deposition, community composition, local conditions and management history. This analysis demonstrated that historical management, and plot location on light and pH-fertility gradients, significantly affect how understorey communities respond to N deposition. We conclude that species' and communities' responses to N deposition, and thus the determination of critical loads, vary greatly depending on environmental contexts. This complicates our efforts to predict how N deposition will affect forest understoreys and thus how best to conserve and restore understorey biodiversity. To reduce uncertainty and incorporate context dependency in critical load setting, we should assemble data on underlying environmental conditions, conduct globally distributed field experiments, and analyse a wider range of habitat types.
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- Michael P Perring
- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium; Ecosystem Restoration and Intervention Ecology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35, Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
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- Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology, FB 2, University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 5, DE-28359, Bremen, Germany
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Piazza Università 5, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Dornburger Str. 159, DE-07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Dornburger Str. 159, DE-07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Dornburger Str. 159, DE-07743, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, 32514, USA
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå Plant Science Centre, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- National Ecological Observatory Network, 1685 38th St., Suite 100, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA
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- Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry, T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia; National Forest Centre, T. G. Masaryka 22, 960 92, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-60200, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, University of Rzeszów, ul. Rejtana 16C, PL-35- 959, Rzeszów, Poland
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-60200, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, CZ-78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, CZ-165 00, Prague 6, Suchdol, Czech Republic
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Kanonia 6/8, PL-50-328, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. sétány 1/c, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, PL-50-335, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-60200, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, 9090, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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De Lombaerde E, Verheyen K, Perring MP, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Van Calster H, Brunet J, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Diekmann M, Durak T, Hédl R, Heinken T, Hommel P, Jaroszewicz B, Kopecký M, Lenoir J, Macek M, Máliš F, Mitchell FJ, Naaf T, Newman M, Petřík P, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Świerkosz K, Vild O, Wulf M, Baeten L. Responses of competitive understorey species to spatial environmental gradients inaccurately explain temporal changes. Basic Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2018.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Sullivan MJP, Lewis SL, Hubau W, Qie L, Baker TR, Banin LF, Chave J, Cuni-Sanchez A, Feldpausch TR, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Arets E, Ashton P, Bastin JF, Berry NJ, Bogaert J, Boot R, Brearley FQ, Brienen R, Burslem DFRP, de Canniere C, Chudomelová M, Dančák M, Ewango C, Hédl R, Lloyd J, Makana JR, Malhi Y, Marimon BS, Junior BHM, Metali F, Moore S, Nagy L, Vargas PN, Pendry CA, Ramírez-Angulo H, Reitsma J, Rutishauser E, Salim KA, Sonké B, Sukri RS, Sunderland T, Svátek M, Umunay PM, Martinez RV, Vernimmen RRE, Torre EV, Vleminckx J, Vos V, Phillips OL. Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation. Methods Ecol Evol 2018; 9:1179-1189. [PMID: 29938017 PMCID: PMC5993227 DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Quantifying the relationship between tree diameter and height is a key component of efforts to estimate biomass and carbon stocks in tropical forests. Although substantial site-to-site variation in height-diameter allometries has been documented, the time consuming nature of measuring all tree heights in an inventory plot means that most studies do not include height, or else use generic pan-tropical or regional allometric equations to estimate height.Using a pan-tropical dataset of 73 plots where at least 150 trees had in-field ground-based height measurements, we examined how the number of trees sampled affects the performance of locally derived height-diameter allometries, and evaluated the performance of different methods for sampling trees for height measurement.Using cross-validation, we found that allometries constructed with just 20 locally measured values could often predict tree height with lower error than regional or climate-based allometries (mean reduction in prediction error = 0.46 m). The predictive performance of locally derived allometries improved with sample size, but with diminishing returns in performance gains when more than 40 trees were sampled. Estimates of stand-level biomass produced using local allometries to estimate tree height show no over- or under-estimation bias when compared with biomass estimates using field measured heights. We evaluated five strategies to sample trees for height measurement, and found that sampling strategies that included measuring the heights of the ten largest diameter trees in a plot outperformed (in terms of resulting in local height-diameter models with low height prediction error) entirely random or diameter size-class stratified approaches.Our results indicate that even limited sampling of heights can be used to refine height-diameter allometries. We recommend aiming for a conservative threshold of sampling 50 trees per location for height measurement, and including the ten trees with the largest diameter in this sample.
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Perring MP, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Baeten L, Midolo G, Blondeel H, Depauw L, Landuyt D, Maes SL, De Lombaerde E, Carón MM, Vellend M, Brunet J, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Diekmann M, Dirnböck T, Dörfler I, Durak T, De Frenne P, Gilliam FS, Hédl R, Heinken T, Hommel P, Jaroszewicz B, Kirby KJ, Kopecký M, Lenoir J, Li D, Máliš F, Mitchell FJG, Naaf T, Newman M, Petřík P, Reczyńska K, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Świerkosz K, Van Calster H, Vild O, Wagner ER, Wulf M, Verheyen K. Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies. Glob Chang Biol 2018; 24:1722-1740. [PMID: 29271579 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The contemporary state of functional traits and species richness in plant communities depends on legacy effects of past disturbances. Whether temporal responses of community properties to current environmental changes are altered by such legacies is, however, unknown. We expect global environmental changes to interact with land-use legacies given different community trajectories initiated by prior management, and subsequent responses to altered resources and conditions. We tested this expectation for species richness and functional traits using 1814 survey-resurvey plot pairs of understorey communities from 40 European temperate forest datasets, syntheses of management transitions since the year 1800, and a trait database. We also examined how plant community indicators of resources and conditions changed in response to management legacies and environmental change. Community trajectories were clearly influenced by interactions between management legacies from over 200 years ago and environmental change. Importantly, higher rates of nitrogen deposition led to increased species richness and plant height in forests managed less intensively in 1800 (i.e., high forests), and to decreases in forests with a more intensive historical management in 1800 (i.e., coppiced forests). There was evidence that these declines in community variables in formerly coppiced forests were ameliorated by increased rates of temperature change between surveys. Responses were generally apparent regardless of sites' contemporary management classifications, although sometimes the management transition itself, rather than historic or contemporary management types, better explained understorey responses. Main effects of environmental change were rare, although higher rates of precipitation change increased plant height, accompanied by increases in fertility indicator values. Analysis of indicator values suggested the importance of directly characterising resources and conditions to better understand legacy and environmental change effects. Accounting for legacies of past disturbance can reconcile contradictory literature results and appears crucial to anticipating future responses to global environmental change.
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- Michael P Perring
- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
- Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University, AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones Botánicas (LABIBO) - CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina
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- Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Unité de recherche "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
- Department of Plant Production, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- General Botany, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Białowieża, Poland
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
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- Unité de recherche "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens Cedex 1, France
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
- National Forest Centre, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, L. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium
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Chudomelová M, Zelený D, Li CF. Contrasting patterns of fine-scale herb layer species composition in temperate forests. Acta Oecologica 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2017.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding the effects of coppicing on forest ecosystems is important for progress towards sustainable forest management. A newly established coppicing experiment in a secondary temperate deciduous forest in the SE Czech Republic provides a rather unique insight into succession driven by canopy thinning in a forest still lacking species typical for forests established since long time ago. Herbaceous layer vegetation was monitored for four subsequent years in 2012-2015. We focused on the influence of canopy thinning intensity in two different forest types defined by dominant tree species (oak and lime). Our results showed that the opening of the canopy had immediate effects on herbaceous vegetation. Coverage, species richness and compositional patterns followed the coppicing intensity gradient. The dominant tree species had contrasting effects. Under oak, the reaction to coppicing was weak. Under lime, strong reaction both related to coppicing intensity and temporal development was observed. Herbs with short life cycle had the greatest contribution, but perennial grasses also began to increase their coverage after coppicing. Several invasive species, mostly short-lived herbs, emerged but are supposed to retreat as the succession will proceed. We conclude that coppice introduction to a secondary forest led to contrasting patterns related to dominant tree species. The marked difference was probably due to the slow sucession towards a future forest community saturated by species. This process may be now further diversified by coppicing management.
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- Radim Hédl
- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Institute of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, Vršovická 1442/65, 100 10 Praha 10, Czech Republic
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Šipoš J, Hédl R, Hula V, Chudomelová M, Košulič O, Niedobová J, Riedl V. Patterns of functional diversity of two trophic groups after canopy thinning in an abandoned coppice. Folia Geobot 2017; 52:45-58. [PMID: 30220840 PMCID: PMC6136640 DOI: 10.1007/s12224-017-9282-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Coppice abandonment had negative consequences for biodiversity of forest vegetation and several groups of invertebrates. Most coppicing restoration studies have focused only on a single trophic level despite the fact that ecosystems are characterized by interactions between trophic levels represented by various groups of organisms. To address the patterns of functional diversity in the perspective of coppicing restoration, we studied the short-term effects of conservation-motivated tree canopy thinning in an abandoned coppice-with-standards in Central Europe, a region where such attempts have been rare so far. The functional diversity of vascular plants and spiders, chosen as two model trophic groups within a forest ecosystem, was compared between thinned and control forest patches. To characterize functional patterns, we examined several functional traits. These traits were assigned into two contrasting categories: response traits reflecting a change of environment (for both vascular plants and spiders) and effect traits influencing the ecosystem properties (only for vascular plants). Functional diversity was analysed by CCA using two measures: community-weighted means (CWM) and Rao's quadratic diversity (RaoQ). CCA models revealed that the canopy thinning had a positive effect on diversity of the response traits of both trophic groups and negatively influenced the diversity of effect traits. In addition, we found distinct seasonal dynamics in functional diversity of the spider communities, which was probably linked to leaf phenology of deciduous trees and therefore an effect trait not directly examined in this study. We conclude that canopy thinning affected functional diversity across trophic groups during the initial phase of coppicing restoration. With necessary precautions, careful canopy thinning can be effectively applied in the restoration of functional diversity in abandoned coppices.
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- Jan Šipoš
- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Institute of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Kotlářská 51, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Bernhardt-Römermann M, Baeten L, Craven D, De Frenne P, Hédl R, Lenoir J, Bert D, Brunet J, Chudomelová M, Decocq G, Dierschke H, Dirnböck T, Dörfler I, Heinken T, Hermy M, Hommel P, Jaroszewicz B, Keczyński A, Kelly DL, Kirby KJ, Kopecký M, Macek M, Máliš F, Mirtl M, Mitchell FJG, Naaf T, Newman M, Peterken G, Petřík P, Schmidt W, Standovár T, Tóth Z, Calster HV, Verstraeten G, Vladovič J, Vild O, Wulf M, Verheyen K. Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales. Glob Chang Biol 2015; 21:3726-37. [PMID: 26212787 PMCID: PMC6136642 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Global biodiversity is affected by numerous environmental drivers. Yet, the extent to which global environmental changes contribute to changes in local diversity is poorly understood. We investigated biodiversity changes in a meta-analysis of 39 resurvey studies in European temperate forests (3988 vegetation records in total, 17-75 years between the two surveys) by assessing the importance of (i) coarse-resolution (i.e., among sites) vs. fine-resolution (i.e., within sites) environmental differences and (ii) changing environmental conditions between surveys. Our results clarify the mechanisms underlying the direction and magnitude of local-scale biodiversity changes. While not detecting any net local diversity loss, we observed considerable among-site variation, partly explained by temporal changes in light availability (a local driver) and density of large herbivores (a regional driver). Furthermore, strong evidence was found that presurvey levels of nitrogen deposition determined subsequent diversity changes. We conclude that models forecasting future biodiversity changes should consider coarse-resolution environmental changes, account for differences in baseline environmental conditions and for local changes in fine-resolution environmental conditions.
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090, Gontrode-Melle, Belgium
- Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences (sDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute for Biology, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090, Gontrode-Melle, Belgium
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-602 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 11, CZ-783 71, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN, FRE 3498 CNRS - UPJV), Jules Verne University of Picardie, 1 rue des Louvels, F-80037, Amiens Cedex, France
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- INRA, UMR 1202 BIOGECO, F-33610, Cestas, France
- BIOGECO, UMR1202, Université de Bordeaux, F-33615, Pessac, France
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 49, S-23053, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-602 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN, FRE 3498 CNRS - UPJV), Jules Verne University of Picardie, 1 rue des Louvels, F-80037, Amiens Cedex, France
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- Department of Vegetation and Phytodiversity Analysis, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany
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- Ecosystem Research & Environmental Information Management, Environment Agency Austria, Spittelauer Lände 5, A-1090, Wien, Austria
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- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem management, TU München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, D-85350, Freising, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Maulbeerallee 1, D-14471, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Alterra Research Institute, Wageningen UR, P.O. Box 47, NL-6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Biology, Białowieża Geobotanical Station, University of Warsaw, ul. Sportowa 19, PL-17-230, Białowieża, Poland
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- Białowieża National Park, Park Pałacowy 11, PL-17-230, Białowieża, Poland
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- Botany Department and Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College, the University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-602 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, SK-960 53 Zvolen, Slovak Republic
- Forest Research Institute Zvolen, National Forest Centre, T.G. Masaryka 22, SK-960 52, Zvolen, Slovak Republic
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- Ecosystem Research & Environmental Information Management, Environment Agency Austria, Spittelauer Lände 5, A-1090, Wien, Austria
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- Botany Department and Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College, the University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Institute of Land Use Systems, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, D-15374, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Botany Department and Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College, the University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Beechwood House, St. Briavels Common, Lydney, Gloucestershire, GL15 6SL, United Kingdom
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- Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, Burckhardt-Institute, Georg-August University Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, Pázmány sétány 1/c, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, Pázmány sétány 1/c, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090, Gontrode-Melle, Belgium
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- Forest Research Institute Zvolen, National Forest Centre, T.G. Masaryka 22, SK-960 52, Zvolen, Slovak Republic
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- Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Lidická 25/27, CZ-602 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Land Use Systems, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, D-15374, Müncheberg, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Maulbeerallee 2, D-14469, Potsdam, Germany
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- Forest & Nature Lab, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090, Gontrode-Melle, Belgium
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Gilliam FS, Hédl R, Chudomelová M, McCulley RL, Nelson JA. Variation in vegetation and microbial linkages with slope aspect in a montane temperate hardwood forest. Ecosphere 2014. [DOI: 10.1890/es13-00379.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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