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Stress from cold and drought as drivers of functional trait spectra in North American angiosperm tree assemblages

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10367310" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10367310 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216208:11620/17:10367310

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3297" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3297</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3297" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.3297</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Stress from cold and drought as drivers of functional trait spectra in North American angiosperm tree assemblages

  • Original language description

    Understanding how environmental change alters the composition of plant assemblages, and how this in turn affects ecosystem functioning is a major challenge in the face of global climate change. Assuming that values of plant traits express species adaptations to the environment, the trait-based approach is a promising way to achieve this goal. Nevertheless, how functional traits are related to species&apos; environmental tolerances and how trait spectra respond to broad-scale environmental gradients remains largely unexplored. Here, we identify the main trait spectra for US angiosperm trees by testing hypotheses for the relationships between functional traits and species&apos; environmental tolerances to environmental stresses, as well as quantifying the environmental drivers of assemblage means and variances of these traits. We analyzed &gt;74,000 community assemblages from the US Forest Inventory and Analysis using 12 functional traits, five traits expressing species&apos; environmental tolerances and 10 environmental variables. Results indicated that leaf traits, dispersal traits, and traits related to stem hydraulics were related to cold or drought tolerance, and their assemblage means were best explained by minimum temperatures. Assemblage means of traits related to shade tolerance (tree growth rate, leaf phosphorus content, and bark thickness) were best explained by aridity index. Surprisingly, aridity index, rather than minimum temperature, was the best predictors of assemblage variances of most traits, although these relationships were variable and weak overall. We conclude that temperature is likely to be the most important driver of functional community structure of North American angiosperm trees by selecting for optimum strategies along the cold and drought stress trade-off. In turn, water availability primarily affects traits related to shade tolerance through its effect on forest canopy structure and vegetation openness.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA16-26369S" target="_blank" >GA16-26369S: Are there limits to diversity? Towards an equilibrium theory of biodiversity</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Ecology And Evolution

  • ISSN

    2045-7758

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    7

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    18

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    12

  • Pages from-to

    7548-7559

  • UT code for WoS article

    000411341800034

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85029648749