Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00134453" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00134453 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/23:97006
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe
Original language description
Ecological theory predicts close relationships between macroclimate and functional traits. Yet, global climatic gradients correlate only weakly with the trait composition of local plant communities, suggesting that important factors have been ignored. Here, we investigate the consistency of climate-trait relationships for plant communities in European habitats. Assuming that local factors are better accounted for in more narrowly defined habitats, we assigned > 300,000 vegetation plots to hierarchically classified habitats and modelled the effects of climate on the community-weighted means of four key functional traits using generalized additive models. We found that the predictive power of climate increased from broadly to narrowly defined habitats for specific leaf area and root length, but not for plant height and seed mass. Although macroclimate generally predicted the distribution of all traits, its effects varied, with habitat-specificity increasing toward more narrowly defined habitats. We conclude that macroclimate is an important determinant of terrestrial plant communities, but future predictions of climatic effects must consider how habitats are defined.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project
<a href="/en/project/SS70010002" target="_blank" >SS70010002: Feedbacks between Biodiversity and Climate</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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