Early Evidence of Shifts in Alpine Summit Vegetation: A Case Study From Kashmir Himalaya

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/20:00534020

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00421/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00421/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00421" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpls.2020.00421</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Early Evidence of Shifts in Alpine Summit Vegetation: A Case Study From Kashmir Himalaya

Original language description

Under the contemporary climate change, the Himalaya is reported to be warming at a much higher rate than the global average. However, little is known about the alpine vegetation responses to recent climate change in the rapidly warming Himalaya. Here we studied vegetation dynamics on alpine summits in Kashmir Himalaya in relation to in situ measured microclimate. The summits, representing an elevation gradient from treeline to nival zone (3530-3740 m), were first surveyed in 2014 and then re-surveyed in 2018. The initial survey showed that the species richness, vegetation cover and soil temperature decreased with increasing elevation. Species richness and soil temperature differed significantly among slopes, with east and south slopes showing higher values than north and west slopes. The re-survey showed that species richness increased on the lower three summits but decreased on the highest summit (nival zone) and also revealed a substantial increase in the cover of dominant shrubs, graminoids, and forbs. The nestedness-resultant dissimilarity, rather than species turnover, contributed more to the magnitude of beta-diversity among the summits. High temporal species turnover was found on south and east aspects, while high nestedness was recorded along north and west aspects. Thermophilization was more pronounced on the lower two summits and along the northern aspects. Our study provides crucial scientific data on climate change impacts on the alpine vegetation of Kashmir Himalaya. This information will fill global knowledge gaps from the developing world.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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/GA17-19376S" target="_blank" >GA17-19376S: Ecological and Evolutionary Responses of Plants to Climate Change: Growth Analysis across Ecosystems and Evolutionary Linkages</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Plant Science

ISSN

1664-462X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

APR 24 2020

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000533409900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084344023