Climate warming drives Himalayan alpine plant growth and recruitment dynamics

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43903044" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903044 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00543873

Result on the web

<a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13459" target="_blank" >https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13459</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13459" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2745.13459</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Climate warming drives Himalayan alpine plant growth and recruitment dynamics

Original language description

Understanding how climate influences plant reproduction and growth at contrasting range limits is crucial for predicting how species&apos; ranges may shift in response to ongoing climate change. Trees and shrubs have shown warming-induced increases in performance at upper elevation limits but reduced performance at lower distributional limits due to warming-driven drought limitation. Whether these differential responses are also valid for alpine forbs exposed to accelerated warming remains largely unknown. We examined climate signal recorded in annual growth and recruitment over the past 60 years in the alpine forbPotentilla pamiricain Western Himalayas, and tested whether the responses to recent climate warming differ between dry steppe, wet alpine and cold subnival zone within the species 5,250-5,900 m elevation range. We reconstructed recruitment and growth chronologies from 1,019 individuals spanning 1-73 years, and more than 21,500 annual growth rings. We identified contrasting climatic controls of recruitment and growth at opposite elevation range margins, as well as contrasting demographic trends identified from age distributions. In lower-elevation steppes, recruitment increased with high late-winter snowfall and decreased with high summer temperatures, while growth increased with high summer precipitation. Conversely, warm winters and summers in higher-elevation alpine and subnival zones support growth and recruitment, while snowy winters reduce them, especially at their upper elevation limit. The age distribution revealed greater numbers of younger individuals, indicating healthy growing populations, in the alpine habitat, while evidence of ageing plant populations was observed in steppe and subnival zones. Accelerated warming since the 1990s reduced growth and recruitment in dry steppes while supporting plant performance in the alpine habitat. The recruitment in the subnival zone did not peak during the past warmest decade due to concomitant extreme snowfall events. Synthesis. Our results provide novel information on population-specific climate dependency of plant recruitment, growth and population dynamics, suggesting the high vulnerability of high-elevation Himalayan ecosystems to climate change. This is partly balanced by high species longevity and slow radial growth securing a long-term population persistence. Continuing trends of extreme snowfall events at higher elevations and droughts at lower elevations may lead to species range contraction.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-13368S" target="_blank" >GA13-13368S: Plant diversity changes under climate warming: from regional flora to microhabitat adaptation and diversity patterns</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ecology

ISSN

0022-0477

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

109

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

179-190

UT code for WoS article

000563871200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088828136