Global functional variation in alpine vegetation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43903054" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903054 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00549640 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10479810

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvs.13000" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvs.13000</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13000" target="_blank" >10.1111/jvs.13000</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Global functional variation in alpine vegetation

Original language description

Questions: What are the functional trade-offs of vascular plant species in global alpine ecosystems? How is functional variation related to vegetation zones, climatic groups and biogeographic realms? What is the relative contribution of macroclimate and evolutionary history in shaping the functional variation of alpine plant communities? Location: Global. Methods: We compiled a data set of alpine vegetation with 5,532 geo-referenced plots, 1,933 species and six plant functional traits. We used principal component analysis to quantify functional trade-offs among species and trait probability density to assess the functional dissimilarity of alpine vegetation in different vegetation zones, climatic groups and biogeographic realms. We used multiple regression on distance matrices to model community functional dissimilarity against environmental and phylogenetic dissimilarity, controlling for geographic distance. Results: The first two PCA axes explained 66% of the species&apos; functional variation and were related to the leaf and stem economic spectra, respectively. Trait probability density was largely independent of vegetation zone and macroclimate but differed across biogeographic realms. The same pattern emerged for both species pool and community levels. The effects of environmental and phylogenetic dissimilarities on community functional dissimilarity had similar magnitude, while the effect of geographic distance was negligible. Conclusions: Plant species in alpine areas reflect the global variation of plant function, but with a predominant role of resource use strategies. Current macroclimate exerts a limited effect on alpine vegetation, mostly acting at the community level in combination with evolutionary history. Global alpine vegetation is functionally unrelated to the vegetation zones in which it is embedded, exhibiting strong functional convergence across regions.

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/LTAUSA18007" target="_blank" >LTAUSA18007: Impacts of rising temperatures, increased drought stress and landscape eutrophication on vascular plants and their root-associated microbial communities in the dry ecosystems of the United States</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 Vegetation Science

ISSN

1100-9233

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000645256100027

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105098814