Developing common protocols to measure tundra herbivory across spatial scales(1)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F22%3A43906043" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/22:43906043 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2020-0020" target="_blank" >https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/as-2020-0020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0020" target="_blank" >10.1139/as-2020-0020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Developing common protocols to measure tundra herbivory across spatial scales(1)

Original language description

Understanding and predicting large-scale ecological responses to global environmental change requires comparative studies across geographic scales with coordinated efforts and standardized methodologies. We designed, applied, and assessed standardized protocols to measure tundra herbivory at three spatial scales: plot, site (habitat), and study area (landscape). The plot- and site-level protocols were tested in the field during summers 2014 -2015 at 11 sites, nine of them consisting of warming experimental plots included in the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX). The study area protocols were assessed during 2014-2018 at 24 study areas across the Arctic. Our protocols provide comparable and easy to implement methods for assessing the intensity of invertebrate herbivory within ITEX plots and for characterizing vertebrate herbivore communities at larger spatial scales. We discuss methodological constraints and make recommendations for how these protocols can be used and how sampling effort can be optimized to obtain comparable estimates of herbivory, both at ITEX sites and at large landscape scales. The application of these protocols across the tundra biome will allow characterizing and comparing herbivore communities across tundra sites and at ecologically relevant spatial scales, providing an important step towards a better understanding of tundra ecosystem responses to large-scale environmental change.

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/GA17-20839S" target="_blank" >GA17-20839S: Linking functional traits of three organism levels as driving mechanisms of ecosystem functions in the Arctic</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Arctic Science

ISSN

2368-7460

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CA - CANADA

Number of pages

42

Pages from-to

638-679

UT code for WoS article

000928440900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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