Functional Trait Changes, Productivity Shifts and Vegetation Stability in Mountain Grasslands during a Short-Term Warming

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888794

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0270104" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0270104</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141899" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0141899</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Functional Trait Changes, Productivity Shifts and Vegetation Stability in Mountain Grasslands during a Short-Term Warming

Original language description

Plant functional traits underlie vegetation responses to environmental changes such as global warming, and consequently influence ecosystem processes. The impacts of simulated warming on plant production and diversity, functional trait structure, and vegetation compositional stability were assessed. We observed an increase in biomass and a reduction in species and functional diversity under short-term warming. The functional structure of the grassland communities changed significantly, in terms of functional diversity and community-weighted means (CWM) for several traits. Acquisitive and fast-growing species with higher SLA, early flowering, erect growth habit, and rhizomatous strategy became dominant in the lowland. Productivity was significantly positively related to species, and to a lower extent, functional diversity, but productivity and stability after warming were more dependent on trait composition (CWM) than on diversity. The turves with more acquisitive species before warming changed less in composition after warming. Results suggest that (i) the short-term warming can lead to the dominance of acquisitive fast growing species over conservative species, thus reducing species richness, and (ii) the functional traits structure in grassland communities had a greater influence on the productivity and stability of the community under short-term warming, compared to diversity effects. In summary, short-term climate warming can greatly alter vegetation functional structure and its relation to productivity.

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

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

e0141899

UT code for WoS article

000363920300090

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84949921682