Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12934" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12934</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12934" target="_blank" >10.1111/gcb.12934</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe

Original language description

Climate change is expected to modify plant assemblages in ways that will have major consequences for ecosystem functions. How climate change will affect community composition will depend on how individual species respond, which is likely related to interspecific differences in functional traits. The extraordinary plasticity of some plant traits is typically neglected in assessing how climate change will affect different species. In the Mongolian steppe, we examined whether leaf functional traits under ambient conditions and whether plasticity in these traits under altered climate could explain climate-induced biomass responses in 12 co-occurring plant species. We experimentally created three probable climate change scenarios and used a model selection procedure to determine the set of baseline traits or plasticity values that best explained biomass response. Under all climate change scenarios, plasticity for at least one leaf trait correlated with change in species performance, while functional leaf-trait values in ambient conditions did not. We demonstrate that trait plasticity could play a critical role in vulnerability of species to a rapidly changing environment. Plasticity should be considered when examining how climate change will affect plant performance, species' niche spaces, and ecological processes that depend on plant community composition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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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

Global Change Biology

ISSN

1354-1013

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

3489-3498

UT code for WoS article

000360998400027

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84942295359