Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/16:00467112 RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890745

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24881" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24881</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24881" target="_blank" >10.1038/srep24881</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya

Original language description

A rapid warming in Himalayas is predicted to increase plant upper distributional limits, vegetation cover and abundance of species adapted to warmer climate. We explored these predictions in NW Himalayas, by revisiting uppermost plant populations after ten years (2003-2013), detailed monitoring of vegetation changes in permanent plots (2009-2012), and age analysis of plants growing from 5500 to 6150 m. Plant traits and microclimate variables were recorded to explain observed vegetation changes. The elevation limits of several species shifted up to 6150 m, about 150 vertical meters above the limit of continuous plant distribution. The plant age analysis corroborated the hypothesis of warming-driven uphill migration. However, the impact of warming interacts with increasing precipitation and physical disturbance. The extreme summer snowfall event in 2010 is likely responsible for substantial decrease in plant cover in both alpine and subnival vegetation and compositional shift towards species preferring wetter habitats. Simultaneous increase in summer temperature and precipitation caused rapid snow melt and, coupled with frequent night frosts, generated multiple freeze-thaw cycles detrimental to subnival plants. Our results suggest that plant species responses to ongoing climate change will not be unidirectional upward range shifts but rather multi-dimensional, species-specific and spatially variable.

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

<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

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000375397500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84965097114