Effects of increased temperature on plant communities depend on landscape location and precipitation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F18%3A00507254" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/18:00507254 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0298977" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0298977</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3995" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.3995</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Effects of increased temperature on plant communities depend on landscape location and precipitation
Original language description
Global climate change is affecting and will continue to affect ecosystems worldwide. Specifically, temperature and precipitation are both expected to shift globally, and their separate and interactive effects will likely affect ecosystems differentially depending on current temperature, precipitation regimes, and other biotic and environmental factors. It is not currently understood how the effects of increasing temperature on plant communities may depend on either precipitation or where communities lie on soil moisture gradients. Such knowledge would play a crucial role in increasing our predictive ability for future effects of climate change in different systems. To this end, we conducted a multi-factor global change experiment at two locations, differing in temperature, moisture, aspect, and plant community composition, on the same slope in the northern Mongolian steppe. The natural differences in temperature and moisture between locations served as a point of comparison for the experimental manipulations of temperature and precipitation. We conducted two separate experiments, one examining the effect of climate manipulation via open-top chambers (OTCs) across the two different slope locations, the other a factorial OTC by watering experiment at one of the two locations. By combining these experiments, we were able to assess how OTCs impact plant productivity and diversity across a natural and manipulated range of soil moisture. We found that warming effects were context dependent, with the greatest negative impacts of warming on diversity in the warmer, drier upper slope location and in the unwatered plots. Our study is an important step in understanding how global change will affect ecosystems across multiple scales and locations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
5267-5278
UT code for WoS article
000435776600008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85046553592