Maximum air temperature controlled by landscape topography affects plant species composition in temperate forests

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F19%3A00517754" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/19:00517754 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/19:81334 RIV/60460709:41330/19:81334 RIV/00216208:11310/19:10397611
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0303050" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0303050</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00903-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10980-019-00903-x</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Maximum air temperature controlled by landscape topography affects plant species composition in temperate forests
Original language description
Forest microclimates differ from regional macroclimates because forest canopies affect energy fluxes near the ground. However, little is known about the environmental drivers of understorey temperature heterogeneity and its effects on species assemblages, especially at landscape scales. Objectives We aimed to identify which temperature variables best explain the landscape-scale distribution of forest vegetation and to disentangle the effects of elevation, terrain attributes and canopy cover on understorey temperatures. Maximum temperature was the best predictor of understorey plant species composition. Landscape-scale variation in maximum temperature was jointly driven by elevation and terrain topography but not by canopy cover. Modelled maximum temperature derived from our topoclimatic maps explained significantly more variation in plant community composition than WorldClim 2 grids. Terrain topography creates landscape-scale variation in maximum temperature, which in turn controls plant species assembly within the forest understorey. Maximum temperature is therefore an important but neglected microclimatic driver of species distribution across landscapes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-13998S" target="_blank" >GA17-13998S: Forest microclimate - neglected link between plant diversity and climate change</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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