Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F20%3A00533599" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/20:00533599 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/20:84235 RIV/61989592:15310/20:73604653
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13082" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13082</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plb.13082" target="_blank" >10.1111/plb.13082</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities
Original language description
Functional traits respond to environmental drivers, hence evaluating trait-environment relationships across spatial environmental gradients can help to understand how multiple drivers influence plant communities. Global-change drivers such as changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition occur worldwide, but affect community trait distributions at the local scale, where resources (e.g. light availability) and conditions (e.g. soil pH) also influence plant communities. We investigate how multiple environmental drivers affect community trait responses related to resource acquisition (plant height, specific leaf area (SLA), woodiness, and mycorrhizal status) and regeneration (seed mass, lateral spread) of European temperate deciduous forest understoreys. We sampled understorey communities and derived trait responses across spatial gradients of global-change drivers (temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, and past land use), while integrating in-situ plot measurements on resources and conditions (soil type, Olsen phosphorus (P), Ellenberg soil moisture, light, litter mass, and litter quality). Among the global-change drivers, mean annual temperature strongly influenced traits related to resource acquisition. Higher temperatures were associated with taller understoreys producing leaves with lower SLA, and a higher proportional cover of woody and obligate mycorrhizal (OM) species. Communities in plots with higher Ellenberg soil moisture content had smaller seeds and lower proportional cover of woody and OM species. Finally, plots with thicker litter layers hosted taller understoreys with larger seeds and a higher proportional cover of OM species. Our findings suggest potential community shifts in temperate forest understoreys with global warming, and highlight the importance of local resources and conditions as well as global-change drivers for community trait variation.
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
<a href="/en/project/GA17-09283S" target="_blank" >GA17-09283S: Humans as nature: anthropogenic legacy in temperate forest ecosystems</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Plant Biology
ISSN
1435-8603
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
410-424
UT code for WoS article
000507126300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85077859232