Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F25%3A00640063" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/25:00640063 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/25:43909772 RIV/00216224:14310/25:00141587

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100" target="_blank" >10.1111/jbi.15100</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation

Original language description

AimPollen assemblages are widely used to infer paleoenvironment features, aiming at reconstructing both past climates and biomes. However, the functional link between environmental conditions and pollen assemblages is not straightforward and requires thorough testing to be used confidently. Here, we use a trait-based approach to assess the consistency of functional signatures between pollen and plant assemblages.LocationArid Central Asia (ACA).TaxonSpermatophytes (pollen-producing plants).MethodsWe assess whether trait values and trait distributions are consistent for surface pollen samples and extant vegetation in the Arid Central Asia biogeographic region. A working plant checklist was compiled for ACA in order to assign trait values to pollen types and vegetation taxa. This was done for two widely used methods of pollen aggregation schemes (coarse and fine pollen type depend on the level of pollen identification). The functional signatures of pollen and vegetation samples were compared both at the taxon and community levels, using large-scale trait and vegetation databases, for the six traits of the global spectrum of plant form and function (i.e., plant height, seed mass, leaf area, specific leaf area, nitrogen content per leaf mass, and stem-specific density).ResultsTrait distributions and bivariate trait relationships were broadly similar for pollen types and vegetation taxa, which is also the case for the multivariate spaces of the global spectrum of plant form and function. At the community scale, the trait values weighted by taxon abundance significantly differed among biomes, and these differences were consistent for both pollen aggregation schemes and extant.Main ConclusionsThe pollen aggregation scheme does not impact the organisation of the functional space of the global spectrum of plant form and function, which compares well with that based on species actually present in the vegetation plots. This is also true at the community scale. These findings are very promising for improving climate and biome reconstructions from pollen assemblages and pave the way to a pollen functional biogeography.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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/GA24-11954S" target="_blank" >GA24-11954S: Alpine plants under climate change: from adaptive strategies to ecosystem functioning</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Biogeography

ISSN

0305-0270

e-ISSN

1365-2699

Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

e15100

UT code for WoS article

001420721900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105002968488