Stress from cold and drought as drivers of functional trait spectra in North American angiosperm tree assemblages

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10367310" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10367310 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11620/17:10367310

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3297" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3297</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3297" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.3297</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Stress from cold and drought as drivers of functional trait spectra in North American angiosperm tree assemblages

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Understanding how environmental change alters the composition of plant assemblages, and how this in turn affects ecosystem functioning is a major challenge in the face of global climate change. Assuming that values of plant traits express species adaptations to the environment, the trait-based approach is a promising way to achieve this goal. Nevertheless, how functional traits are related to species&apos; environmental tolerances and how trait spectra respond to broad-scale environmental gradients remains largely unexplored. Here, we identify the main trait spectra for US angiosperm trees by testing hypotheses for the relationships between functional traits and species&apos; environmental tolerances to environmental stresses, as well as quantifying the environmental drivers of assemblage means and variances of these traits. We analyzed &gt;74,000 community assemblages from the US Forest Inventory and Analysis using 12 functional traits, five traits expressing species&apos; environmental tolerances and 10 environmental variables. Results indicated that leaf traits, dispersal traits, and traits related to stem hydraulics were related to cold or drought tolerance, and their assemblage means were best explained by minimum temperatures. Assemblage means of traits related to shade tolerance (tree growth rate, leaf phosphorus content, and bark thickness) were best explained by aridity index. Surprisingly, aridity index, rather than minimum temperature, was the best predictors of assemblage variances of most traits, although these relationships were variable and weak overall. We conclude that temperature is likely to be the most important driver of functional community structure of North American angiosperm trees by selecting for optimum strategies along the cold and drought stress trade-off. In turn, water availability primarily affects traits related to shade tolerance through its effect on forest canopy structure and vegetation openness.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Stress from cold and drought as drivers of functional trait spectra in North American angiosperm tree assemblages

Popis výsledku anglicky

Understanding how environmental change alters the composition of plant assemblages, and how this in turn affects ecosystem functioning is a major challenge in the face of global climate change. Assuming that values of plant traits express species adaptations to the environment, the trait-based approach is a promising way to achieve this goal. Nevertheless, how functional traits are related to species&apos; environmental tolerances and how trait spectra respond to broad-scale environmental gradients remains largely unexplored. Here, we identify the main trait spectra for US angiosperm trees by testing hypotheses for the relationships between functional traits and species&apos; environmental tolerances to environmental stresses, as well as quantifying the environmental drivers of assemblage means and variances of these traits. We analyzed &gt;74,000 community assemblages from the US Forest Inventory and Analysis using 12 functional traits, five traits expressing species&apos; environmental tolerances and 10 environmental variables. Results indicated that leaf traits, dispersal traits, and traits related to stem hydraulics were related to cold or drought tolerance, and their assemblage means were best explained by minimum temperatures. Assemblage means of traits related to shade tolerance (tree growth rate, leaf phosphorus content, and bark thickness) were best explained by aridity index. Surprisingly, aridity index, rather than minimum temperature, was the best predictors of assemblage variances of most traits, although these relationships were variable and weak overall. We conclude that temperature is likely to be the most important driver of functional community structure of North American angiosperm trees by selecting for optimum strategies along the cold and drought stress trade-off. In turn, water availability primarily affects traits related to shade tolerance through its effect on forest canopy structure and vegetation openness.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-26369S" target="_blank" >GA16-26369S: Je biologická diverzita omezená? Cesta k rovnovážné teorii biodiverzity</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Ecology And Evolution

ISSN

2045-7758

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

7

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

18

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

7548-7559

Kód UT WoS článku

000411341800034

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85029648749