Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

0426451 - BÚ 2014 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
De Frenne, P. - Rodrígues-Sánches, F. - Coomes, D. A. - Baeten, L. - Verstraeten, G. - Vellend, M. - Bernhardt-Römermann, M. - Brown, C. D. - Brunet, J. - Cornelis, J. - Decocq, G. - Dierschke, H. - Eriksson, O. - Gilliam, S. V. - Hédl, Radim - Heinken, T. - Hermy, M. - Hommel, P. - Jenkins, M. A. - Kelly, D. L. - Kirkgy, K. J. - Mitchell, F. J. G. - Naaf, T. - Newman, M. - Peterken, G. - Petřík, Petr - Schultz, J. - Sonnier, G. - Van Calster, H. - Waller, D. - Walther, G.-R. - White, P. S. - Woods, K. D. - Wulf, M. - Graae, B. J. - Verheyen, K.
Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Roč. 110, č. 46 (2013), s. 18561-18565. ISSN 0027-8424. E-ISSN 1091-6490
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT 7AMB12SK156
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : climate change * forest management * range shifts
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 9.809, year: 2013

We show that microclimatic effects brought about by forest canopy closure can buffer biotic responses to macroclimate warming, thus explaining an apparent climatic lag. Using data from 1,409 vegetation plots in European and North American temperate forests, each surveyed at least twice over an interval of 12–67 y, we document significant thermophilization of ground-layer plant communities. These changes reflect concurrent declines in species adapted to cooler conditions and increases in species adapted to warmer conditions. However, thermophilization, particularly the increase of warm-adapted species, is attenuated in forests whose canopies have become denser, probably reflecting cooler growing-season ground temperatures via increased shading.
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