Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

Prevéy, Janet S. and Rixen, Christian and Rüger, Nadja and Høye, Toke T. and Bjorkman, Anne D. and Myers-Smith, Isla H. and Elmendorf, Sarah C. and Ashton, Isabel W. and Cannone, Nicoletta and Chisholm, Chelsea L. and Clark, Karin and Cooper, Elisabeth J. and Elberling, Bo and Fosaa, Anna Maria and Henry, Greg H. R. and Hollister, Robert D. and Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Svala and Klanderud, Kari and Kopp, Christopher W. and Lévesque, Esther and Mauritz, Marguerite and Molau, Ulf and Natali, Susan M. and Oberbauer, Steven F. and Panchen, Zoe A. and Post, Eric and Rumpf, Sabine B. and Schmidt, Niels Martin and Schuur, Edward and Semenchuk, Philipp R. and Smith, Jane G. and Suding, Katharine N. and Totland, Ørjan and Troxler, Tiffany and Venn, Susanna and Wahren, Carl-Henrik and Welker, Jeffrey M. and Wipf, Sonja. (2019) Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities. Nature ecology & evolution, 3 (1). pp. 45-52.

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Abstract

Advancing phenology is one of the most visible effects of climate change on plant communities, and has been especially pronounced in temperature-limited tundra ecosystems. However, phenological responses have been shown to differ greatly between species, with some species shifting phenology more than others. We analysed a database of 42,689 tundra plant phenological observations to show that warmer temperatures are leading to a contraction of community-level flowering seasons in tundra ecosystems due to a greater advancement in the flowering times of late-flowering species than early-flowering species. Shorter flowering seasons with a changing climate have the potential to alter trophic interactions in tundra ecosystems. Interestingly, these findings differ from those of warmer ecosystems, where early-flowering species have been found to be more sensitive to temperature change, suggesting that community-level phenological responses to warming can vary greatly between biomes.

Faculties and Departments:	05 Faculty of Science > Departement Umweltwissenschaften > Integrative Biologie > Ökologie (Rumpf)
UniBasel Contributors:	Rumpf, Sabine
Item Type:	Article, refereed
Article Subtype:	Research Article
ISSN:	2397-334X
Note:	Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Identification Number:	doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6 pmid: 30532048 isi: 000453767000013
Last Modified:	19 May 2022 09:09
Deposited On:	19 May 2022 09:09

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