| Literature DB >> 30532048 |
Janet S Prevéy1,2, Christian Rixen3, Nadja Rüger4,5, Toke T Høye6, Anne D Bjorkman7,8, Isla H Myers-Smith9, Sarah C Elmendorf10, Isabel W Ashton11, Nicoletta Cannone12, Chelsea L Chisholm3,13, Karin Clark14, Elisabeth J Cooper15, Bo Elberling16, Anna Maria Fosaa17, Greg H R Henry18, Robert D Hollister19, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir20,21, Kari Klanderud22, Christopher W Kopp23, Esther Lévesque24, Marguerite Mauritz25, Ulf Molau26, Susan M Natali27, Steven F Oberbauer28, Zoe A Panchen29, Eric Post30, Sabine B Rumpf31, Niels Martin Schmidt6, Edward Schuur25, Philipp R Semenchuk15,31, Jane G Smith10, Katharine N Suding10,32, Ørjan Totland33, Tiffany Troxler28, Susanna Venn34, Carl-Henrik Wahren35, Jeffrey M Welker36,37, Sonja Wipf3.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID： 30532048 DOI： 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Ecol Evol ISSN： 2397-334X Impact factor: 15.460