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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 45-52Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6
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- ArcticNet
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian International Polar Year Program
- Polar Continental Shelf Program of Natural Resources Canada
- Danish Environmental Protection Agency
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
- National Geographic Society
- US National Science Foundation [PLR1525636, PLR1504141, PLR1433063, PLR1107381, PLR0119279, PLR0902125, PLR0856728, OPP1525636, OPP9907185, DEB1637686, 0856710, 9714103, 0632263, 0856516, 1432277, 1432982, 1504381, 1504224, 1433063, 0856728, 0612534, 0119279, 9421755]
- Danish National Research Foundation [CENPERM DNRF100]
- Danish Council for Independent Research [DFF 4181-00565]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [RU 1536/3-1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/M016323/1]
- Department of Energy [SC006982]
- Carlsberg Foundation
- INTERACT Transnational Access grant
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [9421755] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Polar Programs
- Directorate For Geosciences [0632263] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NERC [NE/M016323/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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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.
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