期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 188, 期 2, 页码 565-575出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03382.x
关键词
climate change; experiments; functional ecology; plant communities; plant functional traits; precipitation
资金
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- State of California
- National Science Foundation [EF-0553768, DEB-0218210, BSR 88-11906, DEB9411976, DEB0080529, DEB0217774, DEB0217631]
- LTER network office
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Morgan Family Foundation
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0918617] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
P>Patterns of precipitation are likely to change significantly in the coming century, with important but poorly understood consequences for plant communities. Experimental and correlative studies may provide insight into expected changes, but little research has addressed the degree of concordance between these approaches. We synthesized results from four experimental water addition studies with a correlative analysis of community changes across a large natural precipitation gradient in the United States. We investigated whether community composition, summarized with plant functional traits, responded similarly to increasing precipitation among studies and sites. In field experiments, increased precipitation favored species with small seed size, short leaf life span and high leaf nitrogen (N) concentration. However, with increasing precipitation along the natural gradient, community composition shifted towards species with higher mean seed mass, longer leaf life span and lower leaf N concentrations. The differences in temporal and spatial scale of experimental manipulations and natural gradients may explain these contrasting results. Our results highlight the complexity of responses to climate change, and suggest that transient dynamics may not reflect long-term shifts in functional diversity and community composition. We propose a model of community change that incorporates these differences between short- and long-term responses to climate change.
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