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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 368, 期 1624, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0481
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growth form; season length; snowmelt; thaw degree days
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资金
- United States National Science Foundation [OPP-0632277, OPP-0856710]
- W.A. Gould
- NCEAS synthesis workshop funds
- Canadian International Polar Year program
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1026843] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [0856853] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Polar Programs
- Directorate For Geosciences [856516] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1029808] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Emerging Frontiers
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1065587] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [0807639, 0856710, 1107892] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The rapidly warming temperatures in high-latitude and alpine regions have the potential to alter the phenology of Arctic and alpine plants, affecting processes ranging from food webs to ecosystem trace gas fluxes. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was initiated in 1990 to evaluate the effects of expected rapid changes in temperature on tundra plant phenology, growth and community changes using experimental warming. Here, we used the ITEX control data to test the phenological responses to background temperature variation across sites spanning latitudinal and moisture gradients. The dataset overall did not show an advance in phenology; instead, temperature variability during the years sampled and an absence of warming at some sites resulted in mixed responses. Phenological transitions of high Arctic plants clearly occurred at lower heat sum thresholds than those of low Arctic and alpine plants. However, sensitivity to temperature change was similar among plants from the different climate zones. Plants of different communities and growth forms differed for some phenological responses. Heat sums associated with flowering and greening appear to have increased over time. These results point to a complex suite of changes in plant communities and ecosystem function in high latitudes and elevations as the climate warms.
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