期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 25, 期 10, 页码 2156-2166出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14087
关键词
alpine plants; competition; demography; disequilibrium dynamics; thermophilisation; time lags; transient dynamics; transplant experiment
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资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation
Studying the transplanting of alpine grassland species to lower elevations, we found that shifts in community structure following abrupt climate change were not simply accelerated versions of shifts expected under gradual warming. Time lags played an important role in controlling the pace and trajectory of changing species' abundances.
Forecasting the trajectories of species assemblages in response to ongoing climate change requires quantifying the time lags in the demographic and ecological processes through which climate impacts species' abundances. Since experimental climate manipulations are typically abrupt, the observed species responses may not match their responses to gradual climate change. We addressed this problem by transplanting alpine grassland turfs to lower elevations, recording species' demographic responses to climate and competition, and using these data to parameterise community dynamics models forced by scenarios of gradual climate change. We found that shifts in community structure following an abrupt climate manipulation were not simply accelerated versions of shifts expected under gradual warming, as the former missed the transient rise of species benefiting from moderate warming. Time lags in demography and species interactions controlled the pace and trajectory of changing species' abundances under simulated 21st-century climate change, and thereby prevented immediate diversity loss.
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