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Drought effects on montane grasslands nullify benefits of advanced flowering phenology due to warming

DOI zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006483
URN zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-6483-4

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Schuchardt, Max A. ; Berauer, Bernd ; von Heßberg, Andreas ; Wilfahrt, Peter ; Jentsch, Anke:
Drought effects on montane grasslands nullify benefits of advanced flowering phenology due to warming.
In: Ecosphere. Bd. 12 (2021) Heft 7 . - No. e03661.
ISSN 2150-8925
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3661

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Warming due to climate change is generally expected to lengthen the growing season in areas of seasonal climate and to advance plant phenology, particularly the onset of leafing and flowering. However, a reduction in aboveground biomass production and reproductive output may occur when warming is accompanied by drought that crosses critical water deficit thresholds. Tracking warmer temperatures has been shown to be species-specific with unknown impacts on community composition and productivity. The variability in species’ ability to leverage earlier leaf unfolding and flowering into increased aboveground net primary production (ANPP) or increased investments into reproductive organs has heretofore been poorly explored. We tested whether phenological sensitivity to temperature, as a result of experimental warming, directly translated into increased plant performance, as measured by ANPP and flower abundance. In order to experimentally simulate climate warming, we translocated a total of 45 intact soil–plant communities downslope along an elevational gradient of 900 m within the European Alps from 1260 to 350 m asl and weekly recorded flower abundance and total green cover as well as cumulative biomass production at peak growing season. We found that advanced phenology at lower elevations was related to increased reproductive performance and conditional on whether they experienced drought stress. While a temperature increase of +1K had positive effects on the amount of reproductive organs for species with accelerated phenology, temperature increase going along with drier conditions resulted in plants being unable to sustain early investment in reproduction as measured by flower abundance. This finding highlights that the interaction of two climate change drivers, warming and drought, can push communities’ past resistance thresholds. Moreover, we detected biotic competition mechanisms and shifts toward forb-depressed states with graminoids best taking advantage of experimentally altered increased temperature and reduced precipitation. Our results suggest that while species may track warmer future climates, concurrent drought events post a high risk for failure of temperature-driven improvement of reproductive performance and biomass production in the European Alps.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Keywords: alpine; Bavarian Alps; climate change; phenological sensitivity; plant community; plant functional type; plant reproduction; translocation experiment; transplant
Themengebiete aus DDC: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Professur Störungsökologie
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Professur Störungsökologie > Professur Störungsökologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anke Jentsch
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Sprache: Englisch
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-6483-4
Eingestellt am: 08 Jul 2022 10:02
Letzte Änderung: 08 Jul 2022 10:03
URI: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/6483

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