TY - JOUR
T1 - Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities
AU - Prevéy, Janet S.
AU - Rixen, Christian
AU - Rüger, Nadja
AU - Høye, Toke T.
AU - Bjorkman, Anne D.
AU - Myers-Smith, Isla H.
AU - Elmendorf, Sarah C.
AU - Ashton, Isabel W.
AU - Cannone, Nicoletta
AU - Chisholm, Chelsea L.
AU - Clark, Karin
AU - Cooper, Elisabeth J.
AU - Elberling, Bo
AU - Fosaa, Anna Maria
AU - Henry, Greg H.R.
AU - Hollister, Robert D.
AU - Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Svala
AU - Klanderud, Kari
AU - Kopp, Christopher W.
AU - Lévesque, Esther
AU - Mauritz, Marguerite
AU - Molau, Ulf
AU - Natali, Susan M.
AU - Oberbauer, Steven F.
AU - Panchen, Zoe A.
AU - Post, Eric
AU - Rumpf, Sabine B.
AU - Schmidt, Niels Martin
AU - Schuur, Edward
AU - Semenchuk, Philipp R.
AU - Smith, Jane G.
AU - Suding, Katharine N.
AU - Totland, Ørjan
AU - Troxler, Tiffany
AU - Venn, Susanna
AU - Wahren, Carl Henrik
AU - Welker, Jeffrey M.
AU - Wipf, Sonja
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6
DO - 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 30532048
AN - SCOPUS:85058178081
SN - 2397-334X
VL - 3
SP - 45
EP - 52
JO - Nature Ecology and Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology and Evolution
IS - 1
ER -