Impact of ambient temperature, precipitation and seven years of experimental warming and nutrient addition on fruit production in an alpine heath and meadow community
المؤلف | Juha M., Alatalo |
المؤلف | Dai, Junhu |
المؤلف | Pandey, Rajiv |
المؤلف | Erfanian, Mohammad Bagher |
المؤلف | Ahmed, Talaat |
المؤلف | Bai, Yang |
المؤلف | Molau, Ulf |
المؤلف | Jägerbrand, Annika K. |
تاريخ الإتاحة | 2023-02-15T05:32:10Z |
تاريخ النشر | 2022-08-25 |
اسم المنشور | Science of The Total Environment |
المعرّف | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155450 |
الرقم المعياري الدولي للكتاب | 00489697 |
الملخص | Alpine and polar regions are predicted to be among the most vulnerable to changes in temperature, precipitation, and nutrient availability. We carried out a seven-year factorial experiment with warming and nutrient addition in two alpine vegetation communities. We analyzed the relationship between fruit production and monthly mean, maximum, and min temperatures during the fall of the pre-fruiting year, the fruiting summer, and the whole fruit production period, and measured the effects of precipitation and growing and thawing degree days (GDD & TDD) on fruit production. Nutrient addition (heath: 27.88 ± 3.19 fold change at the end of the experiment; meadow: 18.02 ± 4.07) and combined nutrient addition and warming (heath: 20.63 ± 29.34 fold change at the end of the experiment; meadow: 18.21 ± 16.28) increased total fruit production and fruit production of graminoids. Fruit production of evergreen and deciduous shrubs fluctuated among the treatments and years in both the heath and meadow. Pre-maximum temperatures had a negative effect on fruit production in both communities, while current year maximum temperatures had a positive impact on fruit production in the meadow. Pre-minimum, pre-mean, current mean, total minimum, and total mean temperatures were all positively correlated with fruit production in the meadow. The current year and total precipitation had a negative effect on the fruit production of deciduous shrubs in the heath. GDD had a positive effect on fruit production in both communities, while TDD only impacted fruit production in the meadow. Increased nutrient availability increased fruit production over time in the high alpine plant communities, while experimental warming had either no effect or a negative effect. Deciduous shrubs were the most sensitive to climate parameters in both communities, and the meadow was more sensitive than the heath. The difference in importance of TDD for fruit production may be due to differences in snow cover in the two communities. |
راعي المشروع | This study was supported by Carl Tryggers stiftelse för vetenskaplig forskning and Qatar Petroleum to JMA. |
اللغة | en |
الناشر | Elsevier |
الموضوع | Arctic Climate change Cold spells Plant reproduction Fruit production ITEX Tundra |
النوع | Article |
رقم المجلد | 836 |
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