Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity
in plant communities across Europe

J 2023

Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

KAMBACH, Stephan, Francesco Maria SABATINI, Fabio ATTORRE, Idoia BIURRUN, Gerhard BOENISCH et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

Authors

KAMBACH, Stephan (guarantor), Francesco Maria SABATINI, Fabio ATTORRE, Idoia BIURRUN, Gerhard BOENISCH, Gianmaria BONARI, Andraž ČARNI, Maria Laura CARRANZA, Alessandro CHIARUCCI, Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jürgen DENGLER, Emmanuel GARBOLINO, Valentin GOLUB, Behlül GÜLER, Ute JANDT, Jan JANSEN, Anni JAŠKOVÁ (246 Finland, belonging to the institution), Borja JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Dirk Nikolaus KARGER, Jens KATTGE, Ilona KNOLLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Gabriele MIDOLO (380 Italy, belonging to the institution), Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Remigiusz PIELECH, Valerijus RAŠOMAVIČIUS, Solvita RŪSIŅA, Jozef ŠIBÍK, Zvjezdana STANČIĆ, Angela STANISCI, Jens-Christian SVENNING, Sergey YAMALOV, Niklaus E. ZIMMERMANN and Helge BRUELHEIDE

Edition

Nature Communications, Nature Research, 2023, 2041-1723

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10611 Plant sciences, botany

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 16.600 in 2022

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00134453

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6

UT WoS

001020706800001

Keywords in English

climate conditions; climate effect; functional morphology; habitat; leaf area; plant community; root; seed

Abstract

V originále

Ecological theory predicts close relationships between macroclimate and functional traits. Yet, global climatic gradients correlate only weakly with the trait composition of local plant communities, suggesting that important factors have been ignored. Here, we investigate the consistency of climate-trait relationships for plant communities in European habitats. Assuming that local factors are better accounted for in more narrowly defined habitats, we assigned > 300,000 vegetation plots to hierarchically classified habitats and modelled the effects of climate on the community-weighted means of four key functional traits using generalized additive models. We found that the predictive power of climate increased from broadly to narrowly defined habitats for specific leaf area and root length, but not for plant height and seed mass. Although macroclimate generally predicted the distribution of all traits, its effects varied, with habitat-specificity increasing toward more narrowly defined habitats. We conclude that macroclimate is an important determinant of terrestrial plant communities, but future predictions of climatic effects must consider how habitats are defined.

Links

SS70010002, research and development project

Name: Zpětné vazby mezi biodiverzitou a klimatem (Acronym: FeedBaCks)

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, BiodivClim

Citovat

KAMBACH, Stephan, Francesco Maria SABATINI, Fabio ATTORRE, Idoia BIURRUN, Gerhard BOENISCH, Gianmaria BONARI, Andraž ČARNI, Maria Laura CARRANZA, Alessandro CHIARUCCI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Jürgen DENGLER, Emmanuel GARBOLINO, Valentin GOLUB, Behlül GÜLER, Ute JANDT, Jan JANSEN, Anni JAŠKOVÁ, Borja JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Dirk Nikolaus KARGER, Jens KATTGE, Ilona KNOLLOVÁ, Gabriele MIDOLO, Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Remigiusz PIELECH, Valerijus RAŠOMAVIČIUS, Solvita RŪSIŅA, Jozef ŠIBÍK, Zvjezdana STANČIĆ, Angela STANISCI, Jens-Christian SVENNING, Sergey YAMALOV, Niklaus E. ZIMMERMANN and Helge BRUELHEIDE. Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe. Nature Communications. Nature Research, 2023, vol. 14, No 1, p. 1-11. ISSN 2041-1723. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6.

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N2  - Ecological theory predicts close relationships between macroclimate and functional traits. Yet, global climatic gradients correlate only weakly with the trait composition of local plant communities, suggesting that important factors have been ignored. Here, we investigate the consistency of climate-trait relationships for plant communities in European habitats. Assuming that local factors are better accounted for in more narrowly defined habitats, we assigned > 300,000 vegetation plots to hierarchically classified habitats and modelled the effects of climate on the community-weighted means of four key functional traits using generalized additive models. We found that the predictive power of climate increased from broadly to narrowly defined habitats for specific leaf area and root length, but not for plant height and seed mass. Although macroclimate generally predicted the distribution of all traits, its effects varied, with habitat-specificity increasing toward more narrowly defined habitats. We conclude that macroclimate is an important determinant of terrestrial plant communities, but future predictions of climatic effects must consider how habitats are defined.
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KAMBACH, Stephan, Francesco Maria SABATINI, Fabio ATTORRE, Idoia BIURRUN, Gerhard BOENISCH, Gianmaria BONARI, Andraž ČARNI, Maria Laura CARRANZA, Alessandro CHIARUCCI, Milan CHYTRÝ, Jürgen DENGLER, Emmanuel GARBOLINO, Valentin GOLUB, Behlül GÜLER, Ute JANDT, Jan JANSEN, Anni JAŠKOVÁ, Borja JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Dirk Nikolaus KARGER, Jens KATTGE, Ilona KNOLLOVÁ, Gabriele MIDOLO, Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Remigiusz PIELECH, Valerijus RAŠOMAVIČIUS, Solvita RŪSIŅA, Jozef ŠIBÍK, Zvjezdana STANČI$\backslash$'C, Angela STANISCI, Jens-Christian SVENNING, Sergey YAMALOV, Niklaus E. ZIMMERMANN and Helge BRUELHEIDE. Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe. \textit{Nature Communications}. Nature Research, 2023, vol.~14, No~1, p.~1-11. ISSN~2041-1723. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36240-6.

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