Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities
Language English Country England, Great Britain Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article
Grant support
17-09283S
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Czech Academy of Sciences
01N02817
Ghent University
614839
European Research Council - International
APVV-15-0270
European Research Council - International
VEGA 2/0031/17
European Research Council - International
PubMed
31840363
DOI
10.1111/plb.13082
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Global environmental change, ground vegetation, herbaceous layer, plant-soil relations, regeneration, resource acquisition,
- MeSH
- Nitrogen metabolism MeSH
- Ecosystem * MeSH
- Global Warming MeSH
- Forests * MeSH
- Plant Leaves physiology MeSH
- Soil chemistry MeSH
- Plants * metabolism MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- Europe MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Nitrogen MeSH
- Soil MeSH
Functional traits respond to environmental drivers, hence evaluating trait-environment relationships across spatial environmental gradients can help to understand how multiple drivers influence plant communities. Global-change drivers such as changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition occur worldwide, but affect community trait distributions at the local scale, where resources (e.g. light availability) and conditions (e.g. soil pH) also influence plant communities. We investigate how multiple environmental drivers affect community trait responses related to resource acquisition (plant height, specific leaf area (SLA), woodiness, and mycorrhizal status) and regeneration (seed mass, lateral spread) of European temperate deciduous forest understoreys. We sampled understorey communities and derived trait responses across spatial gradients of global-change drivers (temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, and past land use), while integrating in-situ plot measurements on resources and conditions (soil type, Olsen phosphorus (P), Ellenberg soil moisture, light, litter mass, and litter quality). Among the global-change drivers, mean annual temperature strongly influenced traits related to resource acquisition. Higher temperatures were associated with taller understoreys producing leaves with lower SLA, and a higher proportional cover of woody and obligate mycorrhizal (OM) species. Communities in plots with higher Ellenberg soil moisture content had smaller seeds and lower proportional cover of woody and OM species. Finally, plots with thicker litter layers hosted taller understoreys with larger seeds and a higher proportional cover of OM species. Our findings suggest potential community shifts in temperate forest understoreys with global warming, and highlight the importance of local resources and conditions as well as global-change drivers for community trait variation.
Białowieża Geobotanical Station Faculty of Biology University of Warsaw Białowieża Poland
Department of Botany Faculty of Science Palacký University in Olomouc Olomouc Czech Republic
Department of Plant Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UK
Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés Jules Verne University of Picardie Amiens France
Faculty of Biology University of Latvia Riga Latvia
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic
Faculty of Forestry Technical University Zvolen Slovakia
Forest and Nature Lab Department of Environment Ghent University Melle Gontrode Belgium
Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
General Botany Institute of Biochemistry and Biology University of Potsdam Potsdam Germany
Institute of Botany Czech Academy of Sciences Průhonice Czech Republic
Institute of Ecology and Evolution Friedrich Schiller University Jena Jena Germany
Institute of Ecology Leuphana University of Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany
Leibniz ZALF e 5 Müncheberg Müncheberg Germany
National Forest Centre Zvolen Slovakia
School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley WA Australia
Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany
Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Alnarp Sweden
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