Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming
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in: Nature, Jahrgang 556, Nr. 7700, 04.04.2018, S. 231-234.
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T1 - Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming
AU - Steinbauer, Manuel J.
AU - Grytnes, John Arvid
AU - Jurasinski, Gerald
AU - Kulonen, Aino
AU - Lenoir, Jonathan
AU - Pauli, Harald
AU - Rixen, Christian
AU - Winkler, Manuela
AU - Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred
AU - Barni, Elena
AU - Bjorkman, Anne D.
AU - Breiner, Frank T.
AU - Burg, Sarah
AU - Czortek, Patryk
AU - Dawes, Melissa A.
AU - Delimat, Anna
AU - Dullinger, Stefan
AU - Erschbamer, Brigitta
AU - Felde, Vivian A.
AU - Fernández-Arberas, Olatz
AU - Fossheim, Kjetil F.
AU - Gómez-García, Daniel
AU - Georges, Damien
AU - Grindrud, Erlend T.
AU - Haider, Sylvia
AU - Haugum, Siri V.
AU - Henriksen, Hanne
AU - Herreros, María J.
AU - Jaroszewicz, Bogdan
AU - Jaroszynska, Francesca
AU - Kanka, Robert
AU - Kapfer, Jutta
AU - Klanderud, Kari
AU - Kühn, Ingolf
AU - Lamprecht, Andrea
AU - Matteodo, Magali
AU - Di Cella, Umberto Morra
AU - Normand, Signe
AU - Odland, Arvid
AU - Olsen, Siri L.
AU - Palacio, Sara
AU - Petey, Martina
AU - Piscová, Veronika
AU - Sedlakova, Blazena
AU - Steinbauer, Klaus
AU - Stöckli, Veronika
AU - Svenning, Jens Christian
AU - Teppa, Guido
AU - Theurillat, Jean Paul
AU - Vittoz, Pascal
AU - Woodin, Sarah J.
AU - Zimmermann, Niklaus E.
AU - Wipf, Sonja
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/4/4
Y1 - 2018/4/4
N2 - Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-twentieth century 1-7 are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the onset of the Anthropocene epoch 6 . While reports on ecological responses (for example, changes in species range or local extinctions) to the Great Acceleration are multiplying 8, 9, it is unknown whether such biotic responses are undergoing a similar acceleration over time. This knowledge gap stems from the limited availability of time series data on biodiversity changes across large temporal and geographical extents. Here we use a dataset of repeated plant surveys from 302 mountain summits across Europe, spanning 145 years of observation, to assess the temporal trajectory of mountain biodiversity changes as a globally coherent imprint of the Anthropocene. We find a continent-wide acceleration in the rate of increase in plant species richness, with five times as much species enrichment between 2007 and 2016 as fifty years ago, between 1957 and 1966. This acceleration is strikingly synchronized with accelerated global warming and is not linked to alternative global change drivers. The accelerating increases in species richness on mountain summits across this broad spatial extent demonstrate that acceleration in climate-induced biotic change is occurring even in remote places on Earth, with potentially far-ranging consequences not only for biodiversity, but also for ecosystem functioning and services.
AB - Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-twentieth century 1-7 are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the onset of the Anthropocene epoch 6 . While reports on ecological responses (for example, changes in species range or local extinctions) to the Great Acceleration are multiplying 8, 9, it is unknown whether such biotic responses are undergoing a similar acceleration over time. This knowledge gap stems from the limited availability of time series data on biodiversity changes across large temporal and geographical extents. Here we use a dataset of repeated plant surveys from 302 mountain summits across Europe, spanning 145 years of observation, to assess the temporal trajectory of mountain biodiversity changes as a globally coherent imprint of the Anthropocene. We find a continent-wide acceleration in the rate of increase in plant species richness, with five times as much species enrichment between 2007 and 2016 as fifty years ago, between 1957 and 1966. This acceleration is strikingly synchronized with accelerated global warming and is not linked to alternative global change drivers. The accelerating increases in species richness on mountain summits across this broad spatial extent demonstrate that acceleration in climate-induced biotic change is occurring even in remote places on Earth, with potentially far-ranging consequences not only for biodiversity, but also for ecosystem functioning and services.
KW - Biology
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U2 - 10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6
DO - 10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 29618821
AN - SCOPUS:85045289991
VL - 556
SP - 231
EP - 234
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
SN - 0028-0836
IS - 7700
ER -