Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests

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Authors

  • Dries Landuyt
  • Michael P. Perring
  • Haben Blondeel
  • Emiel De Lombaerde
  • Leen Depauw
  • Eline Lorer
  • Sybryn L. Maes
  • Lander Baeten
  • Laurent Bergès
  • Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
  • Guntis Brūmelis
  • Jörg Brunet
  • Markéta Chudomelová
  • Janusz Czerepko
  • Guillaume Decocq
  • Jan den Ouden
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Thomas Dirnböck
  • Tomasz Durak
  • Radosław Gawryś
  • Radim Hédl
  • Steffi Heinrichs
  • Thilo Heinken
  • Bogdan Jaroszewicz
  • Keith Kirby
  • Martin Kopecký
  • František Máliš
  • Martin Macek
  • Fraser J.G. Mitchell
  • Tobias Naaf
  • Petr Petřík
  • Kamila Reczynska
  • Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Tibor Standovár
  • Krzysztof Swierkosz
  • Simon M. Smart
  • Hans Van Calster
  • Ondrej Vild
  • Donald M. Waller
  • Monika Wulf
  • Kris Verheyen
Plant communities are being exposed to changing environmental conditions all around the globe, leading to alterations in plant diversity, community composition, and ecosystem functioning. For herbaceous understorey communities in temperate forests, responses to global change are postulated to be complex, due to the presence of a tree layer that modulates understorey responses to external pressures such as climate change and changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition rates. Multiple investigative
approaches have been put forward as tools to detect, quantify and predict understorey responses to these global-change drivers, including, among others, distributed resurvey studies and manipulative experiments. These investigative approaches are
generally designed and reported upon in isolation, while integration across investigative approaches is rarely considered. In this study, we integrate three investigative approaches (two complementary resurvey approaches and one experimental approach) to investigate how climate warming and changes in nitrogen deposition affect the
functional composition of the understorey and how functional responses in the understorey are modulated by canopy disturbance, that is, changes in overstorey canopy openness over time. Our resurvey data reveal that most changes in understorey functional
characteristics represent responses to changes in canopy openness with shifts in macroclimate temperature and aerial nitrogen deposition playing secondary roles. Contrary to expectations, we found little evidence that these drivers interact. In addition,
experimental findings deviated from the observational findings, suggesting that the forces driving understorey change at the regional scale differ from those driving change at the forest floor (i.e., the experimental treatments). Our study demonstrates that different approaches need to be integrated to acquire a full picture of how understorey communities respond to global change.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere17086
ZeitschriftGlobal Change Biology
Jahrgang30
Ausgabenummer1
Anzahl der Seiten14
ISSN1354-1013
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.2024

    Fachgebiete

  • Ökosystemforschung - climate change, forest management, forestREplot, herbaceous layer, mesocosm experiment, nitrogen deposition, plant height, resurvey study, SLA

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