Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s
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T1 - Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s
AU - Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s
AU - MacDougall, Andrew S.
AU - Esch, Ellen
AU - Chen, Qingqing
AU - Carroll, Oliver
AU - Bonner, Colin
AU - Ohlert, Timothy
AU - Siewert, Matthias
AU - Sulik, John
AU - Schweiger, Anna
AU - Borer, Elizabeth T.
AU - Naidu, Dilip
AU - Bagchi, Sumanta
AU - Hautier, Yann
AU - Wilfahrt, Peter
AU - Larson, Keith
AU - Olofsson, Johan
AU - Cleland, Elsa
AU - Muthukrishnan, Ranjan
AU - O’Halloran, Lydia
AU - Alberti, Juan
AU - Anderson, T. Michael
AU - Arnillas, Carlos A.
AU - Bakker, Jonathan D.
AU - Barrio, Isabel C.
AU - Biederman, Lori
AU - Boughton, Elizabeth H.
AU - Brudvig, Lars A.
AU - Bruschetti, Martin
AU - Buckley, Yvonne
AU - Bugalho, Miguel N.
AU - Cadotte, Marc W.
AU - Caldeira, Maria C.
AU - Catford, Jane A.
AU - D’Antonio, Carla
AU - Davies, Kendi
AU - Daleo, Pedro
AU - Dickman, Christopher R.
AU - Donohue, Ian
AU - DuPre, Mary Ellyn
AU - Elgersma, Kenneth
AU - Eisenhauer, Nico
AU - Eskelinen, Anu
AU - Estrada, Catalina
AU - Fay, Philip A.
AU - Feng, Yanhao
AU - Gruner, Daniel S.
AU - Hagenah, Nicole
AU - Haider, Sylvia
AU - Harpole, W. Stanley
AU - Hersch-Green, Erika
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Global change is associated with variable shifts in the annual production of aboveground plant biomass, suggesting localized sensitivities with unclear causal origins. Combining remotely sensed normalized difference vegetation index data since the 1980s with contemporary field data from 84 grasslands on 6 continents, we show a widening divergence in site-level biomass ranging from +51% to −34% globally. Biomass generally increased in warmer, wetter and species-rich sites with longer growing seasons and declined in species-poor arid areas. Phenological changes were widespread, revealing substantive transitions in grassland seasonal cycling. Grazing, nitrogen deposition and plant invasion were prevalent in some regions but did not predict overall trends. Grasslands are undergoing sizable changes in production, with implications for food security, biodiversity and carbon storage especially in arid regions where declines are accelerating.
AB - Global change is associated with variable shifts in the annual production of aboveground plant biomass, suggesting localized sensitivities with unclear causal origins. Combining remotely sensed normalized difference vegetation index data since the 1980s with contemporary field data from 84 grasslands on 6 continents, we show a widening divergence in site-level biomass ranging from +51% to −34% globally. Biomass generally increased in warmer, wetter and species-rich sites with longer growing seasons and declined in species-poor arid areas. Phenological changes were widespread, revealing substantive transitions in grassland seasonal cycling. Grazing, nitrogen deposition and plant invasion were prevalent in some regions but did not predict overall trends. Grasslands are undergoing sizable changes in production, with implications for food security, biodiversity and carbon storage especially in arid regions where declines are accelerating.
KW - Biology
KW - Ecosystems Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85200543589&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41559-024-02500-x
DO - 10.1038/s41559-024-02500-x
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85200543589
JO - Nature Ecology and Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology and Evolution
SN - 2397-334X
ER -