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Kougioumoutzis K, Constantinou I, Panitsa M. Rising Temperatures, Falling Leaves: Predicting the Fate of Cyprus's Endemic Oak under Climate and Land Use Change. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1109. [PMID: 38674518 PMCID: PMC11053427 DOI: 10.3390/plants13081109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2024] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Endemic island species face heightened extinction risk from climate-driven shifts, yet standard models often underestimate threat levels for those like Quercus alnifolia, an iconic Cypriot oak with pre-adaptations to aridity. Through species distribution modelling, we investigated the potential shifts in its distribution under future climate and land-use change scenarios. Our approach uniquely combines dispersal constraints, detailed soil characteristics, hydrological factors, and anticipated soil erosion data, offering a comprehensive assessment of environmental suitability. We quantified the species' sensitivity, exposure, and vulnerability to projected changes, conducting a preliminary IUCN extinction risk assessment according to Criteria A and B. Our projections uniformly predict range reductions, with a median decrease of 67.8% by the 2070s under the most extreme scenarios. Additionally, our research indicates Quercus alnifolia's resilience to diverse erosion conditions and preference for relatively dry climates within a specific annual temperature range. The preliminary IUCN risk assessment designates Quercus alnifolia as Critically Endangered in the future, highlighting the need for focused conservation efforts. Climate and land-use changes are critical threats to the species' survival, emphasising the importance of comprehensive modelling techniques and the urgent requirement for dedicated conservation measures to safeguard this iconic species.
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- Laboratory of Botany, Department of Biology, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece; (K.K.); (I.C.)
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Boisvert‐Marsh L, Pedlar JH, de Blois S, Le Squin A, Lawrence K, McKenney DW, Williams C, Aubin I. Migration‐based simulations for Canadian trees show limited tracking of suitable climate under climate change. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Laura Boisvert‐Marsh
- Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada
- Department of Plant Science Macdonald Campus of McGill University Ste‐Anne‐de‐Bellevue Quebec Canada
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada
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- Department of Plant Science Macdonald Campus of McGill University Ste‐Anne‐de‐Bellevue Quebec Canada
- Bieler School of Environment McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Département de Biologie Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Quebec Canada
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada
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- Atlantic Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada Fredericton New Brunswick Canada
- Vineland Research and Innovation Centre Lincoln Ontario Canada
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service Natural Resources Canada Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada
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Brzozowski M, Pełechaty M, Bogawski P. A winner or a loser in climate change? Modelling the past, current, and future potential distributions of a rare charophyte species. Glob Ecol Conserv 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Rojo J, Oteros J, Picornell A, Maya-Manzano JM, Damialis A, Zink K, Werchan M, Werchan B, Smith M, Menzel A, Timpf S, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Bergmann KC, Schmidt-Weber CB, Buters J. Effects of future climate change on birch abundance and their pollen load. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2021; 27:5934-5949. [PMID: 34363285 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Climate change impacts on the structure and function of ecosystems will worsen public health issues like allergic diseases. Birch trees (Betula spp.) are important sources of aeroallergens in Central and Northern Europe. Birches are vulnerable to climate change as these trees are sensitive to increased temperatures and summer droughts. This study aims to examine the effect of climate change on airborne birch pollen concentrations in Central Europe using Bavaria in Southern Germany as a case study. Pollen data from 28 monitoring stations in Bavaria were used in this study, with time series of up 30 years long. An integrative approach was used to model airborne birch pollen concentrations taking into account drivers influencing birch tree abundance and birch pollen production and projections made according to different climate change and socioeconomic scenarios. Birch tree abundance is projected to decrease in parts of Bavaria at different rates, depending on the climate scenario, particularly in current centres of the species distribution. Climate change is expected to result in initial increases in pollen load but, due to the reduction in birch trees, the amount of airborne birch pollen will decrease at lower altitudes. Conversely, higher altitude areas will experience expansions in birch tree distribution and subsequent increases in airborne birch pollen in the future. Even considering restrictions for migration rates, increases in pollen load are likely in Southwestern areas, where positive trends have already been detected during the last three decades. Integrating models for the distribution and abundance of pollen sources and the drivers that control birch pollen production allowed us to model airborne birch pollen concentrations in the future. The magnitude of changes depends on location and climate change scenario.
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- Jesús Rojo
- Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
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- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
- Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Augsburg, Germany
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- Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Schwerpunkt Klima und Energie, Referat KliZ: Klima-Zentrum, Hof/Saale, Germany
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- German Pollen Information Service Foundation (PID), Berlin, Germany
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- German Pollen Information Service Foundation (PID), Berlin, Germany
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- School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Worcester, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
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- Institute of Geography, Geoinformatics Group, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
- Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Augsburg, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
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Liu J, Zou HX, Bachelot B, Dong T, Zhu Z, Liao Y, Plenković-Moraj A, Wu Y. Predicting the responses of subalpine forest landscape dynamics to climate change on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2021; 27:4352-4366. [PMID: 34060175 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Subalpine vegetation across the Tibetan Plateau is globally one of the most sensitive to climate change. However, the potential landscape-scale effects of climate change on subalpine forest dynamics remain largely unexplored. Here, we used a forest landscape model (LANDIS-II) coupled with a forest ecosystem process model (PnET-II) to simulate forest dynamics under future climate change in Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve in the eastern subalpine region of the Tibetan Plateau. We examined changes in the composition, distribution and aboveground biomass of cold temperate coniferous forests, temperate coniferous forests, deciduous broad-leaved forests and redwood forest under four climate change scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP8.5 and the current climate) from 2016 to 2096. Our model predicts that by 2096, (i) cold temperate coniferous forests will expand and increase by 7.92%, 8.18%, 8.65% and 7.02% under current climate, RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios, respectively; (ii) distribution of forests as a whole shows upward elevational range shift, especially under RCP8.5 scenario and (iii) total aboveground biomass slowly increases at first and then decreases to 12%-16% of current distribution under RCPs. These results show that climate change can be expected to significantly influence forest composition, distribution and aboveground biomass in the subalpine forests of eastern Tibetan Plateau. This study is the first to simulate forest dynamics at the landscape scale in subalpine areas of the Tibetan Plateau, which provides an important step in developing more effective strategies of forest management for expected climate change, not only in China but also around the world.
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- Junyan Liu
- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of BioSciences, Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, Ministry of Education, and College of Life Sciences, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
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- Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve Administrative Bureau, Jiuzhaigou, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
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Bryophytes are predicted to lag behind future climate change despite their high dispersal capacities. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5601. [PMID: 33154374 PMCID: PMC7645420 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19410-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The extent to which species can balance out the loss of suitable habitats due to climate warming by shifting their ranges is an area of controversy. Here, we assess whether highly efficient wind-dispersed organisms like bryophytes can keep-up with projected shifts in their areas of suitable climate. Using a hybrid statistical-mechanistic approach accounting for spatial and temporal variations in both climatic and wind conditions, we simulate future migrations across Europe for 40 bryophyte species until 2050. The median ratios between predicted range loss vs expansion by 2050 across species and climate change scenarios range from 1.6 to 3.3 when only shifts in climatic suitability were considered, but increase to 34.7–96.8 when species dispersal abilities are added to our models. This highlights the importance of accounting for dispersal restrictions when projecting future distribution ranges and suggests that even highly dispersive organisms like bryophytes are not equipped to fully track the rates of ongoing climate change in the course of the next decades. Bryophytes tend to be sensitive to warming, but their high dispersal ability could help them track climate change. Here the authors combine correlative niche models and mechanistic dispersal models for 40 European bryophyte species under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, finding that most of these species are unlikely to track climate change over the coming decades.
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Kennedy JP, Dangremond EM, Hayes MA, Preziosi RF, Rowntree JK, Feller IC. Hurricanes overcome migration lag and shape intraspecific genetic variation beyond a poleward mangrove range limit. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:2583-2597. [PMID: 32573031 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 06/06/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Expansion of many tree species lags behind climate change projections. Extreme storms can rapidly overcome this lag, especially for coastal species, but how will storm-driven expansion shape intraspecific genetic variation? Do storms provide recruits only from the nearest sources, or from more distant sources? Answers to these questions have ecological and evolutionary implications, but empirical evidence is absent from the literature. In 2017, Hurricane Irma provided an opportunity to address this knowledge gap at the northern range limit of the neotropical black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) on the Atlantic coast of Florida, USA. We observed massive post-hurricane increases in beach-stranded A. germinans propagules at, and past, this species' present day range margin when compared to a previously surveyed nonhurricane year. Yet, propagule dispersal does not guarantee subsequent establishment and reproductive success (i.e., effective dispersal). We also evaluated prior effective dispersal along this coastline with isolated A. germinans trees identified beyond the most northern established population. We used 12 nuclear microsatellite loci to genotype 896 hurricane-driven drift propagules from nine sites and 10 isolated trees from four sites, determined their sources of origin, and estimated dispersal distances. Almost all drift propagules and all isolated trees came from the nearest sources. This research suggests that hurricanes are a prerequisite for poleward range expansion of a coastal tree species and that storms can shape the expanding gene pool by providing almost exclusively range-margin genotypes. These insights and empirical estimates of hurricane-driven dispersal distances should improve our ability to forecast distributional shifts of coastal species.
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- John Paul Kennedy
- Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Biological, Physical, and Health Sciences, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Australian Rivers Institute - Coast & Estuaries, School of Environment & Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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- Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Smithsonian Institution, Edgewater, MD, USA
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Prasad A, Pedlar J, Peters M, McKenney D, Iverson L, Matthews S, Adams B. Combining US and Canadian forest inventories to assess habitat suitability and migration potential of 25 tree species under climate change. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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- Anantha Prasad
- Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service Delaware OH USA
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre Canadian Forest Service Sault Ste Marie ON Canada
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- Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service Delaware OH USA
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- Great Lakes Forestry Centre Canadian Forest Service Sault Ste Marie ON Canada
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- Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service Delaware OH USA
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- Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service Delaware OH USA
- School of Environment and Natural Resources Columbus OH USA
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources Columbus OH USA
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Merker SA, Chandler RB. Identifying global hotspots of avian trailing-edge population diversity. Glob Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Facilitating Adaptive Forest Management under Climate Change: A Spatially Specific Synthesis of 125 Species for Habitat Changes and Assisted Migration over the Eastern United States. FORESTS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/f10110989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We modeled and combined outputs for 125 tree species for the eastern United States, using habitat suitability and colonization potential models along with an evaluation of adaptation traits. These outputs allowed, for the first time, the compilation of tree species’ current and future potential for each unit of 55 national forests and grasslands and 469 1 × 1 degree grids across the eastern United States. A habitat suitability model, a migration simulation model, and an assessment based on biological and disturbance factors were used with United States Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data to evaluate species potential to migrate or infill naturally into suitable habitats over the next 100 years. We describe a suite of variables, by species, for each unique geographic unit, packaged as summary tables describing current abundance, potential future change in suitable habitat, adaptability, and capability to cope with the changing climate, and colonization likelihood over 100 years. This resulting synthesis and summation effort, culminating over two decades of work, provides a detailed data set that incorporates habitat quality, land cover, and dispersal potential, spatially constrained, for nearly all the tree species of the eastern United States. These tables and maps provide an estimate of potential species trends out 100 years, intended to deliver managers and publics with practical tools to reduce the vast set of decisions before them as they proactively manage tree species in the face of climate change.
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Peters MP, Iverson LR, Prasad AM, Matthews SN. Utilizing the density of inventory samples to define a hybrid lattice for species distribution models: DISTRIB-II for 135 eastern U.S. trees. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:8876-8899. [PMID: 31410287 PMCID: PMC6686326 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Revised: 05/13/2019] [Accepted: 06/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Species distribution models (SDMs) provide useful information about potential presence or absence, and environmental conditions suitable for a species; and high-resolution models across large extents are desirable. A primary feature of SDMs is the underlying spatial resolution, which can be chosen for many reasons, though we propose that a hybrid lattice, in which grid cell sizes vary with the density of forest inventory plots, provides benefits over uniform grids. We examine how the spatial grain size affected overall model performance for the Random Forest-based SDM, DISTRIB, which was updated with recent forest inventories, climate, and soil data, and used a hybrid lattice derived from inventory densities.Modeled habitat suitability was compared between a uniform grid of 10 × 10 and a hybrid lattice of 10 × 10 and 20 × 20 km grids to assess potential improvements. The resulting DISTRIB-II models for 125 eastern U.S. tree species provide information on individual habitat suitability that can be mapped and statistically analyzed to understand current and potential changes.Model performance metrics were comparable among the hybrid lattice and 10-km grids; however, the hybrid lattice models generally had higher overall model reliability scores and were likely more representative of the inventory data.Our efforts to update DISTRIB models with current information aims to produce a more representative depiction of recent conditions by accounting for the spatial density of forest inventory data and using the latest climate data. Additionally, we developed an approach that leverages a hybrid lattice to maximize the spatial information within the models and recommend that similar modeling efforts be used to evaluate the spatial density of response and predictor data and derive a modeling grid that best represents the environment.
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- Matthew P. Peters
- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research StationNorthern Institute of Applied Climate ScienceDelawareOHUSA
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- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research StationNorthern Institute of Applied Climate ScienceDelawareOHUSA
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- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research StationNorthern Institute of Applied Climate ScienceDelawareOHUSA
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- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research StationNorthern Institute of Applied Climate ScienceDelawareOHUSA
- School of Environment and Natural ResourcesThe Ohio State UniversityColumbusOHUSA
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Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Tree Species of the Eastern US: Results of DISTRIB-II Modeling. FORESTS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/f10040302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Forests across the globe are faced with a rapidly changing climate and an enhanced understanding of how these changing conditions may impact these vital resources is needed. Our approach is to use DISTRIB-II, an updated version of the Random Forest DISTRIB model, to model 125 tree species individually from the eastern United States to quantify potential current and future habitat responses under two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 8.5 -high emissions which is our current trajectory and RCP 4.5 -lower emissions by implementing energy conservation) and three climate models. Climate change could have large impacts on suitable habitat for tree species in the eastern United States, especially under a high emissions trajectory. On average, of the 125 species, approximately 88 species would gain and 26 species would lose at least 10% of their suitable habitat. The projected change in the center of gravity for each species distribution (i.e., mean center) between current and future habitat moves generally northeast, with 81 species habitat centers potentially moving over 100 km under RCP 8.5. Collectively, our results suggest that many species will experience less pressure in tracking their suitable habitats under a path of lower greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fitzek E, Delcamp A, Guichoux E, Hahn M, Lobdell M, Hipp AL. A nuclear DNA barcode for eastern North American oaks and application to a study of hybridization in an Arboretum setting. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:5837-5851. [PMID: 29938097 PMCID: PMC6010771 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Revised: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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DNA barcoding has proved difficult in a number of woody plant genera, including the ecologically important oak genus Quercus. In this study, we utilized restrictionsite-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) to develop an economical single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) DNA barcoding system that suffices to distinguish eight common, sympatric eastern North American white oak species. Two de novo clustering pipelines, PyRAD and Stacks, were used in combination with postclustering bioinformatic tools to generate a list of 291 potential SNPs, 80 of which were included in a barcoding toolkit that is easily implemented using MassARRAY mass spectrometry technology. As a proof-of-concept, we used the genotyping toolkit to infer potential hybridization between North American white oaks transplanted outside of their native range (Q. michauxii, Q. montana, Q muehlenbergii/Q. prinoides, and Q. stellata) into a horticultural collection surrounded by natural forests of locally native trees (Q. alba and Q. macrocarpa) in the living collection at The Morton Arboretum (Lisle, IL, USA). Phylogenetic and clustering analyses suggested low rates of hybridization between cultivated and native species, with the exception of one Q. michauxii mother tree, the acorns of which exhibited high admixture from either Q. alba or Q. stellata and Q. macrocarpa, and a hybrid between Q. stellata that appears to have backcrossed almost exclusively to Q. alba. Together, RAD-seq and MassARRAY technologies allow for efficient development and implementation of a multispecies barcode for one of the more challenging forest tree genera.
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- Elisabeth Fitzek
- HerbariumThe Morton ArboretumLisleIllinois
- Present address:
Department of Biological SciencesNorthern Illinois UniversityDeKalbIllinois
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- Site de Pierroton, Platforme Genome TranscriptomeINRACESTASFrance
- UMR1202 Biodiversité Gènes and CommunautésUniversity of BordeauxCESTASFrance
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- Site de Pierroton, Platforme Genome TranscriptomeINRACESTASFrance
- UMR1202 Biodiversité Gènes and CommunautésUniversity of BordeauxCESTASFrance
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- HerbariumThe Morton ArboretumLisleIllinois
- Department of BotanyThe Field MuseumChicagoIllinois
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Rogers BM, Jantz P, Goetz SJ. Vulnerability of eastern US tree species to climate change. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2017; 23:3302-3320. [PMID: 27935162 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Climate change is expected to alter the distribution of tree species because of critical environmental tolerances related to growth, mortality, reproduction, disturbances, and biotic interactions. How this is realized in 21st century remains uncertain, in large part due to limitations on plant migration and the impacts of landscape fragmentation. Understanding these changes is of particular concern for forest management, which requires information at an appropriately fine spatial resolution. Here we provide a framework and application for tree species vulnerability to climate change in the eastern United States that accounts for influential drivers of future distributions. We used species distribution models to project changes in habitat suitability at 800 m for 40 tree species that vary in physiology, range, and environmental niche. We then developed layers of adaptive capacity based on migration potential, forest fragmentation, and propagule pressure. These were combined into metrics of vulnerability, including an overall index and spatially explicit categories designed to inform management. Despite overall favorable changes in suitability, the majority of species and the landscape were considered vulnerable to climate change. Vulnerability was significantly exacerbated by projections of pests and pathogens for some species. Northern and high-elevation species tended to be the most vulnerable. There were, however, some notable areas of particular resilience, including most of West Virginia. Our approach combines some of the most important considerations for species vulnerability in a straightforward framework, and can be used as a tool for managers to prioritize species, areas, and actions.
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- Brendan M Rogers
- Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, USA
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- Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, USA
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- Woods Hole Research Center, 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, USA
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Anenberg SC, Weinberger KR, Roman H, Neumann JE, Crimmins A, Fann N, Martinich J, Kinney PL. Impacts of oak pollen on allergic asthma in the United States and potential influence of future climate change. GEOHEALTH 2017; 1:80-92. [PMID: 32158983 PMCID: PMC7007169 DOI: 10.1002/2017gh000055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Revised: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Future climate change is expected to lengthen and intensify pollen seasons in the U.S., potentially increasing incidence of allergic asthma. We developed a proof-of-concept approach for estimating asthma emergency department (ED) visits in the U.S. associated with present-day and climate-induced changes in oak pollen. We estimated oak pollen season length for moderate (Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5) and severe climate change scenarios (RCP8.5) through 2090 using five climate models and published relationships between temperature, precipitation, and oak pollen season length. We calculated asthma ED visit counts associated with 1994-2010 average oak pollen concentrations and simulated future oak pollen season length changes using the Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program, driven by epidemiologically derived concentration-response relationships. Oak pollen was associated with 21,200 (95% confidence interval, 10,000-35,200) asthma ED visits in the Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest U.S. in 2010, with damages valued at $10.4 million. Nearly 70% of these occurred among children age <18 years. Severe climate change could increase oak pollen season length and associated asthma ED visits by 5% and 10% on average in 2050 and 2090, with a marginal net present value through 2090 of $10.4 million (additional to the baseline value of $346.2 million). Moderate versus severe climate change could avoid >50% of the additional oak pollen-related asthma ED visits in 2090. Despite several key uncertainties and limitations, these results suggest that aeroallergens pose a substantial U.S. public health burden, that climate change could increase U.S. allergic disease incidence, and that mitigating climate change may have benefits from avoided pollen-related health impacts.
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- Susan C. Anenberg
- Environmental Health Analytics, LLCWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Institute at Brown for Environment & SocietyBrown UniversityProvidenceRhode IslandUSA
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- Industrial Economics, Inc.CambridgeMassachusettsUSA
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- Office of Air and RadiationU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Office of Air and RadiationU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Office of Air and RadiationU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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Clark JS, Iverson L, Woodall CW, Allen CD, Bell DM, Bragg DC, D'Amato AW, Davis FW, Hersh MH, Ibanez I, Jackson ST, Matthews S, Pederson N, Peters M, Schwartz MW, Waring KM, Zimmermann NE. The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2016; 22:2329-2352. [PMID: 26898361 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2015] [Revised: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We synthesize insights from current understanding of drought impacts at stand-to-biogeographic scales, including management options, and we identify challenges to be addressed with new research. Large stand-level shifts underway in western forests already are showing the importance of interactions involving drought, insects, and fire. Diebacks, changes in composition and structure, and shifting range limits are widely observed. In the eastern US, the effects of increasing drought are becoming better understood at the level of individual trees, but this knowledge cannot yet be confidently translated to predictions of changing structure and diversity of forest stands. While eastern forests have not experienced the types of changes seen in western forests in recent decades, they too are vulnerable to drought and could experience significant changes with increased severity, frequency, or duration in drought. Throughout the continental United States, the combination of projected large climate-induced shifts in suitable habitat from modeling studies and limited potential for the rapid migration of tree populations suggests that changing tree and forest biogeography could substantially lag habitat shifts already underway. Forest management practices can partially ameliorate drought impacts through reductions in stand density, selection of drought-tolerant species and genotypes, artificial regeneration, and the development of multistructured stands. However, silvicultural treatments also could exacerbate drought impacts unless implemented with careful attention to site and stand characteristics. Gaps in our understanding should motivate new research on the effects of interactions involving climate and other species at the stand scale and how interactions and multiple responses are represented in models. This assessment indicates that, without a stronger empirical basis for drought impacts at the stand scale, more complex models may provide limited guidance.
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- James S Clark
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 359 Main Road, Delaware, OH, 43015, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM, 87544, USA
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- Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Monticello, AR, 71656, USA
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, 04E Aiken Center, 81 Carrigan Dr., Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Department of Biology, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, NY, 10708, USA
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- School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 2546 Dana Building, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Climate Science Center and Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell St., PO Box 210137, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Delaware, OH, 43015, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis, Davis, CA, 93106, USA
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, USA
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Bauer A, Farrell R, Goldblum D. The geography of forest diversity and community changes under future climate conditions in the eastern United States. ECOSCIENCE 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2016.1213107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Yao J, He X, He H, Chen W, Dai L, Lewis BJ, Yu L. The long-term effects of planting and harvesting on secondary forest dynamics under climate change in northeastern China. Sci Rep 2016; 6:18490. [PMID: 26725308 PMCID: PMC4698755 DOI: 10.1038/srep18490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Unlike the virgin forest in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve in northeastern China, little research on a landscape scale has been conducted on secondary forests in the region under conditions of a warming climate. This research was undertaken in the upper Hun River region where the vegetation is representative of the typical secondary forest of northeastern China. The spatially explicit forest landscape model LANDIS was utilized to simulate the responses of forest restoration dynamics to anthropogenic disturbance (planting and harvesting) and evaluate the difference of the restoration process under continuation of current climatic conditions and climate warming. The results showed that: (1) The interaction of planting and harvesting has organizational scale effects on the forest. The combination of planting and harvesting policies has significant effects on the overall forest but not on individual species. (2) The area expansion of the historically dominant species Pinus koraiensis is less under climate warming than under continuation of current climatic conditions. These suggests that we should carefully take historically dominant species as the main focus for forest restoration, especially when they are near their natural distribution boundary, because they are probably less capable of successfully adapting to climate change.
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- Jing Yao
- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.,Qingyuan Forest CERN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.,Qingyuan Forest CERN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.,Qingyuan Forest CERN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
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Prasad AM. Macroscale intraspecific variation and environmental heterogeneity: analysis of cold and warm zone abundance, mortality, and regeneration distributions of four eastern US tree species. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:5033-48. [PMID: 26640680 PMCID: PMC4662312 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2015] [Revised: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/22/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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I test for macroscale intraspecific variation of abundance, mortality, and regeneration of four eastern US tree species (Tsuga canadensis,Betula lenta,Liriodendron tulipifera, and Quercus prinus) by splitting them into three climatic zones based on plant hardiness zones (PHZs). The primary goals of the analysis are to assess the differences in environmental heterogeneity and demographic responses among climatic zones, map regional species groups based on decision tree rules, and evaluate univariate and multivariate patterns of species demography with respect to environmental variables. I use the Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) data to derive abundance, mortality, and regeneration indices and split the range into three climatic zones based on USDA PHZs: (1) cold adapted, leading region; (2) middle, well‐adapted region; and (3) warm adapted, trailing region. I employ decision tree ensemble methods to assess the importance of environmental predictors on the abundance of the species between the cold and warm zones and map zonal variations in species groups. Multivariate regression trees are used to simultaneously explore abundance, mortality, and regeneration in tandem to assess species vulnerability. Analyses point to the relative importance of climate in the warm adapted, trailing zone (especially moisture) compared to the cold adapted, leading zone. Higher mortality and lower regeneration patterns in the warm trailing zone point to its vulnerability to growing season temperature and precipitation changes that could figure more prominently in the future. This study highlights the need to account for intraspecific variation of demography in order to understand environmental heterogeneity and differential adaptation. It provides a methodology for assessing the vulnerability of tree species by delineating climatic zones based on easily available PHZ data, and FIA derived abundance, mortality, and regeneration indices as a proxy for overall growth and fitness. Based on decision tree rules, ecologically meaningful variations in species abundance among the climatic zones can be related to environmental variability and mapped.
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- Anantha M Prasad
- Northern Research Station USDA Forest Service 359, Main Road Delaware Ohio 43015
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Dullinger S, Dendoncker N, Gattringer A, Leitner M, Mang T, Moser D, Mücher CA, Plutzar C, Rounsevell M, Willner W, Zimmermann NE, Hülber K. Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on climate-driven migration of European forest understorey plants. DIVERS DISTRIB 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Stefan Dullinger
- Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research; Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
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- Department of Geography; University of Namur; 61 Rue de Bruxelles 5000 Namur Belgium
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- Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research; Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Giessergasse 6/7 1090 Vienna Austria
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- Faculty of Physics; University of Vienna; Strudlhofgasse 4 1090 Vienna Austria
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Zentrum; Technische Universität München; Lichtenbergstraße 1 85747 Garching Germany
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- Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research; Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Giessergasse 6/7 1090 Vienna Austria
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- Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research; Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Giessergasse 6/7 1090 Vienna Austria
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- Alterra Wageningen UR; Droevendaalsesteeg 3 6708 PB Wageningen TheNetherlands
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- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Giessergasse 6/7 1090 Vienna Austria
- Institute of Social Ecology Vienna; Alpen-Adria-University; Schottenfeldgasse 29 1070 Vienna Austria
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- School of GeoSciences; University of Edinburgh; Drummond Street Edinburgh EH8 9XP UK
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- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Giessergasse 6/7 1090 Vienna Austria
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- Landscape Dynamics Unit; Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Department of Botany & Biodiversity Research; Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 1030 Vienna Austria
- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Giessergasse 6/7 1090 Vienna Austria
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McCormack ML, Guo D. Impacts of environmental factors on fine root lifespan. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:205. [PMID: 24904605 PMCID: PMC4032987 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2014] [Accepted: 04/28/2014] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The lifespan of fast-cycling roots is a critical parameter determining a large flux of plant carbon into soil through root turnover and is a biological feature regulating the capacity of a plant to capture soil water and nutrients via root-age-related physiological processes. While the importance of root lifespan to whole-plant and ecosystem processes is increasingly recognized, robust descriptions of this dynamic process and its response to changes in climatic and edaphic factors are lacking. Here we synthesize available information and propose testable hypotheses using conceptual models to describe how changes in temperature, water, nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) availability impact fine root lifespan within a species. Each model is based on intrinsic responses including root physiological activity and alteration of carbohydrate allocation at the whole-plant level as well as extrinsic factors including mycorrhizal fungi and pressure from pathogens, herbivores, and other microbes. Simplifying interactions among these factors, we propose three general principles describing fine root responses to complex environmental gradients. First, increases in a factor that strongly constrains plant growth (temperature, water, N, or P) should result in increased fine root lifespan. Second, increases in a factor that exceeds plant demand or tolerance should result in decreased lifespan. Third, as multiple factors interact fine root responses should be determined by the most dominant factor controlling plant growth. Moving forward, field experiments should determine which types of species (e.g., coarse vs. fine rooted, obligate vs. facultative mycotrophs) will express greater plasticity in response to environmental gradients while ecosystem models may begin to incorporate more detailed descriptions of root lifespan and turnover. Together these efforts will improve quantitative understanding of root dynamics and help to identify areas where future research should be focused.
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- M. Luke McCormack
- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Synthesis Research Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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