1. Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming
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Wolfgang Schmidt, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Florian Zellweger, Petr Petřík, Jörg Brunet, Hans Van Calster, Tibor Standovár, Guillaume Decocq, Marek Malicki, Ondřej Vild, Kamila Reczyńska, Kris Verheyen, Monika Wulf, Radim Hédl, Pieter Vangansbeke, Tobias Naaf, Thomas Dirnböck, Tomasz Durak, Martin Macek, Thilo Heinken, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Lander Baeten, Remigiusz Pielech, František Máliš, Krzysztof Świerkosz, Markéta Chudomelová, Pieter De Frenne, Balázs Teleki, David A. Coomes, Jonathan Lenoir, Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai, Martin Kopecký, Imre Berki, Thomas A. Nagel, Zellweger, Florian [0000-0003-1265-9147], De Frenne, Pieter [0000-0002-8613-0943], Lenoir, Jonathan [0000-0003-0638-9582], Verheyen, Kris [0000-0002-2067-9108], Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus [0000-0002-2740-2304], Baeten, Lander [0000-0003-4262-9221], Hédl, Radim [0000-0002-6040-8126], Berki, Imre [0000-0002-0858-1327], Brunet, Jörg [0000-0003-2667-4575], Van Calster, Hans [0000-0001-8595-8426], Chudomelová, Markéta [0000-0001-7845-4000], Dirnböck, Thomas [0000-0002-8294-0690], Durak, Tomasz [0000-0003-4053-3699], Heinken, Thilo [0000-0002-1681-5971], Jaroszewicz, Bogdan [0000-0002-2042-8245], Kopecký, Martin [0000-0002-1018-9316], Máliš, František [0000-0003-2760-6988], Macek, Martin [0000-0002-5609-5921], Malicki, Marek [0000-0003-0517-3560], Nagel, Thomas A [0000-0002-4207-9218], Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne [0000-0002-6677-2666], Petřík, Petr [0000-0001-8518-6737], Reczyńska, Kamila [0000-0002-0938-8430], Standovár, Tibor [0000-0002-4686-3456], Świerkosz, Krzysztof [0000-0002-5145-178X], Vild, Ondřej [0000-0002-0728-2392], Wulf, Monika [0000-0001-6499-0750], Coomes, David [0000-0002-8261-2582], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés - UMR CNRS 7058 (EDYSAN), and Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,Canopy ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,Forest management ,Microclimate ,Climate change ,[SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity ,Forests ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Global Warming ,Trees ,FUTURE ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment ,VULNERABILITY ,Tree canopy ,Multidisciplinary ,CLIMATE-CHANGE ,Ecology ,Global warming ,Plant community ,Understory ,15. Life on land ,Europe ,13. Climate action ,Earth and Environmental Sciences ,Environmental science ,VEGETATION ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,MARINE - Abstract
Local factors restrain forest warming Microclimates are key to understanding how organisms and ecosystems respond to macroclimate change, yet they are frequently neglected when studying biotic responses to global change. Zellweger et al. provide a long-term, continental-scale assessment of the effects of micro- and macroclimate on the community composition of European forests (see the Perspective by Lembrechts and Nijs). They show that changes in forest canopy cover are fundamentally important for driving community responses to climate change. Closed canopies buffer against the effects of macroclimatic change through their cooling effect, slowing shifts in community composition, whereas open canopies tend to accelerate community change through local heating effects. Science , this issue p. 772 ; see also p. 711
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- 2020
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