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| Título: | Climate variability and community stability in Mediterranean shrublands: the role of functional diversity and soil environment |
Autor: | Pérez-Ramos, Ignacio Manuel CSIC ORCID; Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo CSIC ORCID ; Riva, E. G. de la; Villar Montero, Rafael; Lloret, Francisco; Marañón, Teodoro CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Climate change Cold stress Community resistance Conservative strategy Doñana National Park Drought stress Dry matter content Functional traits Plant economics Plant–climate interactions |
Fecha de publicación: | 28-feb-2017 | Editor: | British Ecological Society John Wiley & Sons |
Citación: | Journal of Ecology 105(5): 1335-1346 (2017) | Resumen: | 1 Understanding how different factors mediate the resistance of communities to climatic variability is a question of considerable ecological interest that remains mostly unresolved. This is particularly remarkable to improve predictions about the impact of climate change on vegetation. 2 Here, we used a trait-based approach to analyse the sensitivity to climatic variability over 9 years of 19 Mediterranean shrubland communities located in southwest Spain. We evaluated the role of functional diversity (FD) and soil environment as drivers of community stability (assessed as changes in plant cover, species diversity and composition). 3 The studied shrubland communities were strongly sensitive to inter-annual variability in climate. First, colder and drier conditions caused remarkable decreases in total plant cover but increased FD, likely because the reduction of plant cover after harsh climatic conditions promoted the expansion of functionally dissimilar species in the new open microsites; although communities returned to their initial values of plant cover after nine years, changes in FD and structure persisted over time. Second, drier and colder conditions favoured the predominance of shrubs with a conservative resource-use strategy (i.e. with higher dry matter content in leaves, stems and roots), bigger seeds and a more efficient use of water. 4 The most functionally diverse communities were the most stable over time in terms of species diversity, likely because a higher number of functionally dissimilar species allowed compensatory dynamics among them. 5 Communities inhabiting more acidic and resource-limited environments were less variable over time, probably because they were mainly constituted by slow-growth, stress-tolerant species that are potentially better adapted to harsh climatic conditions. 6 Synthesis. This study highlights the utility of a trait-based approach to evaluate how plant communities respond to climatic variability. We could infer that the increased frequency of extreme climatic events predicted by climatic models will alter the functional structure of shrubland communities, with potential repercussions for ecosystem functioning. Our results also provide new insights into the role of FD and soil environment as buffers of the climate impact on woody communities, as well as potentially useful information to be applied in ecologically based management and restoration strategies. | Descripción: | 12 páginas.-- 4 figuras.-- 93 referencias.-- Details of electronic Supporting Information are provided below.-- The whole dataset of this study is publicly available in the Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qc90d (Pérez-Ramos et al. 2017). http://hdl.handle.net/10261/278268 | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12747 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/147832 | DOI: | 10.1111/1365-2745.12747 | E-ISSN: | 1365-2745 | Referencias: | Pérez-Ramos, Ignacio Manuel; Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo; Riva, E. G. de la; Villar Montero, Rafael; Lloret, Francisco; Marañón, Teodoro. (2018), Data from: Climate variability and community stability in Mediterranean shrublands: the role of functional diversity and soil environment [Dataset]; Dryad; Version 1; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qc90d. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/278268 |
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