Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities.
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Prevéy JS
Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Olympia, WA, USA. jprevey@fs.fed.us.
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Rixen C
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
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Rüger N
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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Høye TT
Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Bjorkman AD
Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Myers-Smith IH
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Elmendorf SC
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Ashton IW
Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service, Rapid City, SD, USA.
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Cannone N
Department of Science and High Technology, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy.
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Chisholm CL
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
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Clark K
Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Cooper EJ
Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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Elberling B
Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Fosaa AM
Faroese Museum of Natural History, Hoyvík, Faroe Islands.
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Henry GHR
Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Hollister RD
Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.
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Jónsdóttir IS
Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Klanderud K
Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
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Kopp CW
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Lévesque E
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada.
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Mauritz M
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
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Molau U
Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Natali SM
Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
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Oberbauer SF
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
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Panchen ZA
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Post E
Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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Rumpf SB
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Schmidt NM
Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Schuur E
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
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Semenchuk PR
Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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Smith JG
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Suding KN
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Totland Ø
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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Troxler T
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
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Venn S
Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
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Wahren CH
Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Welker JM
UArctic and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
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Wipf S
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
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- Nature ecology & evolution. - 2019
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Advancing phenology is one of the most visible effects of climate change on plant communities, and has been especially pronounced in temperature-limited tundra ecosystems. However, phenological responses have been shown to differ greatly between species, with some species shifting phenology more than others. We analysed a database of 42,689 tundra plant phenological observations to show that warmer temperatures are leading to a contraction of community-level flowering seasons in tundra ecosystems due to a greater advancement in the flowering times of late-flowering species than early-flowering species. Shorter flowering seasons with a changing climate have the potential to alter trophic interactions in tundra ecosystems. Interestingly, these findings differ from those of warmer ecosystems, where early-flowering species have been found to be more sensitive to temperature change, suggesting that community-level phenological responses to warming can vary greatly between biomes.
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