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Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities.

  • Prevéy JS Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Olympia, WA, USA. jprevey@fs.fed.us.
  • Rixen C WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
  • Rüger N German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
  • Høye TT Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Bjorkman AD Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Myers-Smith IH University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Elmendorf SC Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Ashton IW Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service, Rapid City, SD, USA.
  • Cannone N Department of Science and High Technology, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy.
  • Chisholm CL WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
  • Clark K Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
  • Cooper EJ Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
  • Elberling B Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Fosaa AM Faroese Museum of Natural History, Hoyvík, Faroe Islands.
  • Henry GHR Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Hollister RD Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.
  • Jónsdóttir IS Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • Klanderud K Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
  • Kopp CW Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Lévesque E Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada.
  • Mauritz M Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
  • Molau U Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Natali SM Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
  • Oberbauer SF Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
  • Panchen ZA Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Post E Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
  • Rumpf SB Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • Schmidt NM Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Schuur E Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
  • Semenchuk PR Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
  • Smith JG Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Suding KN Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
  • Totland Ø Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
  • Troxler T Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
  • Venn S Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
  • Wahren CH Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  • Welker JM UArctic and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
  • Wipf S WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
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  • 2018-12-12
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  • Nature ecology & evolution. - 2019
English 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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