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Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

  • Zellweger, Florian ORCID Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
  • De Frenne, Pieter ORCID Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
  • Lenoir, Jonathan ORCID UR “Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés” (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 800037 Amiens Cedex 1, France.
  • Vangansbeke, Pieter Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
  • Verheyen, Kris ORCID Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
  • Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus ORCID Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
  • Baeten, Lander ORCID Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9090 Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
  • Hédl, Radim ORCID Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • Berki, Imre ORCID Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary.
  • Brunet, Jörg ORCID Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
  • Van Calster, Hans ORCID Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
  • Chudomelová, Markéta ORCID Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Decocq, Guillaume UR “Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés” (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 800037 Amiens Cedex 1, France.
  • Dirnböck, Thomas ORCID Environment Agency Austria, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  • Durak, Tomasz ORCID Department of Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of Rzeszów, PL-35-959 Rzeszów, Poland.
  • Heinken, Thilo ORCID General Botany, Insitute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany.
  • Jaroszewicz, Bogdan ORCID Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland.
  • Kopecký, Martin ORCID Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, CZ-165 21 Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic.
  • Máliš, František ORCID National Forest Centre, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia.
  • Macek, Martin ORCID Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic.
  • Malicki, Marek ORCID Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 50 Wrocław, Poland.
  • Naaf, Tobias Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany.
  • Nagel, Thomas A. ORCID Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
  • Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne ORCID Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
  • Petřík, Petr ORCID Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic.
  • Pielech, Remigiusz Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Kraków, PL-32-425 Kraków, Poland.
  • Reczyńska, Kamila ORCID Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 50 Wrocław, Poland.
  • Schmidt, Wolfgang Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
  • Standovár, Tibor ORCID Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.
  • Świerkosz, Krzysztof ORCID Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, PL-50-335 Wrocław. Poland.
  • Teleki, Balázs MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
  • Vild, Ondřej ORCID Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Wulf, Monika ORCID Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany.
  • Coomes, David ORCID Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EA, UK.
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  • 2020-5-14
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  • Science. - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). - 2020, vol. 368, no. 6492, p. 772-775
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English Climate warming is causing a shift in biological communities in favor of warm-affinity species (i.e., thermophilization). Species responses often lag behind climate warming, but the reasons for such lags remain largely unknown. Here, we analyzed multidecadal understory microclimate dynamics in European forests and show that thermophilization and the climatic lag in forest plant communities are primarily controlled by microclimate. Increasing tree canopy cover reduces warming rates inside forests, but loss of canopy cover leads to increased local heat that exacerbates the disequilibrium between community responses and climate change. Reciprocal effects between plants and microclimates are key to understanding the response of forest biodiversity and functioning to climate and land-use changes.
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