Current and past climate co-shape community-level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic.

ABSTRACT: The Arctic ecosystems and their species are exposed to amplified climate warming and, in some regions, to rapidly developing economic activities. This study assesses, models, and maps the geographic patterns of community-level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic and estimates the relative impact of environmental and anthropogenic factors driving these patterns. With our study, we aim at contributing toward conservation efforts for Arctic plant diversity in the Western Siberian Arctic. Western Siberian Arctic, Russia. We investigated the relative importance of environmental and anthropogenic predictors of community-level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic using macroecological models trained with an extensive geobotanical dataset. We included vascular pl

SUBMITTER: Zemlianskii V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10944673 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature