Changes in reproduction mediate the effects of climate change and grassland management on plant population dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is one of the largest threats to grassland plant species, which can be modified by land management. Although climate change and land management are expected to separately and interactively influence plant demography, this has been rarely considered in climate change experiments. We used a large-scale experiment in central Germany to quantify the effects of grassland management, climate change, and their joint effect on the demography and population growth rate of 11 plant species all native to this temperate grassland ecosystem. We parameterized integral projection models with five years of demographic data to project population growth rate. We hypothesized that plant populations perform better in the ambient than in the future climate treatment that creates hotter and drier

SUBMITTER: Andrzejak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11737008 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature