Interactive Effects of Climate and Large Herbivore Assemblage Drive Plant Functional Traits and Diversity.

ABSTRACT: Large herbivore communities are changing globally, with populations of wild herbivores generally declining while domestic herbivore populations are increasing, influencing ecosystem function along with the impacts of climate change. Manipulative experiments have rarely captured the interaction between patterns of large herbivore assemblage change and climatic conditions. This interaction may affect the functional traits and functional diversity of herbaceous communities; this requires investigation, as these metrics have been useful proxies for ecosystem function. We used a large herbivore exclosure experiment replicated along a topo-climatic gradient to explore the interaction between climate and herbivore assemblage on community-level functional traits and the functional diversity of her

SUBMITTER: Klope M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12030475 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature