Stability in ecosystem functioning across a climatic threshold and contrasting forest regimes.

ABSTRACT: Classical ecological theory predicts that changes in the availability of essential resources such as nitrogen should lead to changes in plant community composition due to differences in species-specific nutrient requirements. What remains unknown, however, is the extent to which climate change will alter the relationship between plant communities and the nitrogen cycle. During intervals of climate change, do changes in nitrogen cycling lead to vegetation change or do changes in community composition alter the nitrogen dynamics? We used long-term ecological data to determine the role of nitrogen availability in changes of forest species composition under a rapidly changing climate during the early Holocene (16k to 8k cal. yrs. BP). A statistical computational analysis of ecological data spa

SUBMITTER: Jeffers ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3022756 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature