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Changes in species abundance after seven years of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and warming in a Subarctic birch forest understorey, as modified by rodent and moth outbreaks.

ABSTRACT: A seven-year long, two-factorial experiment using elevated temperatures (5 °C) and CO₂ (concentration doubled compared to ambient conditions) designed to test the effects of global climate change on plant community composition was set up in a Subarctic ecosystem in northernmost Sweden. Using point-frequency analyses in permanent plots, an increased abundance of the deciduous Vaccinium myrtillus, the evergreens V. vitis-idaea and Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum and the grass Avenella flexuosa was found in plots with elevated temperatures. We also observed a possibly transient community shift in the warmed plots, from the vegetation being dominated by the deciduous V. myrtillus to the evergreen V. vitis-idaea. This happened as a

SUBMITTER: Svensson BM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5982999 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Changes in species abundance after seven years of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and warming in a Subarctic birch forest understorey, as modified by rodent and moth outbreaks.

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Changes in species abundance after seven years of elevated atmospheric CO2 and warming in a Subarctic birch forest understorey, as modified by rodent and moth outbreaks.

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Changes in species abundance after seven years of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and warming in a Subarctic birch forest understorey, as modified by rodent and moth outbreaks.