Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to variation in sampling methods. There is thus a need for a standardized monitoring strategy that can be applied across mountain regions to assess distribution changes and community turnover of native and non-native plant species over space and time. Here, we present a conceptually intuitive and standardized protocol developed by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) to systematically quantify global patterns of native and non-native species distributions along elevation gradients and shift

SUBMITTER: Haider S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature