Contrasting plant responses to multivariate environmental variations among species with divergent elevation shifts.

ABSTRACT: The general predictions of climate impacts on species shifts (e.g., upward shift) cannot directly inform local species conservation, because local-scale studies find divergent patterns instead of a general one. For example, our previous study found three shift patterns with elevation (strong down-, moderate down-, and up-slope shifts) in temperate mountain forests. The divergent shifts are hypothesized to arise from both multivariate environmental variations with elevation and corresponding species-specific responses. To test this hypothesis, we sampled soils and leaves to measure elevation variations in soil conditions and determined plant responses using discriminations against heavier isotopes, carbon (¹³ C) and nitrogen (¹⁵ N). Functional traits of the species stu

SUBMITTER: Zhang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285362 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature