Warmer Temperature and Spatiotemporal Dynamics during Primary Succession on Tropical Coastal Dunes.

ABSTRACT: Coastal dunes are sensitive indicators of climate change: it is expected that higher precipitation and warmer temperature will promote vegetation growth and sand stabilization. Alternatively, dunes may become active during severe droughts, which would reduce plant cover and increase sand mobility. Consequently, it is relevant to explore community shifts and self-organization processes to better understand how coastal dunes vegetation will respond to these projected changes. Primary succession allows the exploration of community assembly and reorganization processes. We focused on three environmental variables (bare sand, temperature, and precipitation) and five successional groups (facilitators, colonizers, sand binders, nucleators, and competitors). For 25 years (from 1991 to 2016), speci

SUBMITTER: Martinez ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9697752 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature