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Four Decades of Plant Community Change in the Alpine Tundra of Southwest Yukon,Canada 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Repeat measurements from long-term plots provide precise data for studying plant community change. In 2010, we visited a remote
location in Yukon, Canada, where a detailed survey of alpine tundra communities was conducted in 1968. Plant community composition
was resurveyed on the same four slopes using the same methods as the original study. Species richness and diversity increased
significantly over the 42 years and non-metric multidimensional scaling indicated that community composition had also changed
significantly. However, the direction and magnitude of change varied with aspect. Dominant species were not replaced or eliminated
but, instead, declined in relative importance. Fine-scale changes in vegetation were evident from repeat photography and dendro-ecological
analysis of erect shrubs, supporting the community-level analysis. The period of study corresponds to a mean annual temperature
increase of 2°C, suggesting that climate warming has influenced these changes. 相似文献
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Canopy-forming shrubs are reported to be increasing at sites around the circumpolar Arctic. Our results indicate expansion
in canopy cover and height of willows on Herschel Island located at 70° north on the western Arctic coast of the Yukon Territory.
We examined historic photographs, repeated vegetation surveys, and conducted monitoring of long-term plots and found evidence
of increases of each of the dominant canopy-forming willow species (Salix richardsonii, Salix glauca and Salix pulchra), during the twentieth century. A simple model of patch initiation indicates that the majority of willow patches for each
of these species became established between 1910 and 1960, with stem ages and maximum growth rates indicating that some patches
could have established as late as the 1980s. Collectively, these results suggest that willow species are increasing in canopy
cover and height on Herschel Island. We did not find evidence that expansion of willow patches is currently limited by herbivory,
disease, or growing conditions. 相似文献
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Callaghan TV Tweedie CE Akerman J Andrews C Bergstedt J Butler MG Christensen TR Cooley D Dahlberg U Danby RK Daniëls FJ de Molenaar JG Dick J Mortensen CE Ebert-May D Emanuelsson U Eriksson H Hedenås H Henry H R G Hik DS Hobbie JE Jantze EJ Jaspers C Johansson C Johansson M Johnson DR Johnstone JF Jonasson C Kennedy C Kenney AJ Keuper F Koh S Krebs CJ Lantuit H Lara MJ Lin D Lougheed VL Madsen J Matveyeva N Mcewen DC Myers-Smith IH Narozhniy YK Olsson H Pohjola VA Price LW Rigét F Rundqvist S 《Ambio》2011,40(6):705-716
Understanding the responses of tundra systems to global change has global implications. Most tundra regions lack sustained environmental monitoring and one of the only ways to document multi-decadal change is to resample historic research sites. The International Polar Year (IPY) provided a unique opportunity for such research through the Back to the Future (BTF) project (IPY project #512). This article synthesizes the results from 13 papers within this Ambio Special Issue. Abiotic changes include glacial recession in the Altai Mountains, Russia; increased snow depth and hardness, permafrost warming, and increased growing season length in sub-arctic Sweden; drying of ponds in Greenland; increased nutrient availability in Alaskan tundra ponds, and warming at most locations studied. Biotic changes ranged from relatively minor plant community change at two sites in Greenland to moderate change in the Yukon, and to dramatic increases in shrub and tree density on Herschel Island, and in subarctic Sweden. The population of geese tripled at one site in northeast Greenland where biomass in non-grazed plots doubled. A model parameterized using results from a BTF study forecasts substantial declines in all snowbeds and increases in shrub tundra on Niwot Ridge, Colorado over the next century. In general, results support and provide improved capacities for validating experimental manipulation, remote sensing, and modeling studies. 相似文献
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Herbivory mediates grass-endophyte relationships 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Endophytic fungi are plant symbionts living asymptomatically within plant tissues. Neotyphodium spp., which are asexual vertically transmitted systemic fungal endophytes of cool-season grasses, are predicted to be plant mutualists. These endophytes increase host plant resistance to environmental stresses and/or increase the production of alkaloid-based herbivore deterrents. The ubiquity of this defense mutualism is unclear, and a variety of alternative mechanisms may explain the observed variation in infection rates, levels of deterrence, and the maintenance of asexual endophytes in grass populations. We found that grass-endophyte interactions are variable and ordered along an herbivory gradient in an undisturbed subarctic alpine ecosystem. Native grass populations in grazed sites had significantly greater frequency of Neotyphodium infection compared to ungrazed sites. Tillers from grazed sites had significantly higher hyphal densities compared to ungrazed sites. The ability of grass-Neotyphodium constituents to deter vertebrate herbivory in natural systems is thought to be rare. In grazed meadows, we showed that endophyte infection resulted in the deterrence of grazing by native vertebrate herbivores. However, the same herbivores did not distinguish between infected and uninfected grass harvested from ungrazed areas. These results demonstrate that the relationship between vertically transmitted endophytes and grasses in the alpine tundra vary greatly within populations. This may be based in part on defense mutualism and is consistent, under varying levels of herbivory, with the predictions of optimal defense theory. 相似文献
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Predicting Effects of Predation on Conservation of Endangered Prey 总被引:10,自引:1,他引:9
A. R. E. Sinclair R. P. Pech C. R. Dickman D. Hik P. Mahon & A. E. Newsome 《Conservation biology》1998,12(3):564-575
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