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Case M. Prager Natalie T. Boelman Jan U. H. Eitel Jess T. Gersony Heather E. Greaves Mary A. Heskel Troy S. Magney Duncan N. L. Menge Shahid Naeem Christa Shen Lee A. Vierling Kevin L. Griffin 《Oecologia》2020,192(3):671-685
Warming-induced nutrient enrichment in the Arctic may lead to shifts in leaf-level physiological properties and processes with potential consequences for plant community dynamics and ecosystem function. To explore the physiological responses of Arctic tundra vegetation to increasing nutrient availability, we examined how a set of leaf nutrient and physiological characteristics of eight plant species (representing four plant functional groups) respond to a gradient of experimental nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) enrichment. Specifically, we examined a set of chlorophyll fluorescence measures related to photosynthetic efficiency, performance and stress, and two leaf nutrient traits (leaf %C and %N), across an experimental nutrient gradient at the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research site, located in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska. In addition, we explicitly assessed the direct relationships between chlorophyll fluorescence and leaf %N. We found significant differences in physiological and nutrient traits between species and plant functional groups, and we found that species within one functional group (deciduous shrubs) have significantly greater leaf %N at high levels of nutrient addition. In addition, we found positive, saturating relationships between leaf %N and chlorophyll fluorescence measures across all species. Our results highlight species-specific differences in leaf nutrient traits and physiology in this ecosystem. In particular, the effects of a gradient of nutrient enrichment were most prominent in deciduous plant species, the plant functional group known to be increasing in relative abundance with warming in this ecosystem. 相似文献
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Greater shrub dominance alters breeding habitat and food resources for migratory songbirds in Alaskan arctic tundra 下载免费PDF全文
Natalie T. Boelman Laura Gough John Wingfield Scott Goetz Kevin C. Guay 《Global Change Biology》2015,21(4):1508-1520
Climate warming is affecting the Arctic in multiple ways, including via increased dominance of deciduous shrubs. Although many studies have focused on how this vegetation shift is altering nutrient cycling and energy balance, few have explicitly considered effects on tundra fauna, such as the millions of migratory songbirds that breed in northern regions every year. To understand how increasing deciduous shrub dominance may alter breeding songbird habitat, we quantified vegetation and arthropod community characteristics in both graminoid and shrub dominated tundra. We combined measurements of preferred nest site characteristics for Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) and Gambel's White‐crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) with modeled predictions for the distribution of plant community types in the Alaskan arctic foothills region for the year 2050. Lapland longspur nests were found in sedge‐dominated tussock tundra where shrub height does not exceed 20 cm, whereas White‐crowned sparrows nested only under shrubs between 20 cm and 1 m in height, with no preference for shrub species. Shrub canopies had higher canopy‐dwelling arthropod availability (i.e. small flies and spiders) but lower ground‐dwelling arthropod availability (i.e. large spiders and beetles). Since flies are the birds' preferred prey, increasing shrubs may result in a net enhancement in preferred prey availability. Acknowledging the coarse resolution of existing tundra vegetation models, we predict that by 2050 there will be a northward shift in current White‐crowned sparrow habitat range and a 20–60% increase in their preferred habitat extent, while Lapland longspur habitat extent will be equivalently reduced. Our findings can be used to make first approximations of future habitat change for species with similar nesting requirements. However, we contend that as exemplified by this study's findings, existing tundra modeling tools cannot yet simulate the fine‐scale habitat characteristics that are critical to accurately predicting future habitat extent for many wildlife species. 相似文献
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不受欢迎的生物多样性:香港的外来植物物种 总被引:46,自引:2,他引:44
香港早在19世纪中叶开始就有外来植物入侵的记录,迄今为止,已发现多达238种已归化的外来或怀疑为外来的植物,其中又以薇甘菊(Mikania micrantha)、五爪金龙(Ipomoea cairica)、假臭草(Eupatorium catarium)、大黍(Panicum maximum)等最常见,外来植物最常见于受人为干扰的生境,例如荒废农田及路旁等,而较少在天然林地生境及贫瘠的灌草丛中发现,外来植物的对本地生态系统的影响主要局限于低地生境,它们常形成单优种群,减少了生境及贫瘠的灌草丛中发现,外来植物对本地生态系统的影响主要局限于低地生境,它们常形成单优种群,减少少了生境及动植物的多样性,外来动物对香港原生植物影响最大的是于20世纪70年代入侵的松树线虫(Bur-saphelenchus xylophilus)。外来的脊椎动物也有可能对香港的植物被演替产生影响,目前香港的外来植物当中,有些在大陆较少分布或没有记录,作为华南最大的港口,香港对外来物种的引入扮演着重要的角色,因此制定控制外来种在香港及华南地区的引入及传播的政策及措施非常重要。 相似文献
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Late‐season snowfall is associated with decreased offspring survival in two migratory arctic‐breeding songbird species 下载免费PDF全文
H. E. Chmura J. S. Krause J. H. Pérez A. Asmus S. K. Sweet K. E. Hunt S. L. Meddle R. McElreath N. T. Boelman L. Gough J. C. Wingfield 《Journal of avian biology》2018,49(9)
While the effect of weather on reproduction has been studied for many years in avian taxa, the rapid pace of climate change in arctic regions has added urgency to this question by changing the weather conditions species experience during breeding. Given this, it is important to understand how factors such as temperature, rain, snowfall, and wind affect reproduction both directly and indirectly (e.g. through their effects on food availability). In this study, we ask how weather factors and food availability influence daily survival rates of clutches in two arctic‐breeding migratory songbirds: the Lapland longspur Calcarius lapponicus, a circumpolar breeder, and Gambel's white‐crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii, which breeds in shrubby habitats across tundra, boreal and continental climates. To do this, we monitored clutch survival in these two species from egg‐lay through fledge at field sites located near Toolik Field Station (North Slope, Alaska) across 5 yr (2012–2016). Our results indicate that snowfall and cold temperatures decreased offspring survival rates in both species; although Lapland longspurs were more susceptible to snowfall. Food availability, quantified by pitfall sampling and sweep‐net sampling methods, had minimal effects on offspring survival. Some climate models predict increased precipitation for the Arctic with global warming, and in the Toolik region, total snow accumulation may be increasing. Placed in this context, our results suggest that changes in snow storms with climate change could have substantial consequences for reproduction in migratory songbirds breeding in the North American Arctic. 相似文献
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Nucleotide polymorphism in the acidic chitinase locus (ChiA) region of the wild plant Arabidopsis thaliana 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
To investigate DNA variation in natural plant populations, a 1.8-kb region
of the acidic chitinase locus (ChiA)was analyzed for 17 ecotypes of
Arabidopsis thaliana sampled worldwide and 3 Arabis species in Japan. As in
the Adh region, dimorphism was detected throughout the investigated ChiA
region, suggesting the possibility that dimorphic DNA variation exists in
the entire nuclear genome of A. thaliana. The ChiA region was divided into
two blocks by an intragenic recombination between two parental sequence
types, which diverged 7.4 MYA under the assumption that nucleotide mutation
rate per site per year is mu = 10(- 9). Nucleotide diversity in the entire
ChiA region was 0.0104. Tajima's test was significantly negative for both
nucleotide and indel variations, which was manifested as an excess of
unique polymorphisms. However, the level and pattern of polymorphism in the
ChiA region were inconsistent with simple theoretical explanations. The HKA
test detected no difference in the levels of intra- and interspecific
variations between the ChiA and Adh regions. In the ChiA coding region, no
difference in the patterns of synonymous and replacement variation was
found in intra- and interspecific comparisons by the MK test. Although it
was difficult to determine the exact genetic mechanism acting on the ChA
locus, these results suggested that the ChA locus region was under the same
genetic mechanism before and after the establishment of A. thaliana as a
species.
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Greater deciduous shrub abundance extends tundra peak season and increases modeled net CO2 uptake 下载免费PDF全文
Shannan K. Sweet Kevin L. Griffin Heidi Steltzer Laura Gough Natalie T. Boelman 《Global Change Biology》2015,21(6):2394-2409
Satellite studies of the terrestrial Arctic report increased summer greening and longer overall growing and peak seasons since the 1980s, which increases productivity and the period of carbon uptake. These trends are attributed to increasing air temperatures and reduced snow cover duration in spring and fall. Concurrently, deciduous shrubs are becoming increasingly abundant in tundra landscapes, which may also impact canopy phenology and productivity. Our aim was to determine the influence of greater deciduous shrub abundance on tundra canopy phenology and subsequent impacts on net ecosystem carbon exchange (NEE) during the growing and peak seasons in the arctic foothills region of Alaska. We compared deciduous shrub‐dominated and evergreen/graminoid‐dominated community‐level canopy phenology throughout the growing season using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). We used a tundra plant‐community‐specific leaf area index (LAI) model to estimate LAI throughout the green season and a tundra‐specific NEE model to estimate the impact of greater deciduous shrub abundance and associated shifts in both leaf area and canopy phenology on tundra carbon flux. We found that deciduous shrub canopies reached the onset of peak greenness 13 days earlier and the onset of senescence 3 days earlier compared to evergreen/graminoid canopies, resulting in a 10‐day extension of the peak season. The combined effect of the longer peak season and greater leaf area of deciduous shrub canopies almost tripled the modeled net carbon uptake of deciduous shrub communities compared to evergreen/graminoid communities, while the longer peak season alone resulted in 84% greater carbon uptake in deciduous shrub communities. These results suggest that greater deciduous shrub abundance increases carbon uptake not only due to greater leaf area, but also due to an extension of the period of peak greenness, which extends the period of maximum carbon uptake. 相似文献
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Recent climate warming in the Arctic has caused advancement in the timing of snowmelt and expansion of shrubs into open tundra. Such an altered climate may directly and indirectly (via effects on vegetation) affect arctic arthropod abundance, diversity and assemblage taxonomic composition. To allow better predictions about how climate changes may affect these organisms, we compared arthropod assemblages between open and shrub‐dominated tundra at three field sites in northern Alaska that encompass a range of shrub communities. Over ten weeks of sampling in 2011, pitfall traps captured significantly more arthropods in shrub plots than open tundra plots at two of the three sites. Furthermore, taxonomic richness and diversity were significantly greater in shrub plots than open tundra plots, although this pattern was site‐specific as well. Patterns of abundance within the five most abundant arthropod orders differed, with spiders (Order: Araneae) more abundant in open tundra habitats and true bugs (Order: Hemiptera), flies (Order: Diptera), and wasps and bees (Order: Hymenoptera) more abundant in shrub‐dominated habitats. Few strong relationships were found between vegetation and environmental variables and arthropod abundance; however, lichen cover seemed to be important for the overall abundance of arthropods. Some arthropod orders showed significant relationships with other vegetation variables, including maximum shrub height (Coleoptera) and foliar canopy cover (Diptera). As climate warming continues over the coming decades, and with further shrub expansion likely to occur, changes in arthropod abundance, richness, and diversity associated with shrub‐dominated habitat may have important ecological effects on arctic food webs since arthropods play important ecological roles in the tundra, including in decomposition and trophic interactions. 相似文献
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A gradient of nutrient enrichment reveals nonlinear impacts of fertilization on Arctic plant diversity and ecosystem function 下载免费PDF全文
Case M. Prager Shahid Naeem Natalie T. Boelman Jan U. H. Eitel Heather E. Greaves Mary A. Heskel Troy S. Magney Duncan N.L. Menge Lee A. Vierling Kevin L. Griffin 《Ecology and evolution》2017,7(7):2449-2460
Rapid environmental change at high latitudes is predicted to greatly alter the diversity, structure, and function of plant communities, resulting in changes in the pools and fluxes of nutrients. In Arctic tundra, increased nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability accompanying warming is known to impact plant diversity and ecosystem function; however, to date, most studies examining Arctic nutrient enrichment focus on the impact of relatively large (>25x estimated naturally occurring N enrichment) doses of nutrients on plant community composition and net primary productivity. To understand the impacts of Arctic nutrient enrichment, we examined plant community composition and the capacity for ecosystem function (net ecosystem exchange, ecosystem respiration, and gross primary production) across a gradient of experimental N and P addition expected to more closely approximate warming‐induced fertilization. In addition, we compared our measured ecosystem CO2 flux data to a widely used Arctic ecosystem exchange model to investigate the ability to predict the capacity for CO2 exchange with nutrient addition. We observed declines in abundance‐weighted plant diversity at low levels of nutrient enrichment, but species richness and the capacity for ecosystem carbon uptake did not change until the highest level of fertilization. When we compared our measured data to the model, we found that the model explained roughly 30%–50% of the variance in the observed data, depending on the flux variable, and the relationship weakened at high levels of enrichment. Our results suggest that while a relatively small amount of nutrient enrichment impacts plant diversity, only relatively large levels of fertilization—over an order of magnitude or more than warming‐induced rates—significantly alter the capacity for tundra CO2 exchange. Overall, our findings highlight the value of measuring and modeling the impacts of a nutrient enrichment gradient, as warming‐related nutrient availability may impact ecosystems differently than single‐level fertilization experiments. 相似文献
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Whitehead D Boelman NT Turnbull MH Griffin KL Tissue DT Barbour MM Hunt JE Richardson SJ Peltzer DA 《Oecologia》2005,144(2):233-244
Measurements of photosynthesis at saturating irradiance and CO2 partial pressure, A
max, “adjusted” normalised difference vegetation index, R
aNDVI, and photochemical reflectance index, R
PRI, were made on trees sampled along a soil chronosequence to investigate the relationship between carbon uptake and ecosystem
development in relation to nutrient availability. Measurements were made on the three most dominant species at six sites along
the sequence in South Westland, New Zealand with soil age ranging from <6 to 120,000 years resulting from the retreat of the
Franz Josef glacier. The decrease in soil phosphorus availability with increasing soil age and high soil nitrogen availability
at the two youngest sites, due to the presence of a nitrogen-fixing species, provided marked differences in nutrient availability.
Mean A
max was high at the two youngest sites, then decreased markedly with increasing site age. Analysis of the data for individual
species within sites revealed separation of groups of species in the response of A
max to N
m and P
m, suggesting complex interactions between the two nutrients. There were strong linear relationships for leaf-level R
aNDVI and R
PRI with A
max, at high irradiance, showing that measurements of reflectance indices can be used to estimate A
max for foliage with a range in morphology and nutrient concentrations. Notwithstanding the change in species composition from
angiosperms to conifers with increasing site age, the presence of nitrogen-fixing species, the variability in foliage morphology
from flat leaves to imbricate scales and a wide range in foliar nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, there were strong
positive linear relationships between site average A
max and foliage nitrogen, N
m, and phosphorus, P
m, concentrations on a foliage mass basis. The results provide insights to interpret the regulation of photosynthesis across
natural ecosystems with marked gradients in nitrogen and phosphorus availability. 相似文献
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