Plant community responses to the individual and interactive effects of warming and herbivory across multiple years.

Autor: Young ML; Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA., Dobson KC; Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA., Hammond MD; W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA., Zarnetske PL; Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.; W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA.; Institute for Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, and Macrosystems, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecology [Ecology] 2024 Oct 03, pp. e4441. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 03.
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4441
Abstrakt: Anthropogenic climate warming affects plant communities by changing community structure and function. Studies on climate warming have primarily focused on individual effects of warming, but the interactive effects of warming with biotic factors could be at least as important in community responses to climate change. In addition, climate change experiments spanning multiple years are necessary to capture interannual variability and detect the influence of these effects within ecological communities. Our study explores the individual and interactive effects of warming and insect herbivory on plant traits and community responses within a 7-year warming and herbivory manipulation experiment in two early successional plant communities in Michigan, USA. We find stronger support for the individual effects of both warming and herbivory on multiple plant morphological and phenological traits; only the timing of plant green-up and seed set demonstrated an interactive effect between warming and herbivory. With herbivory, warming advanced green-up, but with reduced herbivory, there was no significant effect of warming. In contrast, warming increased plant biomass, but the effect of warming on biomass did not depend upon the level of insect herbivores. We found that these treatments had stronger effects in some years than others, highlighting the need for multiyear experiments. This study demonstrates that warming and herbivory can have strong direct effects on plant communities, but that their interactive effects are limited in these early successional systems. Because the strength and direction of these effects can vary by ecological context, it is still advisable to include levels of biotic interactions, multiple traits and years, and community type when studying climate change effects on plants and their communities.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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