Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau

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	Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau
	Klein, JA ; Harte, J ; Zhao, XQ
	2004-12-01
发表期刊	ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷号	7 期号:12 页码:1170-1179
文章类型	Article
摘要	We investigated the independent and combined effects of experimental warming and grazing on plant species diversity on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, a region highly vulnerable to ongoing climate and land use changes. Experimental warming caused a 26-36% decrease in species richness, a response that was generally dampened by experimental grazing. Higher species losses occurred at the drier sites where N was less available. Moreover, we observed an indirect effect of climate change on species richness as mediated by plant-plant interactions. Heat stress and warming-induced litter accumulation are potential explanations for the species' responses to experimental warming. This is the first reported experimental evidence that climate warming could cause dramatic declines in plant species diversity in high elevation ecosystems over short time frames and supports model predictions of species losses with anthropogenic climate change.; We investigated the independent and combined effects of experimental warming and grazing on plant species diversity on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, a region highly vulnerable to ongoing climate and land use changes. Experimental warming caused a 26-36% decrease in species richness, a response that was generally dampened by experimental grazing. Higher species losses occurred at the drier sites where N was less available. Moreover, we observed an indirect effect of climate change on species richness as mediated by plant-plant interactions. Heat stress and warming-induced litter accumulation are potential explanations for the species' responses to experimental warming. This is the first reported experimental evidence that climate warming could cause dramatic declines in plant species diversity in high elevation ecosystems over short time frames and supports model predictions of species losses with anthropogenic climate change.
关键词	Alpine Biodiversity Climate Warming Global Change Grazing Rangelands Species Richness Tibetan Plateau
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
学科领域	生物科学
关键词[WOS]	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; GRASSLAND DIVERSITY ; ELEVATED CO2 ; TEMPERATURE ; RESPONSES ; RICHNESS ; TUNDRA ; PLANTS ; SOIL ; BIODIVERSITY
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000225078000007
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/1385
专题	中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
作者单位	1.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Div Ecosyst Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, NW Plateau Inst Biol, Xining, Qinghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Klein, JA,Harte, J,Zhao, XQ. Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau[J]. ECOLOGY LETTERS,2004,7(12):1170-1179.
APA	Klein, JA,Harte, J,&Zhao, XQ.(2004).Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau.ECOLOGY LETTERS,7(12),1170-1179.
MLA	Klein, JA,et al."Experimental warming causes large and rapid species loss, dampened by simulated grazing, on the Tibetan Plateau".ECOLOGY LETTERS 7.12(2004):1170-1179.

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