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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 |
引用统计 | |
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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