Responses of sequential and hierarchical phenological events to warming and cooling in alpine meadows

NWIPB OpenIR

	Responses of sequential and hierarchical phenological events to warming and cooling in alpine meadows
	Li, Xine ; Jiang, Lili ; Meng, Fandong ; Wang, Shiping ; Niu, Haishan ; Iler, Amy M. ; Duan, Jichuan ; Zhang, Zhenhua ; Luo, Caiyun ; Cui, Shujuan ; Zhang, Lirong ; Li, Yaoming ; Wang, Qi ; Zhou, Yang ; Bao, Xiaoying ; Dorji, Tsechoe ; Li, Yingnian ; Penuelas, Josep ; Du, Mingyuan ; Zhao, Xinquan ; Zhao, Liang ; Wang, Guojie
	2016-08-01
发表期刊	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
摘要	Organisms' life cycles consist of hierarchical stages, from a single phenological stage (for example, flowering within a season), to vegetative and reproductive phases, to the total lifespan of the individual. Yet phenological events are typically studied in isolation, limiting our understanding of life history responses to climate change. Here, we reciprocally transfer plant communities along an elevation gradient to investigate plastic changes in the duration of sequential phenological events for six alpine species. We show that prolonged flowering leads to longer reproductive phases and activity periods when plants are moved to warmer locations. In contrast, shorter post-fruiting leaf and flowering stages led to shorter vegetative and reproductive phases, respectively, which resulted in shorter activity periods when plants were moved to cooler conditions. Therefore, phenological responses to warming and cooling do not simply mirror one another in the opposite direction, and low temperature may limit reproductive allocation in the alpine region.
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/27801
专题	中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Xine,Jiang, Lili,Meng, Fandong,et al. Responses of sequential and hierarchical phenological events to warming and cooling in alpine meadows[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2016.
APA	Li, Xine.,Jiang, Lili.,Meng, Fandong.,Wang, Shiping.,Niu, Haishan.,...&Wang, Guojie.(2016).Responses of sequential and hierarchical phenological events to warming and cooling in alpine meadows.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
MLA	Li, Xine,et al."Responses of sequential and hierarchical phenological events to warming and cooling in alpine meadows".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2016).