. 2018 Oct;562(7725):57-62.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7. Epub 2018 Sep 26.

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Anne D Bjorkman^{1

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3}, Isla H Myers-Smith⁴, Sarah C Elmendorf^{5

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7}, Signe Normand^{8

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10}, Nadja Rüger^{11

12}, Pieter S A Beck¹³, Anne Blach-Overgaard^{8

10}, Daan Blok¹⁴, J Hans C Cornelissen¹⁵, Bruce C Forbes¹⁶, Damien Georges^{4

17}, Scott J Goetz¹⁸, Kevin C Guay¹⁹, Gregory H R Henry²⁰, Janneke HilleRisLambers²¹, Robert D Hollister²², Dirk N Karger²³, Jens Kattge^{11

24}, Peter Manning²⁵, Janet S Prevéy²⁶, Christian Rixen²⁶, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub²⁷, Haydn J D Thomas⁴, Mark Vellend²⁸, Martin Wilmking²⁹, Sonja Wipf²⁶, Michele Carbognani³⁰, Luise Hermanutz³¹, Esther Lévesque³², Ulf Molau³³, Alessandro Petraglia³⁰, Nadejda A Soudzilovskaia³⁴, Marko J Spasojevic³⁵, Marcello Tomaselli³⁰, Tage Vowles³⁶, Juha M Alatalo³⁷, Heather D Alexander³⁸, Alba Anadon-Rosell^{29

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40}, Sandra Angers-Blondin⁴, Mariska Te Beest^{41

42}, Logan Berner¹⁸, Robert G Björk^{36

43}, Agata Buchwal^{44

45}, Allan Buras⁴⁶, Katherine Christie⁴⁷, Elisabeth J Cooper⁴⁸, Stefan Dullinger⁴⁹, Bo Elberling⁵⁰, Anu Eskelinen^{11

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52}, Esther R Frei^{20

23}, Oriol Grau^{53

54}, Paul Grogan⁵⁵, Martin Hallinger⁵⁶, Karen A Harper⁵⁷, Monique M P D Heijmans⁵⁸, James Hudson⁵⁹, Karl Hülber⁴⁹, Maitane Iturrate-Garcia²⁷, Colleen M Iversen⁶⁰, Francesca Jaroszynska^{26

61}, Jill F Johnstone⁶², Rasmus Halfdan Jørgensen⁶³, Elina Kaarlejärvi^{41

64}, Rebecca Klady⁶⁵, Sara Kuleza⁶², Aino Kulonen²⁶, Laurent J Lamarque³², Trevor Lantz⁶⁶, Chelsea J Little^{27

67}, James D M Speed⁶⁸, Anders Michelsen^{50

69}, Ann Milbau⁷⁰, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen⁷¹, Sigrid Schøler Nielsen⁸, Josep M Ninot^{39

40}, Steven F Oberbauer⁷², Johan Olofsson⁴¹, Vladimir G Onipchenko⁷³, Sabine B Rumpf⁴⁹, Philipp Semenchuk^{48

49}, Rohan Shetti²⁹, Laura Siegwart Collier³¹, Lorna E Street⁴, Katharine N Suding⁵, Ken D Tape⁷⁴, Andrew Trant^{31

75}, Urs A Treier^{8

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10}, Jean-Pierre Tremblay⁷⁶, Maxime Tremblay³², Susanna Venn⁷⁷, Stef Weijers⁷⁸, Tara Zamin⁵⁵, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe²⁰, William A Gould⁷⁹, David S Hik⁸⁰, Annika Hofgaard⁸¹, Ingibjörg S Jónsdóttir^{82

83}, Janet Jorgenson⁸⁴, Julia Klein⁸⁵, Borgthor Magnusson⁸⁶, Craig Tweedie⁸⁷, Philip A Wookey⁸⁸, Michael Bahn⁸⁹, Benjamin Blonder^{90

91}, Peter M van Bodegom⁹², Benjamin Bond-Lamberty⁹³, Giandiego Campetella⁹⁴, Bruno E L Cerabolini⁹⁵, F Stuart Chapin 3rd⁹⁶, William K Cornwell⁹⁷, Joseph Craine⁹⁸, Matteo Dainese⁹⁹, Franciska T de Vries¹⁰⁰, Sandra Díaz¹⁰¹, Brian J Enquist^{102

103}, Walton Green¹⁰⁴, Ruben Milla¹⁰⁵, Ülo Niinemets¹⁰⁶, Yusuke Onoda¹⁰⁷, Jenny C Ordoñez¹⁰⁸, Wim A Ozinga^{109

110}, Josep Penuelas^{54

111}, Hendrik Poorter^{112

113}, Peter Poschlod¹¹⁴, Peter B Reich^{115

116}, Brody Sandel¹¹⁷, Brandon Schamp¹¹⁸, Serge Sheremetev¹¹⁹, Evan Weiher¹²⁰

Affiliations

¹ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. anne.bjorkman@senckenberg.de.
² Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. anne.bjorkman@senckenberg.de.
³ Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany. anne.bjorkman@senckenberg.de.
⁴ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁶ National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁷ Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁸ Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁹ Arctic Research Center, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁰ Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹¹ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
¹² Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
¹³ European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Bio-Economy Unit, Ispra, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹⁵ Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁶ Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
¹⁷ International Agency for Research in Cancer, Lyon, France.
¹⁸ School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
¹⁹ Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA.
²⁰ Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²¹ Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
²² Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.
²³ Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
²⁴ Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
²⁵ Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany.
²⁶ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.
²⁷ Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁸ Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
²⁹ Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany.
³⁰ Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
³¹ Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
³² Département des Sciences de l'environnement et Centre d'études nordiques, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
³³ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³⁴ Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
³⁵ Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
³⁶ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³⁷ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
³⁸ Department of Forestry, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA.
³⁹ Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴⁰ Biodiversity Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴¹ Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁴² Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴³ Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Göteborg, Sweden.
⁴⁴ Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
⁴⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA.
⁴⁶ Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁴⁷ The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Anchorage, AK, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴⁹ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁵⁰ Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵¹ Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵² Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
⁵³ Global Ecology Unit, CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
⁵⁴ CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
⁵⁵ Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
⁵⁶ Biology Department, Swedish Agricultural University (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.
⁵⁷ Biology Department, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
⁵⁸ Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁵⁹ British Columbia Public Service, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁰ Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
⁶¹ Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
⁶² Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
⁶³ Forest and Landscape College, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Nødebo, Denmark.
⁶⁴ Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
⁶⁵ Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁶ School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁷ Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland.
⁶⁸ NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁶⁹ Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁷⁰ Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium.
⁷¹ Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
⁷² Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁷³ Department of Geobotany, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
⁷⁴ Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁷⁵ School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁷⁶ Département de biologie, Centre d'études nordiques and Centre d'étude de la forêt, Université Laval, Quebec City, Québec, Canada.
⁷⁷ Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
⁷⁸ Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
⁷⁹ USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
⁸⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁸¹ Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway.
⁸² Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
⁸³ University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway.
⁸⁴ Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁸⁵ Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁸⁶ Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Gardabaer, Iceland.
⁸⁷ University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
⁸⁸ Biology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
⁸⁹ Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
⁹⁰ Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁹¹ Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA.
⁹² Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁹³ Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, USA.
⁹⁴ School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
⁹⁵ DiSTA, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
⁹⁶ Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁹⁷ School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁹⁸ Jonah Ventures, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁹⁹ Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy.
¹⁰⁰ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
¹⁰¹ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), CONICET and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
¹⁰² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
¹⁰³ The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación. Departamento de Biología, Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁰⁶ Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
¹⁰⁷ Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
¹⁰⁸ World Agroforestry Centre - Latin America, Lima, Peru.
¹⁰⁹ Team Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology, Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen, The Netherlands.
¹¹⁰ Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹¹¹ Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Bellaterra, Spain.
¹¹² Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.
¹¹³ Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹⁴ Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
¹¹⁵ Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
¹¹⁶ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹⁷ Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
¹¹⁸ Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
¹¹⁹ Komarov Botanical Institute, St Petersburg, Russia.
¹²⁰ Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA.

PMID: 30258229
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

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Affiliations

¹ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. anne.bjorkman@senckenberg.de.
² Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. anne.bjorkman@senckenberg.de.
³ Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany. anne.bjorkman@senckenberg.de.
⁴ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁶ National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁷ Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁸ Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁹ Arctic Research Center, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁰ Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹¹ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
¹² Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
¹³ European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Bio-Economy Unit, Ispra, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹⁵ Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁶ Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
¹⁷ International Agency for Research in Cancer, Lyon, France.
¹⁸ School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
¹⁹ Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA.
²⁰ Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²¹ Biology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
²² Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.
²³ Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
²⁴ Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
²⁵ Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany.
²⁶ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.
²⁷ Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁸ Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
²⁹ Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany.
³⁰ Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
³¹ Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
³² Département des Sciences de l'environnement et Centre d'études nordiques, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
³³ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³⁴ Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
³⁵ Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
³⁶ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
³⁷ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
³⁸ Department of Forestry, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA.
³⁹ Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴⁰ Biodiversity Research Institute, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴¹ Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
⁴² Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴³ Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Göteborg, Sweden.
⁴⁴ Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
⁴⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA.
⁴⁶ Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁴⁷ The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Anchorage, AK, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
⁴⁹ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁵⁰ Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵¹ Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵² Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
⁵³ Global Ecology Unit, CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
⁵⁴ CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
⁵⁵ Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
⁵⁶ Biology Department, Swedish Agricultural University (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.
⁵⁷ Biology Department, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
⁵⁸ Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁵⁹ British Columbia Public Service, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁰ Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
⁶¹ Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
⁶² Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
⁶³ Forest and Landscape College, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Nødebo, Denmark.
⁶⁴ Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
⁶⁵ Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁶ School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶⁷ Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dubendorf, Switzerland.
⁶⁸ NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁶⁹ Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁷⁰ Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium.
⁷¹ Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
⁷² Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁷³ Department of Geobotany, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
⁷⁴ Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁷⁵ School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
⁷⁶ Département de biologie, Centre d'études nordiques and Centre d'étude de la forêt, Université Laval, Quebec City, Québec, Canada.
⁷⁷ Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
⁷⁸ Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
⁷⁹ USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
⁸⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
⁸¹ Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway.
⁸² Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
⁸³ University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway.
⁸⁴ Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁸⁵ Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁸⁶ Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Gardabaer, Iceland.
⁸⁷ University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
⁸⁸ Biology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
⁸⁹ Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
⁹⁰ Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁹¹ Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA.
⁹² Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁹³ Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, USA.
⁹⁴ School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
⁹⁵ DiSTA, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
⁹⁶ Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
⁹⁷ School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁹⁸ Jonah Ventures, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁹⁹ Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy.
¹⁰⁰ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
¹⁰¹ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), CONICET and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
¹⁰² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
¹⁰³ The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación. Departamento de Biología, Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁰⁶ Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
¹⁰⁷ Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
¹⁰⁸ World Agroforestry Centre - Latin America, Lima, Peru.
¹⁰⁹ Team Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology, Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen, The Netherlands.
¹¹⁰ Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹¹¹ Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Bellaterra, Spain.
¹¹² Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.
¹¹³ Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹⁴ Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
¹¹⁵ Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
¹¹⁶ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹⁷ Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
¹¹⁸ Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
¹¹⁹ Komarov Botanical Institute, St Petersburg, Russia.
¹²⁰ Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA.

PMID: 30258229
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

Abstract

The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and climate. A better understanding of how environmental factors shape plant structure and function is crucial for predicting the consequences of environmental change for ecosystem functioning. Here we explore the biome-wide relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits both across space and over three decades of warming at 117 tundra locations. Spatial temperature-trait relationships were generally strong but soil moisture had a marked influence on the strength and direction of these relationships, highlighting the potentially important influence of changes in water availability on future trait shifts in tundra plant communities. Community height increased with warming across all sites over the past three decades, but other traits lagged far behind predicted rates of change. Our findings highlight the challenge of using space-for-time substitution to predict the functional consequences of future warming and suggest that functions that are tied closely to plant height will experience the most rapid change. They also reveal the strength with which environmental factors shape biotic communities at the coldest extremes of the planet and will help to improve projections of functional changes in tundra ecosystems with climate warming.

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