Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

Janet S Prevéy^{1

2}, Christian Rixen³, Nadja Rüger^{4

5}, Toke T Høye⁶, Anne D Bjorkman^{7

8}, Isla H Myers-Smith⁹, Sarah C Elmendorf¹⁰, Isabel W Ashton¹¹, Nicoletta Cannone¹², Chelsea L Chisholm^{3

13}, Karin Clark¹⁴, Elisabeth J Cooper¹⁵, Bo Elberling¹⁶, Anna Maria Fosaa¹⁷, Greg H R Henry¹⁸, Robert D Hollister¹⁹, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir^{20

21}, Kari Klanderud²², Christopher W Kopp²³, Esther Lévesque²⁴, Marguerite Mauritz²⁵, Ulf Molau²⁶, Susan M Natali²⁷, Steven F Oberbauer²⁸, Zoe A Panchen²⁹, Eric Post³⁰, Sabine B Rumpf³¹, Niels Martin Schmidt⁶, Edward Schuur²⁵, Philipp R Semenchuk^{15

31}, Jane G Smith¹⁰, Katharine N Suding^{10

32}, Ørjan Totland³³, Tiffany Troxler²⁸, Susanna Venn³⁴, Carl-Henrik Wahren³⁵, Jeffrey M Welker^{36

37}, Sonja Wipf³

Affiliations

¹ Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Olympia, WA, USA. jprevey@fs.fed.us.
² WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland. jprevey@fs.fed.us.
³ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
⁴ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.
⁶ Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁷ Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁸ Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
¹⁰ Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
¹¹ Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service, Rapid City, SD, USA.
¹² Department of Science and High Technology, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy.
¹³ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁴ Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
¹⁵ Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
¹⁶ Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁷ Faroese Museum of Natural History, Hoyvík, Faroe Islands.
¹⁸ Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁹ Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
²¹ University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway.
²² Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
²³ Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²⁴ Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada.
²⁵ Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
²⁶ Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
²⁷ Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
²⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
²⁹ Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
³⁰ Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
³¹ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
³³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³⁴ Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
³⁵ Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³⁶ UArctic and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
³⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, USA.

PMID: 30532048
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6

Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

Janet S Prevéy et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 Jan.

. 2019 Jan;3(1):45-52.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6. Epub 2018 Dec 10.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, Olympia, WA, USA. jprevey@fs.fed.us.
² WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland. jprevey@fs.fed.us.
³ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland.
⁴ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.
⁶ Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁷ Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁸ Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany.
⁹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
¹⁰ Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
¹¹ Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service, Rapid City, SD, USA.
¹² Department of Science and High Technology, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy.
¹³ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁴ Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
¹⁵ Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
¹⁶ Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁷ Faroese Museum of Natural History, Hoyvík, Faroe Islands.
¹⁸ Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁹ Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
²¹ University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway.
²² Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
²³ Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
²⁴ Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada.
²⁵ Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
²⁶ Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
²⁷ Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA.
²⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
²⁹ Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
³⁰ Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
³¹ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
³³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³⁴ Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
³⁵ Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³⁶ UArctic and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
³⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, USA.

PMID: 30532048
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6

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Author Correction: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities.
Prevéy JS, Rixen C, Rüger N, Høye TT, Bjorkman AD, Myers-Smith IH, Elmendorf SC, Ashton IW, Cannone N, Chisholm CL, Clark K, Cooper EJ, Elberling B, Fosaa AM, Henry GHR, Hollister RD, Jónsdóttir IS, Klanderud K, Kopp CW, Lévesque E, Mauritz M, Molau U, Natali SM, Oberbauer SF, Panchen ZA, Post E, Rumpf SB, Schmidt NM, Schuur E, Semenchuk PR, Smith JG, Suding KN, Totland Ø, Troxler T, Venn S, Wahren CH, Welker JM, Wipf S. Prevéy JS, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 Apr;3(4):709. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0859-5. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019. PMID: 30846874

Abstract

Advancing phenology is one of the most visible effects of climate change on plant communities, and has been especially pronounced in temperature-limited tundra ecosystems. However, phenological responses have been shown to differ greatly between species, with some species shifting phenology more than others. We analysed a database of 42,689 tundra plant phenological observations to show that warmer temperatures are leading to a contraction of community-level flowering seasons in tundra ecosystems due to a greater advancement in the flowering times of late-flowering species than early-flowering species. Shorter flowering seasons with a changing climate have the potential to alter trophic interactions in tundra ecosystems. Interestingly, these findings differ from those of warmer ecosystems, where early-flowering species have been found to be more sensitive to temperature change, suggesting that community-level phenological responses to warming can vary greatly between biomes.

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