Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests

Bibtex

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title = "Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests",
abstract = "Plant communities are being exposed to changing environmental conditions all around the globe, leading to alterations in plant diversity, community composition, and ecosystem functioning. For herbaceous understorey communities in temperate forests, responses to global change are postulated to be complex, due to the presence of a tree layer that modulates understorey responses to external pressures such as climate change and changes in atmospheric nitrogen deposition rates. Multiple investigative approaches have been put forward as tools to detect, quantify and predict understorey responses to these global-change drivers, including, among others, distributed resurvey studies and manipulative experiments. These investigative approaches are generally designed and reported upon in isolation, while integration across investigative approaches is rarely considered. In this study, we integrate three investigative approaches (two complementary resurvey approaches and one experimental approach) to investigate how climate warming and changes in nitrogen deposition affect the functional composition of the understorey and how functional responses in the understorey are modulated by canopy disturbance, that is, changes in overstorey canopy openness over time. Our resurvey data reveal that most changes in understorey functional characteristics represent responses to changes in canopy openness with shifts in macroclimate temperature and aerial nitrogen deposition playing secondary roles. Contrary to expectations, we found little evidence that these drivers interact. In addition, experimental findings deviated from the observational findings, suggesting that the forces driving understorey change at the regional scale differ from those driving change at the forest floor (i.e., the experimental treatments). Our study demonstrates that different approaches need to be integrated to acquire a full picture of how understorey communities respond to global change.",
author = "Dries Landuyt and Michael P. Perring and Haben Blondeel and Emiel De Lombaerde and Leen Depauw and Eline Lorer and Sybryn L. Maes and Lander Baeten and Laurent Berges and Markus Bernhardt-Roemermann and Guntis Brumelis and Joerg Brunet and Marketa Chudomelova and Janusz Czerepko and Guillaume Decocq and Jan den Ouden and Pieter De Frenne and Thomas Dirnboeck and Tomasz Durak and Andreas Fichtner and Radoslaw Gawrys and Werner Haerdtle and Radim Hedl and Steffi Heinrichs and Thilo Heinken and Bogdan Jaroszewicz and Keith Kirby and Martin Kopecky and Frantisek Malis and Martin Macek and Fraser J. G. Mitchell and Tobias Naaf and Petr Petrik and Kamila Reczynska and Wolfgang Schmidt and Tibor Standovar and Krzysztof Swierkosz and Simon M. Smart and Hans Van Calster and Ondrej Vild and Donald M. Waller and Monika Wulf and Kris Verheyen",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
day = "01",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17086",
language = "Nederlands",
publisher = "Blackwell Publishers",
address = "België,
type = "Other"
}

Auteurs

Dries Landuyt
Michael P. Perring
Haben Blondeel
Emiel De Lombaerde
Leen Depauw
Eline Lorer
Sybryn L. Maes
Lander Baeten
Laurent Berges
Markus Bernhardt-Roemermann
Guntis Brumelis
Joerg Brunet
Marketa Chudomelova
Janusz Czerepko
Guillaume Decocq
Jan den Ouden
Pieter De Frenne
Thomas Dirnboeck
Tomasz Durak
Andreas Fichtner
Radoslaw Gawrys
Werner Haerdtle
Radim Hedl
Steffi Heinrichs
Thilo Heinken
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Keith Kirby
Martin Kopecky
Frantisek Malis
Martin Macek
Fraser J. G. Mitchell
Tobias Naaf
Petr Petrik
Kamila Reczynska
Wolfgang Schmidt
Tibor Standovar
Krzysztof Swierkosz
Simon M. Smart
Hans Van Calster
Ondrej Vild
Donald M. Waller
Monika Wulf
Kris Verheyen