Climate impacts on bird and plant communities from altered animal-plant interactions

By T. E. Martin, J. Maron. 2012

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A long-term field study establishes a link between reduced snowfall and bird and tree declines in montane Arizona. Excluding elk from experimental sites reversed these declines and also lowered nest predation. This experiment shows that climate change, operating through increased winter herbivory, can negatively affect diverse species occupying such ecosystems.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology

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Disentangling the drivers of context‐dependent plant–animal interactions (2014, background): “Thus, enhancing fundamental knowledge of how abiotic conditions underpin the structure of biotic interactions (Martin & Maron 2012) will be of central importance in future efforts to determine species responses to climate change.”
A global view of aspen: Conservation science for widespread keystone systems (2020, background): “2007), greater nutrient cycling (Boča and Van Miegroet 2017), higher snow/water retention (LaMalfa and Ryle 2008), and increased structural diversity facilitating avian diversity (Martin and Maron 2012).”
Adaptations of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) for defense against herbivores (2013, background): “Research in Yellowstone National Park, Wyomin g (Brodie et al., 2012 ) and in northern Arizona (Martin and Maron, 2012 ) showed that reduced snowpack as a result of warming temperatures increased aspen browsing by elk during winter months when young stems are typically protected by deep snow.”
Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions (2013, background): “2b), as demonstrated in the cases of the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis sierra; NPS Seki 2011; see above) and the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) in western North America (McLane & Aitken 2012).”
Patterns and consequences of ungulate herbivory on aspen in western North America (2013, background): “While it is not always economically feasible to use exclosures as a management tool at the landscape scale (Rolf, 2001), they play an important role in characterizing browse impacts in scientific studies (Martin and Maron, 2012).”