Soil heterogeneity buffers community response to climate change in species‐rich grassland

By J. Fridley, J. P. Grime, A. Askew, B. Moser, C. Stevens. 2011

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Climate change impacts on vegetation are mediated by soil processes that regulate rhizosphere water balance, nutrient dynamics, and ground‐level temperatures. For ecosystems characterized by high fine‐scale substrate heterogeneity such as grasslands on poorly developed soils, effects of climate change on plant communities may depend on substrate properties that vary at the scale of individuals (

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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• Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events (2014, background): “The high level of intraspecific variance within treatments can be related to the high finescale soil heterogeneity due to irregularities of the bedrock surface in the study area (Fridley et al. 2011).”
• Hydrological niches in terrestrial plant communities: a review (2015, background): “…UK 1300 25 species of grass and forb 13 species segregated on gradients of soil depth, and 9 migrated along these in response to experimental watering and drought treatments Fridley et al. (2011) Any differences among species are those found to be statistically significant in the original studies.”
• Endemic plant communities on special soils: early victims or hardy survivors of climate change? (2012, background): “…in part to a suite of stresstolerant functional traits shared by the species on the unproductive site and in part to the potential for individuals at the unproductive site to move among microhabitats determined by soil depth, allowing them to persist through climatic changes (Fridley et al. 2011).”