Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

By M. Walker, C. Wahren, R. Hollister, G. Henry, Lorraine E. Ahlquist, J. Alatalo, M. Bret-Harte, M. Calef, T. Callaghan, Amy B. Carroll and 17 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

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Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old‐field ecosystem (2010, background): “, 2003b) and warming (Walker et al., 2006) on community evenness and diversity, however, mainly through loss of rare species.”
Rain, dew, and humid air as drivers of morphology, function and spatial distribution in epiphytic lichens (2014, positive): “…ecological continuity in forest ecosystems (Rose 1976; McCune et al. 2000; Bolliger et al. 2007; Fritz et al. 2008), forest edge micro-climate (Renhorn et al. 1997; Esseen & Renhorn 1998; Coxson & Stevenson 2007 b ) and climate change (Cornelissen et al. 2001; Walker et al. 2006; Lang et al. 2009).”
Uses and misuses of meta‐analysis in plant ecology (2014, background): “For instance, Arft et al. (1999) and Walker et al. (2006) synthesized the results from the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) group by compiling data from a large number of experimental sites located throughout the circumpolar Arctic and in north temperate alpine regions.”
The response of Arctic vegetation to the summer climate: relation between shrub cover, NDVI, surface albedo and temperature (2011, background): “Within Arctic vegetation types, deciduous shrub species such as dwarf birch (Betula nana) are expected to respond most to changes in temperature (Euskirchen et al 2009, Walker et al 2006).”
Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead? (2015, background): “…(Grabherr et al. 1994, Walther et al. 2002, Parmesan and Yohe 2003), are leafing out and flowering earlier in the growing season (e.g., Cleland et al. 2007, Wolkovich et al. 2012), and are altering the expression of functional traits (Walker et al. 2006, Hudson et al. 2011, Verheijen et al. 2015).”
Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences (2011, background): “Experimental research further shows that deciduous shrubs (i.e. dwarf birch, alder and willow species) respond to multi-year warming with increased growth, but this response is shared with other functional types, particularly graminoid species (Walker et al 2006).”
Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and mixed effects on bryophyte diversity (2012, background): “, 2008) while warming decreased the cover of mosses and lichens in standardized warming experiments across the tundra biome (Walker et al., 2006), although for mosses the responses were less clear cut than for lichens (Van Wijk et al.”
High Arctic plant community resists 15 years of experimental warming (2010, methodology): “Elsewhere, OTCs have typically decreased bryophyte cover (Hollister, Webber & Tweedie 2005;Walker et al. 2006), while cover has sometimes increased over time (Hollister, Webber & Tweedie 2005).”
Warmer and richer? Predicting the impact of climate warming on species richness in small temperate waterbodies (2010, background): “…richness agrees with the most commonly described trend at the regional scale – increased richness – (Iverson & Prasad, 2001; Daufresne & Boet, 2007; Buisson et al., 2008), even though a few studies reported possible trends of richness impoverishment (Walker et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2007).”