Topographically controlled thermal‐habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

By D. Scherrer, C. Körner. 2011

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, background): “However, alpine landscapes are often topographically very complex, creating mosaics of diverse microclimates over short distances (Lloyd et al. 1994; Rae et al. 2006; Armbruster et al. 2007; Scherrer and Körner 2011).”
Stay or go – how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change (2017, background): “…microclimatic variation in e.g., mean temperatures that often matches what is expected under future climate change scenarios (2–6 °C; Armbruster et al., 2007; Dobrowski et al., 2013; Graae et al., 2012; Lenoir et al., 2013; Opedal et al., 2015; Scherrer and Körner, 2010; Scherrer and Körner, 2011).”
Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming (2020, background): “by providing thermal refuges and facilitating short-distance thermal niche tracking (27, 31, 32).”
The snow and the willows: earlier spring snowmelt reduces performance in the low‐lying alpine shrub Salix herbacea (2016, background): “In our study site in the eastern Swiss Alps, elevation and snowmelt timing are generally decoupled (Wheeler et al. 2014), likely due to the highly heterogenous microtopography characteristic to alpine terrain (Scherrer & K€orner 2011).”
A global assessment of current and future biodiversity vulnerability to habitat loss–climate change interactions (2016, background): “Habitat loss may also destroy microrefugia, localized climatically suitable areas in otherwise unsuitable landscapes, 37 which provide species the opportunity to survive during unfavourable climate periods and locations from which to re38 colonize when conditions become more suitable (Dobrowski, 201”