Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests

By R. Bertrand, Jonathan Lenoir, C. Piedallu, Gabriela Riofrío-Dillon, P. Ruffray, C. Vidal, J. Pierrat, J. Gégout. Nature, 2011

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Distribution trends of European dragonflies under climate change (2019, neutral): “…have only been studied for a limited number of taxa (but see Hickling et al., 2006; Mason et al., 2015), mainly birds, butterflies and plants (Bertrand et al., 2011; Britton, Beale, Towers, & Hewison, 2009; Clavero, Villero, & Brotons, 2011; Davey, Devictor, Jonzén, Lindström, & Smith,…”
Regional variation in climate change winners and losers highlights the rapid loss of cold‐dwelling species (2016, background): “But in the real world plant communities, and therefore bird-habitats, react and change more slowly to climate change (Svenning et al., 2008; Kissling et al., 2010; Bertrand et al., 2011) and species on top of mountains have nowhere to shift to.”
High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial‐interglacial climate change (2016, background): “…to promote the coexistence of species, geographically isolated areas to promote speciation and steep climate gradients to decrease the extinction probability by facilitating tracking climate changes (Qian & Ricklefs, 1999; Svenning et al., 2009; Bertrand et al., 2011; Huang et al., 2012).”
Mountain roads shift native and non‐native plant species' ranges (2017, background): “2012), and a failure of lower elevation species to migrate upwards to track climate change (Bertrand et al. 2011, Corlett and Westcott 2013). Recently, Lenoir et al. (2010) suggested that unexpected downward shifts of species’ lower elevational range limits (cf. the trailing edge) may be caused by c”
Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming (2020, background): “Our results support the hypothesis that the thermophilisation rate in forest understorey plant communities is primarily driven by the rate of sub-canopy microclimate change (10, 12) and not by the rate of macroclimate change.”
The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems (2015, background): “This will particularly be the case for the broader landscape and in particular in human-impacted and/or lowland areas where it will be most difficult for species to migrate fast enough to track climate change, as already seen (Bertrand et al. 2011).”
Forest disturbance accelerates thermophilization of understory plant communities (2015, background): “Anthropogenic changes in global climate are expected to cause shifts in species distributions at large spatial (e.g. landscape to continent) and temporal (e.g. decade to century) scales (Lenoir et al. 2008; Bertrand et al. 2011).”
Historical legacies accumulate to shape future biodiversity in an era of rapid global change (2015, background): “, 2012) and small (Bertrand et al., 2012; Dullinger et al., 2012) spatial scales.”
Non-native and native organisms moving into high elevation and high latitude ecosystems in an era of climate change: new challenges for ecology and conservation (2016, background): “Studies have shown that plants and animals seem to track suitable abiotic conditions under climate change (Chen et al. 2011; Bertrand et al. 2011) and because of differential migration rates, shifts in interactions across trophic levels are expected (Rasmann et al.”
Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming (2013, background): “Zoerselbos, BE (3) Herenbossen, BE (4)”
Climate Change, Aboveground-Belowground Interactions, and Species' Range Shifts (2012, background): “In a 44-year study (1965–2008) of climate warming in lowland and in lowland forests, of altitudinal range shifts in highland forests (Bertrand et al. 2011).”