Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

By P. De Frenne, F. Rodríguez‐Sánchez, David A. Coomes, L. Baeten, Gorik Verstraeten, M. Vellend, M. Bernhardt‐Römermann, Carissa D. Brown, J. Brunet, Johnny Cornelis and 26 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda (2021, background): “Evaporative cooling and emitted longwave radiation both act to reduce canopy and soil surface temperatures whereas net shortwave radiation acts to warm the soil and canopy surfaces (Geiger et al. 2009; De Frenne et al. 2013).”
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016, background): “Delayed community responses to increasing temperature may be in part due to the buffering effects of microhabitats (101, 102) and possibly moisture, which is a critical, but less often studied, driver in the redistribution of species (103).”
Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (2016, background): “Microclimatic effects generated by the forest canopy buffer macroclimatic changes, and create “climatic lags” that help to maintain understorey biodiversity (De Frenne et al. 2013; Nieto‐Lugilde et al. 2014).”
Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming (2020, methodology): “For each plot, we calculated the rate of maximum temperature change 40 between the baseline survey and the resurvey (expressed in degrees Celsius per decade) as the difference between the average summer maximum temperature during the 5 years preceding the baseline survey and the resurvey, divided by”
Disturbances amplify tree community responses to climate change in the temperate–boreal ecotone (2019, methodology): “Following De Frenne et al. (2013), we computed the 10th and 90th percentiles of the plot‐level temperature distributions, which correspond to the cold and warm tails of the distribution.”
Solar park microclimate and vegetation management effects on grassland carbon cycling (2016, background): “The composite effect of reduced temperatures, increased humidity and shading, all factors observed under the PV arrays, have been shown to moderate plant response to macroclimatic warming as forest canopies close (De Frenne et al 2013).”
Forest structure and species traits mediate projected recruitment declines in western US tree species (2015, background): “For example, recent work suggests that microclimatic buffering can moderate the response of understorey plants to macroclimatic warming (De Frenne et al., 2013).”
Regional variation in climate change winners and losers highlights the rapid loss of cold‐dwelling species (2016, background): “Recent changes in climate have impacted community composition across a number of taxa (Men endez et al., 2006; Lemoine et al., 2007; La Sorte et al., 2009; Davey et al., 2012; De Frenne et al., 2013).”