Effects of topoclimatic complexity on the composition of woody plant communities

Topographically complex landscapes exhibit large variations in climate. This climate heterogeneity has been linked to high biodiversity and may enable species persistence with a changing climate. It is unclear how woody vegetation composition responds to climate heterogeneity defined by multiple climate variables at topographic scales of 10 -100s of metres. At this scale, we quantified both vegetation composition and climate variables in a topographically complex California woodland and found woody communities to be sensitive to climate variation. However this relationship was weak, implying that local scale ecological processes (e.g., disturbance, dispersal limitation) mediate the effect of topographically driven climate variation.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  AoB Plants

• Publication date

  2016-08-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/aobpla/plw049PMID 27339048PMCID 4972463
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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