2019
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0588-4
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Climate change causes functionally colder winters for snow cover-dependent organisms

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“…Previous studies have shown the importance of snow in modulating microclimate, altering species distributions, extinction rates, and species richness (7,29,40,42,44). Here we demonstrate that the same holds for plant functional composition and diversity in Arctic tundra.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 75%
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“…Previous studies have shown the importance of snow in modulating microclimate, altering species distributions, extinction rates, and species richness (7,29,40,42,44). Here we demonstrate that the same holds for plant functional composition and diversity in Arctic tundra.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 75%
“…Hence, turnover in species assemblages may lead to major shifts in the functional composition of biological communities and, consequently, cause large-scale alterations in ecosystems processes ( 5 , 6 ). Taxonomic approaches, such as species-level models, offer only limited understanding of the importance of climate warming-induced changes in functioning of ecosystems ( 7 , 8 ). In contrast, trait-based ecology and the accelerated availability of trait data have revolutionized the field of ecosystem science ( 9 , 10 ), allowing developing novel contributions for the climate change impact assessments.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Climate change can affect seasonal phenological processes through shifts in abiotic drivers such as temperature (Both and Visser 2001 ; Kudo and Ida 2013 ) and precipitation (both rain (Penuelas et al 2012 ; Cohen et al 2018 ) and snow (Sheriff et al 2011 ; Lane et al 2012 ; Rickbeil et al 2019 )). Snow is particularly relevant because a reduction in number of days with snow cover is one of the most consistent and widespread signals of climate change in the northern hemisphere (Pederson et al 2011 ; Kunkel et al 2016 ; Zhu et al 2019 ). Snow declines have a direct impact on organisms adapted to seasonal environments (Williams et al 2015 ; Hock et al 2019 ; Shipley et al 2019 ), including a diverse group of birds and mammals that molt from summer brown to winter white annually to increase crypsis against snow (Mills et al 2018 ; Zimova et al 2018 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They have been widely used to describe the magnitude, intensity, frequency, and duration of temperature changes (Erlat and Türkeş 2012;Jylhä et al 2008;Qian and Lin 2004;Wang et al 2013;Zhou and Ren 2011). Some studies have examined earlier onset of spring, extended summer, warm days, summer days, and warm and cold spell duration (e.g., Collazo et al 2019;Park et al 2018;Tong et al 2019;Wang et al 2017;Zhu et al 2019). However, the timing and seasonality of temperature changes have been less well studied.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%