Land Use Options – Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change – Terrestrial Environmental Research

Seppelt, Ralf; Kühn, Ingolf; Klotz, Stefan; Frank, Karin; Schloter, Michael; Auge, Harald; Kabisch, Sigrun; Görg, Christoph; Jax, Kurt

doi:10.14512/gaia.18.1.19

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“…The authors thank the Helmholtz Association for research funding within the core subject ‘Land Use Options and Biodiversity’ (Seppelt et al . ). We thank three anonymous referees and Marcel Rejmanek for helpful comments on an earlier version of the text and Dr. Clare Aslan (UC Santa Cruz) for language editing and comments on manuscript structure.…”

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Origin matters: widely distributed native and non‐native species benefit from different functional traits

Knapp

Kühn

2012

Ecology Letters

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Recently, ecologists debated whether distinguishing native from non-native species is sensible or not. One argument is that widespread and less widespread species are functionally different, whether or not they are native. An opposing statement points out ecologically relevant differences between native and non-native species. We studied the functional traits that drive native and non-native vascular plant species frequency in Germany by explaining species grid-cell frequency using traits and their interaction with status. Native and non-native species frequency was equally driven by life span, ploidy type and self-compatibility. Non-native species frequency rose with later flowering cessation date, whereas this relationship was absent for native species. Native and non-native species differed in storage organs and in the number of environmental conditions they tolerate. We infer that environmental filters drive trait convergence of native and non-native species, whereas competition drives trait divergence. Meanwhile, introduction pathways functionally bias the frequency of non-native species.

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Origin matters: widely distributed native and non‐native species benefit from different functional traits

Knapp

Kühn

2012

Ecology Letters

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“…JH, JS and OS acknowledge the support of the European Commission Framework Programme (FP) 7 via the Integrated Projects SCALES (grant 226,852; Henle et al 2010) and STEP (grant 244090–STEP–CP–FP; Potts et al 2011); JS also of the FP6 IP ALAR (GOCE‐CT‐2003‐506675; Settele et al 2012) NEZ and PBP acknowledge funding from FP6 project ECOCHANGE (GOCE‐CT‐2007‐036866) and SNF project SPEED (CRS113‐125240). This research was also supported by the Helmholtz Association, core subject area ‘Land Use Options – Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change’ (Seppelt et al 2009).…”

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Host plant availability potentially limits butterfly distributions under cold environmental conditions

Hanspach¹,

Schweiger²,

Kühn³

et al. 2013

Ecography

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Species ranges are shaped by both climatic factors and interactions with other species. The stress gradient hypothesis predicts that under physiologically stressful environmental conditions abiotic factors shape range edges while in less stressful environments negative biotic interactions are more important. Butterflies provide a suitable system to test this hypothesis since larvae of most species depend on biotic interactions with a specific set of host plants, which in turn can shape patterns of occurrence and distribution. Here we modelled the distribution of 92 butterfly and 136 host plant species with three different modelling algorithms, using distribution data from the Swiss biodiversity monitoring scheme at a 1  1 km spatial resolution. By comparing the ensemble prediction for each butterfly species and the corresponding host plant(s), we assessed potential constraints imposed by host plant availability on distribution of butterflies at their distributional limits along the main environmental gradient, which closely parallels an elevational gradient. Our results indicate that host limitation does not play a role at the lower limit. At the upper limit 50% of butterfly species have a higher elevational limit than their primary host plant, and 33% have upper elevational limits that exceed the limits of both primary and secondary hosts. We conclude that host plant limitation was not relevant to butterfly distributional limits in less stressful environments and that distributions are more likely limited by climate, land use or antagonistic biotic interactions. Obligatory dependency of butterflies on their host plants, however, seems to represent an important limiting factor for the distribution of some species towards the cold, upper end of the environmental gradient, suggesting that biotic factors can shape ranges in stressful environments. Thus, predictions by the stress gradient hypothesis were not always applicable.

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“…The conceptual framework was developed to facilitate collaboration and knowledge integration of 20 different research groups involved in the research program "Land Use OptionsStrategies and Adaptation to Global Change" (Seppelt et al 2009) in their effort to jointly develop strategies for sustainable land use for Central Germany. However, research on the uptake of scientific findings for decision making shows that the uptake increases when decision makers and other stakeholders are involved in research (Alcamo and Henrichs 2008).…”

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“…The framework was developed as a contribution to the research program "Land Use Options -Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change" (Seppelt et al 2009). The application of the integrative scenario framework is seen as a contribution to the final objective of the research program, which was to develop strategies for sustainable land use on a regional level.…”

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Integrative Scenario Development

Priess¹,

Hauck²

2014

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Scenarios are employed to address a large number of future environmental and socioeconomic challenges. We present a conceptual framework for the development of scenarios to integrate the objectives of different stakeholder groups. Based on the framework, land-use scenarios were developed to provide a common base for further research. At the same time, these scenarios assisted regional stakeholders to bring forward their concerns and arrive at a shared understanding of challenges between scientific and regional stakeholders, which allowed them to eventually support regional decision making. The focus on the integration of views and knowledge domains of different stakeholder groups, such as scientists and practitioners, required rigorous and repeated measures of quality control. The application of the integrative concept provided products for both stakeholder groups, and the process of scenario development facilitated cooperation and learning within both the scientist and practitioner groups as well as between the two groups.

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Land Use Options – Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change – Terrestrial Environmental Research

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Origin matters: widely distributed native and non‐native species benefit from different functional traits

Origin matters: widely distributed native and non‐native species benefit from different functional traits

Host plant availability potentially limits butterfly distributions under cold environmental conditions

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