Plant functional indicators of vegetation response to climate change, past present and future: II. Modal plant functional types as response indicators for present and future climates

Gillison, Andrew N.

doi:10.1016/j.flora.2019.04.001

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“…They tolerate very low leaf water potentials, have the highest WUE, and may access alternative water sources. Therefore, we hypothesize that Earth Systems Models which utilize PFTs to assign tree hydraulic traits could perform well in SDTFs (Gillison, 2019 ; Koven et al., 2020 ). Still, species‐level violations point to the need for further characterization of tree hydraulic traits and response, such as those related to wood anatomy and root morphology, as well as transpiration, hydraulic conductance, hydraulic safely margins, and hydraulic segmentation, to better constrain our understanding.…”

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Plant functional types broadly describe water use strategies in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeast Brazil

Wright

Lima

Souza

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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In seasonally dry tropical forests, plant functional type can be classified as deciduous low wood density, deciduous high wood density, or evergreen high wood density species. While deciduousness is often associated with drought‐avoidance and low wood density is often associated with tissue water storage, the degree to which these functional types may correspond to diverging and unique water use strategies has not been extensively tested. We examined (a) tolerance to water stress, measured by predawn and mid‐day leaf water potential; (b) water use efficiency, measured via foliar δ13C; and (c) access to soil water, measured via stem water δ18O. We found that deciduous low wood density species maintain high leaf water potential and low water use efficiency. Deciduous high wood density species have lower leaf water potential and variable water use efficiency. Both groups rely on shallow soil water. Evergreen high wood density species have low leaf water potential, higher water use efficiency, and access alternative water sources. These findings indicate that deciduous low wood density species are drought avoiders, with a specialized strategy for storing root and stem water. Deciduous high wood density species are moderately drought tolerant, and evergreen high wood density species are the most drought tolerant group. Synthesis. Our results broadly support the plant functional type framework as a way to understand water use strategies, but also highlight species‐level differences.

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Plant functional types broadly describe water use strategies in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeast Brazil

Wright

Lima

Souza

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Our results are corroborated by another large-scale study conducted by Maracahipeset al (2018), who found intraspecific differences in five traits across generalist species occurring in savanna and forest formations in the Cerrado Biome. Here, we provide a new set of little-explored leaf characteristics, including anatomical traits, which can be integrated into the group of key characteristics that describe the ecological strategies of plant species, not only in transition areas but to understand the responses of vegetation facing climate change worldwide (Gillison, 2019). In addition, we show that, in savanna-forest systems that occur side by side, regardless of the size of the scale, environmental differences drive changes in functional diversity of vegetation.…”

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Intraspecific variation in leaf traits facilitates the occurrence of trees at the Amazonia–Cerrado transition

Araújo

Marimon

Scalon

et al. 2021

Flora

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“…and change of species suitable areas in the context of climate change. Studying the response of plant distribution pattern to climate change and understanding the relationship between plant climate demand and geographical distribution is of great significance to reveal the history of species formation, migration and diffusion, and to put forward reasonable utilization strategies and planting zoning [45][46][47]. Global climate change is an important driving factor to change the geographical distribution pattern of species [48].…”

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Suitability changes of Citrus medica L. var. sarcodactylis Swingle, a medicine-food plants affected by climate warming using the optimized MaxEnt model

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Kazim²,

Nasir³

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Climatic variables are important conditions for plant growth, development and reproduction. Citrus medica L. var. sarcodactylis Swingle (Rutaceae: Citrus) is one of the traditional bulk Chinese medicinal materials in China with the effects of bacteriostasis, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, anti-cancer cells, regulating the immun. Analyzing the impact of climate change on geographical distribution of C. medica L. var. sarcodactylis can provide strong support for its production layout and agricultural zoning. In our paper, MaxEnt and ArcGIS were applied to simulate the suitable areas of C. medica L. var. sarcodactylis in China from the perspectives of bioclimate, soil, topographic factors and human activities, and the future climate scenarios generated by global climate models (GCMs) were selected to predict its suitable areas in 2050s and 2090s. Results showed that, 1) Under current climate condition, areas of the total, most, moderately and poorly suitable habitats of C. medica L. var. sarcodactylis in China were 177.36×104 km2, 22.27×104 km2, 51.96×104 km2 and 103.13×104 km2 respectively. The range of the most suitable habitat was the narrowest, which was located in the middle east of Sichuan, western Chongqing in the upstream of the Yangtze River Basin, southern Guizhou and western Guangxi in the upstream of the Pearl River Basin, central and southern Yunnan and Southeast Tibet in the Middle-Lower reaches of the Southwest River Basin and western Taiwan. 2) Under the future climate change scenarios, the total suitable area showed a significant increase trend in 2090s, and the change of most, moderately and poorly suitable habitats showed no obvious law. 3) Under SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, the centroid of the most suitable habitat of C. medica L. var. sarcodactylis would move to the northwest, southeast and southwest respectively.

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Plant functional indicators of vegetation response to climate change, past present and future: II. Modal plant functional types as response indicators for present and future climates

Cited by 13 publications

References 74 publications

Plant functional types broadly describe water use strategies in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeast Brazil

Plant functional types broadly describe water use strategies in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeast Brazil

Intraspecific variation in leaf traits facilitates the occurrence of trees at the Amazonia–Cerrado transition

Suitability changes of Citrus medica L. var. sarcodactylis Swingle, a medicine-food plants affected by climate warming using the optimized MaxEnt model

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