2022
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8590
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Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients

Abstract: Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to variation in sampling methods. There is thus a need for a standardized monitoring strategy that can be applied across mountain regions to assess distribution changes and community turnover of native and non‐native pla… Show more

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“…Non-native plant species spreading away from roads into the surrounding undisturbed vegetation have so far been limited at higher elevation 11,16 but this might change with increasing anthropogenic disturbance and changing climate. Roadside surveys like ours 36 might therefore be valuable for the early detection of possible emerging threats to native species and ecosystems. To support such measures, future work should continue to interrogate which species traits promote fastest rates of spread 15,16,29,41,42 , which species have the potential for greatest impacts and which features of high-elevation ecosystems (for example, native community structure, disturbance regimes, rates of climatic or land use changes) are associated with greater levels of invasion 16,43 .…”
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“…Non-native plant species spreading away from roads into the surrounding undisturbed vegetation have so far been limited at higher elevation 11,16 but this might change with increasing anthropogenic disturbance and changing climate. Roadside surveys like ours 36 might therefore be valuable for the early detection of possible emerging threats to native species and ecosystems. To support such measures, future work should continue to interrogate which species traits promote fastest rates of spread 15,16,29,41,42 , which species have the potential for greatest impacts and which features of high-elevation ecosystems (for example, native community structure, disturbance regimes, rates of climatic or land use changes) are associated with greater levels of invasion 16,43 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Data were collected by MIREN using a standard protocol 36 . Sampling started in 2007/2008, is repeated every 5 years and is still ongoing.…”
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“…Here we combined 1) historical vegetation data (1903, 1913, and 1983) from along the Rallarvägen with 2) a new resurvey of the Rallarvagen in 2021 and 3) an additional survey performed in 2016 by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN;Haider et al 2022) along two hiking trails leading from the Rallarvagen into the mountains: the Björkliden and Låktatjåkka trail (Wedegärtner et al 2022).…”
Section: Vegetation Datamentioning
confidence: 99%