The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world
| العنوان: | The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world |
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| المؤلفون: | Michael P. Perring, Lionel R. Hertzog, Kris Verheyen, Emiel De Lombaerde, Bram Sercu, Evy Ampoorter, Safaa Wasof, Bin Wang, Willem Proesmans, Dries Landuyt, Pieter De Frenne, Haben Blondeel, Sybryn L. Maes, Shiyu Ma |
| المصدر: | GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY Global Change Biology |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, productivity, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, SPATIAL VARIABILITY, Biodiversity, evapotranspiration, WHITE-TAILED DEER, Context (language use), Forests, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Trees, SHADE-INTOLERANT TREE, NUTRIENT LIMITATION, Forest ecology, Environmental Chemistry, SPECIES COMPOSITION, Ecosystem, herbaceous layer, NITROGEN MINERALIZATION, global change, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, General Environmental Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Temperate forest, Biology and Life Sciences, Global change, nutrient cycling, Understory, 15. Life on land, DECIDUOUS-FOREST, ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, Geography, 13. Climate action, Earth and Environmental Sciences, ecosystem functioning, LAND-USE HISTORY, tree regeneration, NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST, Temperate rainforest |
| الوصف: | Temperate forests cover 16% of the global forest area. Within these forests, the understorey is an important biodiversity reservoir that can influence ecosystem processes and functions in multiple ways. However, we still lack a thorough understanding of the relative importance of the understorey for temperate forest functioning. As a result, understoreys are often ignored during assessments of forest functioning and changes thereof under global change. We here compiled studies that quantify the relative importance of the understorey for temperate forest functioning, focussing on litter production, nutrient cycling, evapotranspiration, tree regeneration, pollination and pathogen dynamics. We describe the mechanisms driving understorey functioning and develop a conceptual framework synthesizing possible effects of multiple global change drivers on understorey-mediated forest ecosystem functioning. Our review illustrates that the understorey's contribution to temperate forest functioning is significant but varies depending on the ecosystem function and the environmental context, and more importantly, the characteristics of the overstorey. To predict changes in understorey functioning and its relative importance for temperate forest functioning under global change, we argue that a simultaneous investigation of both overstorey and understorey functional responses to global change will be crucial. Our review shows that such studies are still very scarce, only available for a limited set of ecosystem functions and limited to quantification, providing little data to forecast functional responses to global change. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| تدمد: | 1365-2486 1354-1013 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::336aae6b5f29b93f1e169ab7eb8f42df https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31301199 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....336aae6b5f29b93f1e169ab7eb8f42df |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13652486 13541013 |
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