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Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies

(2018) GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 24(4). p.1722-1740
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The contemporary state of functional traits and species richness in plant communities depends on legacy effects of past disturbances. Whether temporal responses of community properties to current environmental changes are altered by such legacies is, however, unknown. We expect global environmental changes to interact with land-use legacies given different community trajectories initiated by prior management, and subsequent responses to altered resources and conditions. We tested this expectation for species richness and functional traits using 1814 survey-resurvey plot pairs of understorey communities from 40 European temperate forest datasets, syntheses of management transitions since the year 1800, and a trait database. We also examined how plant community indicators of resources and conditions changed in response to management legacies and environmental change. Community trajectories were clearly influenced by interactions between management legacies from over 200years ago and environmental change. Importantly, higher rates of nitrogen deposition led to increased species richness and plant height in forests managed less intensively in 1800 (i.e., high forests), and to decreases in forests with a more intensive historical management in 1800 (i.e., coppiced forests). There was evidence that these declines in community variables in formerly coppiced forests were ameliorated by increased rates of temperature change between surveys. Responses were generally apparent regardless of sites' contemporary management classifications, although sometimes the management transition itself, rather than historic or contemporary management types, better explained understorey responses. Main effects of environmental change were rare, although higher rates of precipitation change increased plant height, accompanied by increases in fertility indicator values. Analysis of indicator values suggested the importance of directly characterising resources and conditions to better understand legacy and environmental change effects. Accounting for legacies of past disturbance can reconcile contradictory literature results and appears crucial to anticipating future responses to global environmental change.
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biodiversity change, climate change, disturbance regime, forestREplot, herbaceous layer, management intensity, nitrogen deposition, plant functional traits, time lag, vegetation resurvey, ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION, TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FORESTS, WITH-STANDARDS FOREST, LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS, HERB-LAYER CHANGES, LAND-USE LEGACIES, ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES, SPECIES RICHNESS, UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION, SPATIAL CONFIGURATION

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Perring, Michael, et al. “Global Environmental Change Effects on Plant Community Composition Trajectories Depend upon Management Legacies.” GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, vol. 24, no. 4, 2018, pp. 1722–40, doi:10.1111/gcb.14030.
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Perring, M., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Baeten, L., Midolo, G., Blondeel, H., Depauw, L., … Verheyen, K. (2018). Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 24(4), 1722–1740. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14030
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Perring, Michael, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Lander Baeten, Gabriele Midolo, Haben Blondeel, Leen Depauw, Dries Landuyt, et al. 2018. “Global Environmental Change Effects on Plant Community Composition Trajectories Depend upon Management Legacies.” GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 24 (4): 1722–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14030.
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Perring, Michael, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Lander Baeten, Gabriele Midolo, Haben Blondeel, Leen Depauw, Dries Landuyt, Sybryn Maes, Emiel De Lombaerde, Maria Mercedes Carón, Mark Vellend, Jörg Brunet, Markéta Chudomelová, Guillaume Decocq, Martin Diekmann, Thomas Dirnböck, Inken Dörfler, Tomasz Durak, Pieter De Frenne, Frank S Gilliam, Radim Hédl, Thilo Heinken, Patrick Hommel, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Keith J Kirby, Martin Kopecký, Jonathan Lenoir, Daijiang Li, František Máliš, Fraser JG Mitchell, Tobias Naaf, Miles Newman, Petr Petřík, Kamila Reczyńska, Wolfgang Schmidt, Tibor Standovár, Krzysztof Świerkosz, Hans Van Calster, Ondřej Vild, Eva Rosa Wagner, Monika Wulf, and Kris Verheyen. 2018. “Global Environmental Change Effects on Plant Community Composition Trajectories Depend upon Management Legacies.” GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 24 (4): 1722–1740. doi:10.1111/gcb.14030.
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Perring M, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Baeten L, Midolo G, Blondeel H, Depauw L, et al. Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 2018;24(4):1722–40.
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M. Perring et al., “Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies,” GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 1722–1740, 2018.
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  journal      = {{GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY}},
  keywords     = {{biodiversity change,climate change,disturbance regime,forestREplot,herbaceous layer,management intensity,nitrogen deposition,plant functional traits,time lag,vegetation resurvey,ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION,TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FORESTS,WITH-STANDARDS FOREST,LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS,HERB-LAYER CHANGES,LAND-USE LEGACIES,ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES,SPECIES RICHNESS,UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION,SPATIAL CONFIGURATION}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{1722--1740}},
  title        = {{Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14030}},
  volume       = {{24}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}

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