Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production

	Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production
	Ma, Zhiyuan ; Liu, Huiying ; Mi, Zhaorong ; Zhang, Zhenhua ; Wang, Yonghui ; Xu, Wei ; Jiang, Lin ; He, Jin-Sheng
刊名	NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
	2017-05-10
英文摘要	Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a critical environmental problem, prompting frequent investigations into its consequences for various ecological systems. Few studies, however, have explored the effect of climate change on ecological stability and the underlying mechanisms. We conduct a field experiment to assess the influence of warming and altered precipitation on the temporal stability of plant community biomass in an alpine grassland located on the Tibetan Plateau. We find that whereas precipitation alteration does not influence biomass temporal stability, warming lowers stability through reducing the degree of species asynchrony. Importantly, biomass temporal stability is not influenced by plant species diversity, but is largely determined by the temporal stability of dominant species and asynchronous population dynamics among the coexisting species. Our findings suggest that ongoing and future climate change may alter stability properties of ecological communities, potentially hindering their ability to provide ecosystem services for humanity.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.nwipb.ac.cn/handle/363003/7068]
专题	西北高原生物研究所_中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Zhiyuan,Liu, Huiying,Mi, Zhaorong,et al. Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2017.
APA	Ma, Zhiyuan.,Liu, Huiying.,Mi, Zhaorong.,Zhang, Zhenhua.,Wang, Yonghui.,...&He, Jin-Sheng.(2017).Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
MLA	Ma, Zhiyuan,et al."Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2017).