Nature Communications (May 2017)

Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production

  • Zhiyuan Ma,
  • Huiying Liu,
  • Zhaorong Mi,
  • Zhenhua Zhang,
  • Yonghui Wang,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Lin Jiang,
  • Jin-Sheng He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15378
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Temporal stability of plant communities is driven by several mechanisms and may be influenced by climate change. Here it is shown that warming, but not precipitation, reduces species asynchrony in an alpine grassland, leading to lower biomass temporal stability.