Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Ecological constraints increase the climatic debt in forests

  • Romain Bertrand,
  • Gabriela Riofrío-Dillon,
  • Jonathan Lenoir,
  • Jacques Drapier,
  • Patrice de Ruffray,
  • Jean-Claude Gégout,
  • Michel Loreau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12643
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Many species show a time-lagged response to climate change, a phenomenon called climatic debt. Here, Bertrand and colleagues show that climate severity and plant tolerance to climate warming mainly influence the climatic debt of forest herbaceous plant communities.