Nature Communications (Aug 2016)
Responses of sequential and hierarchical phenological events to warming and cooling in alpine meadows
- Xine Li,
- Lili Jiang,
- Fandong Meng,
- Shiping Wang,
- Haishan Niu,
- Amy M. Iler,
- Jichuan Duan,
- Zhenhua Zhang,
- Caiyun Luo,
- Shujuan Cui,
- Lirong Zhang,
- Yaoming Li,
- Qi Wang,
- Yang Zhou,
- Xiaoying Bao,
- Tsechoe Dorji,
- Yingnian Li,
- Josep Peñuelas,
- Mingyuan Du,
- Xinquan Zhao,
- Liang Zhao,
- Guojie Wang
Affiliations
- Xine Li
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lili Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fandong Meng
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shiping Wang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Haishan Niu
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Amy M. Iler
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University
- Jichuan Duan
- Binhai Research Institute in Tianjin
- Zhenhua Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Caiyun Luo
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shujuan Cui
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lirong Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yaoming Li
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qi Wang
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yang Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiaoying Bao
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tsechoe Dorji
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yingnian Li
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Josep Peñuelas
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès
- Mingyuan Du
- Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
- Xinquan Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Liang Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Guojie Wang
- Oregon State University Agriculture and Natural Resource Program at Eastern Oregon University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12489
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Describing changes in the timing of life history events is critical to understanding effects of climate change. Wang et al. relocated plant communities up and down elevation gradients and found that warming lengthened the reproductive and activity phases, while cooling reduced the vegetative and reproductive phases.
