SynthesisThe New phytologist2021
Increasing climatic sensitivity of global grassland vegetation biomass and species diversity correlates with water availability.
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- World-wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands.The New phytologist · 2025Pooled it
- Precipitation Regulates Phenological Responses of Annual and Perennial Forbs to Warming and Degradation in an Alpine Meadow on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Divergent Temporal Trends in Carbon Assimilation-Growth Coupling Across Global Forests.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Widespread controls of precipitation sensitivity on drought recovery of global forests.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mapping spatiotemporal variability of vegetation and climate sensitivity in northern Iran using google earth engine.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Increases in species richness cause decreases in phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean and Temperate plant assemblages.Ecology · 2026Article
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- Monsoon rainfall trends and change point detection affecting kharif paddy ecosystems and gross primary productivity in Odisha.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Dynamic responses of gross primary productivity to compound hot extremes and drought across different geographical regions of China.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to precipitation change in a semiarid grassland.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Disentangling the relationship between environmental drivers and productivity in subalpine wet grasslands.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Seasonal Herbage-Livestock Balance and Grassland Pressure Index Analysis in the Yellow River Source Park, Tibet Plateau, China.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Relationship Between Evolutionary Diversity and Aboveground Biomass During 150 Years of Natural Vegetation Regeneration in Temperate China.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Mechanistic Insights on Salicylic Acid-Induced Enhancement of Photosystem II Function in Basil Plants under Non-Stress or Mild Drought Stress.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- An emergent constraint on the thermal sensitivity of photosynthesis and greenness in the high latitude northern forests.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Climate change filtered out resource-acquisitive plants in a temperate grassland in Inner Mongolia, China.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
- Simulation of the nutritional requirements and energy balance of adult cows in a northern temperate grassland.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
Grasslands are key repositories of biodiversity and carbon storage and are heavily impacted by effects of global warming and changes in precipitation regimes. Patterns of grassland dynamics associated with variability in future climate conditions across spatiotemporal scales are yet to be adequately quantified. Here, we performed a global meta-analysis of year and growing season sensitivities of vegetation aboveground biomass (AGB), aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP), and species richness (SR) and diversity (Shannon index, H) to experimental climate warming and precipitation shifts. All four variables were sensitive to climate change. Their sensitivities to shifts in precipitation were correlated with local background water availability, such as mean annual precipitation (MAP) and aridity, and AGB and ANPP sensitivities were greater in dry habitats than in nonwater-limited habitats. There was no effect of duration of experiment (short vs long term) on sensitivities. Temporal trends in ANPP and SR sensitivity depended on local water availability; ANPP sensitivity to warming increased over time and SR sensitivity to irrigation decreased over time. Our results provide a global overview of the sensitivities of grassland function and diversity to climate change that will improve the understanding of ecological responses across spatiotemporal scales and inform policies for conservation in dry climates.
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