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SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2022

Combined effects of warming and drought on plant biomass depend on plant woodiness and community type: a meta-analysis.

Rutger A Wilschut, Jonathan R De Long, Stefan Geisen, S Emilia Hannula, Casper W Quist, Basten Snoek, Katja Steinauer, E R Jasper Wubs, Qiang Yang, Madhav P Thakur

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Synthesis in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Rutger A WilschutEcology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, Konstanz 78464, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2559-9799
Jonathan R De LongDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7951-4818
Stefan GeisenDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0734-727X
S Emilia HannulaDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1398-2018
Casper W QuistDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9706-6684
Basten SnoekDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5321-2996
Katja SteinauerDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0294-2416
E R Jasper WubsDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2925-9222
Qiang YangDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8238-3150
Madhav P ThakurDepartment of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen 6708 PB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9426-1313

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global warming and precipitation extremes (drought or increased precipitation) strongly affect plant primary production and thereby terrestrial ecosystem functioning. Recent syntheses show that combined effects of warming and precipitation extremes on plant biomass are generally additive, while individual experiments often show interactive effects, indicating that combined effects are more negative or positive than expected based on the effects of single factors. Here, we examined whether variation in biomass responses to single and combined effects of warming and precipitation extremes can be explained by plant growth form and community type. We performed a meta-analysis of 37 studies, which experimentally crossed warming and precipitation treatments, to test whether biomass responses to combined effects of warming and precipitation extremes depended on plant woodiness and community type (monocultures versus mixtures). Our results confirmed that the effects of warming and precipitation extremes were overall additive. However, combined effects of warming and drought on above- and belowground biomass were less negative in woody- than in herbaceous plant systems and more negative in plant mixtures than in monocultures. We further show that drought effects on plant biomass were more negative in greenhouse, than in field studies, suggesting that greenhouse experiments may overstate drought effects in the field. Our results highlight the importance of plant system characteristics to better understand plant responses to climate change.

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DroughtsEcosystemBiomassClimate ChangePlantsaboveground plant biomassbelowground plant biomassclimate warmingglobal change experimentsprecipitation decreaseprecipitation increase

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PMID36196543
PMCPMC9533002

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