ArticleNature ecology & evolution2024
Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change.
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- Divergent resource limitations of belowground versus aboveground productivity across grasslands.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
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- Detecting vegetation anomalies in mediterranean ecosystems in southern Italy using sentinel-2 NDVI time series and principal component analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A Century of Shifting Native Species-Accumulation Curves Reveals Long-Term Biodiversity Loss.Ecology letters · 2026Article
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- Testing whether connectivity stabilizes metacommunities and rescues declining diversity in a 25-y grassland study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The Impact of Fertilizer Gradient on High Nature Value Mountain Grassland.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Shifts in precipitation regimes exacerbate global inequality in grassland nitrogen cycles.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Plant Functional Traits, but Not Community Composition, Are Affected by Summer Precipitation and Herbivory in an Old-Field Ecosystem.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Global Dynamics of Grassland FVC and LST and Spatial Distribution of Their Correlation (2001-2022).Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of simulated warming and litter removal on structure and function of semi-humid alpine grassland in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Many terrestrial plant communities, especially forests, have been shown to lag in response to rapid climate change. Grassland communities may respond more quickly to novel climates, as they consist mostly of short-lived species, which are directly exposed to macroclimate change. Here we report the rapid response of grassland communities to climate change in the California Floristic Province. We estimated 349 vascular plant species' climatic niches from 829,337 occurrence records, compiled 15 long-term community composition datasets from 12 observational studies and 3 global change experiments, and analysed community compositional shifts in the climate niche space. We show that communities experienced significant shifts towards species associated with warmer and drier locations at rates of 0.0216 ± 0.00592 °C yr
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