Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

KOMATSU, KIMBERLY J.; ISBELL, FOREST; KOERNER, SALLY E.; ALATALO, JUHA M.; BAER, SARA G.; BEIERKUHNLEIN, CARL; BLOOR, JULIETTE M. G.; BOUGHTON, ELIZABETH H.; CAHILL, JAMES F.; CHENG, JIMIN; DU, GUOZHEN; FOSTER, BRYAN; HALLET, LAUREN M.; HOVENDEN, MARK J.; KERN, CHRISTEL; KREYLING, JUERGEN; MCCULLEY, REBECCA L.; MORGAN, JOHN W.; PREVÉY, JANET S.; ROBINSON, CLARE H.; SEABLOOM, ERIC W.; SOUZA, LARA; SVEJCAR, TONY; TURKINGTON, ROY; YAHDJIAN, LAURA; ZHANG, YUNHAI; LEMOINE, NATHAN P.; HOUSEMAN, GREGORY R.; WILCOX, KEVIN R.; AERTS, RIEN; BATES, JONATHAN; BLAIR, JOHN; BORK, EDWARD W.; BRITTON, ANDREA J.; CHIARIELLO, NONA R.; CORNELISSEN, J. HANS C.; FIRN, JENNIFER; GROSS, KATHERINE; HARMENS, HARRY; JENTSCH, ANKE; KNAPP, ALAN K.; LUO, YIQI; MEGONIGAL, J. PATRICK; PENNINGS, STEVEN C.; REICH, PETER B.; SALA, OSVALDO E.; SOUDZILOVSKAIA, NADEJDA A.; SUTTLE, K. BLAKE; TOGNETTI, PEDRO; XU, ZHUWEN; ZHANG, PENGFEI; AVOLIO, MEGHAN L.; GRMAN, EMILY; JOHNSON, DAVID S.; ANDERSON, JOHN P.; BALDWIN, ANDREW H.; BELOTE, R. TRAVIS; BO

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NATL ACAD SCIENCES

Año: 2019 vol. 116 p. 17867 - 17873

0027-8424

Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure across multiple ecosystem types, and those that do exist present conflicting patterns. In an unprecedented global synthesis of over 100 experiments that manipulated factors linked to GCDs, we show that herbaceous plant community responses depend on experimental manipulation length and number of factors manipulated. We found that plant communities are fairly resistant to experimentally manipulated GCDs in the short term (