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DOI	10.1111/ecog.06715
	Climate-competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains
	Schurman, Jonathan; Janda, Pavel; Rydval, Mylos; Mikolas, Martin; Svoboda, Miroslav; Babst, Flurin
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0906-7590
EISSN	1600-0587
英文摘要	Basic ecological theory suggests that a tradeoff between competitiveness and stress tolerance dictates species range limits at regional extents. However, empirical support for this key theory remains deficient because the necessary spatial and temporal coverage and scalability of field observations has rarely been achieved. We harnessed an extensive dendroecological network (> 22 000 tree-ring samples from 816 forest inventory plots) to disentangle competition-limited from climate-limited growth in both overstory and understory trees. Growth synchrony among trees thereby served as an integral metric of climate sensitivity, an approach that we justify in supplementary analyses of growth responses to temperature, precipitation, and the standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index. Sampling plots were arranged along elevational climate and vegetation gradients throughout the Carpathian Mountains, ranging from mixed-species lowland forests to coniferous forests at high elevations. With mixedeffect modelling, we also identified non-climatic factors (stand characteristics, species diversity, and disturbance history) that modulate spatial patterns in the growth rate and synchrony of European beech Fagus sylvatica and Norway spruce Picea abies. Beech exhibited reduced growth and increased climate sensitivity towards higher elevations but performed better when species diversity was higher. The growth of spruce increased towards its lower range boundary, but understory cohorts grew poorly under interspecific competition. Overall, climate sensitivity was lower in more productive stands with benign climatic conditions and in recently disturbed sites with reduced stand density. These contrasting performances at mid-elevations where the two species overlap (900-1300 m a.s.l.) reflect their evolutionary history, which enables them to be competitive (beech) or cold-stress tolerant (spruce). This history will affect interactions between the two species under climate warming and shape macroecological patterns in the Carpathian ecoregion and likely other parts of Europe. Our findings point to a growing advantage of competitively stronger species in montane and subalpine vegetation zones.
英文关键词	climate change; competition; forest productivity; growth synchrony; species distribution; stress-tradeoff hypothesis
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:001222737500001
来源期刊	ECOGRAPHY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/304223
作者单位	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; University of Arizona; University of Arizona
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schurman, Jonathan,Janda, Pavel,Rydval, Mylos,et al. Climate-competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains[J],2024.
APA	Schurman, Jonathan,Janda, Pavel,Rydval, Mylos,Mikolas, Martin,Svoboda, Miroslav,&Babst, Flurin.(2024).Climate-competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains.ECOGRAPHY.
MLA	Schurman, Jonathan,et al."Climate-competition tradeoffs shape the range limits of European beech and Norway spruce along elevational gradients across the Carpathian Mountains".ECOGRAPHY (2024).