Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern Europe

Land use change has been the dominant anthropogenic driver of plant distribution change, but climate change has also become a major factor. This analysis of long-term data shows that warming likely reinforced the impact of grassland abandonment on plant species distribution change in Sweden.

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Main Authors: Alistair G. Auffret, Jens-Christian Svenning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35516-7
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description Land use change has been the dominant anthropogenic driver of plant distribution change, but climate change has also become a major factor. This analysis of long-term data shows that warming likely reinforced the impact of grassland abandonment on plant species distribution change in Sweden.
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spelling doaj.art-4ba31870677c41fba16b78a8920a0a2f2022-12-25T12:21:22ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232022-12-0113111110.1038/s41467-022-35516-7Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern EuropeAlistair G. Auffret0Jens-Christian Svenning1Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesCenter for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE) & Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus UniversityLand use change has been the dominant anthropogenic driver of plant distribution change, but climate change has also become a major factor. This analysis of long-term data shows that warming likely reinforced the impact of grassland abandonment on plant species distribution change in Sweden.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35516-7
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title Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern Europe
title_full Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern Europe
title_fullStr Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern Europe
title_full_unstemmed Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern Europe
title_short Climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern Europe
title_sort climate warming has compounded plant responses to habitat conversion in northern europe
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