3b9a6c7a-98cb-4e1e-bc33-7fecb2599a87 https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=alpine-finse Ruben Erik Roos Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

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ruben.erik.roos@nmbu.no https://www.nmbu.no/emp/ruben.erik.roos 0000-0002-1580-6424 Kristel van Zuijlen Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

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kristel.van.zuijlen@nmbu.no https://www.nmbu.no/emp/kristel.van.zuijlen 0000-0001-6476-1982 Johan Asplund Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

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johan.asplund@nmbu.no https://www.nmbu.no/emp/johan.asplund 0000-0001-5610-4480 Mari Steinert

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mari.steinert@nmbu.no Ruben Erik Roos

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ruben.erik.roos@nmbu.no author Kristel van Zuijlen

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kristel.van.zuijlen@nmbu.no author Johan Asplund

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johanasplund@nmbu author 2019-12-13 eng One of the major challenges for contemporary ecologists is to understand how ecological communities respond to environmental changes. Although classifying species to their taxonomy is useful, it has major limitations when it comes to answering ecological questions. A more functional approach, based on a species set of traits that define its performance within an ecosystem, provides much more insight. Many plant ecologists have now applied such trait-based approaches, but these studies are often limited to vascular plants and do not include other important primary producer groups such as lichens and bryophytes. However, there may be clear differences in what drives changes in community level traits across environmental gradients between producer groups: in vascular plants changes in species community are often most important and intraspecific variation is often also significant, whereas recent studies suggest that in lichens intraspecific variation alone drives changes in community level traits. In this study, we will disentangle the relative importance of species turnover versus intraspecific variation as drivers of community-level traits in different primary producer groups simultaneously across the same environmental gradient in Finse, Southern Norway. The % cover was estimated visually in 50x50cm subplots with a wire frame marking out 10x10cm squares. All species covering less than 1% was marked as cover = 0.5 in the data. Samplingevent GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml alpine plants functional traits n/a This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. South Norway 5.273 12.48 62.674 58.995 unkown Ruben Erik Roos

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ruben.erik.roos@nmbu.no https://www.nmbu.no/emp/ruben.erik.roos 0000-0002-1580-6424 Ruben Erik Roos author FuncFinse is a four-year project on primary producers and their effect on the tundra. In this project researcher Johan Asplund and his colleagues will examine how the plants on the tundra interact, and how they in turn affect the natural world around them. – The main objective is to increase understanding of how vascular plants, lichens and mosses together affect ecosystem processes such as decomposition, food webs and thus carbon and nutrient fluxes, says Asplund. A main focus of the project will be the significance of lichens and mosses in these ecosystems. Lichens and mosses are consistently underrepresented in studies of ecosystems and community ecology. This project is planning to fill some of these gaps. 2017-02-15T01:44:38.831+01:00 dataset Roos R E, van Zuijlen K, Asplund J (2017): Vascular plants from a study of primary producer traits across an altitudinal gradient in alpine Finse. Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management. https://design.nmbu.no/sites/default/files/design_nmbu_no/vedlegg/nmbu_logo_rgb.gif 3b9a6c7a-98cb-4e1e-bc33-7fecb2599a87/v1.1.xml