Vascular plants from a study of primary producer traits across an altitudinal gradient in alpine Finse

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Latest version published by Norwegian University of Life Sciences on Dec 13, 2019 Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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13 December 2019
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Description

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.

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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.

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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3b9a6c7a-98cb-4e1e-bc33-7fecb2599a87.  Norwegian University of Life Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Samplingevent; alpine plants; functional traits

Contacts

Ruben Erik Roos
  • Author ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Ås
NO
Kristel van Zuijlen
  • Author ●
  • Originator
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Ås
NO
Johan Asplund
  • Author
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Ås
NO
Mari Steinert
  • Metadata Provider
Ås
NO
Johan Asplund
  • Author
Ås
NO

Geographic Coverage

South Norway

Bounding Coordinates South West [58.995, 5.273], North East [62.674, 12.48]

Project Data

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.

Title FuncFinse: Primary producer traits across an altitudinal gradient

The personnel involved in the project:

Ruben Erik Roos
  • Author

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 3b9a6c7a-98cb-4e1e-bc33-7fecb2599a87
https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=alpine-finse