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Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe’s Mountain Summits
2012; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 336; Issue: 6079 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.1219033
ISSN1095-9203
AutoresHarald Pauli, Michael D. Gottfried, Stefan Dullinger, Otari Abdaladze, Maia Akhalkatsi, José Luis Benito Alonso, Gheorghe Coldea, Jan Dick, Brigitta Erschbamer, Rosa Fernández Calzado, Dany Ghosn, Jarle Inge Holten, Róbert Kanka, George Kazakis, Jozef Kollár, Per Larsson, Pavel Moiseev, Dmitry Moiseev, Ulf Molau, Joaquı́n Molero Mesa, László Nagy, G. Pelino, Mihai Pușcaș, Graziano Rossi, Angela Stanisci, Anne Olga Syverhuset, Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Marcello Tomaselli, Peter Unterluggauer, Luis Villar, Pascal Vittoz, Georg Grabherr,
Tópico(s)Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
ResumoIn mountainous regions, climate warming is expected to shift species' ranges to higher altitudes. Evidence for such shifts is still mostly from revisitations of historical sites. We present recent (2001 to 2008) changes in vascular plant species richness observed in a standardized monitoring network across Europe's major mountain ranges. Species have moved upslope on average. However, these shifts had opposite effects on the summit floras' species richness in boreal-temperate mountain regions (+3.9 species on average) and Mediterranean mountain regions (-1.4 species), probably because recent climatic trends have decreased the availability of water in the European south. Because Mediterranean mountains are particularly rich in endemic species, a continuation of these trends might shrink the European mountain flora, despite an average increase in summit species richness across the region.
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