Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest
Abstract
Abstract Climate niche models project that subalpine forest ranges will extend upslope with climate warming. These projections assume that the climate suitable for adult trees will be adequate for forest regeneration, ignoring climate requirements for seedling recruitment, a potential demographic bottleneck. Moreover, local genetic adaptation is expected to facilitate range expansion, with tree populations at the upper forest edge providing the seed best adapted to the alpine. Here, we test these expectations using a novel combination of common gardens, seeded with two widely distributed subalpine conifers, and climate manipulations replicated at three elevations. Infrared heaters raised temperatures in heated plots, but raised temperatures more in the forest than at or above treeline because strong winds at high elevation reduced heating efficiency. Watering increased season‐average soil moisture similarly across sites. Contrary to expectations, warming reduced Engelmann spruce recruitment at and above treeline, as well as in the forest. Warming reduced limber pine first‐year recruitment in the forest, but had no net effect on fourth‐year recruitment at any site. Watering during the snow‐free season alleviated some negative effects of warming, indicating that warming exacerbated water limitations. Contrary to expectations of local adaptation, low‐elevation seeds of both species initially recruited more strongly thanmore »
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- U.S. Geological Survey, Boise, ID (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
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- 1439219
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- OSTI ID: 1400808
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- AC02-05CH11231; DE‐FG02‐07ER64457
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Global Change Biology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 6; Related Information: © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013
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- Wiley
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Kueppers, Lara M., Conlisk, Erin, Castanha, Cristina, Moyes, Andrew B., Germino, Matthew J., de Valpine, Perry, Torn, Margaret S., and Mitton, Jeffry B. Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1111/gcb.13561.
Kueppers, Lara M., Conlisk, Erin, Castanha, Cristina, Moyes, Andrew B., Germino, Matthew J., de Valpine, Perry, Torn, Margaret S., & Mitton, Jeffry B. Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13561
Kueppers, Lara M., Conlisk, Erin, Castanha, Cristina, Moyes, Andrew B., Germino, Matthew J., de Valpine, Perry, Torn, Margaret S., and Mitton, Jeffry B. Thu .
"Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13561. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1439219.
@article{osti_1439219,
title = {Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest},
author = {Kueppers, Lara M. and Conlisk, Erin and Castanha, Cristina and Moyes, Andrew B. and Germino, Matthew J. and de Valpine, Perry and Torn, Margaret S. and Mitton, Jeffry B.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Climate niche models project that subalpine forest ranges will extend upslope with climate warming. These projections assume that the climate suitable for adult trees will be adequate for forest regeneration, ignoring climate requirements for seedling recruitment, a potential demographic bottleneck. Moreover, local genetic adaptation is expected to facilitate range expansion, with tree populations at the upper forest edge providing the seed best adapted to the alpine. Here, we test these expectations using a novel combination of common gardens, seeded with two widely distributed subalpine conifers, and climate manipulations replicated at three elevations. Infrared heaters raised temperatures in heated plots, but raised temperatures more in the forest than at or above treeline because strong winds at high elevation reduced heating efficiency. Watering increased season‐average soil moisture similarly across sites. Contrary to expectations, warming reduced Engelmann spruce recruitment at and above treeline, as well as in the forest. Warming reduced limber pine first‐year recruitment in the forest, but had no net effect on fourth‐year recruitment at any site. Watering during the snow‐free season alleviated some negative effects of warming, indicating that warming exacerbated water limitations. Contrary to expectations of local adaptation, low‐elevation seeds of both species initially recruited more strongly than high‐elevation seeds across the elevation gradient, although the low‐provenance advantage diminished by the fourth year for Engelmann spruce, likely due to small sample sizes. High‐ and low‐elevation provenances responded similarly to warming across sites for Engelmann spruce, but differently for limber pine. In the context of increasing tree mortality, lower recruitment at all elevations with warming, combined with lower quality, high‐provenance seed being most available for colonizing the alpine, portends range contraction for Engelmann spruce. The lower sensitivity of limber pine to warming indicates a potential for this species to become more important in subalpine forest communities in the coming centuries.},
doi = {10.1111/gcb.13561},
journal = {Global Change Biology},
number = 6,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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