PMID- 32109335
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200817
LR  - 20200817
IS  - 1438-8677 (Electronic)
IS  - 1435-8603 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 4
DP  - 2020 Jul
TI  - Individualistic responses of forest herb traits to environmental change.
PG  - 601-614
LID - 10.1111/plb.13103 [doi]
AB  - Intraspecific trait variation (ITV; i.e. variability in mean and/or distribution 
      of plant attribute values within species) can occur in response to multiple 
      drivers. Environmental change and land-use legacies could directly alter trait 
      values within species but could also affect them indirectly through changes in 
      vegetation cover. Increasing variability in environmental conditions could lead 
      to more ITV, but responses might differ among species. Disentangling these 
      drivers on ITV is necessary to accurately predict plant community responses to 
      global change. We planted herb communities into forest soils with and without a 
      recent history of agriculture. Soils were collected across temperate European 
      regions, while the 15 selected herb species had different colonizing abilities 
      and affinities to forest habitat. These mesocosms (384) were exposed to two-level 
      full-factorial treatments of warming, nitrogen addition and illumination. We 
      measured plant height and specific leaf area (SLA). For the majority of species, 
      mean plant height increased as vegetation cover increased in response to light 
      addition, warming and agricultural legacy. The coefficient of variation (CV) for 
      height was larger in fast-colonizing species. Mean SLA for vernal species 
      increased with warming, while light addition generally decreased mean SLA for 
      shade-tolerant species. Interactions between treatments were not important 
      predictors. Environmental change treatments influenced ITV, either via increasing 
      vegetation cover or by affecting trait values directly. Species' ITV was 
      individualistic, i.e. species responded to different single resource and 
      condition manipulations that benefited their growth in the short term. These 
      individual responses could be important for altered community organization after 
      a prolonged period.
CI  - (c) 2020 German Society for Plant Sciences and The Royal Botanical Society of the 
      Netherlands.
FAU - Blondeel, H
AU  - Blondeel H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9939-5994
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Perring, M P
AU  - Perring MP
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
AD  - Ecosystem Restoration and Intervention Ecology Research Group, School of 
      Biological Sciences, the University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.
FAU - De Lombaerde, E
AU  - De Lombaerde E
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Depauw, L
AU  - Depauw L
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Landuyt, D
AU  - Landuyt D
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Govaert, S
AU  - Govaert S
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Maes, S L
AU  - Maes SL
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7168-2390
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Vangansbeke, P
AU  - Vangansbeke P
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - De Frenne, P
AU  - De Frenne P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8613-0943
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
FAU - Verheyen, K
AU  - Verheyen K
AD  - Forest & Nature Lab, Campus Gontrode, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent 
      University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
LA  - eng
GR  - 614839/H2020 European Research Council/
GR  - 757833/H2020 European Research Council/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200325
PL  - England
TA  - Plant Biol (Stuttg)
JT  - Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany)
JID - 101148926
RN  - 0 (Soil)
RN  - N762921K75 (Nitrogen)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Climate Change
MH  - *Ecosystem
MH  - Europe
MH  - *Forests
MH  - Nitrogen/metabolism
MH  - Plants/metabolism
MH  - Soil/chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - climate change
OT  - intraspecific trait variation
OT  - land-use legacies
OT  - nitrogen deposition
OT  - plant height
OT  - specific leaf area
OT  - temperate forest
OT  - vegetation cover
EDAT- 2020/02/29 06:00
MHDA- 2020/08/18 06:00
CRDT- 2020/02/29 06:00
PHST- 2019/10/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/02/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/02/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/08/18 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/02/29 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/plb.13103 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Plant Biol (Stuttg). 2020 Jul;22(4):601-614. doi: 10.1111/plb.13103. Epub 2020 
      Mar 25.