Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change.

Species interactions play key roles in linking the responses of populations, communities, and ecosystems to environmental change. For instance, species interactions are an important determinant of the complexity of changes in trophic biomass with variation in resources. Water resources are a major driver of terrestrial ecology and climate change is expected to greatly alter the distribution of ...

Stoichiometric flexibility in terrestrial ecosystems under global change

Terrestrial Ecosystems and Their Change

P.Ya. Groisman and G. Gutman (eds.), Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and Their Global Consequences, Springer Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4569-8_6, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract This chapter considers the current state of Siberian terrestrial ecosystems, their spatial distribution, and major biometric characteristics. Ongoin...

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

In recent decades, many climate manipulation experiments have investigated biosphere responses to global change. These experiments typically examined effects of elevated atmospheric CO(2), warming or drought (driver variables) on ecosystem processes such as the carbon and water cycle (response variables). Because experiments are inevitably constrained in the number of driver variables tested si...

Common species link global ecosystems to climate change