Unexpected westward range shifts in European forest plants link to nitrogen deposition

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sanczuk, Pieter; Verheyen, Kris; Lenoir, Jonathan; Zellweger, Florian; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, Francisco; Baeten, Lander; Bernhardt-Roemermann, Markus; De Pauw, Karen; Vangansbeke, Pieter; Perring, Michael P.; Berki, Imre; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Brunet, Joerg; Chudomelova, Marketa; De Lombaerde, Emiel; Decocq, Guillaume; Dirnbock, Thomas; Durak, Tomasz; Greiser, Caroline; Hedl, Radim; Heinken, Thilo; Jandt, Ute; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Kopecky, Martin; Landuyt, Dries; Macek, Martin; Malis, Frantisek; Naaf, Tobias; Nagel, Thomas A.; Petrik, Petr; Reczynska, Kamila; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Standovar, Tibor; Staude, Ingmar R.; Swierkosz, Krzysztof; Teleki, Balazs; Vanneste, Thomas; Vild, Ondrej; Waller, Donald; De Frenne, Pieter
• 署名单位: Ghent University; Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow & Landscape Research; University of Antwerp; Utrecht University; University of Sevilla; Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; German Research Foundation (DFG); German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH); University of Western Australia; University of West Hungary; University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences; University of Rzeszow; Stockholm University; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Palacky University Olomouc; University of Potsdam; Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg; University of Warsaw; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Technical University Zvolen; National Forest Center - Slovakia; Leibniz Association; Leibniz Zentrum fur Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF); University of Ljubljana; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; University of Gottingen; Eotvos Lorand University; Leipzig University; University of Wroclaw; University of Debrecen; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-9951
• DOI: 10.1126/science.ado0878
• 发表日期: 2024-10-01
• 页码: 193-198
• 关键词: climate; responses; distributions; communities

摘要

Climate change is commonly assumed to induce species' range shifts toward the poles. Yet, other environmental changes may affect the geographical distribution of species in unexpected ways. Here, we quantify multidecadal shifts in the distribution of European forest plants and link these shifts to key drivers of forest biodiversity change: climate change, atmospheric deposition (nitrogen and sulfur), and forest canopy dynamics. Surprisingly, westward distribution shifts were 2.6 times more likely than northward ones. Not climate change, but nitrogen-mediated colonization events, possibly facilitated by the recovery from past acidifying deposition, best explain westward movements. Biodiversity redistribution patterns appear complex and are more likely driven by the interplay among several environmental changes than due to the exclusive effects of climate change alone.