Bryophytes from a study of primary producer traits across an altitudinal gradient in alpine Finse
Citation
Roos R E, van Zuijlen K, Asplund J, Steinert M (2019). Bryophytes from a study of primary producer traits across an altitudinal gradient in alpine Finse. Version 1.5. Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/g28uix accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
One of the major challenges for contemporary ecologists is to understand how ecological communities respond to environmental changes. Although classifying species to their taxonomy is useful, it has major limitations when it comes to answering ecological questions. A more functional approach, based on a species set of traits that define its performance within an ecosystem, provides much more insight. Many plant ecologists have now applied such trait-based approaches, but these studies are often limited to vascular plants and do not include other important primary producer groups such as lichens and bryophytes. However, there may be clear differences in what drives changes in community level traits across environmental gradients between producer groups in vascular plants changes in species community are often most important and intraspecific variation is often also significant, whereas recent studies suggest that in lichens intraspecific variation alone drives changes in community level traits. In this study, we will disentangle the relative importance of species turnover versus intraspecific variation as drivers of community-level traits in different primary producer groups simultaneously across the same elevational gradient in Finse, Southern Norway. The % cover was estimated visually in 50x50cm subplots with a wire frame marking out 10x10cm squares. In each of the five sites (elevations), there were five plots. The cover estimates presented in this dataset are on the plot level (averaged over the subplots).Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Finse
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Ruben Erik Roosoriginator
NMBU
Ås
NO
email: ruben.erik.roos@nmbu.no
homepage: http://www.nmbu.no
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-6424
Kristel van Zuijlen
originator
NMBU
Ås
Ås
NO
email: kristel.van.zuijlen@nmbu.no
homepage: http://www.nmbu.no
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6476-1982
Johan Asplund
originator
NMBU
Ås
Ås
NO
email: johanasplund@nmbu
homepage: http://www.nmbu.no
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5610-4480
Mari Steinert
metadata author
Norwegian University of Life sciences (NMBU)
Ås
NO
email: mari.steinert@nmbu.no
Kristel van Zuijlen
administrative point of contact
NMBU
Ås
Ås
NO
email: kristel.van.zuijlen@nmbu.no
homepage: http://www.nmbu.no