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    Plant and vegetation functional responses to cumulative high nitrogen deposition in rear-edge heathlands
    Autor
    Taboada Palomares, ÁngelaAutoridad BuleriaORCID
    Calvo Fernández, Javier
    Marcos Porras, Elena MaríaAutoridad BuleriaORCID
    Calvo Galván, María LeonorAutoridad BuleriaORCID
    Facultad/Centro
    Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas y Ambientales
    Área de conocimiento
    Ecologia
    Datos de la obra
    Science of the total environment, 2018, vol. 637-638
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    Elsevier
    Fecha
    2018-10-01
    Abstract
    Elevated atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is a major driver of change, altering the structure/functioning of nutrient-poor Calluna vulgaris-heathlands over Europe. These effects amply proven for north-western/central heathlands may, however, vary across the ecosystem's distribution, especially at the range limits, as heathlands are highly vulnerable to land-use changes combined with present climate change. This is an often overlooked and greatly understudied aspect of the ecology of heathlands facing global change. We investigated the effects of five N-fertilisation treatments simulating a range of N deposition rates (0, 10, 20, and 50 kg N ha−1 yr−1 for 1 year; and 56 kg N ha−1 yr−1 for 9 years) on the Calluna-plants, the plant functional groups, species composition and richness of two life-cycle stages (building/young- and mature-phase) of Calluna-heathlands at their rear-edge limit. Our findings revealed a dose-related response of the shoot length and number of flowers of young and mature Calluna-plants to the addition of N, adhering to the findings from other heathland locations. However, cumulative high-N loading reduced the annual growth and flowering of young plants, showing early signs of N saturation. The different plant functional groups showed contrasting responses to the cumulative addition of N: annual/perennial forbs and annual graminoids increased with quite low values; perennial graminoids were rather abundant in young heathlands but only slightly augmented in mature ones; while bryophytes and lichens strongly declined at the two heathland life-cycle stages. Meanwhile there were no significant N-driven changes in plant species composition and richness. Our results demonstrated that Calluna-heathlands at their low-latitude distribution limit are moderately resistant to cumulative high-N loading. As north-western/central European heathlands under high-N inputs broadly experienced the loss of plant diversity and pronounced changes in plant species dominance, rear-edge locations may be of critical importance to unravel the mechanisms of heathland resilience to future global change.
    Materia
    Ecología. Medio ambiente
    Palabras clave
    Air pollution
    Calluna vulgaris heathlands
    Cumulative nitrogen effect
    Life cycle stage
    Nitrogen saturation
    Rear-edge populations
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10612/8950
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