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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2075-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2075-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Subalpine grassland productivity increased with warmer and drier conditions, but not with higher N deposition, in an altitudinal transplantation experiment
Matthias Volk
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Climate and Agriculture, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046
Zurich, Switzerland
Matthias Suter
Forage Production and Grassland Systems, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse
191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
Anne-Lena Wahl
Climate and Agriculture, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046
Zurich, Switzerland
Seraina Bassin
Climate and Agriculture, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046
Zurich, Switzerland
Pädagogische Hochschule Schaffhausen, Ebnatstrasse 80, 8200
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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- Increases in functional diversity of mountain plant communities is mainly driven by species turnover under climate change M. Schuchardt et al. 10.1111/oik.09922
- Medium management intensity supports largest topsoil organic carbon stocks in mountain grassland M. Volk et al. 10.1080/03650340.2025.2490082
- Intense touristic activities exceed climate change to shape aquatic communities in a mountain lake V. Frossard et al. 10.1007/s00027-023-00968-6
- Land-use/land-cover change and its impact on ecosystem carbon storage in Binhai New Area, Tianjin, China from 1985 to 2060 M. Song et al. 10.1007/s12665-025-12498-5
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Short summary
Grassland ecosystem services like forage production and greenhouse gas storage in the soil depend on plant growth.
In an experiment in the mountains with warming treatments, we found that despite dwindling soil water content, the grassland growth increased with up to +1.3 °C warming (annual mean) compared to present temperatures. Even at +2.4 °C the growth was still larger than at the reference site.
This suggests that plant growth will increase due to global warming in the near future.
Grassland ecosystem services like forage production and greenhouse gas storage in the soil...
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