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SUBMITTER: Tielborger K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4205856 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tielbörger Katja K Bilton Mark C MC Metz Johannes J Kigel Jaime J Holzapfel Claus C Lebrija-Trejos Edwin E Konsens Irit I Parag Hadas A HA Sternberg Marcelo M
Nature communications 20141006
For evaluating climate change impacts on biodiversity, extensive experiments are urgently needed to complement popular non-mechanistic models which map future ecosystem properties onto their current climatic niche. Here, we experimentally test the main prediction of these models by means of a novel multi-site approach. We implement rainfall manipulations--irrigation and drought--to dryland plant communities situated along a steep climatic gradient in a global biodiversity hotspot containing many ...[more]