Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production
Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production
Huiying Liu,Zhaorong Mi,12 Authors,Jinsheng He
2018 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1700299114
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 594 Citations
TLDR
Overall, this study demonstrates that shifting plant species composition in response to climate change may have stabilized primary production in this high-elevation ecosystem, but it also caused a shift from aboveground to belowground productivity.