TY - JOUR
T1 - Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming
AU - Shen, Pengju
AU - Wang, Xiaoyue
AU - Zohner, Constantin M.
AU - Peñuelas, Josep
AU - Zhou, Yuyu
AU - Tang, Zhiyao
AU - Xia, Jianyang
AU - Zheng, Hua
AU - Fu, Yongshuo
AU - Liang, Jingjing
AU - Sun, Weiwei
AU - Zhang, Yongguang
AU - Wu, Chaoyang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2024.
PY - 2024/8
Y1 - 2024/8
N2 - Understanding the sensitivity of spring leaf-out dates to temperature (ST) is integral to predicting phenological responses to climate warming and the consequences for global biogeochemical cycles. While variation in ST has been shown to be influenced by local climate adaptations, the impact of biodiversity remains unknown. Here we combine 393,139 forest inventory plots with satellite-derived ST across the northern hemisphere during 2001–2022 to show that biodiversity greatly affects spatial variation in ST and even surpasses the importance of climate variables. High tree diversity significantly weakened ST, possibly driven by changes in root depth and soil processes. We show that current Earth system models fail to reproduce the observed negative correlation between ST and biodiversity, with important implications for phenological responses under future pathways. Our results highlight the need to incorporate the buffering effects of biodiversity to better understand the impact of climate warming on spring leaf unfolding and carbon uptake.
AB - Understanding the sensitivity of spring leaf-out dates to temperature (ST) is integral to predicting phenological responses to climate warming and the consequences for global biogeochemical cycles. While variation in ST has been shown to be influenced by local climate adaptations, the impact of biodiversity remains unknown. Here we combine 393,139 forest inventory plots with satellite-derived ST across the northern hemisphere during 2001–2022 to show that biodiversity greatly affects spatial variation in ST and even surpasses the importance of climate variables. High tree diversity significantly weakened ST, possibly driven by changes in root depth and soil processes. We show that current Earth system models fail to reproduce the observed negative correlation between ST and biodiversity, with important implications for phenological responses under future pathways. Our results highlight the need to incorporate the buffering effects of biodiversity to better understand the impact of climate warming on spring leaf unfolding and carbon uptake.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85196519486
U2 - 10.1038/s41558-024-02035-w
DO - 10.1038/s41558-024-02035-w
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85196519486
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 14
SP - 863
EP - 868
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 8
ER -
