Kreyling J. Response of Vegetation to extreme weather events. - Leipzig: Helmholz centre for environmental research, 2008. - 182 p. - (Phd Dissertation; 2008-04) - ISSN 1860-0387  Место хранения:   030 | Центральный Сибирский ботанический сад СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Introduction .................................................... 1 On this thesis ............................................... 1 Climate Change ............................................... 1 Extreme events ............................................ 3 Vegetation response to climate change ........................ 5 Challenges and options for research on the ecological impacts of extreme weather events ........................... 10 Experiments - advantages and drawbacks ................... 12 Experiments on vegetation response to climate change ..... 13 Biodiversity experiments ................................. 15 The need to combine climate change experiments and diversity experiments .................................... 16 Summary of the following manuscripts ........................ 19 Summarizing conclusions and emerging research challenges .... 21 Extremity of weather events .............................. 21 Community composition .................................... 22 Freeze-thaw cycles ....................................... 23 List of Manuscripts and declaration of own contribution ..... 26 Acknowledgements ............................................ 30 References from introduction ................................ 33 Manuscript 1: A new generation of climate change experiments: events, not trends ............................... 41 Manuscript 2: Effects of extreme weather events on plant productivity and tissue die-back are modified by community composition ......................... 61 Manuscript 3: A single drought event of 100-year recurrence enhances subsequent carbon uptake and changes carbon allocation in experimental grassland communities ...................................... 81 Manuscript 4: Soil biotic processes remain surprisingly stable after 100-year extreme weather events in experimental grassland and heath .............. 99 Manuscript 5: Beyond gradual warming - extreme weather events alter flower phenology of European grassland and heath species ..................... 121 Manuscript 6: Invasibility of grassland and heath communities exposed to extreme weather events - additive effects of biotic resistance and fluctuating physical environment ..................................... 139 Manuscript 7: Recurrent soil freeze-thaw cycles enhance grassland productivity .......................... 161 Summary ....................................................... 177 Zusammenfassung ............................................... 179