The role of bryophytes for tree seedling responses to winter climate change : implications for the stress gradient hypothesis

• Main Authors: Lett, Signe, Wardle, David A., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Teuber, Laurenz M., Dorrepaal, Ellen
• Other Authors: Chen, Han
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Science::Geology; B. pubescens; Alpine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107519; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50309
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

1. When tree seedlings establish beyond the current tree line due to climate warming, they encounter existing vegetation, such as bryophytes that often dominate in arctic and alpine tundra. The stress gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts that plant interactions in tundra become increasingly negative a...