Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

• Main Authors: Prager, Case M., Classen, Aimee T., Sundqvist, Maja K., Barrios-Garcia, Maria Noelia, Cameron, Erin K., Chen, Litong, Chisholm, Chelsea, Crowther, Thomas W., Deslippe, Julie R., Grigulis, Karl, He, Jin-Sheng, Henning, Jeremiah A., Hovenden, Mark, Høye, Toke T. Thomas, Jing, Xin, Lavorel, Sandra, McLaren, Jennie R., Metcalfe, Daniel B., Newman, Gregory S., Nielsen, Marie Louise, Rixen, Christian, Read, Quentin D., Rewcastle, Kenna E., Rodriguez-Cabal, Mariano, Wardle, David A., Wipf, Sonja, Sanders, Nathan J.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Alpine Plant Communities; Elevational Gradients
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171042
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A growing body of work examines the direct and indirect effects of climate change on ecosystems, typically by using manipulative experiments at a single site or performing meta-analyses across many independent experiments. However, results from single-site studies tend to have limited generality. Al...