Plant response to climate change varies with topography, interactions with neighbors, and ecotype

P Liancourt, LA Spence, DS Song, A Lkhagva… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the future of any given species represents an unprecedented challenge in light of
the many environmental and biological factors that affect organismal performance and that …

Soil and ecosystem respiration responses to grazing, watering and experimental warming chamber treatments across topographical gradients in northern Mongolia

A Sharkhuu, AF Plante, O Enkhmandal, C Gonneau… - Geoderma, 2016 - Elsevier
Globally, soil respiration is one of the largest fluxes of carbon to the atmosphere and is
known to be sensitive to climate change, representing a potential positive feedback. We …

Biotic and abiotic predictors of fungal colonization in grasses of the Colorado Rockies

LB Ranelli, WQ Hendricks, JS Lynn… - Diversity and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Fungal symbionts are ubiquitous in plants and can mitigate abiotic stressors associated
with climate change. Predicting fungal symbiont distributions under future climates first …

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signals for an entire alpine flora, based on herbarium samples

C Körner, S Leuzinger, S Riedl, RT Siegwolf, L Streule - Alpine Botany, 2016 - Springer
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes provide time-integrated signals of plant carbon and
nitrogen relations. We assessed an entire alpine flora in the Swiss Alps at ca. 2400 m …

Species specific and environment induced variation of δ13C and δ15N in alpine plants

Y Yang, RTW Siegwolf, C Körner - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope signals in plant tissues integrate plant-environment
interactions over long periods. In this study, we hypothesized that humid alpine life …

Vulnerability of the northern Mongolian steppe to climate change: insights from flower production and phenology

P Liancourt, LA Spence, B Boldgiv, A Lkhagva… - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The semiarid, northern Mongolian steppe, which still supports pastoral nomads who have
used the steppe for millennia, has experienced an average 1.7° C temperature rise over the …

Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities of Quercus liaotungensis along local slopes in the temperate oak forests on the Loess Plateau, China

J Zhang, T Taniguchi, R Tateno, M Xu, S Du, GB Liu… - Ecological …, 2013 - Springer
Topographic factors strongly affect the diversity of plants and local environmental conditions,
yet little is known about their effects on the distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF). By …

Effects of grazing on plant community structure and aboveground net primary production of semiarid boreal steppe of northern M ongolia

A Lkhagva, B Boldgiv, CE Goulden… - Grassland …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the effects of grazing on plant community structure and total plant biomass
across the landscape while taking account of nutrient gradient, from wet and nutrient‐rich …

Short‐term manipulation of precipitation in Mongolian steppe shows vegetation influenced more by timing than amount of rainfall

LA Spence, P Liancourt, B Boldgiv… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Questions How does plant productivity and community composition in the mountain steppe
of northern Mongolia respond to increased precipitation? Do these changes differ with the …

Metagenetics of fairy rings reveals complex and variable soil fungal communities

XU Siyu, D Ke, LEE Sangseob, MC Ogwu… - Pedosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Although fairy rings are widely observed, little is known about the community processes
associated with them. Here, we studied fairy rings in a natural grassland in northern …