Reindeer grazing reduces climate-driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra

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Reindeer grazing reduces climate-driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra

Ramirez, Juan Ignacio (författare): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

Sundqvist, Maja (författare): Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lindén, Elin (författare): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

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Björk, Robert G., 1974 (författare): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för geovetenskaper,Department of Earth Sciences

Forbes, Bruce C. (författare): Kevo Subarctic Research Institute, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Suominen, Otso (författare): The Biological Museum, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Tyler, Torbjörn (författare): Ecology & Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Virtanen, Risto (författare): Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Olofsson, Johan (författare): Umeå universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

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2024
2024
Engelska.
Ingår i: Oikos. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0030-1299 .- 1600-0706.

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Herbivores drive shifts in plant species composition by interacting with vegetation through defoliation, trampling and nutrient addition: urine and faeces. As herbivore effects on vegetation accumulate over time, they might spillover to other trophic levels, but how and when this happens is poorly understood. Since it is methodologically demanding to measure biodiversity across spatial gradients, an alternative approach is to assess it through biodiversity indices of vascular plants. We employed the Index of biodiversity relevance developed for Swedish flora which provides an estimated number of organisms associated with a plant species, allowing the quantification of trophic community size. Values from this index were coupled with vegetation data from a network of 96 fenced and paired grazed plots across Fennoscandia. We analysed the role herbivory has on plant richness and diversity, and on the number of organisms that interact with the vegetation according to the index values. We also explored how herbivores influence the competitive effects of tall shrubs on other plants since the dominance of a vegetation type links directly to biodiversity. Plant diversity had no clear response to grazing. Overall vegetation and the vegetation subgroups herbs and non-fruit shrubs had higher biodiversity index values in fenced plots, indicating a higher number of plant–host interactions. Herb cover was negatively related to shrubs in both treatments but with a faster decline in the absence of herbivores. This study highlights the importance of maintaining herbivore populations in the Arctic to conserve the vegetation structure and biodiversity of the tundra. This method of coupling biodiversity indexes with vegetation data provides complementary information to the plant diversity, especially when methodological or time constraints prevent complete field inventories.

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NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Klimatforskning (hsv//swe)
NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Climate Research (hsv//eng)

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Arctic
global change ecology
grazing
herbivory
index of biodiversity relevance
moose
reindeer
shrub
species coexistence
Arctic
global change ecology
grazing
herbivory
index of biodiversity relevance
moose
reindeer
shrub
species coexistence

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