Author(s) :
Cook-Patton, S. C.
;
Lehmann, M.
;
Parker, J. D.
Author Affiliation :
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA.
Author Email :
cookpatton@gmail.com
Journal article
:
Functional Ecology
2015
Vol.29
No.10
pp.1332-1340
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Abstract :
Climate changeclimate changeSubject Category: Climate Related
see more details is dramatically altering the distribution and abundance of many species. An examination of traits may elucidate why some species respond more strongly to climate change than others, particularly when ecophysiological thresholds set range limits.
Mangrove forestsmangrove forestsSubject Category: Vegetation Types
see more details are expanding polewards. Although multiple
environmental factorsenvironmental factorsSubject Category: Properties
see more details influence mangrove distributions, freeze
tolerancetoleranceSubject Category: Properties
see more details is hypothesized to determine their poleward extent. To investigate how trait variation influences
mangrovesmangrovesSubject Category: Organism Groups
see more details' responses to a warming climate, we examined how freeze tolerance and associated traits varied along a latitudinal cline for three co-occurring mangrove species. We sampled individuals along >200 km of
FloridafloridaSubject Category: Geographic Entities
see more details, USA's eastern coast, from the mangroves' most northern populations, where freeze events were historically common, to southern populations where freeze events continue to be rare. We measured a suite of traits in field-collected adults and their garden-reared offspring, and assessed their responses to an experimentally imposed freeze event. We asked whether freeze tolerance and other traits varied predictably among species, with
latitudelatitudeSubject Category: Miscellaneous
see more details, and between life stages. Species and populations varied dramatically in freeze tolerance, with the highest freeze tolerance in the northernmost species and populations, and the lowest freeze tolerance in the southernmost species and populations. Additionally,
leavesleavesSubject Category: Anatomical and Morphological Structures
see more details of all three species were drier, tougher, thicker and more freeze-tolerant at the range edge. Tolerance to
freezingfreezingSubject Category: Techniques, Methodologies and Equipment
see more details appears to set the range limits for these mangrove species. All three species converged on a similar phenotype at the range edge, but species-level variation in freezing resistance was conserved. Thus, these species are likely to continue migrating at different rates in response to climate warming, potentially leading to the dissolution of typically co-occurring species and creating 'no analogue' coastal mangrove-marsh
communitiescommunitiesSubject Category: Miscellaneous
see more details.
ISSN :
0269-8463
DOI :
10.1111/1365-2435.12443
Record Number :
20153350390
Publisher :
Wiley-Blackwell
Location of publication :
Oxford
Country of publication :
UK
Language of text :
English
Indexing terms for this abstract:
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Identifier(s) :
climatic change, cold hardiness, United States of America
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