Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert

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Main Authors: Sotomayor Melo, Diego Alejandro, Drezner, Taly Dawn
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Language:Inglés
Published: Springer Nature 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12955/2006
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00924-1
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spelling INIA20062022-11-30T17:01:30Z Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert Sotomayor Melo, Diego Alejandro Drezner, Taly Dawn Atacama Desert Facilitation Fog deserts Microclimate Plant–fog interactions https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.01 16 páginas We assessed the impact of fog on microclimate in a poorly understood fog desert under two common nurse plant species, at three sites: (1) foggy coast, (2) intermediate, and (3) above the main fog belt in the Atacama Desert (Peru). We quantify nurse plant modification of their understory that creates favorable microsites for other species. Dataloggers collected temperature, relative humidity (RH) and dew point temperature under Randia armata, Caesalpinia spinosa and in the open at the three sites. The Relative Interaction Index (RII), Friedman’s two-way ANOVA, and correlation were used to compare conditions across microsites and field sites. At noon, the understory was cooler and RH was higher than in the open, consistent with non-fog deserts. Early morning temperatures were warmer in the open at the more fog-influenced sites, unlike non-fog deserts. The temperature gap (cooler in the understory) is smallest at the coast and largest in the interior. Temperature and moisture generally fluctuate less at the most fog-influenced sites, while understory conditions at the interior (least-fog influenced) site was most similar to those found in non-fog deserts. Because fog reduces weather extremes, amelioration by vegetation becomes less on foggy days as extremes are already dampened by the fog, and facilitation by nurse plants is greatest when conditions are most like traditional deserts (e.g., clear skies, hot). These results provide mechanistic support for the effects of nurse plants through stress amelioration in fog deserts. 2022-11-30T17:01:29Z 2022-11-30T17:01:29Z 2019-05-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Sotomayor, D. & Drezner, T. (2019). Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert. Plant Ecology, 220(4-5), 417–432. doi: 10.1007/s11258-019-00924-1 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12955/2006 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00924-1 eng Plant Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00924-1 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf Perú Springer Nature CH Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria Repositorio Institucional - INIA
spellingShingle Atacama Desert
Facilitation
Fog deserts
Microclimate
Plant–fog interactions
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.01
Sotomayor Melo, Diego Alejandro
Drezner, Taly Dawn
Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert
title Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert
title_full Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert
title_fullStr Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert
title_full_unstemmed Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert
title_short Dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the Atacama Desert
title_sort dominant plants alter the microclimate along a fog gradient in the atacama desert
topic Atacama Desert
Facilitation
Fog deserts
Microclimate
Plant–fog interactions
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#4.01.01
url https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12955/2006
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00924-1
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