Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients

Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to va...

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Autores principales: Haider, Sylvia, Lembrechts, Jonas J., McDougall, Keith, Pauchard, Aníbal, Alexander, Jake M., Barros, Agustina, Cavieres, Lohengrin A., Rashid, Irfan, Rew, Lisa J., Aleksanyan, Alla, Dimarco, Romina Daniela, Seipel, Tim
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.8590
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8590
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author Haider, Sylvia
Lembrechts, Jonas J.
McDougall, Keith
Pauchard, Aníbal
Alexander, Jake M.
Barros, Agustina
Cavieres, Lohengrin A.
Rashid, Irfan
Rew, Lisa J.
Aleksanyan, Alla
Dimarco, Romina Daniela
Seipel, Tim
author_browse Aleksanyan, Alla
Alexander, Jake M.
Barros, Agustina
Cavieres, Lohengrin A.
Dimarco, Romina Daniela
Haider, Sylvia
Lembrechts, Jonas J.
McDougall, Keith
Pauchard, Aníbal
Rashid, Irfan
Rew, Lisa J.
Seipel, Tim
author_facet Haider, Sylvia
Lembrechts, Jonas J.
McDougall, Keith
Pauchard, Aníbal
Alexander, Jake M.
Barros, Agustina
Cavieres, Lohengrin A.
Rashid, Irfan
Rew, Lisa J.
Aleksanyan, Alla
Dimarco, Romina Daniela
Seipel, Tim
author_sort Haider, Sylvia
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description Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to variation in sampling methods. There is thus a need for a standardized monitoring strategy that can be applied across mountain regions to assess distribution changes and community turnover of native and non-native plant species over space and time. Here, we present a conceptually intuitive and standardized protocol developed by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) to systematically quantify global patterns of native and non-native species distributions along elevation gradients and shifts arising from interactive effects of climate change and human disturbance. Usually repeated every five years, surveys consist of 20 sample sites located at equal elevation increments along three replicate roads per sampling region. At each site, three plots extend from the side of a mountain road into surrounding natural vegetation. The protocol has been successfully used in 18 regions worldwide from 2007 to present. Analyses of one point in time already generated some salient results, and revealed region-specific elevational patterns of native plant species richness, but a globally consistent elevational decline in non-native species richness. Non-native plants were also more abundant directly adjacent to road edges, suggesting that disturbed roadsides serve as a vector for invasions into mountains. From the upcoming analyses of time series, even more exciting results can be expected, especially about range shifts. Implementing the protocol in more mountain regions globally would help to generate a more complete picture of how global change alters species distributions. This would inform conservation policy in mountain ecosystems, where some conservation policies remain poorly implemented.
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spelling INTA148952023-08-10T15:03:28Z Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients Haider, Sylvia Lembrechts, Jonas J. McDougall, Keith Pauchard, Aníbal Alexander, Jake M. Barros, Agustina Cavieres, Lohengrin A. Rashid, Irfan Rew, Lisa J. Aleksanyan, Alla Dimarco, Romina Daniela Seipel, Tim Cambio Climático Especie Invasiva Biodiversidad Montañas Climate Change Invasive Species Biodiversity Mountains MIREN Mountain Invasion Research Network Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to variation in sampling methods. There is thus a need for a standardized monitoring strategy that can be applied across mountain regions to assess distribution changes and community turnover of native and non-native plant species over space and time. Here, we present a conceptually intuitive and standardized protocol developed by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) to systematically quantify global patterns of native and non-native species distributions along elevation gradients and shifts arising from interactive effects of climate change and human disturbance. Usually repeated every five years, surveys consist of 20 sample sites located at equal elevation increments along three replicate roads per sampling region. At each site, three plots extend from the side of a mountain road into surrounding natural vegetation. The protocol has been successfully used in 18 regions worldwide from 2007 to present. Analyses of one point in time already generated some salient results, and revealed region-specific elevational patterns of native plant species richness, but a globally consistent elevational decline in non-native species richness. Non-native plants were also more abundant directly adjacent to road edges, suggesting that disturbed roadsides serve as a vector for invasions into mountains. From the upcoming analyses of time series, even more exciting results can be expected, especially about range shifts. Implementing the protocol in more mountain regions globally would help to generate a more complete picture of how global change alters species distributions. This would inform conservation policy in mountain ecosystems, where some conservation policies remain poorly implemented. EEA Bariloche Fil: Haider, Sylvia. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Alemania Fil: Haider, Sylvia. Martin Luther University. Institute of Biology. Geobotany and Botanical Garden; Alemania Fil: Lembrechts, Jonas Johan. University of Antwerp. Centre of Excellence Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO); Bélgica Fil: McDougall, Keith. Department of Planning, Industry and Environment; Australia Fil: Pauchard, Aníbal. Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales. Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas; Chile Fil: Pauchard, Aníbal. Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB); Chile Fil: Alexander, Jake M. Institute of Integrative Biology; Suiza Fil: Barros, Agustina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico. Instituto Argentino de Nivología y Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA); Argentina Fil: Cavieres, Lohengrin A. Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas. Departamento de Botánica; Chile Fil: Cavieres, Lohengrin A. Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB); Chile Fil: Rashid, Irfan. University of Kashmir. Department of Botany; India Fil: Rew, Lisa J. Montana State University. Department of Land Resource and Environmental Sciences; Estados Unidos Fil: Aleksanyan, Alla. Institute of Botany aft. A.L. Takhtajyan NAS RA. Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecophysiology; Armenia Fil: Aleksanyan, Alla. Armenian National Agrarian University. Chair of Biology and Biotechnologies; Armenia Fil: Dimarco, Romina Daniela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche. Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Dimarco, Romina Daniela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche. Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Dimarco, Romina Daniela. University of Houston. Department of Biology and Biochemistry; Estados Unidos Fil: Seipel, Tim. Montana State University. Department of Land Resource and Environmental Sciences; Estados Unidos 2023-08-10T14:56:21Z 2023-08-10T14:56:21Z 2022-02 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14895 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.8590 2045-7758 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8590 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Wiley Ecology and Evolution 12 (2) : e8590. (February 2022)
spellingShingle Cambio Climático
Especie Invasiva
Biodiversidad
Montañas
Climate Change
Invasive Species
Biodiversity
Mountains
MIREN
Mountain Invasion Research Network
Haider, Sylvia
Lembrechts, Jonas J.
McDougall, Keith
Pauchard, Aníbal
Alexander, Jake M.
Barros, Agustina
Cavieres, Lohengrin A.
Rashid, Irfan
Rew, Lisa J.
Aleksanyan, Alla
Dimarco, Romina Daniela
Seipel, Tim
Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
title Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
title_full Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
title_fullStr Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
title_full_unstemmed Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
title_short Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
title_sort think globally measure locally the miren standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients
topic Cambio Climático
Especie Invasiva
Biodiversidad
Montañas
Climate Change
Invasive Species
Biodiversity
Mountains
MIREN
Mountain Invasion Research Network
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8590
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