@article{8fb7de6909ef4d0897ff756088492787,
title = "Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition",
abstract = "The functional composition of plant communities is commonly thought to be determined by contemporary climate. However, if rates of climate-driven immigration and/or exclusion of species are slow, then contemporary functional composition may be explained by paleoclimate as well as by contemporary climate. We tested this idea by coupling contemporary maps of plant functional trait composition across North and South America to paleoclimate means and temporal variation in temperature and precipitation from the Last Interglacial (120 ka) to the present. Paleoclimate predictors strongly improved prediction of contemporary functional composition compared to contemporary climate predictors, with a stronger influence of temperature in North America (especially during periods of ice melting) and of precipitation in South America (across all times). Thus, climate from tens of thousands of years ago influences contemporary functional composition via slow assemblage dynamics.",
keywords = "Holocene, Pleistocene, climate change, disequilibrium, exclusion, functional diversity, functional trait, immigration, lag, legacy",
author = "Benjamin Blonder and Enquist, {Brian J.} and Graae, {Bente J.} and Jens Kattge and Maitner, {Brian S.} and Naia Morueta-Holme and Alejandro Ordonez and Irena {\v S}{\'i}mov{\'a} and Joy Singarayer and Svenning, {Jens Christian} and Valdes, {Paul J.} and Cyrille Violle",
note = "Funding Information: BB was supported by a UK Natural Environment Research Council independent research fellowship (NE/M019160/1) and the Norwegian Research Council (KLIMAFORSK 250233). JCS was supported by the European Research Council (ERC‐2012‐StG‐310886‐HIST-FUNC), and also considers this work a contribution to his VILLUM Investigator project (VILLUM Fonden grant 16549). NMH was supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and acknowledges the Danish National Research Foundation for support to the Center for Macroe-cology, Evolution and Climate. IS was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (16‐26369S). CV was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Project “Ecophysiological and biophysical constraints on domestication in crop plants” (Grant ERC‐StG‐2014‐639706‐CONSTRAINTS). The study was supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (https://www.try-db.org), which is hosted, developed, and maintained at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, and further supported by DIVERSITAS/ Future Earth and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig. This work was conducted as part of the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) Working Group (PIs BJE, R. Condit, RK Peet, B Boyle, S Dolins and BM Thiers) supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a center funded by the National Science Foundation (EF‐ 0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. The BIEN Working Group was also supported by the iPlant collaborative and the National Science Foundation (DBI‐ 0735191). We also thank all BIEN data contributors (see https://bie n.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/people/data-providers/ for a full list). Lotte Nymark Busch Jensen assisted with preparing Figure 1. Funding Information: BB was supported by a UK Natural Environment Research Council independent research fellowship (NE/M019160/1) and the Norwegian Research Council (KLIMAFORSK 250233). JCS was supported by the European Research Council (ERC-2012-StG-310886-HISTFUNC), and also considers this work a contribution to his VILLUM Investigator project (VILLUM Fonden grant 16549). NMH was supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and acknowledges the Danish National Research Foundation for support to the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate. IS was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (16-26369S). CV was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Project ?Ecophysiological and biophysical constraints on domestication in crop plants? (Grant ERC-StG-2014-639706-CONSTRAINTS). The study was supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (https://www.try-db.org), which is hosted, developed, and maintained at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, and further supported by DIVERSITAS/Future Earth and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. This work was conducted as part of the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) Working Group (PIs BJE, R. Condit, RK Peet, B Boyle, S Dolins and BM Thiers) supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a center funded by the National Science Foundation (EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. The BIEN Working Group was also supported by the iPlant collaborative and the National Science Foundation (DBI-0735191). We also thank all BIEN data contributors (see https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/people/data-providers/ for a full list). Lotte Nymark Busch Jensen assisted with preparing Figure. Funding Information: Norwegian Research Council; European Research Council; Natural Environment Research Council; National Science Foundation; Carlsbergfondet; Villum Fonden; Czech Science Foundation; Danmarks Grundforskningsfond; Danish National Research Foundation; University of California Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1111/gcb.14375",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "24",
pages = "4827--4840",
journal = "Global change biology",
issn = "1354-1013",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "10",
}