Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

Benjamin Blonder; David Nogués-Bravo; Michael K. Borregaard; John C. Donoghue; Peter M. Jørgensen; Nathan J.B. Kraft; Jean Philippe Lessard; Naia Morueta-Holme; Brody Sandel; Jens Christian Svenning; Cyrille Violle; Carsten Rahbek; Brian J. Enquist

doi:10.1890/14-0589.1

Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

Benjamin Blonder, David Nogués-Bravo, Michael K. Borregaard, John C. Donoghue, Peter M. Jørgensen, Nathan J.B. Kraft, Jean Philippe Lessard, Naia Morueta-Holme, Brody Sandel, Jens Christian Svenning, Cyrille Violle, Carsten Rahbek, Brian J. Enquist

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

64 Scopus citations

Abstract

We present a framework to measure the strength of environmental filtering and disequilibrium of the species composition of a local community across time, relative to past, current, and future climates. We demonstrate the framework by measuring the impact of climate change on New World forests, integrating data for climate niches of more than 14 000 species, community composition of 471 New World forest plots, and observed climate across the most recent glacial-interglacial interval. We show that a majority of communities have species compositions that are strongly filtered and are more in equilibrium with current climate than random samples from the regional pool. Variation in the level of current community disequilibrium can be predicted from Last Glacial Maximum climate and will increase with near-future climate change.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	972-985
Number of pages	14
Journal	Ecology
Volume	96
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0589.1
State	Published - Apr 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Climate change
Climate mismatch
Community assembly
Community structure
Disequilibrium
Environmental filtering
Fundamental niche
Lag
New World forests
Regional species pool

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Access to Document

10.1890/14-0589.1

Cite this

Blonder, B., Nogués-Bravo, D., Borregaard, M. K., Donoghue, J. C., Jørgensen, P. M., Kraft, N. J. B., Lessard, J. P., Morueta-Holme, N., Sandel, B., Svenning, J. C., Violle, C., Rahbek, C., & Enquist, B. J. (2015). Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework. Ecology, 96(4), 972-985. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0589.1

@article{c329030fa2e74c13a1d74059a36910dd,

title = "Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework",

abstract = "We present a framework to measure the strength of environmental filtering and disequilibrium of the species composition of a local community across time, relative to past, current, and future climates. We demonstrate the framework by measuring the impact of climate change on New World forests, integrating data for climate niches of more than 14 000 species, community composition of 471 New World forest plots, and observed climate across the most recent glacial-interglacial interval. We show that a majority of communities have species compositions that are strongly filtered and are more in equilibrium with current climate than random samples from the regional pool. Variation in the level of current community disequilibrium can be predicted from Last Glacial Maximum climate and will increase with near-future climate change.",

keywords = "Climate change, Climate mismatch, Community assembly, Community structure, Disequilibrium, Environmental filtering, Fundamental niche, Lag, New World forests, Regional species pool",

author = "Benjamin Blonder and David Nogu{\'e}s-Bravo and Borregaard, {Michael K.} and Donoghue, {John C.} and J{\o}rgensen, {Peter M.} and Kraft, {Nathan J.B.} and Lessard, {Jean Philippe} and Naia Morueta-Holme and Brody Sandel and Svenning, {Jens Christian} and Cyrille Violle and Carsten Rahbek and Enquist, {Brian J.}",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 by the Ecological Society of America.",

year = "2015",

month = apr,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1890/14-0589.1",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "96",

pages = "972--985",

journal = "Ecology",

issn = "0012-9658",

publisher = "Ecological Society of America",

number = "4",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

AU - Blonder, Benjamin

AU - Nogués-Bravo, David

AU - Borregaard, Michael K.

AU - Donoghue, John C.

AU - Jørgensen, Peter M.

AU - Kraft, Nathan J.B.

AU - Lessard, Jean Philippe

AU - Morueta-Holme, Naia

AU - Sandel, Brody

AU - Svenning, Jens Christian

AU - Violle, Cyrille

AU - Rahbek, Carsten

AU - Enquist, Brian J.

PY - 2015/4/1

Y1 - 2015/4/1

N2 - We present a framework to measure the strength of environmental filtering and disequilibrium of the species composition of a local community across time, relative to past, current, and future climates. We demonstrate the framework by measuring the impact of climate change on New World forests, integrating data for climate niches of more than 14 000 species, community composition of 471 New World forest plots, and observed climate across the most recent glacial-interglacial interval. We show that a majority of communities have species compositions that are strongly filtered and are more in equilibrium with current climate than random samples from the regional pool. Variation in the level of current community disequilibrium can be predicted from Last Glacial Maximum climate and will increase with near-future climate change.

AB - We present a framework to measure the strength of environmental filtering and disequilibrium of the species composition of a local community across time, relative to past, current, and future climates. We demonstrate the framework by measuring the impact of climate change on New World forests, integrating data for climate niches of more than 14 000 species, community composition of 471 New World forest plots, and observed climate across the most recent glacial-interglacial interval. We show that a majority of communities have species compositions that are strongly filtered and are more in equilibrium with current climate than random samples from the regional pool. Variation in the level of current community disequilibrium can be predicted from Last Glacial Maximum climate and will increase with near-future climate change.

KW - Climate change

KW - Climate mismatch

KW - Community assembly

KW - Community structure

KW - Disequilibrium

KW - Environmental filtering

KW - Fundamental niche

KW - Lag

KW - New World forests

KW - Regional species pool

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929192549&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84929192549&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1890/14-0589.1

DO - 10.1890/14-0589.1

M3 - Article

C2 - 26230018

AN - SCOPUS:84929192549

SN - 0012-9658

VL - 96

SP - 972

EP - 985

JO - Ecology

JF - Ecology

IS - 4

ER -

Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework

Abstract

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this