Unexpected westward range shifts in European forest plants link to nitrogen deposition - Université de Picardie Jules Verne
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Unexpected westward range shifts in European forest plants link to nitrogen deposition

Pieter Sanczuk
Michael Perring
Jörg Brunet
Tomasz Durak
Radim Hédl
Thilo Heinken
Ute Jandt
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Martin Kopecký
Dries Landuyt
Martin Macek
František Máliš
Tobias Naaf
Thomas Nagel
Petr Petřík
Kamila Reczyńska
Wolfgang Schmidt
Tibor Standovár
Ingmar Staude
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Krzysztof Świerkosz
Balázs Teleki
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Thomas Vanneste
Ondrej Vild
Donald Waller
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Pieter de Frenne

Résumé

Climate change is commonly assumed to induce species’ range shifts toward the poles. Yet, other environmental changes may affect the geographical distribution of species in unexpected ways. Here, we quantify multidecadal shifts in the distribution of European forest plants and link these shifts to key drivers of forest biodiversity change: climate change, atmospheric deposition (nitrogen and sulfur), and forest canopy dynamics. Surprisingly, westward distribution shifts were 2.6 times more likely than northward ones. Not climate change, but nitrogen-mediated colonization events, possibly facilitated by the recovery from past acidifying deposition, best explain westward movements. Biodiversity redistribution patterns appear complex and are more likely driven by the interplay among several environmental changes than due to the exclusive effects of climate change alone.
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hal-04734750 , version 1 (14-10-2024)

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Pieter Sanczuk, Kris Verheyen, Jonathan Lenoir, Florian Zellweger, Jonas Lembrechts, et al.. Unexpected westward range shifts in European forest plants link to nitrogen deposition. Science, 2024, 386 (6718), pp.193-198. ⟨10.1126/science.ado0878⟩. ⟨hal-04734750⟩
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