Transplantation of subalpine wood-pasture turfs along a natural climatic gradient reveals lower resistance of unwooded pastures to climate change compared to wooded ones
Transplantation de mottes de terre d'une prairie subalpine le long d'un gradient climatique naturel montre une moindre résistance des pâturages non-boisés contre le changement climatique comparé aux pâturages boisés
Résumé
Climate change could impact strongly on cold-adapted mountain ecosystems, but little is known about its interaction with traditional land-use practices. We used an altitudinal gradient to simulate a year-round warmer and drier climate for semi-natural subalpine grasslands across a landscape of contrasting land-use management. Turf mesocosms from three pasture-woodland land-use types