Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming"

Florian Zellweger; Pieter De Frenne; Jonathan Lenoir; Pieter Vangansbeke; Kris Verheyen; Markus Bernhardt-Römermann; Lander Baeten; Radim Hédl; Imre Berki; Jörg Brunet; Hans Van Calster; Markéta Chudomelová; Guillaume Decocq; Thomas Dirnböck; Tomasz Durak; Thilo Heinken; Bogdan Jaroszewicz; Martin Kopecký; František Máliš; Martin Macek; Marek Malicki; Tobias Naaf; Thomas A Nagel; Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai; Petr Petřík; Remigiusz Pielech; Kamila Reczyńska; Wolfgang Schmidt; Tibor Standovár; Krzysztof Świerkosz; Balázs Teleki; Ondřej Vild; Monika Wulf; David Coomes

doi:10.1126/science.abd6193

Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming"

Science. 2020 Nov 27;370(6520):eabd6193. doi: 10.1126/science.abd6193.

Authors

Florian Zellweger^{1

2}, Pieter De Frenne³, Jonathan Lenoir⁴, Pieter Vangansbeke³, Kris Verheyen³, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann⁵, Lander Baeten³, Radim Hédl^{6

7}, Imre Berki⁸, Jörg Brunet⁹, Hans Van Calster¹⁰, Markéta Chudomelová⁶, Guillaume Decocq⁴, Thomas Dirnböck¹¹, Tomasz Durak¹², Thilo Heinken¹³, Bogdan Jaroszewicz¹⁴, Martin Kopecký^{15

16}, František Máliš^{17

18}, Martin Macek¹⁵, Marek Malicki¹⁹, Tobias Naaf²⁰, Thomas A Nagel²¹, Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai²², Petr Petřík¹⁵, Remigiusz Pielech²³, Kamila Reczyńska²⁴, Wolfgang Schmidt²⁵, Tibor Standovár²⁶, Krzysztof Świerkosz²⁷, Balázs Teleki^{28

29}, Ondřej Vild⁶, Monika Wulf²⁰, David Coomes³⁰

Affiliations

¹ Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK. florian.zellweger@wsl.ch.
² Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
³ Forest and Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
⁴ UR "Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés" (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80037 Amiens Cedex 1, France.
⁵ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
⁶ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
⁷ Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, CZ-78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
⁸ Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary.
⁹ Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Box 49, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
¹⁰ Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹ Environment Agency Austria, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
¹² Department of Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of Rzeszów, PL-35-959 Rzeszów, Poland.
¹³ General Botany, Insitute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, 14469 Potsdam, Germany.
¹⁴ Białowieża Geobotanical Station, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, 17-230 Białowieża, Poland.
¹⁵ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic.
¹⁶ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, CZ-165 21 Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic.
¹⁷ Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia.
¹⁸ National Forest Centre, SK-960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia.
¹⁹ Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
²⁰ Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), D-15374 Muencheberg, Germany.
²¹ Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
²² Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
²³ Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Kraków, Poland.
²⁴ Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Biology, University of Wrocław, PL-50-328 Wrocław, Poland.
²⁵ Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
²⁶ Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology, L. Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.
²⁷ Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, PL-50-335 Wroclaw, Poland.
²⁸ Institute for Regional Development, University of Pécs, H-7100 Szekszárd, Hungary.
²⁹ Department of Ecology, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
³⁰ Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK.

PMID: 33243862
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6193

Abstract

Bertrand et al question our interpretation about warming effects on the thermophilization in forest plant communities and propose an alternative way to analyze climatic debt. We show that microclimate warming is a better predictor than macroclimate warming for studying forest plant community responses to warming. Their additional analyses do not affect or change our interpretations and conclusions.

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MeSH terms

Forests*
Microclimate*
Plants