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

Abstract

Schall and Heinrichs question our interpretation that the climatic debt in understory plant communities is locally modulated by canopy buffering. However, our results clearly show that the discrepancy between microclimate warming rates and thermophilization rates is highest in forests where canopy cover was reduced, which suggests that the need for communities to respond to warming is highest in those forests.

Published in

Science
2020, volume: 370, number: 6522
Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE

SLU Authors

• Brunet, Jörg

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Climate Science
Forest Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf2939

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/113389