Using leaf carbon isotope values to evaluate plant response to high latitude climate change
dc.contributor.author | Shadix, Melanie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-29T19:07:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-29T19:07:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/171488 | en |
dc.description | Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geology or Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | As climate continues to change, more research is needed to understand how individual plant species will respond. This study uses leaf carbon isotope values as a lens to examine how high-latitude plant species in Alaska, Canada, and the northern United States are impacted by changes in water availability and increased temperature due to anthropogenic climate change. I found that Δleaf values of three individual species, Juniperus communis, Betula glandulosa, and Eriophorum angustifolium are not responding uniformly to climate. While none of the species has responded to increase [CO2] over the period of 1923–2015, each species responded to multiple other climatic variables, specifically temperature and water availability, in ways not previously noted in studies of temperate and tropical systems. In particular, while meta-analytical studies of temperate and tropical indicated that Δleaf was lower at low precipitation, I found that the opposite was true for the high-latitude species. Meta-analytical studies also have found little or no change in Δleaf due to temperature, which is validated for sites where the mean annual temperature is >0 C. However, at colder sites Δleaf is negative correlated with temperature. This implies that studying leaf carbon isotope values of species on the edge of their growth range, under climatic extremes, may provide an opportunity to identify the climatic drivers that most affect a species under future climate change. This study suggests that some individual species growing at high latitudes may have a physiological advantage when faced with climate change, potentially broadening their growth range poleward, while other species may face a physiological disadvantage with a decreased chance of survival. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.title | Using leaf carbon isotope values to evaluate plant response to high latitude climate change | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geological Sciences | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/171488/1/Shadix_Melanie_MS_Thesis_2020.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/4000 | |
dc.description.mapping | c5a42028-499d-4e85-9fdc-dc71e2baca26 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Shadix_Melanie_MS_Thesis_2020.pdf : MS Thesis | |
dc.description.depositor | SELF | en_US |
dc.working.doi | 10.7302/4000 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of |
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