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CaraDonna, Paul J.

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Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change./
Author:	CaraDonna, Paul J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	133 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-01B(E).
Subject:	Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10142131
ISBN:	9781339974453

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.
CaraDonna, Paul J.

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 133 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-01(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2016.

Ecological systems are inherently dynamic, and a primary way in which they are dynamic is through time. Individual organisms, populations, communities, species interactions, and ecosystem functions all follow a temporal progression from the past, to the present, and into the future. This temporal progression can occur over the course of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, or various other timescales. In this sense, temporal dynamics are an intrinsic property of all biological systems. In fact, one of the most prominent signals of recent global climate change is the significant change in the timing of biological events for a diversity of organisms. In light of this widespread pattern, there is a renewed interest in understanding the multifaceted importance of time in ecology. In this dissertation, I investigate the temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem, specifically focusing on flowering plant communities and plant-pollinator interactions. I examine the temporal dynamics of this system over multiple decades in response to ongoing climate change as well as over shorter time scales within a growing season. Using a 39-year record of flowering phenology, I show that species-specific shifts in the timing of flowering in response to climate change can substantially reshape a subalpine plant community over this time period. Community phylogenetic analyses reveal that these changes are largely independent of evolutionary history. Using a laboratory experiment, I show that the timing of an important harsh abiotic event -- low temperatures that cause frost damage to plants -- can differentially affect flowering plant species, with implications for plant demography, community structure, and interactions with pollinators. Finally, I show that plant-pollinator interactions exhibit substantial within-season temporal turnover, and that this temporal flexibility of plant-pollinator interactions from one week to the next is consistent and predictable across years. Taken together, this dissertation provides a multifaceted investigation of the temporal ecology of plant communities and plant-pollinator interactions, revealing the important consequences of ecological timing at short-term and longer-term scales.

ISBN: 9781339974453Subjects--Topical Terms:

516476
Ecology.

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.
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