[PCA] ARTICLE: Climate Change on Plant Community Structure and Ecosystem Function (Closed Access)

[Park, Margaret E]

Rajeev Singh and Manish Kumar Raj, Climate Change and the Microbiome, October 13, 2021

Abstract
Climate change is working in a very unprecedented manner with the land system and mostly affecting the plant communities in either way. The mechanism and action might vary on temporal and spatial scale of plants, but the modifications are inevitable. The modification is driven by many direct and consequential factors involving human-induced land use, land degradation, desertification, biotic interaction of non-native communities and adding to it the role of micro climate of the species. The climate change and the induced alterations in the plant communities bring relatable modification in the working of the ecosystem. Plant cover and composition of biological communities play pivotal role in understanding the dynamic nature of the different ecosystems and their responses towards the climate change. Forecasting their future trajectories requires the in-depth knowledge of driving factors responsible for any shift due to climate-driven change. Recent changes in drought periods and periodically extreme rainfall conditions, carbon sequestration, N deposition and thermal stress due to elevating temperature are the vital signs of a future shift in the composition of the plant community and ecosystem structure.

Link to article: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76863-8_17

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