DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1527-2012
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84867445940
论文题名: Cascading climate effects and related ecological consequences during past centuries
作者: Naef-Daenzer B. ; Luterbacher J. ; Nuber M. ; Rutishauser T. ; Winkel W.
刊名: Climate of the Past
ISSN: 18149324
出版年: 2012
卷: 8, 期: 5 起始页码: 1527
结束页码: 1540
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: atmospheric circulation
; climate effect
; climate variation
; ecosystem structure
; habitat structure
; life history trait
; Maunder Minimum
; North Atlantic Oscillation
; numerical model
; paleoclimate
; paleoecology
; passerine
; phenology
; population dynamics
; warming
; Switzerland
英文摘要: The interface between climate and ecosystem structure and function is incompletely understood, partly because few ecological records start before the recent warming phase. Here, we analyse an exceptional 100-yr long record of the great tit (Parus major) population in Switzerland in relation to climate and habitat phenology. Using structural equation analysis, we demonstrate an uninterrupted cascade of significant influences of the large-scale atmospheric circulation (North-Atlantic Oscillation, NAO, and North-sea – Caspian Pattern, NCP) on habitat and breeding phenology, and further on fitness-relevant life history traits within great tit populations. We then apply the relationships of this analysis to reconstruct the circulation-driven component of fluctuations in great tit breeding phenology and productivity on the basis of new seasonal NAO and NCP indices back to 1500 AD. According to the structural equation model, the multi-decadal oscillation of the atmospheric circulation likely led to substantial variation in habitat phenology, productivity and consequently, tit population fluctuations with minima during the Maunder Minimum (∼ 1650-1720) and the Little Ice Age Type Event I (1810-1850). The warming since 1975 was not only related with a quick shift towards earlier breeding, but also with the highest productivity since 1500, and thus, the impact of the NAO and NCP has contributed to an unprecedented increase of the population. A verification of the structural equation model against two independent data series (1970-2000 and 1750-1900) corroborates that the retrospective model reliably depicts the major long-term NAO/NCP impact on ecosystem parameters. The results suggest a complex cascade of climate effects beginning at a global scale and ending at the level of individual life histories. This sheds light on how large-scale climate conditions substantially affect major life history parameters within a population, and thus influence key ecosystem parameters at the scale of centuries. © 2012 Author(s). Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/49561
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Naef-Daenzer B.,Luterbacher J.,Nuber M.,et al. Cascading climate effects and related ecological consequences during past centuries[J]. Climate of the Past,2012-01-01,8(5)