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Microclimatic buffering of plant responses to macroclimate warming in temperate forests

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITEIT GENT Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 website: http://www.ugent.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Belgium [BE]
Project website	http://www.formica.ugent.be/
Total cost	1˙498˙469 €
EC max contribution	1˙498˙469 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2017-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-02-01 to 2023-01-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT GENT UNIVERSITEIT GENT Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 website: http://www.ugent.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (GENT)	coordinator	1˙498˙469.00

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Project objective

Recent global warming is acting across ecosystems and threatening biodiversity. Yet, due to slow responses, many biological communities are lagging behind warming of the macroclimate (the climate of a large geographic region). The buffering of microclimates near the ground measured in localized areas, arising from terrain features such as vegetation and topography, can explain why many species are lagging behind macroclimate warming. However, almost all studies ignore the effects of microclimatic buffering and key uncertainties still exist about this mechanism. Microclimates are particularly evident in forests, where understorey habitats are buffered by overstorey trees. In temperate forests, the understorey contains the vast majority of plant diversity and plays an essential role in driving ecosystem processes.

The overall goal of FORMICA (FORest MICroclimate Assessment) is to quantify and understand the role of microclimatic buffering in modulating forest understorey plant responses to macroclimate warming. We will perform the best assessment to date of the effects of microclimates on plants by applying microtemperature loggers, experimental heating, fluorescent tubes and a large-scale transplant experiment in temperate forests across Europe. For the first time, plant data from the individual to ecosystem level will be related to microclimate along wide temperature gradients and forest management regimes. The empirical results will then be integrated in cutting-edge demographic distribution models to forecast plant diversity in temperate forests as macroclimate warms.

FORMICA will provide the first integrative study on microclimatic buffering of macroclimate warming in forests. Interdisciplinary concepts and methods will be applied, including from climatology, forestry and ecology. FORMICA will reshape our current understanding of the impacts of climate change on forests and help land managers and policy makers to develop urgently needed adaptation strategies.

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Data Management Plan	Open Research Data Pilot	2019-04-26 10:00:10

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Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Pieter De Frenne, Florian Zellweger, Francisco RodrÃguez-SÃ¡nchez, Brett R. Scheffers, Kristoffer Hylander, Miska Luoto, Mark Vellend, Kris Verheyen, Jonathan Lenoir Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies published pages: 744-749, ISSN: 2397-334X, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0842-1	Nature Ecology & Evolution 3/5	2019-09-09
2019	Shiyu Ma, Pieter DeÂ Frenne, Nico Boon, JÃ¶rg Brunet, Sara A O Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Annette Kolb, Isa Lemke, Jaan Liira, Tobias Naaf, Anna Orczewska, Jan Plue, Monika Wulf, Kris Verheyen Plant species identity and soil characteristics determine rhizosphere soil bacteria community composition in European temperate forests published pages: , ISSN: 1574-6941, DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz063	FEMS Microbiology Ecology 95/6	2019-09-17

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