Obiettivo Climate warming promotes intra-continental range shifts of plants, animals and microbes from lower to higher latitudes and altitudes. Plants may shift their ranges independent of their co-evolved aboveground and belowground biota, however little is known about how these communities re-assemble in the new range and how that process influences community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Thus far, predictions on species occurrences have been based exclusively on how niche conditions shift to higher latitudes and altitudes. Here, I will make the next step towards predicting how terrestrial systems respond to climate warming by evaluating interactions between plants, aboveground and belowground multi-trophic communities in the original and new ranges. My overall aim is to determine how aboveground and belowground multi-trophic level communities become disjointed and concomitantly re-assembled during plant range shifts. I will determine consequences for community dynamics and ecosystem functioning in the new range. My overall hypothesis is that due to time-lags in range shifts between plants, and their aboveground and belowground biota, novel communities may develop in the new range that will alter functioning of ecosystems, their stability and resilience. I will study range shifting plant species and determine: 1) aboveground-belowground multi-trophic community composition, 2) specificity of soil-borne pathogens and root-feeding nematodes, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and decomposer organisms, 3) bottom-up and top-down control of these biota by soil communities, and 4) dynamics, stability and resilience of original and novel communities and ecosystem functions under current and future climate conditions. My results will be the first to show how the disjunction and reassembly of aboveground-belowground communities influences plant performance, community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. This will develop a new perspective on climate warming-induced range shifts. Campo scientifico natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologymycologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems Programma(i) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) ERC-AG-LS8 - ERC Advanced Grant - Evolutionary, population and environmental biology Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2012-ADG_20120314 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Istituzione ospitante KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW Contributo UE € 1 960 000,00 Indirizzo KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS 1011 JV AMSTERDAM Paesi Bassi Mostra sulla mappa Regione West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Tipo di attività Research Organisations Contatto amministrativo Erwin Van De Ridder (Mr.) Ricercatore principale Wilhelmus Henricus Van Der Putten (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Beneficiari (1) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW Paesi Bassi Contributo UE € 1 960 000,00 Indirizzo KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS 1011 JV AMSTERDAM Mostra sulla mappa Regione West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Tipo di attività Research Organisations Contatto amministrativo Erwin Van De Ridder (Mr.) Ricercatore principale Wilhelmus Henricus Van Der Putten (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato