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Long-Term Monitoring Reveals Forest Tree Community Change Driven By Atmospheric Sulphate Pollution And Contemporary Climate Change, Brittany M. Verrico, Jeremy Weiland, Timothy D. Perkins, Brian Beckage, Stephen R. Keller

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty Publications

Diversity and Distributions published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: Montane environments are sentinels of global change, providing unique opportunities to assess impacts on species diversity. Multiple anthropogenic stressors such as climate change and atmospheric pollution may act concurrently or synergistically in restructuring communities. Thus, a major challenge for conservation is untangling the relative importance of different stressors. Here, we combine long-term monitoring with multivariate community modelling to estimate the anthropogenic drivers shaping forest tree diversity along an elevational gradient. Location: Camels Hump Mountain, Vermont, USA. Methods: We used Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling (GDM) to model spatial and temporal turnover …