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Disturbances Amplify Species Turnover and Thermophilization in Eastern U.S. Forest Communities

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Maochou Liu
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Wenxiang Wu *
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Xueqin Zhang
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Yuan Wang
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Ke Wang
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Xinshuai Ren
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Jiahui Cheng
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Jin Geng
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Bo Yang
DOI:10.1016/j.pld.2026.07.013delete
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• Disturbance intensity strongly increased tree community reorganization, elevating species temporal turnover and accelerating thermophilization across the Eastern U.S. FIA plots. • Baseline climate and forest structure explained more variation in compositional change than recent climate trends, indicating strong legacy controls on community trajectories. • Thermophilization was driven by a small set of species, with gains of warmer-affinity taxa and losses of colder-affinity taxa; some colder-affinity taxa persisted in high-latitude refugia.
Keywords:
Thermophilization
Species temporal turnover
Community temperature index
Disturbance regimes
Climate change
Eastern U.S. forest communities
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