Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming".
Florian ZellwegerPieter De FrenneJonathan LenoirPieter VangansbekeKris VerheyenMarkus Bernhardt-RömermannLander BaetenRadim HédlImre BerkiJörg BrunetHans Van CalsterMarkéta ChudomelováGuillaume DecocqThomas DirnböckTomasz DurakThilo HeinkenBogdan JaroszewiczMartin KopeckýFrantišek MálišMartin MacekMarek MalickiTobias NaafThomas A NagelAdrienne Ortmann-AjkaiPetr PetříkRemigiusz PielechKamila ReczyńskaWolfgang SchmidtTibor StandovárKrzysztof ŚwierkoszBalázs TelekiOndřej VildMonika WulfDavid Anthony CoomesPublished in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2020)
Bertrand et al question our interpretation about warming effects on the thermophilization in forest plant communities and propose an alternative way to analyze climatic debt. We show that microclimate warming is a better predictor than macroclimate warming for studying forest plant community responses to warming. Their additional analyses do not affect or change our interpretations and conclusions.
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