Response to Comment on "Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming".

Florian Zellweger Pieter De Frenne Jonathan Lenoir Pieter Vangansbeke Kris Verheyen Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Lander Baeten Radim Hédl Imre Berki Jörg Brunet Hans Van Calster Markéta ChudomelováGuillaume DecocqThomas Dirnböck Tomasz Durak Thilo Heinken Bogdan Jaroszewicz Martin Kopecký František Máliš Martin Macek Marek Malicki Tobias Naaf Thomas A Nagel Adrienne Ortmann-Ajkai Petr Petřík Remigiusz Pielech Kamila Reczyńska Wolfgang Schmidt Tibor Standovár Krzysztof ŚwierkoszBalázs TelekiOndřej Vild Monika Wulf David Anthony Coomes

Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2021)

Schall and Heinrichs question our interpretation that the climatic debt in understory plant communities is locally modulated by canopy buffering. However, our results clearly show that the discrepancy between microclimate warming rates and thermophilization rates is highest in forests where canopy cover was reduced, which suggests that the need for communities to respond to warming is highest in those forests.

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climate change