Investigating the air temperatures of different taxa in an alpine plant community

Abstract

1. Ecology, like most science, is a rapidly progressing field in which new technologies are constantly being implemented in order to gain a wider and more holistic perspective on plant dynamics. 2. Plants can modulate their temperature via the process of transpiration and shading, which can also lead to modified air and surface temperatures. 3. One of the goals of this research was to investigate whether there is variation in air temperature modification across alpine plant taxa. Because climate change has been shown to have a larger effect on plants at higher elevations, we can use the information from this study to predict how plants will likely cluster in the future as their environment warms. 4. Our results showed minimal variation between the microclimate temperature of the plant and the microclimate temperature of the substrate. Consistently, the plants were in fact cooler than the bare substrate around them but there was no evidence suggesting that certain plant species were able to cool themselves better than others. 5. We didn’t get the results we would have liked to see however, there is still a lot of value and potential that this data holds. This was also a very good preliminary year of conducting thermal research.

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