Fig. 3
Community characteristics in response to the 1100 m elevation gradient (left-hand panels) and climate change experiments (right-hand panels) in Mt. Gongga. Change in species richness, evenness, sum of covers, and proportion of graminoids with elevation (left hand plots), and in response to climate change treatments by OTCs and transplants (right hand plots). The treatments are expressed as contrasts from controls, moderate and extreme cooling and warming (one or three ‘steps’ to the left and right of the control level), respectively. Different colours indicate the sites, High alpine, Alpine, Middle and Lowland, and symbols show the treatments; control, local transplant, OTC and extreme transplant. Gradients are indicated by grey lines and experiments by lines coloured by origin site. OTCs are indicated by solid lines, extreme transplants by stapled lines, and moderate cooling a warming transplants by dotted lines (see legend).
