Plant-animal interactions are fundamentally important in ecosystems, but have often been ignored by studies of climate-change impacts on biodiversity. Here, we present a trait-based framework for predicting the responses of interacting plants and animals to climate change. We distinguish three pathways along which climate change can impact interacting species in ecological communities: (i) spatial and temporal mismatches in the occurrence and abundance of species, (ii) the formation of novel interactions and secondary extinctions, and (iii) alterations of the dispersal ability of plants. These pathways are mediated by three kinds of functional traits: response traits, matching traits, and dispersal traits. We propose that incorporating these traits into predictive models will improve assessments of the responses of interacting species to climate change.

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基于特征的气候变化对相互作用物种的影响评估。

植物与动物之间的相互作用在生态系统中至关重要，但对气候变化对生物多样性影响的研究常常忽略了它们。在这里，我们提出了一个基于特征的框架，用于预测相互作用的动植物对气候变化的反应。我们区分了气候变化可以影响生态群落中相互作用的物种的三种途径：（i）物种发生和丰度的时空错配；（ii）新型相互作用的形成和继发性灭绝；（iii）物种的改变。植物的扩散能力。这些途径由三种功能性状介导：反应性状，匹配性状和分散性状。