Dominant increase
In all the global change treatments except for warming only (W), the
dominant species, Deschampsia cespitosa increased its relative
cover compared to control plots, while subdominant and moderate species
decreased their relative cover and rare species did not change. While
most of the global change scenarios shared this pattern, the increase in
dominance at the expense of subdominant and moderate species was the
strongest in SNW plots, followed by the SW plots and then NW plots (Fig
1, Table 1).