Germination changes can restructure communities through priority effects

Key Points

• The aim is to explore how changes in germination timing affect plant community structure via priority effects.
• Conducted a multi-species experiment to observe the effects of germination timing.
• Analyzed community assembly influenced by species arrival order under warming conditions.
• Measured plant performance metrics to assess the impact of these changes.
• Demonstrated that warming shifted germination timings significantly.
• Established that these shifts led to altered community assembly dynamics.
• Found that plant performance varied based on species' arrival order.