Nitrogen limitation and microbial diversity at the treeline

Similar variation in carbon storage between deciduous and evergreen treeline species across elevational gradients

(2013) Alex Fajardo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Low photosynthesis of treeline white spruce is associated with limited soil nitrogen availability in the Western Brooks Range, Alaska

(2013) Robert W. McNown et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Microbes on the Cliff: Alpine Cushion Plants Structure Bacterial and Fungal Communities

(2013) J. Roy et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemical properties of plant litter in response to elevation: subarctic vegetation challenges phenolic allocation theories

(2012) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The effects of snowpack properties and plant strategies on litter decomposition during winter in subalpine meadows

(2012) Patrick Saccone et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Biogeochemical plant–soil microbe feedback in response to climate warming in peatlands

(2012) Luca Bragazza et al.   Nature Climate Change

Norway Spruce Shows Contrasting Changes in Below- Versus Above-Ground Carbon Partitioning towards the Alpine Treeline: Evidence from a Central European Case Study

(2011) Dietrich Hertel et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Contrasting Diversity Patterns of Crenarchaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in an Alpine Landscape

(2011) Lucie Zinger et al.   PLoS One

Climate Warming and the Recent Treeline Shift in the European Alps: The Role of Geomorphological Factors in High-Altitude Sites

(2010) Giovanni Leonelli et al.   AMBIO

Microbes do not follow the elevational diversity patterns of plants and animals

(2010) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing the growth limitation hypothesis for subarctic Scots pine

(2010) Sanna Susiluoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Interactive effects of vegetation type and elevation on aboveground and belowground properties in a subarctic tundra

(2010) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   OIKOS

Effects of different soil weights, storage times and extraction methods on soil phospholipid fatty acid analyses

(2009) Yuping Wu et al.   GEODERMA

Direct and indirect control by snow cover over decomposition in alpine tundra along a snowmelt gradient

(2009) Florence Baptist et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Altitudinal variation in leaf mass per unit area, leaf tissue density and foliar nitrogen and phosphorus content along an Amazon-Andes gradient in Peru

(2009) Martine J. van de Weg et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tannin impacts on microbial diversity and the functioning of alpine soils: a multidisciplinary approach

(2008) F. Baptist et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A test of the growth-limitation theory for alpine tree line formation in evergreen and deciduous taxa of the eastern Himalayas

(2008) P. Shi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

(2008) PHILIP A. WOOKEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global nitrogen deposition and carbon sinks

(2008) Dave S. Reay et al.   Nature Geoscience

CE-SSCP and CE-FLA, simple and high-throughput alternatives for fungal diversity studies

(2007) Lucie Zinger et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Do plant species with different growth strategies vary in their ability to compete with soil microbes for chemical forms of nitrogen?

(2007) Kathryn A. Harrison et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY