Mountain vegetation at risk: Current perspectives and research reeds

Growth response to climate and drought change along an aridity gradient in the southernmost Pinus nigra relict forests

(2013) J. Julio Camarero et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Warming-related growth responses at the southern limit distribution of mountain pine (Pinus mugoTurra subsp.mugo)

(2013) Caterina Palombo et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant-soil interactions in Mediterranean forest and shrublands: impacts of climatic change

(2013) J. Sardans et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Simulating long-term effects of abandonment on plant diversity in Mediterranean mountain farmland

(2013) A. Lomba et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

The southernmost beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests of Europe (Mount Etna, Italy): ecology, structural stand-type diversity and management implications

(2013) S. Cullotta et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Life-form composition of alpine plant communities at the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

(2013) T. G. Elumeeva et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Is land abandonment affecting forest dynamics at high elevation in Mediterranean mountains more than climate change?

(2013) C. Palombo et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Temporal analysis of the traffic loads on forest road networks

(2013) S Grigolato et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

A LiDAR-based approach for a multi-purpose characterization of Alpine forests: an Italian case study

(2013) G Alberti et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Recognition of surface flow processes influenced by roads and trails in mountain areas using high-resolution topography

(2013) Paolo Tarolli et al.   European Journal of Remote Sensing

Assessing vegetation variability and trends in north-eastern Brazil using AVHRR and MODIS NDVI time series

(2013) Anne Schucknecht et al.   European Journal of Remote Sensing

Treelines Will be Understood Once the Functional Difference Between a Tree and a Shrub Is

(2012) Christian Körner   AMBIO

Recent expansion of Pinus nigra Arn. above the timberline in the central Apennines, Italy

(2012) Alma Piermattei et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Global change effects onBromus tectorumL. (Poaceae) at its high-elevation range margin

(2012) Amy L. Concilio et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon sequestration by forests in the National Parks of Italy

(2012) M. Marchetti et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Vascular plant diversity and climate change in the upper zone of Sierra Nevada, Spain

(2012) M. R Fernández Calzado et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Fine resolution distribution modelling of endemics in Majella National Park, Central Italy

(2012) H. van Gils et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Integrating fundamental concepts of ecology, biogeography, and sampling into effective ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling

(2012) A. T. Peterson et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Patterns of vegetation cover/dynamics in a protected Mediterranean mountain area: Influence of the ecological context and protection policy

(2012) D. Gargano et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Records of past land use are best stored in soil properties

(2012) A. Paušič et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Forest planning and public participation: a possible methodological approach

(2012) MG Cantiani   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate determines upper, but not lower, altitudinal range limits of Pacific Northwest conifers

(2011) A. K. Ettinger et al.   ECOLOGY

Forecasting species ranges by statistical estimation of ecological niches and spatial population dynamics

(2011) Jörn Pagel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Forest composition in Mediterranean mountains is projected to shift along the entire elevational gradient under climate change

(2011) Diego Ruiz-Labourdette et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Little change in the fir tree-line position on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau after 200 years of warming

(2011) Eryuan Liang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant communities in gradients

(2011) A. Čarni et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Regeneration of sandy old-fields in the forest steppe region of Hungary

(2011) A. Csecserits et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Effect of spatial and temporal patterns of stress and disturbance intensities in a sub-Mediterranean grassland

(2011) A. Catorci et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Phytostructure of diverse growth forms in an alpine ecosystem of north-west Himalaya, India

(2011) Rajiv K. Vashistha et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

A threatened alpine species,Fritillaria tubiformissubsp.moggridgei: Seed morphology and temperature regulation of embryo growth

(2011) V. Carasso et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Tree phenology responses to warming: spring forward, fall back?

(2011) D. A. Way   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Experimental evidence for herbivore limitation of the treeline

(2010) James D. M. Speed et al.   ECOLOGY

An increase in the upper tree-limit of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the Alps since the mid-20th century: A land-use change phenomenon

(2010) Sandrine Chauchard et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

(2010) ROBIN ENGLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Disproportional risk for habitat loss of high-altitude endemic species under climate change

(2010) THOMAS DIRNBÖCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Elevational species shifts in a warmer climate are overestimated when based on weather station data

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Contrasting tree-ring growth to climate responses of Abies alba toward the southern limit of its distribution area

(2010) Marco Carrer et al.   OIKOS

Ecological portrayal of old‐growth forests and persistent woodlands in the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park (southern Italy)

(2010) M. Marchetti et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Old‐growth forests, carbon and climate change: Functions and management for tall open‐forests in two hotspots of temperate Australia

(2010) C. Dean et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Reconstructing past cultural landscape and human impact using pollen and plant macroremains

(2010) L. Sadori et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Prehistoric impact on landscape and vegetation at high altitudes: An integrated palaeoecological and archaeological approach in the eastern Pyrenees (Perafita valley, Andorra)

(2010) Y. Miras et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Climate-induced mountain tree-line evolution in southern Siberia

(2010) Vyacheslav I. Kharuk et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming

(2009) Melanie A. Harsch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

(2009) CHRISTOPHE F. RANDIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seedling recruitment, survival and facilitation in alpinePinus uncinatatree line ecotones. Implications and potential responses to climate warming

(2009) Enric Batllori et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Contrasting response of native and alien plant species richness to environmental energy and human impact along alpine elevation gradients

(2009) Lorenzo Marini et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Interacting effects of changes in climate and forest cover on mortality and growth of the southernmost European fir forests

(2009) Juan Carlos Linares et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Response of regional tree-line forests to climate change: evidence from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Keyan Fang et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Climate Change in Mediterranean Mountains during the 21st Century

(2008) David Nogués Bravo et al.   AMBIO

Twentieth century changes of tree-ring δ13C at the southern range-edge of Fagus sylvatica: increasing water-use efficiency does not avoid the growth decline induced by warming at low altitudes

(2008) JOSEP PEÑUELAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional tree line dynamics in response to global change in the Pyrenees

(2008) Enric Batllori et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes of vascular plant diversity along a chronosequence of beech coppice stands, central Apennines, Italy

(2008) S. Bartha et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Climate continentality and treeline species distribution in the Alps

(2008) M. Caccianiga et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region

(2007) Filippo Giorgi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE