Functional diversity along elevational gradients in the high altitude vegetation of the western Himalaya

Water as a resource, stress and disturbance shaping tundra vegetation

(2019) Julia Kemppinen et al.   OIKOS

Neighbour tolerance, not suppression, provides competitive advantage to non-native plants

(2018) Marina Golivets et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

(2018) Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.   NATURE

Increase in light interception cost and metabolic mass component of leaves are coupled for efficient resource use in the high altitude vegetation

(2018) Dinesh Thakur et al.   OIKOS

Intraspecific Trait Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity Mediate Alpine Plant Species Response to Climate Change

(2018) Jonathan J. Henn et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Community-weighted means and functional dispersion of plant functional traits along environmental gradients on Mount Kilimanjaro

(2017) David Schellenberger Costa et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Changes in plant taxonomic and functional diversity patterns following treeline advances in the South Urals

(2017) Antonio Gazol et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Community and species-specific responses of plant traits to 23 years of experimental warming across subarctic tundra plant communities

(2017) Gaurav Baruah et al.   Scientific Reports

The rich sides of mountain summits - a pan-European view on aspect preferences of alpine plants

(2016) Manuela Winkler et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Where to Combat Shrub Encroachment in Alpine Timberline Ecosystems: Combining Remotely-Sensed Vegetation Information with Species Habitat Modelling

(2016) Veronika Braunisch et al.   PLoS One

Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

(2016) Janet Franklin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

(2016) Robert Muscarella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages

(2016) Rafael P. Leitão et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can functional traits predict plant community response to global change?

(2016) Sarah Kimball et al.   Ecosphere

Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya

(2016) Jiri Dolezal et al.   Scientific Reports

Non-native and native organisms moving into high elevation and high latitude ecosystems in an era of climate change: new challenges for ecology and conservation

(2015) Aníbal Pauchard et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Comparison of temperature lapse rates from the northern to the southern slopes of the Himalayas

(2015) Dambaru Ballab Kattel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Facing north or south: Does slope aspect impact forest stand characteristics and soil properties in a semiarid trans-Himalayan valley?

(2015) Inger Elisabeth Måren et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change

(2015) Jake M. Alexander et al.   NATURE

Functional diversity: an overview of its history and applicability

(2015) Livia Maira Orlandi Laureto et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Plant fitness in a rapidly changing world

(2015) Jill T. Anderson   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional Trait Changes, Productivity Shifts and Vegetation Stability in Mountain Grasslands during a Short-Term Warming

(2015) Haifa Debouk et al.   PLoS One

Climate-related range shifts - a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

(2014) J. Lenoir et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Are different facets of plant diversity well protected against climate and land cover changes? A test study in the French Alps

(2014) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Floristic Diversity and Distribution Pattern of Plant Communities along Altitudinal Gradient in Sangla Valley, Northwest Himalaya

(2014) Pankaj Sharma et al.   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Faster, higher, more? Past, present and future dynamics of alpine and arctic flora under climate change

(2014) Christian Rixen et al.   Alpine Botany

Pattern of functional diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the Baihua Mountain Reserve of Beijing, China

(2014) Jin-Tun Zhang et al.   Brazilian Journal of Botany

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Elevation gradient of successful plant traits for colonizing alpine summits under climate change

(2013) Magalì Matteodo et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance dynamic and long-term climate warming

(2013) N. A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

(2013) David Mouillot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Toward a loss of functional diversity in stream fish assemblages under climate change

(2012) Laëtitia Buisson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biogeography of bacterial communities exposed to progressive long-term environmental change

(2012) Ramiro Logares et al.   ISME Journal

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Reconsidering the Specialist-Generalist Paradigm in Niche Breadth Dynamics: Resource Gradient Selection by Canada Lynx and Bobcat

(2012) Michael J. L. Peers et al.   PLoS One

Temperature lapse rate in complex mountain terrain on the southern slope of the central Himalayas

(2012) D. B. Kattel et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Altitudinal distribution patterns of the native and alien woody flora in Kashmir Himalaya, India

(2011) Anzar A. Khuroo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improving occurrence-based rarity metrics in conservation studies by including multiple rarity cut-off points

(2011) BORIS LEROY et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Ecological Characterization of High Altitude Himalayan Landscapes in the Upper Satluj River Watershed, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India

(2011) Amit Chawla et al.   Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Multi-scale Influences of Slope Aspect and Spatial Pattern on Ecotonal Dynamics at Upper Treeline in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

(2010) Grant P. Elliott et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Climate, climate change and range boundaries

(2010) Chris D. Thomas   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

An experimental assessment of the upper elevational limit of flowering plants in the western Himalayas

(2010) Leoš Klimeš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Contrasting changes in taxonomic vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation

(2010) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A user's guide to functional diversity indices

(2010) D. Schleuter et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

(2010) Joanne Clavel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Taller and larger: shifts in Arctic tundra leaf traits after 16 years of experimental warming

(2010) J. M. G. HUDSON 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

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How important is plot relocation accuracy when interpreting re-visitation studies of vegetation change?

(2010) Louise C. Ross et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Assembly of nonnative floras along elevational gradients explained by directional ecological filtering

(2010) J. M. Alexander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient

(2010) N. G. Swenson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity

(2010) Fernando Casanoves et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Performance of Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila) on steppe slopes of the northern Mongolian mountain taiga: Drought stress and herbivory in mature trees

(2009) Choimaa Dulamsuren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

(2009) Gian-Reto Walther et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions?

(2008) Stein Joar Hegland et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations

(2008) Aníbal Pauchard et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant species diversity along an altitudinal gradient of Bhabha Valley in western Himalaya

(2008) Amit Chawla et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Assessing the scale-specific importance of niches and other spatial processes on beta diversity: a case study from a temperate forest

(2008) Etienne Laliberté et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest

(2008) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE