Some (do not) like it hot: shrub growth is hampered by heat and drought at the alpine treeline in recent decades

Winter precipitation - not summer temperature - is still the main driver for Alpine shrub growth

(2019) Marco Carrer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Drought offsets the positive effect of summer heat waves on the canopy greenness of mountain grasslands

(2019) M.C. Corona-Lozada et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Climatic Drivers of Greening Trends in the Alps

(2019) Gianluca Filippa et al.   Remote Sensing

Does sex matter? Gender-specificity and its influence on site-chronologies in the common dioecious shrub Juniperus communis

(2018) Rohan Shetti et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Topographic influences on ring widths of trees and shrubs across alpine treelines in southwest Yukon

(2018) Katherine D. Dearborn et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Growth delay by winter precipitation could hinder Juniperus sabina persistence under increasing summer drought

(2018) Ana I. García-Cervigón et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

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

(2018) Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.   NATURE

Observed long-term greening of alpine vegetation—a case study in the French Alps

(2017) Bradley Z Carlson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Arctic shrub growth trajectories differ across soil moisture levels

(2017) Daniel Ackerman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Declining growth of deciduous shrubs in the warming climate of continental western Greenland

(2017) Cassandra M. Gamm et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Warm summers and moderate winter precipitation boost Rhododendron ferrugineum L. growth in the Taillefer massif (French Alps)

(2017) L. Francon et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Species and site differences influence climate-shrub growth responses in West Greenland

(2016) Amanda B. Young et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

The snow and the willows: earlier spring snowmelt reduces performance in the low-lying alpine shrubSalix herbacea

(2016) Julia A. Wheeler et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Earlier snowmelt and warming lead to earlier but not necessarily more plant growth

(2016) Carolyn Livensperger et al.   AoB Plants

Up to 400-year-oldRhododendronshrubs on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: prospects for shrub-based dendrochronology

(2015) Xiaoming Lu et al.   BOREAS

Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

(2015) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Winter warming as an important co-driver forBetula nanagrowth in western Greenland during the past century

(2015) Jørgen Hollesen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How do climate and topography influence the greening of the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Québec? A dendrochronological analysis ofBetula glandulosa

(2015) Pascale Ropars et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Simulated heat waves affected alpine grassland only in combination with drought

(2015) Hans J. De Boeck et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

(2015)   Nature Climate Change

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

(2015) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

lavaan: AnRPackage for Structural Equation Modeling

(2015) Yves Rosseel   Journal of Statistical Software

treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of proxy-climate relationships

(2014) Christian Zang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Winter precipitation effect in a mid-latitude temperature-limited environment: the case of common juniper at high elevation in the Alps

(2014) Elena Pellizzari et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Predicted responses of arctic and alpine ecosystems to altered seasonality under climate change

(2014) Jessica G Ernakovich et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Some like it hot and some like it cold, but not too much: plant responses to climate extremes

(2014) Simone Orsenigo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Magnitude of extreme heat waves in present climate and their projection in a warming world

(2014) Simone Russo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Topo-climatic microrefugia explain the persistence of a rare endemic plant in the Alps during the last 21 millennia

(2013) Theofania S. Patsiou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review

(2013) Andreas Gobiet et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Working toward integrated models of alpine plant distribution

(2013) Bradley Z. Carlson et al.   Alpine Botany

Growth response of the alpine shrub, Linanthus pungens, to snowpack and temperature at a rock glacier site in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California, USA

(2012) Rebecca S. Franklin   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy

(2011) Eryuan Liang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A climatic basis for microrefugia: the influence of terrain on climate

(2010) SOLOMON Z. DOBROWSKI   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil charcoal analysis: a reliable tool for spatially precise studies of past forest dynamics: a case study in the French southern Alps

(2010) Philippe Touflan et al.   HOLOCENE

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

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dendrochronological potential of the alpine shrub Rhododendron nivale on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Eryuan Liang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Site-aspect influence on climate sensitivity over time of a high-altitude Pinus cembra tree-ring network

(2009) Giovanni Leonelli et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows

(2009) BRUCE C. FORBES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reanalysis of 47 Years of Climate in the French Alps (1958–2005): Climatology and Trends for Snow Cover

(2009) Yves Durand et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Phenology, growth, and fecundity of eight subarctic tundra species in response to snowmelt manipulations

(2009) Sonja Wipf   PLANT ECOLOGY

How alpine plant growth is linked to snow cover and climate variability

(2008) Tobias Jonas et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE

Growth-ring variations of dwarf shrubs reflect regional climate signals in alpine environments rather than topoclimatic differences

(2007) Annette Bär et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY