Salix shrub encroachment along a 1000 m elevation gradient triggers a major ecosystem change in the European Alps

Rapid soil and vegetation changes at regional scale in continental Antarctica

(2021) N. Cannone et al.   GEODERMA

Microbial activity in alpine soils under climate change

(2021) Federica D'Alò et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Pathways of tundra encroachment by trees and tall shrubs in the western Brooks Range of Alaska

(2020) Anna Terskaia et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate Warming Persistence Triggered Tree Ingression After Shrub Encroachment in a High Alpine Tundra

(2020) Francesco Malfasi et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on alpine shrub growth: The sooner the better?

(2020) L. Francon et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Plant-fungal interactions in hybrid zones: Ectomycorrhizal communities of willows (Salix) in an alpine glacier forefield

(2020) R. Arraiano-Castilho et al.   Fungal Ecology

A new simple topo-climatic model to predict surface displacement in paraglacial and periglacial mountains of the European Alps: The importance of ground heating index and floristic components as ecological indicators

(2020) Ponti Stefano et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Above- and belowground linkages shape responses of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2019) Frank Hagedorn et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction debts and colonization credits of non-forest plants in the European Alps

(2019) Sabine B. Rumpf et al.   Nature Communications

Alder Distribution and Expansion Across a Tundra Hillslope: Implications for Local N Cycling

(2019) Verity G. Salmon et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Recruitment dynamics and population structure of willows in tundra disturbed by retrogressive thaw slump thermokarst on Alaska’s North slope

(2019) Diane Christine Huebner et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Unchanged risk of frost exposure for subalpine and alpine plants after snowmelt in Switzerland despite climate warming

(2018) Geoffrey Klein et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Long-term vegetation changes of treeless heath communities in northern Fennoscandia: Links to climate change trends and reindeer grazing

(2018) Tuija Maliniemi et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climate change leads to accelerated transformation of high-elevation vegetation in the central Alps

(2018) Andrea Lamprecht et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines

(2018) M. Rogora et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

(2018) Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.   NATURE

Implications of evergreen shrub expansion in the Arctic

(2018) Tage Vowles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Thermal segregation drives patterns of alder and willow expansion in a montane ecosystem subject to climate warming

(2017) Christina L. Rinas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

(2017) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

(2016) Ladislav Mucina et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Shorter snow cover duration since 1970 in the Swiss Alps due to earlier snowmelt more than to later snow onset

(2016) Geoffrey Klein et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Slow-growing Salix repens (Salicaceae) benefits from changing climate

(2016) Katri Nissinen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Shrubline but not treeline advance matches climate velocity in montane ecosystems of south-central Alaska

(2016) Roman J. Dial et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The influence of topographic variables on treeline trees under different environmental conditions

(2016) Giovanni Leonelli et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Climate variability rather than overstocking causes recent large scale cover changes of Tibetan pastures

(2016) L. W. Lehnert et al.   Scientific Reports

Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

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

Soil warming and CO2enrichment induce biomass shifts in alpine tree line vegetation

(2015) Melissa A. Dawes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

(2015) Ulf Büntgen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change

(2015) Jake M. Alexander et al.   NATURE

Shrub Expansion Over the Past 62 Years in Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra: Possible Causes and Consequences

(2014) Adam Formica et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Ecological responses of plant species and communities to climate warming: upward shift or range filling processes?

(2014) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Effects of arctic shrub expansion on biophysical vs. biogeochemical drivers of litter decomposition

(2014) Jennie DeMarco et al.   ECOLOGY

Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer

(2014) Julia A. Klein et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Growth response to climatic change over 120 years forAlnus viridisandSalix glaucain West Greenland

(2014) Rasmus H. Jørgensen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Increased spring freezing vulnerability for alpine shrubs under early snowmelt

(2014) J. A. Wheeler et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant communities of Italy: The Vegetation Prodrome

(2014) E. Biondi et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Shrub Expansion in SW Greenland Under Modest Regional Warming: Disentangling Effects of Human Disturbance and Grazing

(2013) Rasmus H. Jørgensen et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Wood anatomical analysis of Swiss willow (Salix helvetica) shrubs growing on creeping mountain permafrost

(2013) Isabelle Gärtner-Roer et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Tall shrub and tree expansion in Siberian tundra ecotones since the 1960s

(2013) Gerald V. Frost et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Snow variability in the Swiss Alps 1864-2009

(2013) Simon C. Scherrer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

An alpine treeline in a carbon dioxide-rich world: synthesis of a nine-year free-air carbon dioxide enrichment study

(2013) Melissa A. Dawes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Regime shift on the roof of the world: Alpine meadows converting to shrublands in the southern Himalayas

(2012) Jodi S. Brandt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Landscape Heterogeneity of Shrub Expansion in Arctic Alaska

(2012) Ken D. Tape et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

CO2 fluxes among different vegetation types during the growing season in Marguerite Bay (Antarctic Peninsula)

(2012) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   GEODERMA

Advanced snowmelt affects vegetative growth and sexual reproduction ofVaccinium myrtillusin a sub-alpine heath

(2012) Renato Gerdol et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Evidence of enhanced freezing damage in treeline plants during six years of CO2 enrichment and soil warming

(2012) Christian Rixen et al.   OIKOS

Using historical plant surveys to track biodiversity on mountain summits

(2012) Veronika Stöckli et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential for structurally novel ecosystems

(2012) Marc Macias-Fauria et al.   Nature Climate Change

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Tree and Shrub Expansion Over the Past 34 Years at the Tree-Line Near Abisko, Sweden

(2011) Sara Rundqvist et al.   AMBIO

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Tundra vegetation effects on pan-Arctic albedo

(2011) Michael M Loranty et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Permafrost response to increasing Arctic shrub abundance depends on the relative influence of shrubs on local soil cooling versus large-scale climate warming

(2011) David M Lawrence et al.   Environmental Research Letters

No growth stimulation by CO2 enrichment in alpine glacier forefield plants

(2011) Nicole Inauen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Did soil development limit spruce (Picea abies) expansion in the Central Alps during the Holocene? Testing a palaeobotanical hypothesis with a dynamic landscape model

(2011) Paul D. Henne et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dark-leaved willow (Salix myrsinifolia) is resistant to three-factor (elevated CO2, temperature and UV-B-radiation) climate change

(2010) Ria Paajanen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Impacts of extreme winter warming events on plant physiology in a sub-Arctic heath community

(2010) Stef Bokhorst et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Winter climate change in alpine tundra: plant responses to changes in snow depth and snowmelt timing

(2009) Sonja Wipf et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Arctic alpine vegetation change over 20 years

(2009) SCOTT D. WILSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON ALPINE GLACIER FOREFIELD ECOSYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN ALPS

(2008) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores

(2008) E. Post et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE