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Railways redistribute plant species in mountain landscapes

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Effects of Soil Properties, Temperature and Disturbance on Diversity and Functional Composition of Plant Communities Along a Steep Elevational Gradient on Tenerife

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Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

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Contrasting patterns of intraspecific trait variability in native and non-native plant species along an elevational gradient on Tenerife, Canary Islands

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SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature

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Topography and human pressure in mountain ranges alter expected species responses to climate change

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Going off trails: How dispersed visitor use affects alpine vegetation

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The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in non‐native plant invasion along mountain roads

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WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data

(2020) Roeland Kindt   Applications in Plant Sciences

An uphill battle? The elevational distribution of alien plant species along rivers and roads in the Austrian Alps

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Assessing the uneven global distribution of readership, submissions and publications in applied ecology: Obvious problems without obvious solutions

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Assessing the association between pathways of alien plant invaders and their impacts in protected areas

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Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

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sP lot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses

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Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

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Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in‐situ logging to remote sensing

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GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

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Nature’s contributions to people in mountains: A review

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

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Hiking trails as conduits for the spread of non-native species in mountain areas

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Sharing of pollinators between the invasive Taraxacum officinale and co-flowering natives is not related to floral similarity in the high-Andes

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Ecosystem services research in mountainous regions: A systematic literature review on current knowledge and research gaps

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Running off the road: roadside non-native plants invading mountain vegetation

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Global patterns of current and future road infrastructure

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Mountain roads and non-native species modify elevational patterns of plant diversity

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Hitching a ride: Seed accrual rates on different types of vehicles

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Genesis, goals and achievements of Long-Term Ecological Research at the global scale: A critical review of ILTER and future directions

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Land-use change interacts with climate to determine elevational species redistribution

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A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling

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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

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

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Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community

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Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

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Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

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Human disturbance and upward expansion of plants in a warming climate

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SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

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Mountain roads shift native and non-native plant species' ranges

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Will climate change increase the risk of plant invasions into mountains?

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Range limits and population dynamics of non-native plants spreading along elevation gradients

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Non-Native Plant Invasion along Elevation and Canopy Closure Gradients in a Middle Rocky Mountain Ecosystem

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Nitrogen deposition but not climate warming promotes Deyeuxia angustifolia encroachment in alpine tundra of the Changbai Mountains, Northeast China

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Plant invasions into mountains and alpine ecosystems: current status and future challenges

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Recent changes in mountain grasslands: a vegetation resampling study

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Non-native species in the vascular flora of highlands and mountains of Iceland

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Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo's vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt

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Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

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Seasonal and interannual variation in vegetation composition: Implications for survey design and data interpretation

(2014) Nick L. Schultz et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Effect of Pinus contorta invasion on forest fuel properties and its potential implications on the fire regime of Araucaria araucana and Nothofagus antarctica forests

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Alien Roadside Species More Easily Invade Alpine than Lowland Plant Communities in a Subarctic Mountain Ecosystem

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Shifts in flowering phenology reshape a subalpine plant community

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The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN). Linking Local and Global Scales for Addressing an Ecological Consequence of Global Change

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The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names

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Are Weeds Hitchhiking a Ride on Your Car? A Systematic Review of Seed Dispersal on Cars

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Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity

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

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Spatial predictions of land-use transitions and associated threats to biodiversity: the case of forest regrowth in mountain grasslands

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Plant invasion at landscape and local scales along roadways in the mountainous region of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Genetically based differentiation in growth of multiple non-native plant species along a steep environmental gradient

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Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

(2012) Stefan Dullinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Processes at multiple scales affect richness and similarity of non-native plant species in mountains around the world

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Plant Invasions in Mountains: Global Lessons for Better Management

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The impacts of road and walking trails upon adjacent vegetation: Effects of road building materials on species composition in a nutrient poor environment

(2011) Jana Müllerová et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Introduced weed richness across altitudinal gradients in Hawai’i: humps, humans and water-energy dynamics

(2010) Gabi Jakobs et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Alien flora of mountains: global comparisons for the development of local preventive measures against plant invasions

(2010) Keith L. McDougall et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Do anthropogenic corridors homogenize plant communities at a local scale? A case studied in Tenerife (Canary Islands)

(2010) J. R. Arévalo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

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The presence of a showy invasive plant disrupts pollinator service and reproductive output in native alpine species only at high densities

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

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE