Alpine shrubs have benefited more than trees from 20th century warming at a treeline ecotone site in the French Pyrenees

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

(2022) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Growth rings show limited evidence for ungulates’ potential to suppress shrubs across the Arctic

(2022) Katariina Vuorinen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

(2022) Sabine B. Rumpf et al.   SCIENCE

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

(2021) Zelalem A Mekonnen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Shrub growth in the Alps diverges from air temperature since the 1990s

(2021) Loïc Francon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The tempo of greening in the European Alps: Spatial variations on a common theme

(2021) Philippe Choler et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Encroachment of shrubs into subalpine grasslands in the Pyrenees changes the plant-soil stoichiometry spectrum

(2020) Ifigenia Urbina et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2020) Loïc Francon et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Delta blue intensity vs. maximum density: A case study using Pinus uncinata in the Pyrenees

(2020) Emily Reid et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

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

(2020) L. Francon et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Belowground impacts of alpine woody encroachment are determined by plant traits, local climate, and soil conditions

(2020) Courtney G. Collins et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tree Sapling Responses to 10 Years of Experimental Manipulation of Temperature, Nutrient Availability, and Shrub Cover at the Pyrenean Treeline

(2019) Maria A. Angulo et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change

(2019) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Divergent growth responses to warming and drying climates between native and non-native tree species in Northeast China

(2019) Lining Song et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

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

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

Detecting snow-related signals in radial growth of Pinus uncinata mountain forests

(2019) Alba Sanmiguel-Vallelado et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Climatic Drivers of Greening Trends in the Alps

(2019) Gianluca Filippa et al.   Remote Sensing

+A 5680-year tree-ring temperature record for southern South America

(2019) A. Lara et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A millennium-long perspective on high-elevation pine recruitment in the Spanish central Pyrenees

(2018) Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Xylem anatomical and growth responses of the dwarf shrub Vaccinium myrtillus to experimental CO 2 enrichment and soil warming at treeline

(2018) Alba Anadon-Rosell et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

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

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

Growth response of Scots pines in polar-alpine tree-line to a warming climate

(2017) A.K. Franke et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Different parts, different stories: climate sensitivity of growth is stronger in root collars vs. stems in tundra shrubs

(2017) Pascale Ropars et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Tree growth responses to changing temperatures across space and time: a fine-scale analysis at the treeline in the Swiss Alps

(2017) Matthias Jochner et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Xylem and Leaf Functional Adjustments to Drought in Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica at Their Elevational Boundary

(2017) Laura Fernández-de-Uña et al.   Frontiers in Plant 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

Pine needles and pollen grains of Pinus mugo Turra – A biomonitoring tool in high mountain habitats identifying environmental contamination

(2016) Mária Chropeňová et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Wood anatomy and carbon-isotope discrimination support long-term hydraulic deterioration as a major cause of drought-induced dieback

(2016) Elena Pellizzari et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Why Be a Shrub? A Basic Model and Hypotheses for the Adaptive Values of a Common Growth Form

(2016) Frank Götmark et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

Spatial coherence and change of opposite white spruce temperature sensitivities on floodplains in Alaska confirms early-stage boreal biome shift

(2015) Glenn P. Juday et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Disentangling the effects of competition and climate on individual tree growth: A retrospective and dynamic approach in Scots pine

(2015) Raúl Sánchez-Salguero et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought-induced weakening of growth–temperature associations in high-elevation Iberian pines

(2015) J. Diego Galván et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Detecting long-term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods

(2015) Richard L. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Land-use legacies rather than climate change are driving the recent upward shift of the mountain tree line in the Pyrenees

(2015) Aitor Ameztegui et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impact of climate and land cover changes on snow cover in a small Pyrenean catchment

(2015) C. Szczypta et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

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

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

Straight lines or eccentric eggs? A comparison of radial and spatial ring width measurements and its implications for climate transfer functions

(2014) Allan Buras et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

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

The influence of sampling design on tree-ring-based quantification of forest growth

(2014) Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Disparate effects of global-change drivers on mountain conifer forests: warming-induced growth enhancement in young trees vs. CO2fertilization in old trees from wet sites

(2014) J. Julio Camarero et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Seeing the trees for the forest: drivers of individual growth responses to climate inPinus uncinatamountain forests

(2014) Juan Diego Galván et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased

(2014) Peter van der Sleen et al.   Nature Geoscience

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) Flurin Babst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Assessment of the effects of biophysical and anthropogenic factors on woody plant encroachment in dense and sparse mountain grasslands based on remote sensing data

(2014) Maite Gartzia et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Tree growth and needle dynamics of P. nigra and P. sylvestris and their response to climate and fire disturbances

(2014) Simon Poljanšek et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

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

Continuously missing outer rings in woody plants at their distributional margins

(2012) M. Wilmking et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

500 years of regional forest growth variability and links to climatic extreme events in Europe

(2012) Flurin Babst et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2011) Sara Rundqvist et al.   AMBIO

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

No growth stimulation by CO2 enrichment in alpine glacier forefield plants

(2011) Nicole Inauen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Growth and community responses of alpine dwarf shrubs to in situ CO2 enrichment and soil warming

(2011) Melissa A. Dawes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Palaeogeography and 10Be exposure-age chronology of Middle and Late Pleistocene glacier systems in the northern Pyrenees: Implications for reconstructing regional palaeoclimates

(2011) Magali Delmas et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Consistent Dendrochronological Response of the Dioecious Salix arctica to Variation in Local Snow Precipitation across Gender and Vegetation Types

(2010) Niels M. Schmidt et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Land-use changes as major drivers of mountain pine (Pinus uncinata Ram.) expansion in the Pyrenees

(2010) Aitor Améztegui et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species-specific tree growth responses to 9 years of CO2 enrichment at the alpine treeline

(2010) Melissa A. Dawes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

(2009) BRUCE C. FORBES 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

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

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

(2009) Sonja Wipf   PLANT ECOLOGY

Long-term summer temperature variations in the Pyrenees

(2008) Ulf Büntgen et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

A dendrochronology program library in R (dplR)

(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Timberline structure and limited tree recruitment in the Catalan Pyrenees

(2008) Jose M. Ninot et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

On the ‘Divergence Problem’ in Northern Forests: A review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

(2007) Rosanne D'Arrigo et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE