How does climate change affect regeneration of Mediterranean high-mountain plants? An integration and synthesis of current knowledge

Genetic differentiation and plasticity interact along temperature and precipitation gradients to determine plant performance under climate change

(2017) Zuzana Münzbergová et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A dynamic eco-evolutionary model predicts slow response of alpine plants to climate warming

(2017) Olivier Cotto et al.   Nature Communications

Pollen limitation is not the rule in nival plants: A study from the European Central Alps

(2016) J. Wagner et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Seed dormancy and germination changes of snowbed species under climate warming: the role of pre- and post-dispersal temperatures

(2016) Giulietta Bernareggi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Direct and indirect effects of shrub encroachment on alpine grasslands mediated by plant-flower visitor interactions

(2016) Carlos Lara-Romero et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

From facilitation to competition: temperature-driven shift in dominant plant interactions affects population dynamics in seminatural grasslands

(2016) Siri L. Olsen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phenological asynchrony in plant-butterfly interactions associated with climate: a community-wide perspective

(2016) Isabel Donoso et al.   OIKOS

Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient

(2016) M. A. K. Mihoč et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plasticity of flower longevity in alpine plants is increased in populations from high elevation compared to low elevation populations

(2016) Judith Trunschke et al.   Alpine Botany

Changes in composition, ecology and structure of high-mountain vegetation: a re-visitation study over 42 years

(2016) Alberto Evangelista et al.   AoB Plants

Summer Freezing Resistance: A Critical Filter for Plant Community Assemblies in Mediterranean High Mountains

(2016) David S. Pescador et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Long-term change and spatial variation in butterfly communities over an elevational gradient: driven by climate, buffered by habitat

(2015) Susana Nieto-Sánchez et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Predicting changes in the distribution and abundance of species under environmental change

(2015) Johan Ehrlén et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High and dry: high elevations disproportionately exposed to regional climate change in Mediterranean-climate landscapes

(2015) Ian M. McCullough et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The temporal dimension in individual-based plant pollination networks

(2015) Javier Valverde et al.   OIKOS

Survival vs. growth trade-off in early recruitment challenges global warming impacts on Mediterranean mountain trees

(2015) Raquel Benavides et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

(2015) J. T. Kerr et al.   SCIENCE

Variable flowering phenology and pollinator use in a community suggest future phenological mismatch

(2014) Theodora Petanidou et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genetic variation in flowering phenology and reproductive performance in a Mediterranean high-mountain specialist,Armeria caespitosa(Plumbaginaceae)

(2014) Carlos Lara-Romero et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

(2014) Fernando Valladares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do geographic, climatic or historical ranges differentiate the performance of central versus peripheral populations?

(2014) Samuel Pironon et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Reassessing global change research priorities in mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems: how far have we come and where do we go from here?

(2014) E. Doblas-Miranda et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Decline of dry grassland specialists in Mediterranean high-mountain communities influenced by recent climate warming

(2014) Borja Jiménez-Alfaro et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climate warming delays and decreases seedling emergence in a Mediterranean ecosystem

(2014) J. Anne Cochrane et al.   OIKOS

Increasing modularity when downscaling networks from species to individuals

(2014) Cristina Tur et al.   OIKOS

Patterns and processes in plant phylogeography in the Mediterranean Basin. A review

(2014) Gonzalo Nieto Feliner   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Effects of the duration of cold stratification on early life stages of the Mediterranean alpine plantSilene ciliata

(2014) A. García-Fernández et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Short-term signals of climate change in Italian summit vegetation: observations at two GLORIA sites

(2014) A. Stanisci et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

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

Factors controlling seed germination of the Iberian critically endangered Pseudomisopates (Antirrhinaceae)

(2014) María E. Amat et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Assessing Intraspecific Variation in Effective Dispersal Along an Altitudinal Gradient: A Test in Two Mediterranean High-Mountain Plants

(2014) Carlos Lara-Romero et al.   PLoS One

Plant Responses to Extreme Climatic Events: A Field Test of Resilience Capacity at the Southern Range Edge

(2014) Asier Herrero et al.   PLoS One

Snowmelt timing alters shallow but not deep soil moisture in the Sierra Nevada

(2014) Joseph C. Blankinship et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Facilitation among plants in alpine environments in the face of climate change

(2014) Fabien Anthelme et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Among-species differences in pollen quality and quantity limitation: implications for endemics in biodiverse hotspots

(2013) Conchita Alonso et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A local dormancy cline is related to the seed maturation environment, population genetic composition and climate

(2013) Eduardo Fernández-Pascual et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change

(2013) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Ecological and evolutionary responses of Mediterranean plants to global change

(2013) Silvia Matesanz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Soil warming increases plant species richness but decreases germination from the alpine soil seed bank

(2013) Gemma L. Hoyle et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of human activity on the distribution and abundance of an endangered Mediterranean high-mountain plant (Erysimum penyalarense)

(2013) María E. Amat et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Effects of marginality on plant population performance

(2013) Thomas Abeli et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Local adaptation and plasticity ofErysimum capitatumto altitude: its implications for responses to climate change

(2013) Eunsuk Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Alpine Ecology in the Iberian Peninsula: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Learn?

(2013) Isabel C. Barrio et al.   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Temperature-driven flower longevity in a high-alpine species ofOxalisinfluences reproductive assurance

(2013) Mary T. K. Arroyo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Bumblebee community homogenization after uphill shifts in montane areas of northern Spain

(2013) Emilie F. Ploquin et al.   OECOLOGIA

How endangered is sexual reproduction of high-mountain plants by summer frosts? Frost resistance, frequency of frost events and risk assessment

(2013) Ursula Ladinig et al.   OECOLOGIA

Flowering phenology and reproductive fitness along a mountain slope: maladaptive responses to transplantation to a warmer climate in Campanula thyrsoides

(2013) J. F. Scheepens et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant functional strategies and environmental constraints in Mediterranean high mountain grasslands in central Spain

(2013) Alba Gutiérrez-Girón et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Mountain Biodiversity patterns in Southern Europe and North Africa

(2013) Rosario G. Gavilán   Lazaroa

Climate warming could shift the timing of seed germination in alpine plants

(2012) Andrea Mondoni et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Seed dormancy distribution: explanatory ecological factors

(2012) Kristen Wagmann et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Seed Production and in situ Germination of Lamyropsis microcephala (Asteraceae), a Threatened Mediterranean Mountain Species

(2012) Efisio Mattana et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Foliar freezing resistance of Australian alpine plants over the growing season

(2012) SUSANNA E. VENN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Shifting Climate, Altered Niche, and a Dynamic Conservation Strategy for Yellow-Cedar in the North Pacific Coastal Rainforest

(2012) Paul E. Hennon et al.   BIOSCIENCE

CLINAL VARIATION IN SEED TRAITS INFLUENCING LIFE CYCLE TIMING INARABIDOPSIS THALIANA

(2012) Alicia Montesinos-Navarro et al.   EVOLUTION

Effect of the extreme summer heat waves on isolated populations of two orophitic plants in the north Apennines (Italy)

(2012) Thomas Abeli et al.   NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Pollen limitation in a narrow endemic plant: geographical variation and driving factors

(2012) Juande D. Fernández et al.   OECOLOGIA

Facilitative interactions do not wane with warming at high elevations in the Andes

(2012) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   OECOLOGIA

Drivers of compartmentalization in a Mediterranean pollination network

(2012) Ana M. Martín González et al.   OIKOS

Response to artificial drying until drought-induced death in different elevation populations of a high-mountain plant

(2012) Alfredo García-Fernández et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Comparative germination ecology of two altitudinal vicariantSaxifragaspecies endemic to the north of Spain

(2012) L. Giménez-Benavides et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Vascular plant diversity and climate change in the upper zone of Sierra Nevada, Spain

(2012) M. R Fernández Calzado et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Fine resolution distribution modelling of endemics in Majella National Park, Central Italy

(2012) H. van Gils et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Small-scale demographic compensation in a high-mountain endemic: the low edge stands still

(2012) Raúl García-Camacho et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate Relicts: Past, Present, Future

(2011) Arndt Hampe et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Native Pollinators in Anthropogenic Habitats

(2011) Rachael Winfree et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Simulating potential effects of climatic warming on altitudinal patterns of key species in Mediterranean-alpine ecosystems

(2011) Blas Benito et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest composition in Mediterranean mountains is projected to shift along the entire elevational gradient under climate change

(2011) Diego Ruiz-Labourdette et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phenotypic plasticity facilitates resistance to climate change in a highly variable environment

(2011) Sarah Richter et al.   OECOLOGIA

Response of alpine plant flower production to temperature and snow cover fluctuation at the species range boundary

(2011) Thomas Abeli et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Extremely Long-Lived Stigmas Allow Extended Cross-Pollination Opportunities in a High Andean Plant

(2011) Cristian Torres-Díaz et al.   PLoS One

Holocene vegetation and climate change recorded in alpine bog sediments from the Borreguiles de la Virgen, Sierra Nevada, southern Spain

(2011) Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species' Optimum Elevations

(2011) S. M. Crimmins et al.   SCIENCE

Seedling dynamics at elevation limits: Complex interactions beyond seed and microsite limitations

(2010) Raúl García-Camacho et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Determinants of species richness in generalist and specialist Mediterranean butterflies: the negative synergistic forces of climate and habitat change

(2010) Constanti Stefanescu et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Demographic processes of upward range contraction in a long-lived Mediterranean high mountain plant

(2010) Luis Giménez-Benavides et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Mast seeding under increasing drought: results from a long-term data set and from a rainfall exclusion experiment

(2010) I. M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   ECOLOGY

Selection on flowering time in Mediterranean high-mountain plants under global warming

(2010) Luis Giménez-Benavides et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Flower longevity and duration of pistil receptivity in high mountain plants

(2010) Gerlinde Steinacher et al.   FLORA

Predicting the future of forests in the Mediterranean under climate change, with niche- and process-based models: CO2 matters!

(2010) TREVOR KEENAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

(2010) ROBIN ENGLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and plant regeneration from seed

(2010) JEFFREY L. WALCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in pollinator fauna cause spatial variation in pollen limitation

(2010) José M. Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Recent trends in butterfly populations from north-east Spain and Andorra in the light of habitat and climate change

(2010) Constantí Stefanescu et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts

(2010) Daniel F. Doak et al.   NATURE

Assessing the diversity pattern of cryophilous plant species in high elevation habitats

(2010) Angela Stanisci et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Pollen quality limitation in the Iberian critically endangered genus Pseudomisopates (Antirrhinaceae)

(2010) María E. Amat et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

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

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Pollen Limitation in the Alpine: A Meta-Analysis

(2009) Raúl García-Camacho et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Future changes in Central Europe heat waves expected to mostly follow summer mean warming

(2009) Joan Ballester et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Relationship between climate change and vegetation distribution in the Mediterranean mountains: Manzanares Head valley, Sierra De Guadarrama (Central Spain)

(2009) Arturo García-Romero et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The performance of Polylepis australis trees along their entire altitudinal range: implications of climate change for their conservation

(2009) Paula Marcora et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Impact of three global change drivers on a Mediterranean shrub

(2009) Silvia Matesanz et al.   ECOLOGY

Glacial refugia influence plant diversity patterns in the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) Frédéric Médail et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Local adaptation occurs along altitudinal gradient despite the existence of gene flow in the alpine plant speciesFestuca eskia

(2009) Héloïse Gonzalo-Turpin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

No increase in alpine snowbed productivity in response to experimental lengthening of the growing season

(2009) F. Baptist et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Climate Change in Mediterranean Mountains during the 21st Century

(2008) David Nogués Bravo et al.   AMBIO

Precipitation-dependent Flowering of Globularia alypum and Erica multiflora in Mediterranean Shrubland Under Experimental Drought and Warming, and its Inter-annual Variability

(2008) P. Prieto et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

What shapes the altitudinal range of a high mountain Mediterranean plant? Recruitment probabilities from ovule to seedling stage

(2008) Luis Giménez-Benavides et al.   ECOGRAPHY

LONGEVITY CAN BUFFER PLANT AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS AGAINST CHANGING CLIMATIC VARIABILITY

(2008) William F. Morris et al.   ECOLOGY

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PHENOLOGY, FROST DAMAGE, AND FLORAL ABUNDANCE OF MONTANE WILDFLOWERS

(2008) David W. Inouye   ECOLOGY

How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions?

(2008) Stein Joar Hegland et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations

(2008) Annarita Mariotti et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Flower morphology, phenology and visitor patterns in an alpine community on Mt Olympos, Greece

(2008) Nikolaos Makrodimos et al.   FLORA

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

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

Regional tree line dynamics in response to global change in the Pyrenees

(2008) Enric Batllori et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Alejandro A. Muñoz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flowering phenology in a species-rich temperate grassland is sensitive to warming but not elevated CO2

(2008) Mark J. Hovenden et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reproduction of an early-flowering Mediterranean mountain narrow endemic (Armeria caespitosa) in a contracting mountain island

(2008) R. García-Camacho et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Timberline structure and limited tree recruitment in the Catalan Pyrenees

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

Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change

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

Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region

(2007) Filippo Giorgi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges

(2007) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS