The Coupling of Treeline Elevation and Temperature is Mediated by Non-Thermal Factors on the Tibetan Plateau

Does increasing intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) stimulate tree growth at natural alpine timberline on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau?

(2017) Ru Huang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Summer Temperature Drives Radial Growth of Alpine Shrub Willows on the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Xiaoming Lu et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Alpine timberline population dynamics under climate change: a comparison between Qilian juniper and Qinghai spruce tree species in the middle Qilian Mountains of northeast Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Bo Wang et al.   BOREAS

Are Karakoram temperatures out of phase compared to hemispheric trends?

(2016) Fayaz Asad et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Fine-scale distribution of treeline trees and the nurse plant facilitation on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Lixin Lyu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Topography and age mediate the growth responses of Smith fir to climate warming in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) B. Liu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Mediterranean and temperate treelines are controlled by different environmental drivers

(2016) Frida I. Piper et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seedling transplants reveal species-specific responses of high-elevation tropical treeline trees to climate change

(2016) Evan M. Rehm et al.   OECOLOGIA

Species interactions slow warming-induced upward shifts of treelines on the Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Eryuan Liang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperature thresholds for the onset of xylogenesis in alpine shrubs on the Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Xiaoxia Li et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Recent and Intense Dynamics in a Formerly Static Pyrenean Treeline

(2015) J. Julio Camarero et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Contribution of mass elevation effect to the altitudinal distribution of global treelines

(2015) Fang Zhao et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Plant phenological responses to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau: research status and challenges

(2015) Miaogen Shen et al.   National Science Review

Seed-based treeline seedlings are vulnerable to freezing events in the early growing season under a warmer climate: Evidence from a reciprocal transplant experiment in the Sergyemla Mountains, southeast Tibet

(2014) Wei Shen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A novel framework for disentangling the scale-dependent influences of abiotic factors on alpine treeline position

(2014) Bradley S. Case et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Is the growth of birch at the upper timberline in the Himalayas limited by moisture or by temperature?

(2014) Eryuan Liang et al.   ECOLOGY

The mass elevation effect of the Tibetan Plateau and its implications for Alpine treelines

(2014) Yonghui Yao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Southern Hemisphere temperate tree lines are not climatically depressed

(2014) Ellen Cieraad et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A study of the contribution of mass elevation effect to the altitudinal distribution of timberline in the Northern Hemisphere

(2014) Fang Zhao et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

A climate-based model to predict potential treeline position around the globe

(2014) Jens Paulsen et al.   Alpine Botany

Using commonality analysis in multiple regressions: a tool to decompose regression effects in the face of multicollinearity

(2014) Jayanti Ray-Mukherjee et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Warming-induced upslope advance of subalpine forest is severely limited by geomorphic processes

(2013) M. Macias-Fauria et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns and dynamics of tree-line response to climate change in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwestern China

(2012) Xiaohua Gou et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Age dependence of xylogenesis and its climatic sensitivity in Smith fir on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2012) X. Li et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings

(2012) Tandong Yao et al.   Nature Climate Change

Spatiotemporal Variability of Soil Temperature and Moisture across two Contrasting Timberline Ecotones in the Sergyemla Mountains, Southeast Tibet

(2011) Xinsheng Liu et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Effects of experimental warming on phenology, growth and gas exchange of treeline birch (Betula utilis) saplings, Eastern Tibetan Plateau, China

(2011) Zhenfeng Xu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

(2011) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Treeline form - a potential key to understanding treeline dynamics

(2011) Melanie A. Harsch et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Asynchronous recruitment history of Abies spectabilis along an altitudinal gradient in the Mt. Everest region

(2011) L.-X. Lv et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Microclimatic Conditions forJuniperus saltuariaTreeline in the Sygera Mountains, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2011) Bo Liu et al.   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Little change in the fir tree-line position on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau after 200 years of warming

(2011) Eryuan Liang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

August temperature variability in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since AD 1385 inferred from tree rings

(2011) Hai-Feng Zhu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Tree-ring evidence of recent abnormal warming on the southeast Tibetan Plateau

(2009) E. Y. Liang et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Response of regional tree-line forests to climate change: evidence from the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Keyan Fang et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Growth variation in Abies georgei var. smithii along altitudinal gradients in the Sygera Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Eryuan Liang et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

A test of the growth-limitation theory for alpine tree line formation in evergreen and deciduous taxa of the eastern Himalayas

(2008) P. Shi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Millennial temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring widths of Qilian juniper from Wulan, Qinghai Province, China

(2008) HaiFeng Zhu et al.   Science Bulletin

Tree-ring based summer temperature reconstruction for the source region of the Yangtze River on the Tibetan Plateau

(2007) Eryuan Liang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE