Contrasting Effects of Extreme Drought and Snowmelt Patterns on Mountain Plants along an Elevation Gradient

Effects of extreme drought on specific leaf area of grassland species: A meta-analysis of experimental studies in temperate and sub-Mediterranean systems

(2017) Camilla Wellstein et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The response of sub-Mediterranean grasslands to rainfall variation is influenced by early season precipitation

(2016) Stefano Chelli et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Earlier snowmelt and warming lead to earlier but not necessarily more plant growth

(2016) Carolyn Livensperger et al.   AoB Plants

Record dry summer in 2015 challenges precipitation projections in Central Europe

(2016) René Orth et al.   Scientific Reports

What functional strategies drive drought survival and recovery of perennial species from upland grassland?

(2015) Marine Zwicke et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Plants and climate change: complexities and surprises

(2015) C. Parmesan et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Long-term snowpack manipulation promotes large loss of bioavailable nitrogen and phosphorus in a subalpine grassland

(2015) Y. Yano et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Interactive effects of elevation, species richness and extreme climatic events on plant-pollinator networks

(2015) Bernhard Hoiss et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Specific leaf area correlates with temperature: new evidence of trait variation at the population, species and community levels

(2015) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   Alpine Botany

Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

(2015) Peter A. Stott et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Effects of Autumn and Spring Heat Waves on Seed Germination of High Mountain Plants

(2015) Simone Orsenigo et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of drought stress on water relations and carbon assimilation in grassland species at different altitudes

(2014) Christine Bollig et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Responses of flowering phenology of snowbed plants to an experimentally imposed extreme advanced snowmelt

(2014) Alessandro Petraglia et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Combined Effects of Extreme Climatic Events and Elevation on Nutritional Quality and Herbivory of Alpine Plants

(2014) Annette Leingärtner et al.   PLoS One

Elevation matters: contrasting effects of climate change on the vegetation development at different elevations in the Bavarian Alps

(2014) Sergey Rosbakh et al.   Alpine Botany

Adverse weather conditions for European wheat production will become more frequent with climate change

(2014) Miroslav Trnka et al.   Nature Climate Change

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Berchtesgaden National Park (Bavaria, Germany): a platform for interdisciplinary catchment research

(2013) T. Marke et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Intraspecific trait variability mediates the response of subalpine grassland communities to extreme drought events

(2013) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Projections of extreme precipitation events in regional climate simulations for Europe and the Alpine Region

(2013) J. Rajczak et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability

(2012) Christopher P.O. Reyer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant functional traits mediate reproductive phenology and success in response to experimental warming and snow addition in Tibet

(2012) Tsechoe Dorji et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phenological response of grassland species to manipulative snowmelt and drought along an altitudinal gradient

(2012) Christine Cornelius et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

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

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

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Winter climate change: a critical factor for temperate vegetation performance

(2010) Juergen Kreyling   ECOLOGY

Late snowmelt delays plant development and results in lower reproductive success in the High Arctic

(2010) Elisabeth J. Cooper et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

First come, first served: grasses have a head start on forbs with prompt nutrient patch occupation

(2009) Marie Šmilauerová et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Research frontiers in climate change: Effects of extreme meteorological events on ecosystems

(2008) Anke Jentsch et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

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

(2008) David W. Inouye   ECOLOGY

Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Plant Productivity and Tissue Die-Back are Modified by Community Composition

(2008) Juergen Kreyling et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Warming and drought alter C and N concentration, allocation and accumulation in a Mediterranean shrubland

(2008) JORDI SARDANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Beyond gradual warming: extreme weather events alter flower phenology of European grassland and heath species

(2008) ANKE JENTSCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species-specific responses of an alpine plant community under simulated environmental change

(2008) Kari Klanderud   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE