Consequences of Treeline Shifts for the Diversity and Function of High Altitude Ecosystems

A model for non-equilibrium metapopulation dynamics utilizing data on species occupancy, patch ages and landscape history

(2014) Alejandro Ruete et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nitrogen limitation and microbial diversity at the treeline

(2014) Aurélie Thébault et al.   OIKOS

Seasonal variation in nitrogen fixation and effects of climate change in a subarctic heath

(2014) Signe Lett et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Low photosynthesis of treeline white spruce is associated with limited soil nitrogen availability in the Western Brooks Range, Alaska

(2013) Robert W. McNown et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Disparity in elevational shifts of European trees in response to recent climate warming

(2013) Sonia G. Rabasa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil warming alters microbial substrate use in alpine soils

(2013) Kathrin Streit et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Epiphyte metapopulation persistence after drastic habitat decline and low tree regeneration: time-lags and effects of conservation actions

(2013) Victor Johansson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

A multi-model assessment of climate change impacts on the distribution and productivity of ecosystems in China

(2013) H. Wang   Regional Environmental Change

First signs of carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass

(2013) Gert-Jan Nabuurs et al.   Nature Climate Change

Responses of trees to elevated carbon dioxide and climate change

(2012) Jose Kallarackal et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Effects of Warming on Shrub Abundance and Chemistry Drive Ecosystem-Level Changes in a Forest–Tundra Ecotone

(2012) Elina Kaarlejärvi et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Formation, succession and landscape history of Central-European summit raised bogs: A multiproxy study from the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains

(2012) Lydie Dudová et al.   HOLOCENE

Latitudinal forest advance in northernmost Norway since the early 20th century

(2012) Annika Hofgaard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Norway Spruce Shows Contrasting Changes in Below- Versus Above-Ground Carbon Partitioning towards the Alpine Treeline: Evidence from a Central European Case Study

(2011) Dietrich Hertel et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Rapid altitudinal migration of mountain plants in Taiwan and its implications for high altitude biodiversity

(2011) Alistair S. Jump et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

Subarctic and alpine tree line dynamics during the last 400 years in north-western and central Canada

(2011) Steven D. Mamet et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

Mineralizable soil nitrogen and labile soil organic matter in diverse long-term cropping systems

(2011) John T. Spargo et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Soil warming alters nitrogen cycling in a New England forest: implications for ecosystem function and structure

(2011) S. M. Butler et al.   OECOLOGIA

Non-analogous tree flora in the Scandes Mountains, Sweden, during the early Holocene - macrofossil evidence of rapid geographic spread and response to palaeoclimate

(2010) LEIF KULLMAN   BOREAS

Understory abundance, species diversity and functional attribute response to thinning in coniferous stands

(2010) Adrian Ares et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Disproportional risk for habitat loss of high-altitude endemic species under climate change

(2010) THOMAS DIRNBÖCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of high-elevation forest stands in southern Siberia

(2010) Vyacheslav I. Kharuk et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Subalpine vegetation pattern three decades after stand-replacing fire: effects of landscape context and topography on plant community composition, tree regeneration, and diversity

(2010) Jonathan D. Coop et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Climate warming and biomass accumulation of terrestrial plants: a meta-analysis

(2010) Delu Lin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interactive effects of vegetation type and elevation on aboveground and belowground properties in a subarctic tundra

(2010) Maja K. Sundqvist et al.   OIKOS

Quantifying the role of multiple landscape-scale drivers controlling epiphyte composition and richness in a conservation priority habitat (juniper scrub)

(2009) Christopher J. Ellis et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Distribution patterns, range size and niche breadth of Austrian endemic plants

(2009) Franz Essl et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming

(2009) Melanie A. Harsch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluating the benefit of avalanche protection forest with GIS-based risk analyses—A case study in Switzerland

(2009) Michaela Teich et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Growth–climate responses of high-elevation conifers in the central Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China

(2009) Ze-Xin Fan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Treeline shifts in the Ural mountains affect soil organic matter dynamics

(2009) ADRIAN KAMMER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest

(2009) JIA HU 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

Vegetation patterns at the alpine treeline ecotone: the influence of tree cover on abrupt change in species composition of alpine communities

(2009) E. Batllori et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Response of Pinus sibirica and Larix sibirica to climate change in southern Siberian alpine forest–tundra ecotone

(2009) Viacheslav I. Kharuk et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The altitude-for-latitude disparity in the range retractions of woody species

(2009) Alistair S. Jump et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Simple Spatial Model Exploring Positive Feedbacks at Tropical Alpine Treelines

(2008) Maaike Y. Bader et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Potential effects of climate change on plant communities in three montane nature reserves in Scotland, UK

(2008) Mandar R. Trivedi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Consequences of disturbance on epiphytic lichens in boreal and near boreal forests

(2008) Per Johansson   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Above ground biomass changes in the mountain birch forests and mountain heaths of Finnmarksvidda, northern Norway, in the period 1957–2006

(2008) H. Tømmervik et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Quantifying the response of forest carbon balance to future climate change in Northeastern China: Model validation and prediction

(2008) Changhui Peng et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Expanding forests and changing growth forms of Siberian larch at the Polar Urals treeline during the 20th century

(2008) NADEZHDA DEVI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rapid range expansion and community reorganization in response to warming

(2008) PETER C. le ROUX et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Exceptional carbon uptake in European forests during the warm spring of 2007: a data-model analysis

(2008) N. DELPIERRE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2008) Kari Klanderud   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont

(2008) B. Beckage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE