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Ecotonal Dynamics of the Altitudinal Forest Limit are Affected by Terrain and Vegetation Structure Variables: An Example from the Sudetes Mountains in Central Europe

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Distribution and estimation of aboveground biomass of alpine shrubs along an altitudinal gradient in a small watershed of the Qilian Mountains, China

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The forest–alpine ecotone: a multi-scale approach to spatial and temporal dynamics of treeline change at Niwot Ridge

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Vegetation change at high elevation: scale dependence and interactive effects on Niwot Ridge

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Contrasting long-term alpine and subalpine precipitation trends in a mid-latitude North American mountain system, Colorado Front Range, USA

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How will biotic interactions influence climate change-induced range shifts?

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Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecologically Important Climate Variables at Coarse and Fine Scales in a High-Snow Mountain Landscape

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Geomorphic Determinants of Species Composition of Alpine Tundra, Glacier National Park, U.S.A.

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Modeling impacts of climate change on Joshua trees at their southern boundary: How scale impacts predictions

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Recent expansion of erect shrubs in the Low Arctic: evidence from Eastern Nunavik

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Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

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

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The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography

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Spatial variability of biotic and abiotic tree establishment constraints across a treeline ecotone in the Alaska Range

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21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

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Impact of landscape predictors on climate change modelling of species distributions: a case study with Eucalyptus fastigata in southern New South Wales, Australia

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Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

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Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

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Disregarding topographical heterogeneity biases species turnover assessments based on bioclimatic models

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Climate change at the landscape scale: predicting fine-grained spatial heterogeneity in warming and potential refugia for vegetation

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(2008) Jason D. Fridley   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

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

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

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Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

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High levels of microbial biomass and activity in unvegetated tropical and temperate alpine soils

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A topography-based model of forest cover at the alpine tree line in the tropical Andes

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