Ecological responses of plant species and communities to climate warming: upward shift or range filling processes?

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

(2012) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

(2012) Stefan Dullinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Post-glacial migration lag restricts range filling of plants in the European Alps

(2011) S. Dullinger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Are Swiss birds tracking climate change?

(2010) Ramona Maggini et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

(2010) ROBIN ENGLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2010) THOMAS DIRNBÖCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Vegetation colonization of permafrost-related landslides, Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic

(2010) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Alpine flora dynamics - a critical review of responses to climate change in the Swedish Scandes since the early 1950s

(2010) Leif Kullman   NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY

How important is plot relocation accuracy when interpreting re-visitation studies of vegetation change?

(2010) Louise C. Ross et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

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

(2009) CHRISTOPHE F. RANDIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Alpines, trees, and refugia in Europe

(2009) H. John B. Birks et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover

(2009) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON ALPINE GLACIER FOREFIELD ECOSYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN ALPS

(2008) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

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

Small-scale plant species distribution in snowbeds and its sensitivity to climate change

(2008) Christian Schöb et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms

(2008) D. D. Breshears et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE