Identifying the driving factors behind observed elevational range shifts on European mountains

Elevation gradient of successful plant traits for colonizing alpine summits under climate change

(2013) Magalì Matteodo et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Upward shift in elevational plant species ranges in Sikkilsdalen, central Norway

(2012) Vivian Astrup Felde et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Extrinsic regime shifts drive abrupt changes in regeneration dynamics at upper treeline in the Rocky Mountains, USA

(2012) Grant P. Elliott   ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Elevational advance of alpine plant communities is buffered by herbivory

(2012) James D. M. Speed et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Using historical plant surveys to track biodiversity on mountain summits

(2012) Veronika Stöckli et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

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

Forecasting Alpine Vegetation Change Using Repeat Sampling and a Novel Modeling Approach

(2011) David R. Johnson et al.   AMBIO

Factors driving mortality and growth at treeline: a 30-year experiment of 92 000 conifers

(2011) Ignacio Barbeito et al.   ECOLOGY

Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate

(2011) Christy M. McCain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

(2011) Amy L. Angert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate and glacier fluctuations at Jostedalsbreen and Folgefonna, southwestern Norway and in the western Alps from the ‘Little Ice Age’ until the present: The influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation

(2011) Patrizia Imhof et al.   HOLOCENE

Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species' Optimum Elevations

(2011) S. M. Crimmins et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

(2011) T. P. Dawson et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Coldest places on earth with angiosperm plant life

(2011) Christian Körner   Alpine Botany

Increasing Vascular Plant Richness on 13 High Mountain Summits in Southern Norway since the Early 1970s

(2010) Arvid Odland et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

(2010) ROBIN ENGLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Elevational species shifts in a warmer climate are overestimated when based on weather station data

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

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

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diaspore traits discriminate good from weak colonisers on high-elevation summits

(2009) Pascal Vittoz et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

The impact of climate change on future frontal variations of Briksdalsbreen, western Norway

(2009) Tron Laumann et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

(2009) M. W. Tingley 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

Norwegian mountain glaciers in the past, present and future

(2007) Atle Nesje et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE