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

Indirect effects of global change accumulate to alter plant diversity but not ecosystem function in alpine tundra

(2015) Emily C. Farrer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shrub Expansion Over the Past 62 Years in Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra: Possible Causes and Consequences

(2014) Adam Formica et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Fluxes of energy, water, and carbon dioxide from mountain ecosystems at Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2014) John F. Knowles et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Plant–microbe interactions at multiple scales across a high-elevation landscape

(2014) Steven K. Schmidt et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

A slide down a slippery slope – alpine ecosystem responses to nitrogen deposition

(2014) William D. Bowman et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Nutrient Addition Dramatically Accelerates Microbial Community Succession

(2014) Joseph E. Knelman et al.   PLoS One

Assembly of root-associated bacteria communities: interactions between abiotic and biotic factors

(2014) Sarah L Dean et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Nitrogen deposition, plant carbon allocation, and soil microbes: Changing interactions due to enrichment

(2013) Emily C. Farrer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

(2013) Janneke HilleRisLambers et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The Response of Alpine Salix Shrubs to Long-Term Browsing Varies with Elevation and Herbivore Density

(2013) James D. M. Speed et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

(2013) B. J. Butterfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nitrogen deposition alters plant-fungal relationships: linking belowground dynamics to aboveground vegetation change

(2013) Sarah L. Dean et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Availability of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi to Black Spruce above the Present Treeline in Eastern Labrador

(2013) Laura Reithmeier et al.   PLoS One

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

Working toward integrated models of alpine plant distribution

(2013) Bradley Z. Carlson et al.   Alpine Botany

Changes in alpine vegetation over 21 years: Are patterns across a heterogeneous landscape consistent with predictions?

(2013) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   Ecosphere

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

(2012) George P. Malanson et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Regime shift on the roof of the world: Alpine meadows converting to shrublands in the southern Himalayas

(2012) Jodi S. Brandt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate change in mountains: a review of elevation-dependent warming and its possible causes

(2012) Imtiaz Rangwala et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

(2012) Vivian Astrup Felde et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Fungal communities at the edge: Ecological lessons from high alpine fungi

(2012) S.K. Schmidt et al.   Fungal Ecology

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nitrogen critical loads for alpine vegetation and soils in Rocky Mountain National Park

(2012) William D. Bowman et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range

(2012) Andrew B. Moyes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Secondary Controls of Alpine Treeline Elevations in the Western USA

(2012) Darren R. Grafius et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Microtopographic heterogeneity constrains alpine plant diversity, Glacier National Park, MT

(2012) Jonathan P. Rose et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Conifer seedling recruitment across a gradient from forest to alpine tundra: effects of species, provenance, and site

(2012) C. Castanha et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Elevation-Dependent Temperature Trends in the Rocky Mountain Front Range: Changes over a 56- and 20-Year Record

(2012) Chris R. McGuire et al.   PLoS One

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Co-Occurrence Patterns of Plants and Soil Bacteria in the High-Alpine Subnival Zone Track Environmental Harshness

(2012) Andrew J. King et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

(2011) Terry V. Callaghan et al.   AMBIO

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

(2011) David R. Johnson et al.   AMBIO

Mountain Treelines: A Roadmap for Research Orientation

(2011) George P. Malanson et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Coincidence of the alpine–nival ecotone with the summer snowline

(2011) M Gottfried et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Host Identity Impacts Rhizosphere Fungal Communities Associated with Three Alpine Plant Species

(2011) Katie M. Becklin et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting Diversity Patterns of Crenarchaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in an Alpine Landscape

(2011) Lucie Zinger et al.   PLoS One

Ecophysiological variation in two provenances of Pinus flexilis seedlings across an elevation gradient from forest to alpine

(2011) Keith Reinhardt et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Recent hydrologic change in a Colorado alpine basin: an indicator of permafrost thaw?

(2011) Nel Caine   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Multi-scale Influences of Slope Aspect and Spatial Pattern on Ecotonal Dynamics at Upper Treeline in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

(2010) Grant P. Elliott et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Range Expansion of Thermophilic Aspen (Populus tremula L.) in the Swedish Subarctic

(2010) Rik Van Bogaert et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

(2010) Loïc Pellissier et al.   ECOGRAPHY

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

(2010) ROBIN ENGLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Influences of 20th-century warming at the upper tree line contingent on local-scale interactions: evidence from a latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA

(2010) Grant P. Elliott   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biogeography and habitat modelling of high-alpine bacteria

(2010) Andrew J. King et al.   Nature Communications

Negative Associations between Seedlings and Adult Plants in Two Alpine Plant Communities

(2009) Tara A. Forbis   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

A comparison of water and carbon dioxide exchange at a windy alpine tundra and subalpine forest site near Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2009) Peter D. Blanken et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Winter climate change in alpine tundra: plant responses to changes in snow depth and snowmelt timing

(2009) Sonja Wipf et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter?

(2009) Robin Engler et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

Herbivores inhibit climate-driven shrub expansion on the tundra

(2009) JOHAN OLOFSSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Climate-induced changes in high elevation stream nitrate dynamics

(2009) JILL S. BARON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows

(2009) BRUCE C. FORBES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in the Timing of Snowmelt and Streamflow in Colorado: A Response to Recent Warming

(2009) David W. Clow   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Plant diversity, species turnover and shifts in functional traits in coastal dune vegetation: Results from permanent plots over a 52-year period

(2009) A. T. Kuiters et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mycorrhizal and Dark-Septate Fungi in Plant Roots Above 4270 Meters Elevation in the Andes and Rocky Mountains

(2008) S. K. Schmidt et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

PLANT AND MICROBE CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN A DIRECTIONALLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

(2008) Katharine N. Suding et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling

(2008) Diana R. Nemergut et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Topographic controls on snow distribution, soil moisture, and species diversity of herbaceous alpine vegetation, Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2008) M. I. Litaor et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Comparing Simulated and Measured Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes over Snow under a Pine Canopy to Improve an Energy Balance Snowmelt Model

(2008) D. Marks et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Nitrogen preferences and plant-soil feedbacks as influenced by neighbors in the alpine tundra

(2008) I. W. Ashton et al.   OECOLOGIA

Links between plant litter chemistry, species diversity, and below-ground ecosystem function

(2008) C. L. Meier 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

Upward migration of vascular plants following a climate warming trend in the Alps

(2007) Gilberto Parolo et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY