Elevation matters: contrasting effects of climate change on the vegetation development at different elevations in the Bavarian Alps

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Berchtesgaden National Park (Bavaria, Germany): a platform for interdisciplinary catchment research

(2013) T. Marke et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

(2013) Pieter De Frenne et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The oldest monitoring site of the Alps revisited: accelerated increase in plant species richness on Piz Linard summit since 1835

(2013) Sonja Wipf et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Long-term study of an alpine grassland: local constancy in times of global change

(2013) Tobias Windmaißer 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

Short-term variation in species richness across an altitudinal gradient of alpine summits

(2012) Susanna Venn et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

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

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

Four Decades of Plant Community Change in the Alpine Tundra of Southwest Yukon, Canada

(2011) Ryan K. Danby et al.   AMBIO

Community trait response to environment: disentangling species turnover vs intraspecific trait variability effects

(2011) Jan Lepš et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2011) Alistair S. Jump et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches

(2011) Susanna E. Venn et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

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

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Low impact of climate change on subalpine grasslands in the Swiss Northern Alps

(2008) PASCAL VITTOZ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

(2008) M. Kleyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Colonization processes on a central Alpine glacier foreland

(2008) Brigitta Erschbamer et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

One century of vegetation change on Isla Persa, a nunatak in the Bernina massif in the Swiss Alps

(2008) Pascal Vittoz et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

On the identification of the most suitable traits for plant functional trait analyses

(2008) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   OIKOS

Short-term signals of climate change along an altitudinal gradient in the South Alps

(2008) Brigitta Erschbamer et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY