Past the climate optimum: Recruitment is declining at the world's highest juniper shrublines on the Tibetan Plateau

A millennium-long perspective on high-elevation pine recruitment in the Spanish central Pyrenees

(2018) Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Moisture availability limits subalpine tree establishment

(2018) Robert A. Andrus et al.   ECOLOGY

Global drivers of tree seedling establishment at alpine treelines in a changing climate

(2018) Signe Lett et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Increasingly Important Role of Atmospheric Aridity on Tibetan Alpine Grasslands

(2018) Jinzhi Ding et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Tree rings reveal a major episode of forest mortality in the late 18th century on the Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Ouya Fang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Moisture-mediated responsiveness of treeline shifts to global warming in the Himalayas

(2018) Shalik Ram Sigdel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Higher climate warming sensitivity of Siberian larch in small than large forest islands in the fragmented Mongolian forest steppe

(2017) Elmira Khansaritoreh et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

(2017) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Increased stem density and competition may diminish the positive effects of warming at alpine treeline

(2016) Yafeng Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-term forest resilience to climate change indicated by mortality, regeneration, and growth in semiarid southern Siberia

(2016) Chongyang Xu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest

(2016) Lara M. Kueppers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Colonization in Mediterranean old-fields: the role of dispersal and plant-plant interactions

(2016) Ana I. García-Cervigón et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Species interactions slow warming-induced upward shifts of treelines on the Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Eryuan Liang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Slope Aspect Mediates Fine-Scale Tree Establishment Patterns at Upper Treeline during Wet and Dry Periods of the 20th Century

(2015) Grant P. Elliott et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Global warming-related tree growth decline and mortality on the north-eastern Tibetan plateau

(2015) Eryuan Liang et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Facilitation stabilizes moisture-controlled alpine juniper shrublines in the central Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Yafeng Wang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Miaogen Shen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

(2015) Ulf Büntgen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Moisture rivals temperature in limiting photosynthesis by trees establishing beyond their cold-edge range limit under ambient and warmed conditions

(2015) Andrew B. Moyes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of summer precipitation and summer temperature in establishment and growth of dwarf shrub Betula nana in northeast Siberian tundra

(2015) Bingxi Li et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Impact of plot shape and size on the evaluation of treeline dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Yafeng Wang et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

A novel framework for disentangling the scale-dependent influences of abiotic factors on alpine treeline position

(2014) Bradley S. Case et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Is the growth of birch at the upper timberline in the Himalayas limited by moisture or by temperature?

(2014) Eryuan Liang et al.   ECOLOGY

Population structure and dynamics of Arctic willow (Salix arctica) in the High Arctic

(2014) Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A shift in cloud cover over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1600: evidence from regional tree-ring δ18O and its linkages to tropical oceans

(2014) Xiaohong Liu et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

(2014) Shilong Piao et al.   Nature Communications

Patterns of shrub expansion in Alaskan arctic river corridors suggest phase transition

(2014) Adam T. Naito et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Rapid warming accelerates tree growth decline in semi-arid forests of Inner Asia

(2013) Hongyan Liu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biotic interactions limit species richness in an alpine plant community, especially under experimental warming

(2013) Siri L. Olsen et al.   OIKOS

Intraspecific competition replaces interspecific facilitation as abiotic stress decreases: The shifting nature of plant–plant interactions

(2013) Ana I. García-Cervigón et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Effects of neighboring woody plants on target trees with emphasis on effects of understorey shrubs on overstorey physiology in forest communities: a mini-review

(2012) M. Li et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Grant P. Elliott   ECOLOGY

The altitudinal distribution center of a widespread cushion species is related to an optimum combination of temperature and precipitation in the central Tibetan Plateau

(2012) R. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

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

Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy

(2011) Eryuan Liang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

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

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Late Holocene Asian summer monsoon variability reflected byδ18O in tree-rings from Tibetan junipers

(2011) Jussi Grießinger et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Little change in the fir tree-line position on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau after 200 years of warming

(2011) Eryuan Liang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

August temperature variability in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since AD 1385 inferred from tree rings

(2011) Hai-Feng Zhu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Four millennia of woodland structure and dynamics at the Arctic treeline of eastern Canada

(2010) Sarah Auger et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Diverging climate trends in Mongolian taiga forests influence growth and regeneration of Larix sibirica

(2010) Choimaa Dulamsuren et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of a warmer climate on seed germination in the subarctic

(2009) Ann Milbau et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Water and nutrients alter herbaceous competitive effects on tree seedlings in a semi-arid savanna

(2009) Cornelis van der Waal et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The impact of temperature regimes on development, dormancy breaking and germination of dwarf shrub seeds from arctic, alpine and boreal sites

(2008) Bente Jessen Graae et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY