Shrub expansion and alpine plant community change: 40-year record from Niwot Ridge, Colorado

Snow cover is a neglected driver of Arctic biodiversity loss

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Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

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

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Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

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Botany and a changing world: Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Biological Change

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Historical ecology: Using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change

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

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Phenological Changes in Alpine Plants in Response to Increased Snowpack, Temperature, and Nitrogen

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(2012) DAVID B. LINDENMAYER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

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Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

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

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Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

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

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A Richer, Greener and Smaller Alpine World: Review and Projection of Warming-Induced Plant Cover Change in the Swedish Scandes

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

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

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Counterbalancing effects of competition for resources and facilitation against grazing in alpine snowbed communities

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