Mountain areas are biodiversity hotspots and provide a multitude of ecosystem services of
irreplaceable socio‐economic value. In the European Alps, air temperature has increased at …

Modelling species across vast distributions in remote, high mountain regions like the
Himalayas remains a challenging task. Challenges include, first and foremost, large-scale …

To assess the impacts of climate change on vegetation from stand to global scales, models
of forest dynamics that include tree demography are needed. Such models are now …

Competition plays an important role in shaping species' spatial distributions. However, it
remains unclear where and how competition regulates species' range limits. In a field …

Comparing and evaluating global climate datasets and their effect on model performance in
regions with limited data availability has received little attention in ecological modeling …

Projections of landscape dynamics are uncertain, partly due to uncertainties in model
formulations. However, quantitative comparative analyses of forest landscape models are …

Over the past decades, global warming has led to a lengthening of the time window during
which temperatures remain favorable for carbon assimilation and tree growth, resulting in a …

The tree species composition of Swiss forests is influenced by both environmental
conditions and centuries of forest management, resulting in varying degrees of naturalness …

Widely observed inertia of forest communities contrasts with climate change projections that
suggest dramatic alterations of forest composition for the coming decades. Disturbances …

Aim Distribution ranges of temperate tree species are shifting poleward and upslope into
cooler environments due to global warming. Successful regeneration is crucial for …