Rapid climatic changes and increasing human influence at high elevations around the world
will have profound impacts on mountain biodiversity. However, forecasts from statistical …

The alpine belt hosts the treeless vegetation above the high elevation climatic treeline. The
way alpine plants manage to thrive in a climate that prevents tree growth is through small …

Alpine plants have evolved a tight seasonal cycle of growth and senescence to cope with a
short growing season. The potential growing season length (GSL) is increasing because of …

The Alpine region is warming fast, and concurrently, the frequency and intensity of climate
extremes are increasing. It is currently unclear whether alpine ecosystems are sensitive or …

What seems like a trivial task is one of the most difficult ones in functional plant ecology and
biogeography: selecting the appropriate measures of temperature for an ecologically …

The alpine life zone is perhaps the only biome that occurs globally where mountains are
high enough. At latitudinally varying elevation, the alpine belt hosts small stature plants that …

Shrubs have increased in abundance and dominance in arctic and alpine regions in recent
decades. This often dramatic change, likely due to climate warming, has the potential to alter …

The scarcity of local plant extinctions following recent climate change has been explained by
demographic inertia and lags in the displacement of resident species by novel species …

Clonality in plants is widespread and includes species that span temporally and spatially
heterogeneous environments. Yet, theory predicts that clonally reproducing plants evolve at …

Earlier snowmelt and more frequent summer drought due to climate warming are considered
particularly influential for extratropical alpine plants, which are adapted to a short growing …