Globally, treeline ecotones vary from abrupt lines to extended zones of increasingly small, stunted and/or dispersed trees. These spatial patterns contain information about the …
Context Land use legacies of human activities and recent post-abandonment forest expansion have extensively modified numerous forest landscapes throughout the European …
FK Holtmeier, G Broll - Journal of Environmental Protection, 2018 - scirp.org
This article considers disturbances caused by abiotic and biotic factors and human impact in the ecological region extending from subalpine forest to the upper tree limit. Both abiotic and …
X Yang, X Xiao, C Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Woody plant encroachment has been long observed in the southern Great Plains (SGP) of the United States. However, our understanding of its spatiotemporal variability, which is the …
Worldwide treelines seem to share a twofold condition: over 50% of them are advancing and 50% appear to be static. In this study we compared the encroachment patterns of four pine …
Questions How do climate, topography and human impact affect land‐cover changes, elevation of treelines and dominant tree species composition at multiple spatial scales …
Most Tibetan people make their living through pastoralism, with livestock grazing being widespread throughout the Tibetan Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau is also home to the …
T Wang, L Dong, Z Liu - Forest Ecology and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Forests have been planted over large areas during forest restoration programs in Northeast China. An important challenge is transforming forest species structure by allowing …
Long‐term tree recruitment dynamics of subalpine forests mainly depend on temperature changes, but little is known about the feedbacks between historical land use and climate …