Elevational and polar treelines have been studied for more than two centuries. The aim of
the present article is to highlight in retrospect the scope of treeline research, scientific …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …