Alpine shrub-and grasslands are shaped by extreme climatic conditions such as a long-
lasting snow cover and a short vegetation period. Such ecosystems are expected to be …

Subalpine shrubs are undergoing, or have experienced profound changes by force of recent
climate anomalies, such as the alteration in temporal niche of phenophases and the …

The submitted paper evaluates the potential impact of the expected climate change on the
climatic water balance of particular vegetation stages of the West Carpathians in Slovakia …

In our paper we deal with the changes in the rainfall interception process of a climax spruce
forest in the growing season (approximately from May to October) during its die-back …

In the period from 1992 to 2013, more than 3.8 million m3 of spruce wood from an area of 55
thousand ha of forests in the Kysuce region (Western Carpathians) was affected by bark …

Physiological reactions of 25-year-old Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) trees to
drought were examined during 2009 vegetation period. During the second half of summer …

In the nineties of the 20th century, forest ecosystems in the Silesian Lowland were seriously
disturbed by a large disaster with massive increase in the occurrence of biotic and abiotic …

Populations of European ungulates have grown substantially over recent decades, resulting
in considerable environmental and socio-economic impacts. Availability and quality of …

Study of the effects of climate change on upper tree limit has mainly focused on the diversity
of tree species as a result of the ability of species to tolerate temperature and moisture …

The field work and data collection for this thesis was carried out within the framework of the
third vegetation sampling campaign of the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine …