Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities

C Tovar, AF Carril, AG Gutiérrez… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is expected to impact mountain biodiversity by shifting species ranges
and the biomes they shape. The extent and regional variation in these impacts are still …

OCBIL theory examined: reassessing evolution, ecology and conservation in the world's ancient, climatically buffered and infertile landscapes

SD Hopper, H Lambers, FAO Silveira… - Biological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
OCBIL theory was introduced as a contribution towards understanding the evolution,
ecology and conservation of the biological and cultural diversity of old, climatically buffered …

[HTML][HTML] Warming reconstructs the elevation distributions of aboveground net primary production, plant species and phylogenetic diversity in alpine grasslands

J Wang, C Yu, G Fu - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Warming is an important climate change, both plant diversity and aboveground net primary
production (ANPP) are closely correlated with ecosystem functions and services. A field …

Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Espeletia Complex on Páramo Sky Islands in the Northern Andes

JB Valencia, J Mesa, JG León, S Madriñán… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Some of the largest impacts of climate change are expected in the environmentally
heterogeneous and species rich high mountain ecosystems. Among those, the Neotropical …

Low availability of functional seed trait data from the tropics could negatively affect global macroecological studies, predictive models and plant conservation

AM Visscher, F Vandelook… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Plant seeds have many traits that influence ecological functions, ex situ
conservation, restoration success and their sustainable use. Several seed traits are known …

Vegetation assembly, adaptive strategies and positive interactions during primary succession in the forefield of the last Venezuelan glacier

LD Llambí, A Melfo, LE Gámez, RC Pelayo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glaciers are receding at unprecedented rates in the alpine tropics, opening-up new areas
for ecosystem assembly. However, little is known about the patterns/mechanisms of primary …

Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates

DF Correa, PR Stevenson, MN Umaña… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in the geographic
distribution of the most common tree dispersal modes in Amazonia (endozoochory …

Effect of Experiment Warming on Soil Fungi Community of Medicago sativa, Elymus nutans and Hordeum vulgare in Tibet

Z Zhong, G Zhang, G Fu - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
The uncertainty response of soil fungi community to climate warming in alpine
agroecosystems will limit our ability to fully exploit and utilize soil fungi resources, especially …

Strategies of diaspore dispersal investment in Compositae: the case of the Andean highlands

C Tovar, L Hudson, F Cuesta, RI Meneses… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Understanding diaspore morphology and how much a
species invests on dispersal appendages is key for improving our knowledge of dispersal in …

Climate and plant traits alter the relationship between seed dispersal and seed dormancy in alpine environment

X Wang, X Zhou, M Zhang, K Donohue, M Hou… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Species employ seed dispersal and dormancy to mitigate competition and extinction risks in
uncertain environments. Theoretical insights suggest a trade-off in that efficiently dispersed …