Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns

EL Zvereva, MV Kozlov - Ecology Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The premise that the intensity of biotic interactions decreases with increasing latitudes and
elevations is broadly accepted; however, whether these geographical patterns can be …

Variability in the expansion of trees and shrubs in boreal Alaska

JF Brodie, CA Roland, SE Stehn, E Smirnova - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The expansion of shrubs and trees across high‐latitude ecosystems is one of the most
dramatic ecological manifestations of climate change. Most of the work quantifying these …

Best practices for estimating near‐surface air temperature lapse rates

AC Lute, JT Abatzoglou - International Journal of Climatology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The near‐surface air temperature lapse rate is the predominant source of spatial
temperature variability in mountains and controls snowfall and snowmelt regimes, glacier …

[HTML][HTML] Elevation effects on air temperature in a topographically complex mountain valley in the Spanish Pyrenees

F Navarro-Serrano, JI López-Moreno, C Azorin-Molina… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Air temperature changes as a function of elevation were analyzed in a valley of the Spanish
Pyrenees. We analyzed insolation, topography and meteorological conditions in order to …

Probabilistic spatial meteorological estimates for Alaska and the Yukon

AJ Newman, MP Clark, AW Wood… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is challenging to develop observationally based spatial estimates of meteorology in Alaska
and the Yukon. Complex topography, frozen precipitation undercatch, and extremely sparse …

Evaluating the fitness for use of citizen science data for wildlife monitoring

HA Fischer, LR Gerber, EA Wentz - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Contributory citizen science programs focused on ecological monitoring can produce fine-
grained and expansive data sets across spatial and temporal scales. With this data …

Maximum and minimum air temperature lapse rates in the Andean region of Ecuador and Peru

F Navarro‐Serrano, JI López-Moreno… - 2020 - digital.csic.es
To know the vertical distribution of air temperature is complex, and this is necessary for
different applications. The main explanatory variable of air temperature is elevation above …

NDVI–Climate relationships in high-latitude mountains of Alaska and Yukon Territory

D Verbyla, TA Kurkowski - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
High-latitude systems in northwestern Canada and Alaska have warmed rapidly. The aim of
this study was to examine how a remotely sensed proxy of vegetation productivity varied …

Snow disappearance timing associated with elevation and vegetation type determines heterogeneity in spring onset in interior Alaska

S Kawashima, M Ueyama, Y Harazono, H Iwata… - Polar Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The spatiotemporal variations in spring onset were evaluated based on a satellite-derived
enhanced vegetation index (EVI), land surface temperature, and snow cover from 2000 to …

The variation of precipitation and rain days for different intensity classes during the rainy season in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China

C Zhao, Y Ding, S Yao - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2021 - Springer
As an important indicator of climate change, precipitation variability is critical to the
ecological environment in arid and semi-arid mountains. This study examined the variability …