Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

JM Alexander, L Chalmandrier, J Lenoir… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid climatic changes and increasing human influence at high elevations around the world
will have profound impacts on mountain biodiversity. However, forecasts from statistical …

Above-and belowground linkages shape responses of mountain vegetation to climate change

F Hagedorn, K Gavazov, JM Alexander - Science, 2019 - science.org
Upward shifts of mountain vegetation lag behind rates of climate warming, partly related to
interconnected changes belowground. Here, we unravel above-and belowground linkages …

Plant community diversity will decline more than increase under climatic warming

S Harrison - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Regions and localities may lose many species to extinction under rapid climate change and
may gain other species that colonize from nearby warmer environments. Here, it is argued …

Human disturbance and upward expansion of plants in a warming climate

M Dainese, S Aikio, PE Hulme, A Bertolli… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to trigger an upward expansion of plants in mountain regions,
and, although there is strong evidence that many native species have already shifted their …

Herbivores in Arctic ecosystems: effects of climate change and implications for carbon and nutrient cycling

AM Koltz, L Gough, JR McLaren - … of the New York Academy of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic terrestrial herbivores influence tundra carbon and nutrient dynamics through their
consumption of resources, waste production, and habitat‐modifying behaviors. The strength …

Effects of large herbivores on tundra vegetation in a changing climate, and implications for rewilding

J Olofsson, E Post - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In contrast to that of the Pleistocene epoch, between approximately 2.6 million and 10 000
years before present, the extant community of large herbivores in Arctic tundra is species …

A review of climate change impacts on the ecosystem services in the Saami Homeland in Finland

I Markkula, M Turunen, S Rasmus - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is (i) to review the recent studies on weather and climate change in
Finnish Sápmi and to present the literature review findings alongside our survey on the …

Plant canopies promote climatic disequilibrium in Mediterranean recruit communities

MA Perez‐Navarro, F Lloret… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Current rates of climate change are exceeding the capacity of many plant species to track
climate, thus leading communities to be in disequilibrium with climatic conditions. Plant …

Herbivores rescue diversity in warming tundra by modulating trait-dependent species losses and gains

E Kaarlejärvi, A Eskelinen, J Olofsson - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Climate warming is altering the diversity of plant communities but it remains unknown which
species will be lost or gained under warming, especially considering interactions with other …

Prescriptive evolution to conserve and manage biodiversity

TB Smith, MT Kinnison, SY Strauss… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
We are witnessing a global, but unplanned, evolutionary experiment with the biodiversity of
the planet. Anthropogenic disturbances such as habitat degradation and climate change …