Mountain forest ecosystems provide us with life-supporting ecosystem services that are
valuable for local, regional, and global communities. Ecological niche-based models have …

Nepal is a country of contrast, with varying altitude, climate and vegetation from the top of
high mountains to the tropical forest in low lands. The terrestrial vegetation has rapidly been …

Predicting climatic niche of species and projecting their potential range shifts in geographic
distribution under future climate scenarios is essential for assessing impacts of climate …

Climate change is considered as an important environmental issue globally, affecting
geographic distributions of endangered species, and reducing the extent of their natural …

Current, spatially explicit, and high-resolution assessments of population vulnerability to
climate change and variability in develo** countries can be difficult to create due to lack of …

The study of vegetation and land-use change has been frequently used to assess the
anthropogenic impacts on the distribution and uses of medicinal plant species. Using data …

Our study explores the nexus between forests and local communities through participatory
assessments and household surveys in the central Himalayan region. Forest dependency …

Tree growth is largely driven by climate conditions in arid and alpine areas. A strong change
in climate from warm-dry to warm-wet has already been observed in northwest China …

Global change affects vegetation cover and processes through multiple pathways. Long time
series of surface land surface properties derived from satellite remote sensing give unique …

Abstract Study region Gordon Gulch, an upper-montane forest watershed in the Colorado
Front Range. Study focus As the climate warms, the fraction of precipitation falling as snow is …