High‐mountain areas provide excellent opportunities to study the effects of combined abiotic
stresses on plant physiology given their variety of steep ecological gradients, low …

Aims Root systems play an essential role in grassland functioning in both acquisition and
storage of resources. Nevertheless, root functional traits have not received as much attention …

Assessing freezing community response and whether freezing resistance is related to other
functional traits is essential for understanding alpine community assemblages, particularly in …

Snow cover duration, which depends on winter precipitation and temperature, is decreasing
along several alpine areas around the world as a consequence of the global warming and …

Snow cover protects alpine plants from winter frost damage, kee** them under warmer
and more stable temperatures than if there were no snow. Future climate scenarios predict …

A comparison between maximum quantum yield of PSII photochemistry (F v/F m) and
chlorophyll fluorescence decrease ratio (R fd) for low and high temperature resistance was …

Freezing temperatures and summer droughts shape plant life in Mediterranean high-
elevation habitats. Thus, the impacts of climate change on plant survival for these species …

Positive interactions between species are known to play an important role in the structure
and dynamics of alpine plant communities. The balance between negative and positive …

Frost resistance (FR) is a fundamental process determining various aspects of plant life.
Measurements of FR remain challenging as existing methods are time‐and labour …

Little is known about tree height and height growth (as annual shoot elongation of the apical
part of vertical stems) of coniferous trees growing at various altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau …