Community and ecosystem responses to elevational gradients: processes, mechanisms, and insights for global change

MK Sundqvist, NJ Sanders… - Annual review of ecology …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Community structure and ecosystem processes often vary along elevational gradients. Their
responses to elevation are commonly driven by changes in temperature, and many …
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C Ballabio, P Borrelli, J Spinoni, K Meusburger… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Rainfall erosivity as a dynamic factor of soil loss by water erosion is modelled intra-annually
for the first time at European scale. The development of Rainfall Erosivity Database at …

Altitude acts as an environmental filter on phylogenetic composition, traits and diversity in bee communities

B Hoiss, J Krauss, SG Potts… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Knowledge about the phylogeny and ecology of communities along environmental gradients
helps to disentangle the role of competition-driven processes and environmental filtering for …

Global functional and phylogenetic structure of avian assemblages across elevation and latitude

MA Jarzyna, I Quintero, W Jetz - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain systems are exceptionally species rich, yet the associated elevational gradients in
functional and phylogenetic diversity and their consistency across latitude remain little …

Vulnerability of cloud forest reserves in Mexico to climate change

R Ponce-Reyes, VH Reynoso-Rosales… - Nature climate …, 2012 - nature.com
Tropical montane cloud forests are among the most vulnerable terrestrial ecosystems to
climate change,, owing to their restricted climatic requirements and their narrow and …

Distinct soil bacterial communities along a small-scale elevational gradient in alpine tundra

C Shen, Y Ni, W Liang, J Wang, H Chu - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The elevational diversity pattern for microorganisms has received great attention recently but
is still understudied, and phylogenetic relatedness is rarely studied for microbial elevational …

Elevational patterns of bird functional and phylogenetic structure in the central Himalaya

Z Ding, H Hu, MW Cadotte, J Liang, Y Hu, X Si - Ecography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How communities assemble is a central and fundamental question in ecology. However, it
has been mired by conflicting conclusions about whether community assembly is driven by …