Low‐cost observations and experiments return a high value in plant phenology research

C McDonough MacKenzie… - Applications in plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant ecologists in the Anthropocene are tasked with documenting, interpreting, and
predicting how plants respond to environmental change. Phenology, the timing of seasonal …

Mountain plant communities: Uncertain sentinels?

GP Malanson, LM Resler, DR Butler… - Progress in Physical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Mountain plant communities are thought to be sensitive to climate change and, thus, able to
reveal its effects sooner than others. The status as sentinels of two plant communities are …

Plant performance and survival across transplant experiments depend upon temperature and precipitation change along elevation

G Midolo, C Wellstein - Journal of Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how plant individuals perform in non‐local sites is key in the context of
contemporary range shifts along elevation. Transplant experiments conducted in mountain …

Patterns of floral allocation along an elevation gradient: variation in Senecio subalpinus growing in the Tatra Mountains

P Kiełtyk - Alpine Botany, 2021 - Springer
This study examined the morphological variation in Senecio subalpinus WDJ
Koch.(Asteraceae) along a 950-m elevation gradient in the Tatra Mountains, Central Europe …

Geography and Environment Shape Landscape Genetics of Mediterranean Alpine Species Silene ciliata Poiret. (Caryophyllaceae)

J Morente-López, C García, C Lara-Romero… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The study of the drivers that shape spatial genetic structure across heterogeneous
landscapes is one of the main approaches used to understand population dynamics and …

Local adaptation in shell shape traits of a brooding chiton with strong population genomic differentiation

PM Salloum, SD Lavery, P de Villemereuil… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Comparing divergence in quantitative traits and neutral molecular markers, such as Q ST–F
ST comparisons, provides a means to distinguish between natural selection and genetic drift …

Habitat-specific effects of flowering advance on fruit-set success of alpine plants: A long-term record of flowering phenology and fruit-set success of Rhododendron …

G Kudo - Alpine Botany, 2021 - Springer
Global warming tends to accelerate flowering phenology of alpine plants, and it may cause a
decrease in fruit production due to lower pollinator activity and/or higher risk of frost damage …

Phenotypic and reproductive responses of an Andean violet to environmental variation across an elevational gradient

J Seguí, A Lázaro, A Traveset, C Salgado-Luarte… - Alpine Botany, 2018 - Springer
Environmental gradients in alpine systems may lead to differences in both abiotic conditions
and species interactions in very short distances. This may lead to reproductive and …

Elevational variation in morphology and biomass allocation in carpathian snowbell Soldanella carpatica (Primulaceae)

P Kiełtyk - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Plants growing along wide elevation gradients in mountains experience considerable
variations in environmental factors that vary across elevations. The most pronounced …