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A Humboldtian view of mountains

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

A TEST OF THE TREELINE CARBON LIMITATION HYPOTHESIS BY IN SITU CO<sub>2</sub>ENRICHMENT AND DEFOLIATION

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

A bioclimatic characterization of high elevation habitats in the Alborz mountains of Iran

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

A climate-based model to predict potential treeline position around the globe

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

A definition of mountains and their bioclimatic belts for global comparisons of biodiversity data

scientific article

A dynamic leaf gas-exchange strategy is conserved in woody plants under changing ambient CO2 : evidence from carbon isotope discrimination in paleo and CO2 enrichment studies.

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

A field study of the effects of elevated CO(2) on plant biomass and community structure in a calcareous grassland

scientific article published in January 1999

A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

A global inventory of mountains for bio-geographical applications

A greener Greenland? Climatic potential and long-term constraints on future expansions of trees and shrubs ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 19 August 2013)

A hierarchical inventory of the world's mountains for global comparative mountain science

publication published on 01 April 2022

A link between plant diversity, elevated CO2 and soil nitrate

article

A re-assessment of high elevation treeline positions and their explanation

scientific article

A simple method for testing leaf responses of tall tropical forest trees to elevated CO2.

scientific article published on September 1996

A test of the growth-limitation theory for alpine tree line formation in evergreen and deciduous taxa of the eastern Himalayas

scientific article published in April 2008

A world-wide study of high altitude treeline temperatures

scientific article published on 21 September 2010

Advances in Monitoring and Modelling Climate at Ecologically Relevant Scales

scientific article published in 2018

Alnus shrub expansion increases evapotranspiration in the Swiss Alps

scientific article published in 2017

Alnus viridis expansion contributes to excess reactive nitrogen release, reduces biodiversity and constrains forest succession in the Alps

Altitudinal increase of mobile carbon pools in Pinus cembra suggests sink limitation of growth at the Swiss treeline

scientific article

An alpine treeline in a carbon dioxide-rich world: synthesis of a nine-year free-air carbon dioxide enrichment study.

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity: Patterns, Causes and Ecosystem Consequences

scientific article published in 1997

Arctic and alpine biodiversity: patterns, causes and ecosystem consequences ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1994

Atmospheric science. Slow in, rapid out--carbon flux studies and Kyoto targets

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Author Correction: Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Belowground carbon trade among tall trees in a temperate forest

scientific article

Biodiversity and CO<sub>2</sub>: Global Change is Under Way

scientific article published in 1995

Biogeographic implications of plant stature and microclimate in cold regions

scientific article published on 26 June 2023

Biogeography of photoautotrophs in the high polar biome

scientific article

Biomass allocation and canopy development in spruce model ecosystems under elevated CO2 and increased N deposition

scientific article published in December 1997

Biomass allocation and seasonal non-structural carbohydrate dynamics do not explain the success of tall forbs in short alpine grassland

scientific article published in December 2021

Biomass turnover time in terrestrial ecosystems halved by land use

Canopy CO2 enrichment permits tracing the fate of recently assimilated carbon in a mature deciduous forest

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Carbon Flux and Growth in Mature Deciduous Forest Trees Exposed to Elevated CO2

scientific article published in Science

Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope signals for an entire alpine flora, based on herbarium samples

scientific article published in 2016

Carbon fluxes to the soil in a mature temperate forest assessed by 13C isotope tracing

scientific article published on 7 August 2004

Central European hardwood trees in a high-CO2future: synthesis of an 8-year forest canopy CO2enrichment project

scientific article published in 2013

Challenges in elevated CO2 experiments on forests

scientific article

Chronic in situ tissue cooling does not reduce lignification at the Swiss treeline but enhances the risk of ‘blue’ frost rings

scientific article published on 28 February 2023

Climate and plant cover co-determine the elevational reduction in evapotranspiration in the Swiss Alps

scientific article

Climate and soils together regulate photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination within C3 plants worldwide

article

Coldest places on earth with angiosperm plant life

article

Concepts in Alpine Plant Ecology

scientific article published in 2023

Concepts in empirical plant ecology

scientific article published on 11 November 2018

Consistent time allocation fraction to vegetation green-up versus senescence across northern ecosystems despite recent climate change

scientific article published on 7 June 2024

Construction costs, chemical composition and payback time of high- and low-irradiance leaves

scientific article

Convergence of leaf‐out towards minimum risk of freezing damage in temperate trees

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

Correction to: Weather modifies the spatial extent of carbohydrate transfers from CO2-supplied broad-leaved trees to ectomycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 23 October 2023

Creative Use of Mountain Biodiversity Databases: The Kazbegi Research Agenda of GMBA-DIVERSITAS

scientific article published in 2007

Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Defoliation reduces growth but not carbon reserves in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster trees

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Diversity of Life in a Changing World

scientific article published in 1995

Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems?

scientific article

Do the elevational limits of deciduous tree species match their thermal latitudinal limits?

article

Does carbon storage limit tree growth?

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Drought at erosion edges selects for a ‘hidden’ keystone species

scientific article published in 2011

Drought stress, growth and nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics of pine trees in a semi-arid forest

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

Drought-sensitivity ranking of deciduous tree species based on thermal imaging of forest canopies

scholarly article by Daniel Scherrer et al published December 2011 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Earlier leaf-out rather than difference in freezing resistance puts juvenile trees at greater risk of damage than adult trees

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Early season temperature controls cambial activity and total tree ring width at the alpine treeline

scientific article published in 2013

Ecological and Land Use Studies Along Elevational Gradients

scientific article published in 2007

Ecological consequences of the expansion of N₂-fixing plants in cold biomes.

scientific article

Ecological impacts of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment on terrestrial ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on September 15, 2003

Effects of elevated CO and phosphorus addition on productivity and community composition of intact monoliths from calcareous grassland

article

Effects of elevated CO2 and increased nitrogen deposition on photosynthesis and growth of understory plants in spruce model ecosystems

scientific article published on April 1996

Elevated CO2 reduces sap flux in mature deciduous forest trees

scientific article

Elevational adaptation and plasticity in seedling phenology of temperate deciduous tree species.

scientific article

Elevational species shifts in a warmer climate are overestimated when based on weather station data

scientific article

Elevational trends of biodiversity and plant traits do not converge—a test in the Helan Range, NW China

scientific article published in 2009

Emerging opportunities and challenges in phenology: a review

article

European deciduous trees exhibit similar safety margins against damage by spring freeze events along elevational gradients

article

Experimental evidence, global patterns of treeline position and climate provide no substance for a lignin limitation hypothesis of tree growth

scientific article published on 19 February 2024

Experimente der Natur: Warum der Klimawandel alpine Pflanzen weniger stört als viele glauben ⬇️

article by Christian Körner published in Syntopia Alpina (2022)

Explaining the exceptional 4,270 m high elevation limit of an evergreen oak in the south-eastern Himalaya

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Fine root responses of mature deciduous forest trees to free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE)

article

Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought

scientific article published in April 2021

Forest soil respiration reflects plant productivity across a temperature gradient in the Alps

scientific article published on 10 June 2012

Four ways to define the growing season

scientific article published on 14 June 2023

Fruit production in three masting tree species does not rely on stored carbon reserves

scientific article published on 10 January 2013

Genetic vs. non-genetic responses of leaf morphology and growth to elevation in temperate tree species

article

Global Statistics of “Mountain” and “Alpine” Research

scientific article published in 2009

Grasshopper populations across 2000 m of altitude: is there life history adaptation?

scientific article published in 2004

Grasshoppers cope with low host plant quality by compensatory feeding and food selection: N limitation challenged

scientific article published on 16 November 2005

Growth and carbon relations of maturePicea abiestrees under 5 years of free-air CO2enrichment

scientific article published in 2016

Growth and carbon relations of temperate deciduous tree species at their upper elevation range limit

Growth responses of an alpine grassland to elevated CO2.

scientific article published on January 1996

Growth, water and nitrogen relations in grassland model ecosystems of the semi-arid Negev of Israel exposed to elevated CO2.

scientific article published in July 2001

Halving sunlight reveals no carbon limitation of aboveground biomass production in alpine grassland

scientific article published on 26 January 2020

Harnessing user library statistics for research evaluation and knowledge domain visualization

scholarly article published 2012

Higher plant diversity enhances soil stability in disturbed alpine ecosystems

article

How accurately can minimum temperatures at the cold limits of tree species be extrapolated from weather station data?

scholarly article by Chris Kollas et al published January 2014 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Hydrological consequences of declining land use and elevated CO2in alpine grassland

scientific article

Increased Nitrogen Availability in the Soil Under Mature Picea abies Trees Exposed to Elevated CO2 Concentrations

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Increased nitrate availability in the soil of a mixed mature temperate forest subjected to elevated CO2 concentration (canopy FACE)

Individuals have limitations, not communities - A response to Marrs, Weiher and Lortie et al.

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Induction of indirect N 2 O and NO emissions by atmospheric nitrogen deposition in (semi-)natural ecosystems in Switzerland

scientific article published in February 2015

Influence of elevated CO2 on canopy development and red:far-red ratios in two-storied stands ofRicinus communis.

scientific article published in July 1993

Influences of mowing and grazing on plant species composition in calcareous grassland ⬇️

scientific article published in 1998

Inorganic nitrogen storage in alpine snow pack in the Central Alps (Switzerland)

article

Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Inter- and intra-annual stable carbon and oxygen isotope signals in response to drought in Mediterranean pines

article

Interactive effects of plant species diversity and elevated CO2 on soil biota and nutrient cycling.

scientific article

Interrill erosion at disturbed alpine sites: Effects of plant functional diversity and vegetation cover

article

Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral

Leaf carbohydrate responses to CO2 enrichment at the top of a tropical forest

scientific article published on August 1998

Leaf turnover and herbivory in the tall tussock grass Festuca orthophylla in the Andean Altiplano

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

Less Pronounced Drought Responses in Ring-Porous than in Diffuse-Porous Temperate Tree Species

scientific article published in 2022

Less pronounced drought responses in ring-porous than in diffuse-porous temperate tree species

scientific article published in 2022

Life at 0 °C: the biology of the alpine snowbed plant Soldanella pusilla

scientific article published in 2019

Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

article

Long term effects of naturally elevated CO on mediterranean grassland and forest trees

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

Long-term 13C labeling provides evidence for temporal and spatial carbon allocation patterns in mature Picea abies

article

Long-term monitoring of high-elevation terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Alps – a five-year synthesis

scientific article published on 22 June 2022

Long-term persistence in a changing climate: DNA analysis suggests very old ages of clones of alpine Carex curvula.

scientific article

Losing half the conductive area hardly impacts the water status of mature trees

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Loss of plant biodiversity eliminates stimulatory effect of elevated CO2 on earthworm activity in grasslands

scientific article

Low temperature limits for root growth in alpine species are set by cell differentiation

scientific article

MRI Newsletter 8: Georeferenced Biological Databases—A Tool for Understanding Mountain Biodiversity

scientific article published in 2007

Microscale patterns of plant species distribution, biomass and leaf tissue quality in calcareous grassland ⬇️

scientific article published in 1998

Mountain Biodiversity, Its Causes and Function

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Mountain biodiversity

scientific article published in 2011

Mountain biodiversity, its causes and function.

scientific article

Mountain definitions and their consequences

scientific article published in 2021

Mountain ecosystems in a changing environment

Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling.

scientific article published on 21 November 2013

Multiple mycorrhization at the coldest place known for Angiosperm plant life

scientific article published on 5 September 2014

Next generation of elevated [CO2] experiments with crops: a critical investment for feeding the future world

scientific article published on 3 June 2008

Nitrogen status of conifer needles at the alpine treeline

scientific article published in 2009

No down-regulation of leaf photosynthesis in mature forest trees after three years of exposure to elevated CO2

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

No need for pipes when the well is dry-a comment on hydraulic failure in trees

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

No overall stimulation of soil respiration under mature deciduous forest trees after 7 years of CO2 enrichment

Non-structural carbohydrate pools in a tropical forest

scientific article published on December 2004

Not every high‐latitude or high‐elevation forest edge is a treeline

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

Nutrient relations in calcareous grassland under elevated CO

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Oecologia enters a new era

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

On the use of elevation, altitude, and height in the ecological and climatological literature ⬇️

scientific article published on August 18, 2012

Phenology Under Global Warming

scientific article published in Science

Photoperiod and temperature responses of bud swelling and bud burst in four temperate forest tree species.

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

Photoperiod sensitivity of bud burst in 14 temperate forest tree species

article

Photosynthetic enhancement and diurnal stem and soil carbon fluxes in a mature Norway spruce stand under elevated CO 2

scholarly article by Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader et al published April 2016 in Environmental and Experimental Botany

Phylogenetically balanced evidence for structural and carbon isotope responses in plants along elevational gradients

scientific article

Physiological minimum temperatures for root growth in seven common European broad-leaved tree species.

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Plant CO2 responses: an issue of definition, time and resource supply

scientific article published on January 2006

Plant adaptation to cold climates

scientific article

Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

scientific article

Plant diversity effects on soil heterotrophic activity in experimental grassland ecosystems

scientific article published in 2000

Plant growth modelling and applications: the increasing importance of plant architecture in growth models

scientific article published on 03 April 2008

Plant life in cold climates.

scientific article published in January 1988

Plant species dominance shifts across erosion edge-meadow transects in the Swiss Alps

scientific article

Poor methodology for predicting large-scale tree die-off

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

Precipitation manipulation experiments--challenges and recommendations for the future

scientific article

Rapid advance of climatic tree limits in the Eastern Alps explained by on-site temperatures

scientific article published on 24 June 2024

Rapid mixing between old and new C pools in the canopy of mature forest trees

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Reduced early growing season freezing resistance in alpine treeline plants under elevated atmospheric CO2

article

Respiratory fluxes and fine root responses in mature Picea abies trees exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations

article

Response: complexities of sustainable forest use

article

Responses of Humid Tropical Trees to Rising CO<sub>2</sub>

scientific article published in 2009

Responses of deciduous forest trees to severe drought in Central Europe

scientific article published on June 2005

Responses to recent climatewarming of <i>Pinus sylvestris</i> and <i>Pinus cembra</i> within their montane transition zone in the Swiss Alps

scientific article published in 1995

Rhizosphere 'Trade' Is an Unnecessary Analogy: Response to Noë

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Scientists need back-up by climate organizations

scientific article published in Nature

Share the wealth: Trees with greater ectomycorrhizal species overlap share more carbon

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Shrub Expansion of Alnus viridis Drives Former Montane Grassland into Nitrogen Saturation

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Small differences in arrival time influence composition and productivity of plant communities

scientific article published on 27 November 2007

Soil invertebrate abundance, diversity, and community composition across steep high elevation snowmelt gradients in the European Alps

scientific article published on 2 January 2021

Soil moisture dynamics of calcareous grassland under elevated CO2

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Soil moisture effects determine CO2 responses of grassland species

scientific article published on November 2000

Species specific and environment induced variation of δ(13)C and δ(15)N in alpine plants

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Species-specific tree growth responses to 9 years of CO2 enrichment at the alpine treeline

article

Spring frost and growing season length co-control the cold range limits of broad-leaved trees

article

Spring patterns of freezing resistance and photosynthesis of two leaf phenotypes of Hedera helix

scientific article published on 06 August 2014

Stomatal conductance in mature deciduous forest trees exposed to elevated CO2

scientific article published on 04 December 2006

Stomatal conductance in mature deciduous forest trees exposed to elevated CO2

scientific article published on 29 January 2007

Stomatal numbers, leaf and canopy conductance, and the control of transpiration.

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Surplus Carbon Drives Allocation and Plant-Soil Interactions

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Sustained enhancement of photosynthesis in mature deciduous forest trees after 8 years of free air CO(2) enrichment

scientific article

THE ALPINE LIFE ZONE UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE

scientific article published in 2000

The 'island effect' in terrestrial global change experiments: a problem with no solution?

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

The 90 ways to describe plant temperature

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

The Grand Challenges in Functional Plant Ecology ⬇️

scientific article published on February 14, 2011

The carbon charging of pines at the climatic treeline: a global comparison

scientific article published on 21 January 2003

The cold range limit of trees

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

The forest’s nutrient cycle drives its carbon cycle

scientific article published on 24 December 2021

The interaction between freezing tolerance and phenology in temperate deciduous trees

scientific article

The role of legumes as a component of biodiversity in a cross-European study of grassland biomass nitrogen

scientific article published in 2002

The underestimated importance of belowground carbon input for forest soil animal food webs

scientific article published in August 2007

The use of 'altitude' in ecological research

scientific article

Thermal imaging reveals massive heat accumulation in flowers across a broad spectrum of alpine taxa

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Through enhanced tree dynamics carbon dioxide enrichment may cause tropical forests to lose carbon

scientific article published in March 2004

Tissue-specific variation of δ13C in mature canopy trees in a temperate forest in central Europe

scientific article published in 2005

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

scientific article published on 09 November 2010

Tracing the spatial extent and lag time of carbon transfer from Picea abies to ectomycorrhizal fungi differing in host type, taxonomy, or hyphal development

scientific article published in April 2024

Tree recruitment of European tree species at their current upper elevational limits in the Swiss Alps

article

Tree rings and volcanic cooling

article

Tree species diversity affects canopy leaf temperatures in a mature temperate forest

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

Treelines will be understood once the functional difference between a tree and a shrub is.

scientific article published on January 2012

Twelve years of low nutrient input stimulates growth of trees and dwarf shrubs in the treeline ecotone

scientific article published in 2018

Unrestricted quality of seeds in European broad-leaved tree species growing at the cold boundary of their distribution.

scientific article published on 7 December 2011

Variation of mobile carbon reserves in trees at the alpine treeline ecotone is under environmental control

scientific article published on 06 July 2012

Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate

scientific article published in 2022

Water availability predicts forest canopy height at the global scale.

scientific article

Water relations of climbing ivy in a temperate forest ⬇️

scientific article published on February 4, 2011

Water relations of “trailing‐edge” evergreen oaks in the semi‐arid upper Yangtze region, SE Himalaya ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2021

Weather modifies the spatial extent of carbohydrate transfers from CO2-supplied broad-leaved trees to ectomycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 10 October 2023

Web-FACE: a new canopy free-air CO2 enrichment system for tall trees in mature forests

scientific article

When it gets cold, plant size matters - a comment on treeline

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

When meta-analysis fails: A case about stomata.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Where, why and how? Explaining the low-temperature range limits of temperate tree species

article by Christian Körner et al published 8 April 2016 in Journal of Ecology

Why Is the Alpine Flora Comparatively Robust against Climatic Warming?

scientific article published in 2021

Why are there global gradients in species richness? mountains might hold the answer

scientific article published in 2000

Winter crop growth at low temperature may hold the answer for alpine treeline formation

scientific article published in 2008

‘Fading of the temperature‐growth coupling’ in treeline trees reflects a conceptual bias

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

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