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List of works by Christophe Randin

21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

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A Comparison of Climatic Niches of the Same Alpine Plant Species in the Central Caucasus and the Alps

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A framework for assessing the scale of influence of environmental factors on ecological patterns

scientific article published in 2014

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

scientific article (publication date: 19 August 2013)

A quantitative assessment of rockfall influence on forest structure in the Swiss Alps

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Accounting for tree line shift, glacier retreat and primary succession in mountain plant distribution models

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Are niche-based species distribution models transferable in space?

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Barn owls display larger black feather spots in cooler regions of the British Isles

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Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

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Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders

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Disentangling the effects of global climate and regional land-use change on the current and future distribution of mangroves in South Africa

scholarly article by Katrien Quisthoudt et al published 17 April 2013 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Divergent and narrower climatic niches characterize polyploid species of European primroses inPrimulasect.Aleuritia

Do floral and niche shifts favour the establishment and persistence of newly arisen polyploids? A case study in an Alpine primrose.

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

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

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

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Evaluating the ability of habitat suitability models to predict species presences

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Forecasting range shifts of a cold-adapted species under climate change: are genomic and ecological diversity within species crucial for future resilience?

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Functional homogenization of bumblebee communities in alpine landscapes under projected climate change

article by Jean-Nicolas Pradervand et al published 22 October 2014 in Climate Change Responses

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

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Gloger's rule in North American Barn Owls

scientific article published in 2015

High-resolution land use/cover forecasts for Switzerland in the 21st century

scientific article published on 23 February 2024

How Do Cold-Adapted Plants Respond to Climatic Cycles? Interglacial Expansion Explains Current Distribution and Genomic Diversity in Primula farinosa L.

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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

Importance of abiotic stress as a range-limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients

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Introduction of Snow and Geomorphic Disturbance Variables into Predictive Models of Alpine Plant Distribution in the Western Swiss Alps

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Land use improves spatial predictions of mountain plant abundance but not presence-absence

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Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

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Modelling ecological niches with support vector machines

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Niche dynamics in space and time

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Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Pattern-recognition ecological niche models fit to presence-only and presence-absence data

scientific article published in 2014

Predicting fine-scale tree species abundance patterns using biotic variables derived from LiDAR and high spatial resolution imagery

scientific article published in 2014

Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter?

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Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia

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ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

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

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Temperature variation among mangrove latitudinal range limits worldwide

scholarly article by Katrien Quisthoudt et al published 15 August 2012 in Trees

The accuracy of plant assemblage prediction from species distribution models varies along environmental gradients

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The contribution of cold air pooling to the distribution of a rare and endemic plant of the Alps

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Thermal niches are more conserved at cold than warm limits in arctic-alpine plant species

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Topo-climatic microrefugia explain the persistence of a rare endemic plant in the Alps during the last 21 millennia

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Toward a definition of Essential Mountain Climate Variables

scientific article published on 02 June 2021

Toward a set of essential biodiversity variables for assessing change in mountains globally

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

Using Life Strategies to Explore the Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services to Invasion by Alien Plants

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Validation of and comparison between a semidistributed rainfall-runoff hydrological model (PREVAH) and a spatially distributed snow-evolution model (SnowModel) for snow cover prediction in mountain ecosystems

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Variation in habitat suitability does not always relate to variation in species' plant functional traits

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Very high resolution environmental predictors in species distribution models

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Warmer winters reduce the advance of tree spring phenology induced by warmer springs in the Alps

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Water availability predicts forest canopy height at the global scale.

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What drives invasibility? A multi-model inference test and spatial modelling of alien plant species richness patterns in northern Portugal

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Where will conflicts between alien and rare species occur after climate and land-use change? A test with a novel combined modelling approach

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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

Will climate change drive alien invasive plants into areas of high protection value? An improved model-based regional assessment to prioritise the management of invasions.

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Working toward integrated models of alpine plant distribution

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ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions

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