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21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

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<i>N‐SDM</i>: a high‐performance computing pipeline for Nested Species Distribution Modelling

scientific article published in 2023

A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change

scholarly article by Rasoul Yousefpour et al published 2017 in Ecology and Society

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

scientific article (publication date: 19 August 2013)

A matter of scale: apparent niche differentiation of diploid and tetraploid plants may depend on extent and grain of analysis

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A new GLM-based method for mapping tree cover continuous fields using regional MODIS reflectance data

scientific article published in 2005

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

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

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Adaptive and plastic responses of Quercus petraea populations to climate across Europe.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Age-class disequilibrium as an opportunity for adaptive forest management in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania

Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis

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Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

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Alternative forest management strategies to account for climate change-induced productivity and species suitability changes in Europe

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An Improved Canopy Integration Scheme for a Land Surface Model with Prognostic Canopy Structure

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An horizon scan of biogeography

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

An integrated high‐resolution mapping shows congruent biodiversity patterns of Fagales and Pinales

scientific article published in 2022

Anticipating the spatio-temporal response of plant diversity and vegetation structure to climate and land use change in a protected area

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Are different facets of plant diversity well protected against climate and land cover changes? A test study in the French Alps

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Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

scientific article published on March 2017

Are niche-based species distribution models transferable in space?

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Arid environments select for larger seeds in pines (Pinus spp.)

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Assessing species vulnerability to climate and land use change: the case of the Swiss breeding birds

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Author Correction: Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming

scientific article published in 2021

Available Climate Regimes Drive Niche Diversification during Range Expansion

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Benchmarking novel approaches for modelling species range dynamics

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Biomes as evolutionary arenas: Convergence and conservatism in the trans‐continental succulent biome

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

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Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

CHELSA-W5E5 v1.0: W5E5 v1.0 downscaled with CHELSA v2.0

Case study of the implications of climate change for lichen diversity and distributions

scientific article published in 2016

Changes in predictor influence with time and with vegetation type identity in a post-abandonment situation

scientific article published in 2010

Characterization of an alpine tree line using airborne LiDAR data and physiological modeling

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Climate change and European forests: what do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?

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

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Climate change impacts on the distribution and diversity of major tree species in the temperate forests of Northern Iran

scientific article published in 2019

Climate change may cause severe loss in the economic value of European forest land

scholarly article by Marc Hanewinkel et al published 23 September 2012 in Nature Climate Change

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands

scientific article published in February 2024

Climate, competition and connectivity affect future migration and ranges of European trees

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Climate, immigration and speciation shape terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in the European Alps

scientific article published in 2022

Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

scientific article published on 9 February 2023

Climatic extremes improve predictions of spatial patterns of tree species

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Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Co-occurrence patterns of trees along macro-climatic gradients and their potential influence on the present and future distribution of Fagus sylvatica L

article published in 2010

Combining ensemble modeling and remote sensing for mapping individual tree species at high spatial resolution

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Combining probabilistic land-use change and tree population dynamics modelling to simulate responses in mountain forests

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Comparing spatial diversification and meta-population models in the Indo-Australian Archipelago.

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Comparing species interaction networks along environmental gradients

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Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Complementarity of gymnosperms and angiosperms along an altitudinal temperature gradient

scientific article published on 16 June 2018

Conservation of phylogeographic lineages under climate change

scholarly article by Manuela D’Amen et al published 10 May 2012 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges

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Current and future plant invasions in protected areas: Does clonality matter?

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic

scientific article published in March 2024

Current climate overrides past climate change in explaining multi-site beta diversity of Lauraceae species in China

scientific article published on 03 March 2022

Day length regulates seasonal patterns of stomatal conductance in Quercus species

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Disentangling the Influence of Phylogeny and Traits on Climatic Risk of European Butterflies

scientific article published on 23 August 2024

Disentangling the drivers of local species richness using probabilistic species pools

scientific article published in 2019

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

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Divergent vegetation growth responses to the 2003 heat wave in the Swiss Alps

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Do long-distance migratory birds track their niche through seasons?

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

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Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics?

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Does the legacy of historical biogeography shape current invasiveness in pines?

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Effects of a fire response trait on diversification in replicated radiations

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Effects of competition on tree radial-growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients

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Effects of functional traits on the prediction accuracy of species richness models

scientific article published in 2016

Effects of sample survey design on the accuracy of classification tree models in species distribution models

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Elevational rear edges shifted at least as much as leading edges over the last century

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Emerging role of wetland methane emissions in driving 21st century climate change.

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Enhanced response of global wetland methane emissions to the 2015–2016 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Environment and evolutionary history shape phylogenetic turnover in European tetrapods

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Erfassen kontinuierlicher Bodenbedeckungsdaten anhand von MODIS Daten in der Schweiz ⬇️

scientific article published in 2004

Escarpment evolution drives the diversification of the Madagascar flora

scientific article published on 08 February 2024

Estimating foliar biochemistry from hyperspectral data in mixed forest canopy

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Evaluating thermal treeline indicators based on air and soil temperature using an air-to-soil temperature transfer model

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Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

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Extinction debts and colonization credits of non-forest plants in the European Alps

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Extinction risks of a Mediterranean neo-endemism complex of mountain vipers triggered by climate change

Extreme climate events counteract the effects of climate and land-use changes in Alpine treelines

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Field evidence of colonisation by Holm Oak, at the northern margin of its distribution range, during the Anthropocene period

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Forschung zu Wald und Klimawandel in Mitteleuropa: eine Werkschau

Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus reveal older diversification

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Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus reveal older diversification.

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Frequency and intensity of facilitation reveal opposing patterns along a stress gradient.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities

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Genomics of the divergence continuum in an African plant biodiversity hotspot, I: drivers of population divergence in Restio capensis (Restionaceae).

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Global daily 1 km land surface precipitation based on cloud cover-informed downscaling

article by Dirk N. Karger et al published 26 November 2021 in Scientific Data

Global pattern of phytoplankton diversity driven by temperature and environmental variability

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Global plant‐frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

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Good-bye to tropical alpine plant giants under warmer climates? Loss of range and genetic diversity in Lobelia rhynchopetalum

scientific article (publication date: December 2016)

Growth of Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) saplings in subalpine forests in Switzerland: Does spring climate matter?

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Growth response of Norway spruce saplings in two forest gaps in the Swiss Alps to artificial browsing, infection with black snow mold, and competition by ground vegetation

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High-resolution monthly precipitation and temperature time series from 2006 to 2100

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Host plant availability potentially limits butterfly distributions under cold environmental conditions

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How to understand species’ niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography

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Impacts of climate change on Swiss biodiversity: An indicator taxa approach

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Impacts of climate change on the world's most exceptional ecoregions

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Implementation and application of multiple potential natural vegetation models - a case study of Hungary

Imprints of natural selection along environmental gradients in phenology-related genes of Quercus petraea

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Improving generalized regression analysis for the spatial prediction of forest communities

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Improving land change detection based on uncertain survey maps using fuzzy sets

scientific article published in 2006

Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps

scientific article published in 2021

Invasive plants threaten the least mobile butterflies in Switzerland

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Invasive species distribution models - how violating the equilibrium assumption can create new insights

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Investigating the regional-scale pattern of agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: A spatial statistical modelling approach

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Klimawandel als Prüfstein für die Waldbewirtschaftung | Climate change as a touchstone for forest management

Large-scale early-wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Long-distance migratory birds threatened by multiple independent risks from global change

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Long-term change in drivers of forest cover expansion: an analysis for Switzerland (1850-2000)

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MODEL-BASED STRATIFICATIONS FOR ENHANCING THE DETECTION OF RARE ECOLOGICAL EVENTS

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

article by Rafael O. Wüest et al published 17 July 2019 in Journal of Biogeography

Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming

scientific article published in 2021

Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

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Model complexity affects species distribution projections under climate change

scientific article published in 2019

Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of global wetlands: comprehensive evaluation of a new sub-grid TOPMODEL parameterization and uncertainties

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Modelling plant species distribution in alpine grasslands using airborne imaging spectroscopy

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Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on climate-driven migration of European forest understorey plants

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Multispecies deep learning using citizen science data produces more informative plant community models

scientific article published on 24 May 2024

Multispecies deep learning using citizen science data produces more informative plant community models

Mutualism with sea anemones triggered the adaptive radiation of clownfishes

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Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: a spatial statistical model based on geophysical and socio-economic variables

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Neophyte species richness at the landscape scale under urban sprawl and climate warming

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New trends in species distribution modelling

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No growth stimulation of Canada's boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO2 fertilization

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Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

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Novel methods to correct for observer and sampling bias in presence‐only species distribution models

scientific article published in 2021

Observational evidence from two mountainous regions that near-surface wind speeds are declining more rapidly at higher elevations than lower elevations: 1960-2006

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Of niches and distributions: range size increases with niche breadth both globally and regionally but regional estimates poorly relate to global estimates

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Open Data – Open Software: Implementing Geospatial Requirements in EnviDat with an Open-Source Stack

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Past climate-driven range shifts and population genetic diversity in arctic plants

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Phylogenetic patterns of climatic, habitat and trophic niches in a European avian assemblage

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key(stone) species effects?

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant nutrients do not covary with soil nutrients under changing climatic conditions

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types

scientific article published on 31 May 2024

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

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Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges

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Predicting tree species presence and basal area in Utah: A comparison of stochastic gradient boosting, generalized additive models, and tree-based methods

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Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia

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Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology

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Predictive mapping of alpine grasslands in Switzerland: Species versus community approach

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Presence-only and Presence-absence Data for Comparing Species Distribution Modeling Methods

scientific article published in 2020

Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country

scientific article published in November 2024

Publisher Correction: Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation

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Rapid climate change results in long-lasting spatial homogenization of phylogenetic diversity

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change

scientific article published on 31 May 2024

Response of spatial vegetation distribution in China to climate changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).

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Resprouter fraction in Cape Restionaceae assemblages varies with climate and soil type

article published in 2016

SWECO25: a cross-thematic raster database for ecological research in Switzerland

scientific article published on 3 January 2024

Sampling in ecology and evolution - bridging the gap between theory and practice

scientific article published in 2010

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

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Scale dependency of joint species distribution models challenges interpretation of biotic interactions

scientific article published on 01 April 2021

Sensitivity assessment on continuous landscape variables to classify a discrete forest area

scientific article published in 2006

Sensitivity of global terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics to variability in satellite-observed burned area

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Space matters when defining effective management for invasive plants

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Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values improves predictions of plant distributions in complex landscapes

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Spatial predictions at the community level: from current approaches to future frameworks

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Spatial variation in direct and indirect effects of climate and productivity on species richness of terrestrial tetrapods

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

Spatio‐temporal patterns in the woodiness of flowering plants

scientific article published on 31 December 2022

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

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Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

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Testing species assemblage predictions from stacked and joint species distribution models

The Alps Vegetation Database – a geo-referenced community-level archive of all terrestrial plants occurring in the Alps

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The European functional tree of bird life in the face of global change

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The Treasure Vault Can be Opened: Large-Scale Genome Skimming Works Well Using Herbarium and Silica Gel Dried Material

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The effects of intransitive competition on coexistence

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The effects of land use and climate change on the carbon cycle of Europe over the past 500 years

scholarly article by Jed O. Kaplan et al published 22 November 2011 in Global Change Biology

The evolution of seed dispersal is associated with environmental heterogeneity in Pinus

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

The future of terrestrial mammals in the Mediterranean basin under climate change

scientific article (publication date: 27 September 2011)

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

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The legacy of Eastern Mediterranean mountain uplifts: rapid disparity of phylogenetic niche conservatism and divergence in mountain vipers

The niche through time: Considering phenology and demographic stages in plant distribution models

scientific article published in July 2024

The niche through time: Considering phenology and demographic stages in plant distribution models

The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

scholarly article

The productivity-biodiversity relationship varies across diversity dimensions

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

The upward shift in altitude of pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) in Switzerland--the result of climate warming?

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

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Threats from climate change to terrestrial vertebrate hotspots in Europe.

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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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Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

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Transnational conservation to anticipate future plant shifts in Europe

scientific article published on 22 January 2024

Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps

scientific article published on June 2015

Tree line shifts in the Swiss Alps: Climate change or land abandonment?

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TreeMig: A forest-landscape model for simulating spatio-temporal patterns from stand to landscape scale

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Trophic specialization influences the rate of environmental niche evolution in damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2012)

Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios

Uncertainty in predicting range dynamics of endemic alpine plants under climate warming

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Uncertainty in predictions of range dynamics: black grouse climbing the Swiss Alps

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Understanding species and community response to environmental change – A functional trait perspective

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Understanding the low-temperature limitations to forest growth through calibration of a forest dynamics model with tree-ring data

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Using niche-based models to improve the sampling of rare species

scientific article published in April 2006

Using unclassified continuous remote sensing data to improve distribution models of red-listed plant species

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Vegetation classification and biogeography of European floodplain forests and alder carrs

scholarly article by Jan Douda et al published 22 October 2015 in Applied Vegetation Science

Warming underpins community turnover in temperate freshwater and terrestrial communities

scientific article published in March 2024

Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?

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Where are the wild things? Why we need better data on species distribution

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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

Why tree lines are lower on islands—Climatic and biogeographic effects hold the answer

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Will climate change reduce the efficacy of protected areas for amphibian conservation in Italy?

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Within-taxon niche structure: niche conservatism, divergence and predicted effects of climate change

scholarly article by Peter B Pearman et al published 23 November 2010 in Ecography

chelsa‐cmip6 1.0: a python package to create high resolution bioclimatic variables based on CHELSA ver. 2.1 and CMIP6 data

scientific article published in 2023

‘Next generation’ biogeography: towards understanding the drivers of species diversification and persistence

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