作者
Kumar Mainali, Bharat Babu Shrestha, Ravi Kumar Sharma, Arjun Adhikari, Eliezer Gurarie, Michael Singer, Camille Parmesan
发表日期
2020/2
期刊
Ecology and Evolution
卷号
10
期号
3
页码范围
1209-1222
简介
- Alpine treelines are expected to shift upward due to recent climate change. However, interpretation of changes in montane systems has been problematic because effects of climate change are frequently confounded with those of land use changes. The eastern Himalaya, particularly Langtang National Park, Central Nepal, has been relatively undisturbed for centuries and thus presents an opportunity for studying climate change impacts on alpine treeline uncontaminated by potential confounding factors.
- We studied two dominant species, Abies spectabilis (AS) and Rhododendron campanulatum (RC), above and below the treeline on two mountains. We constructed 13 transects, each spanning up to 400 m in elevation, in which we recorded height and state (dead or alive) of all trees, as well as slope, aspect, canopy density, and measures of anthropogenic and animal disturbance.
- All size classes of RC plants …
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