In an era of climate change, the availability of empirical data on alpine summit vegetation in
the Himalaya is still scarce. Here we report the assessment of alpine summit flora in
Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary, Kashmir Himalaya. We employed a globally standardized Multi-
Summit Approach and four spatially isolated summits spanning an elevation gradient of 210
m (between 3530–3740 m asl) from natural treeline to nival zone were studied. Sampling of
the summits was carried out in the year 2018 to collect floristic data together with records of …