Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in
production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest …

Background Co-flowering plant species frequently share pollinators. Pollinator sharing is
often detrimental to one or more of these species, leading to competition for pollination …

Abstract Vittoz P. and Engler R. 2007. Seed dispersal distances: a typology based on
dispersal modes and plant traits. Bot. Helv. 117: 109–124. The ability of plants to disperse …

Climate is a major determinant for the phenology, physiology, distribution and interactions of
plants. The world's recent climate has shown a substantial increase in average temperature …

Aim Assessing potential response of alpine plant species distribution to different future
climatic and land‐use scenarios. Location Four mountain ranges totalling 150 km2 in the …

In the decade or so since the concept was formalized in landscape ecology (Taylor et al.
1993) the meaning of the term ''landscape connectivity''has become rather diffuse and …

Models of plant migration based on estimates of biological parameters severely
underestimate the rate of spread when compared to empirical estimates of plant migration …

The relative importance of contemporary climate and history as controls of geographical
diversity patterns is intensely debated. A key example is the controversy over the extent to …

Aim Greenhouse‐induced warming and resulting shifts in climatic zones may exceed the
migration capabilities of some species. We used fourteen combinations of General …

Summary 1 Global warming will probably shift treelines upslope in alpine areas and towards
the pole in arctic environments. However, responses of regional treelines to climatic trends …