Altitudinal distribution patterns of soil bacterial and archaeal communities along Mt. Shegyla on the Tibetan Plateau

JT Wang, P Cao, HW Hu, J Li, LL Han, LM Zhang… - Microbial ecology, 2015 - Springer
Unraveling the distribution patterns of plants and animals along the elevational gradients
has been attracting growing scientific interests of ecologists, whether the microbial …

How does climate influence xylem morphogenesis over the growing season? Insights from long-term intra-ring anatomy in Picea abies

D Castagneri, P Fonti, G von Arx, M Carrer - Annals of botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims During the growing season, the cambium of conifer trees produces
successive rows of xylem cells, the tracheids, that sequentially pass through the phases of …

Vapor–pressure deficit and extreme climatic variables limit tree growth

P Sanginés de Cárcer, Y Vitasse… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the effect of global warming on forest growth requires a better understanding of
species‐specific responses to climate change conditions. Norway spruce and European …

Ecological drivers of avian community assembly along a tropical elevation gradient

FA Montaño‐Centellas, BA Loiselle, MW Tingley - Ecography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Community assembly theory hypothesizes that two main niche‐based processes act to
shape composition and organization of biological assemblages: abiotic filtering and …

Contrasting patterns of lichen functional diversity and species richness across an elevation gradient

C Bässler, MW Cadotte, B Beudert, C Heibl… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Major environmental gradients co‐vary with elevation and have been a longstanding natural
tool allowing ecologists to study global diversity patterns at smaller scales, and to make …

Measuring precipitation in Eastern Himalaya: Ground validation of eleven satellite, model and gauge interpolated gridded products

M Kumar, Ø Hodnebrog, AS Daloz, S Sen, S Badiger… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Precipitation plays a key role in shaping land surface processes in Himalaya. It is also the
most challenging meteorological variable to model in climate change studies due to …

Intraspecific trait variation in alpine plants relates to their elevational distribution

C Rixen, S Wipf, SB Rumpf, J Giejsztowt… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is shifting the distributions of mountain plant species to higher elevations.
Cold‐adapted plant species are under increasing pressure from novel competitors that are …

[PDF][PDF] Changing climate drives divergent and nonlinear shifts in flowering phenology across elevations

NE Rafferty, JM Diez, CD Bertelsen - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Climate change is known to affect regional weather patterns and phenology; however, we
lack understanding of how climate drives phenological change across local spatial …

Negative relationship between photosynthesis and late‐stage canopy development and senescence over Tibetan Plateau

F Meng, D Liu, Y Wang, S Wang… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Canopy greening, which is associated with significant canopy structure changes, is the most
notable signal of ecosystem changes in response to anthropogenic climate change …

The composition of phyllosphere fungal assemblages of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) varies significantly along an elevation gradient

T Cordier, C Robin, X Capdevielle… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known about the potential effect of climate warming on phyllosphere fungi, despite
their important impact on the dynamics and diversity of plant communities. The structure of …