Seasonal snow is among the most important factors governing the ecology of many
terrestrial ecosystems, but rising global temperatures are changing snow regimes and …

The populations, species, and communities in high elevation mountainous regions at or
above tree line are being impacted by the changing climate. Mountain systems have been …

Background: Small-scale topographic complexity is a characteristic feature of alpine
landscapes, with important effects on alpine plant distribution. Aims: We investigated the …

A central goal at the interface of ecology and conservation is understanding how the
relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function (B–EF) will shift with changing …

The controls on the spatial distribution of soil moisture include static and dynamic variables.
The superposition of static and dynamic controls can lead to different soil moisture patterns …

Snow cover is characteristic of high‐latitude and‐altitude ecosystems where snowpack
properties regulate many ecological patterns and processes. Nevertheless, snow …

The Tibetan Plateau, known as the" world's third pole" for its extremely harsh and fragile
ecological environment, has attracted great attention because of its sensitivity to global …

Aim Climatic niche modelling of species and community distributions implicitly assumes
strong and constant climatic determinism across geographical space. We tested this …

Despite decades of interest, few studies have provided evidence supporting theoretical
expectations for coupled relationships between aboveground and belowground diversity …

The spatial distribution of alpine snow covers is characterised by large variability. Taking this
variability into account is important for many tasks including hydrology, glaciology, ecology …