Researchers from ETH Zurich are studying how alpine vegetation is responding to a warming climate—and how some plant communities are continuing to stand firm against newcomers from lower elevations. A ...

When you think of alpine plants, it might seem like a niche horticultural club, requiring lots of expertise and specialist composts. Certainly, you’ll find a few ...

Reduced snow cover and vegetation shifts in the Alps, driven, to some degree, by climate change, are leading some mountain ecosystems to struggle to hold onto nutrients that feed vegetation, a new ...

Global warming is leading to longer growing seasons worldwide, with many plants growing earlier in spring and continuing longer in autumn thanks to warmer temperatures—so the general opinion. Now, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. ORONO — About 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, glaciers that ...

We often think of global climate change as a relatively modern topic. In fact, scientific observations going back to the 1700s detail vegetation in distinct climatic zones across multiple continents.

Species that have small belowground stems or short rhizomes and fewer fine roots became less common in the study area over a period of 40 years (left), while species with larger rhizomes and more fine ...

This study is led by Prof. Guangsheng Zhou (State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) and Prof. Hongrui Ren (Department of Geomatics, Taiyuan University of ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 29, No. 3 (May 2018), pp. 459-468 (10 pages) Questions: How did the montane forest of the leeward northern slopes on Mt. Kilimanjaro respond to climate fluctuation ...