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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Identification of plant species at high risk of extinction in climate-sensitive alpine ecosystems. Alpine ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change, and many of them are already ...

The climate is warming increasingly quickly, especially in the Alps, which poses a challenge for organisms. If they do not spread to higher altitudes, they must very quickly adapt to higher ...

Alpine flora is changing rapidly as a result of climate change. Soils are a vital but largely unexplored factor in this process. They also store the biggest amounts of CO2. However, how alpine soils ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 458, No. 1/2, Plant-soil interactions on the Tibetan Plateau (January 2021), pp. 175-189 (15 pages) Background and aims In addition to improving vegetation, grazing prohibition ...