• A common soil temperature threshold for the upper limit of alpine grasslands in European mountains 

      Bürli, Sarah; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Winkler, Manuela; Lamprecht, Andrea; Pauli, Harald; Rixen, Christian; Steinbauer, Klaus; Wipf, Sonja; Abdaladze, Otar; Andrews, Christopher; Barančok, Peter; Benito‑Alonso, José Luis; Fernández Calzado, Maria Rosa; Carranza, Maria Laura; Dick, Jan; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Ghosn, Dany; Gigaur, Khatuna; Kazakis, George; Mallaun, Martin; Michelsen, Ottar; Moiseev, Dmitry; Moiseev, Pavel; Molau, Ulf; Mesa, Joaquín Molero; di Cella, Umberto Morra; Nadeem, Imran; Nagy, Laszlo; Nicklas, Lena; Palaj, Andrej; Pedersen, Bård; Petey, Martina; Puşcaş, Mihai; Rossi, Graziano; Stanisci, Angela; Tomaselli, Marcello; Unterluggauer, Peter; Ursu, Tudor‑Mihai; Villar, Luis; Vittoz, Pascal (Journal article, 2021)
      While climatic research about treeline has a long history, the climatic conditions corresponding to the upper limit of closed alpine grasslands remain poorly understood. Here, we propose a climatic defnition for this limit, ...
    • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats 

      Staude, Ingmar R.; Pereira, Henrique M.; Daskalova, Gergana N.; Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus; Diekmann, Martin; Pauli, Harald; Van Calster, Hans; Vellend, Mark; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Brunet, Jörg; De Frenne, Pieter; Hédl, Radim; Jandt, Ute; Lenoir, Jonathan; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Verheyen, Kris; Wipf, Sonja; Wulf, Monika; Andrews, Christopher; Barančok, Peter; Barni, Elena; Benito-Alonso, José-Luis; Bennie, Jonathan; Berki, Imre; Blüml, Volker; Chudomelová, Markéta; Decocq, Guillaume; Dick, Jan; Dirnböck, Thomas; Durak, Tomasz; Eriksson, Ove; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Graae, Bente Jessen; Heinken, Thilo; Schei, Fride Høistad; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Kopecký, Martin; Kudernatsch, Thomas; Macek, Martin; Malicki, Marek; Máliš, František; Michelsen, Ottar; Naaf, Tobias; Nagel, Thomas A.; Newton, Adrian C.; Nicklas, Lena; Oddi, Ludovica; Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne; Palaj, Andrej; Petraglia, Alessandro; Petřík, Petr; Pielech, Remigiusz; Porro, Francesco; Puşcaş, Mihai; Reczyńska, Kamila; Rixen, Christian; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Standovár, Tibor; Steinbauer, Klaus; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Teleki, Balázs; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Ursu, Tudor-Mihai; Vanneste, Thomas; Vergeer, Philippine; Vild, Ondřej; Villar, Luis; Vittoz, Pascal; Winkler, Manuela; Baeten, Lander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Species turnover is ubiquitous. However, it remains unknown whether certain types of species are consistently gained or lost across different habitats. Here, we analysed the trajectories of 1827 plant species over time ...
    • Global maps of soil temperature 

      Lembrechts, Jonas J.; van den Hoogen, Johan; Aalto, Juha; Ashcroft, Michael B.; De Frenne, Pieter; Kemppinen, Julia; Kopecký, Martin; Luoto, Miska; Maclean, Ilya M. D.; Crowther, Thomas W.; Bailey, Joseph J.; Haesen, Stef; Klinges, David H.; Niittynen, Pekka; Scheffers, Brett R.; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Aartsma, Peter; Abdalaze, Otar; Abedi, Mehdi; Aerts, Rien; Ahmadian, Negar; Ahrends, Antje; Alatalo, Juha M.; Alexander, Jake M.; Altman, Jan; Allonsius, Camille Nina; Ammann, Christof; Andres, Christian; Andrews, Christopher; Ardö, Jonas; Arriga, Nicola; Arzac, Alberto; Aschero, Valeria; Leandro de Assis, Rafael; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Graae, Bente Jessen; Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Haugum, Siri Vatsø; Lang, Simone; Lynn, Joshua Scott; Moriana Armendariz, Mikel; Petit Bon, Matteo; Smith, Stuart; Sørensen, Mia Vedel; Speed, James David Mervyn; Vandvik, Vigdis; Wedegärtner, Ronja Elisabeth Magdalene; Nijs, Ivan; Lenoir, Jonathan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation ...