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Alp Bot 2018 6;128(1):1-11. Epub 2018 Feb 6.

2Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.

The Alborz mountains in N-Iran at 36° N rise from the Caspian Sea to 5671 m a.s.l. Read More

Alp Bot 2013 Oct;123(2):41-53

Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS-UJF 5553, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38041 Grenoble, France; Station Alpine J. Fourier, UMS CNRS-UJF 3370, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38041 Grenoble, France.

Species distribution models (SDMs) have been frequently employed to forecast the response of alpine plants to global changes. Efforts to model alpine plant distribution have thus far been primarily based on a correlative approach, in which ecological processes are implicitly addressed through a statistical relationship between observed species occurrences and environmental predictors. Recent evidence, however, highlights the shortcomings of correlative SDMs, especially in alpine landscapes where plant species tend to be decoupled from atmospheric conditions in micro-topographic habitats and are particularly exposed to geomorphic disturbances. Read More

Alp Bot 2011 Oct;121(2)

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.

Hexaploid individuals of (Asteraceae) predominantly occur in dense swards while diploids prevail in open vegetation. We test whether this habitat segregation is due to differential responses to competition. Linear regression models were used to relate biomass and maximum leaf length of adults to vegetation cover within radii of 20 cm around target individuals. Read More