Thermal niches are more conserved at cold than warm limits in arctic-alpine plant species

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 933-941

  Pellissier, Loïc ^a   Bråthen, Kari Anne ^b   Vittoz, Pascal ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^b   Dubuis, Anne ^a   Meier, Eliane S ^c,e   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c   Randin, Christophe F ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^d   Garraud, Luc ^f   Van Es, Jérémie ^f   Guisan, Antoine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^e AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^f Domaine de Charance   (France)

Author keywords

Air soil temperature; Biotic interactions; Disjunct distribution; Distance to tree line; European Alps; Niche conservatism; Norwegian Finnmark; Realized niche; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RESPONSE; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREELINE;

ALPS; ARCTIC; FINNMARK; NORWAY;

EID: 84880036648     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12057     Document Type: Article

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