TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wieser, Gerhard
AB  - Concerns have been raised with respect to the state of high-altitude and high-latitude treelines, as they are anticipated to undergo considerable modifications due to global changes, and especially due to climate warming. As high-elevation treelines are temperature-limited vegetation boundaries, they are considered to be sensitive to climate warming. As a consequence, in this future, warmer environment, an upward migration of treelines is expected because low air and root-zone temperatures constrain their regeneration and growth. Despite the ubiquity of climate warming, treeline advancement is not a worldwide phenomenon: some treelines have been advancing rapidly, others have responded sluggishly or have remained stable. This variation in responses is attributed to the potential interaction of a continuum of site-related factors that may lead to the occurrence of locally conditioned temperature patterns. Competition amongst species and below-ground resources have been suggested as additional factors explaining the variability in the movement of treelines. This Special Issue (book) is dedicated to the discussion of treeline responses to changing environmental conditions in different areas around the globe.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03928-631-7
ID  - OAPEN ID: 45998
KW  - n/a
KW  - tree seedling recruitment
KW  - shrubline
KW  - light quality
KW  - higher altitude
KW  - precipitation
KW  - experimental rain exclusion
KW  - Pinus cembra
KW  - Changbai Mountain
KW  - treeline dynamics
KW  - fungal ecology
KW  - thermal continentality
KW  - tree regeneration
KW  - elevational transect
KW  - monitoring
KW  - conifer shrub
KW  - plant water availability
KW  - permafrost
KW  - foehn winds
KW  - treeline
KW  - Holocene
KW  - nitrogen cycling
KW  - carotenoids
KW  - timberline
KW  - 15N natural abundance
KW  - spectrometer
KW  - basal area increment
KW  - palynology
KW  - xylem embolism
KW  - diversity
KW  - elevational treeline
KW  - European Alps
KW  - temperature
KW  - tree line
KW  - winter stress
KW  - photosynthetic pigments
KW  - Pinus sibirica
KW  - westerly winds
KW  - relative air humidity
KW  - ecosystem manipulation
KW  - Larix decidua
KW  - microsite
KW  - polar treeline
KW  - Central Austrian Alps
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - multi-stemmed growth form
KW  - conifers
KW  - forest edge
KW  - history of treeline research
KW  - soil drought
KW  - dendroclimatology
KW  - knowledge engineering
KW  - Rocky Mountains
KW  - apical control
KW  - cloud
KW  - postglacial
KW  - alpine timberline
KW  - space-for-time substitution
KW  - climate change
KW  - expert elicitation
KW  - shoot elongation
KW  - pit aspiration
KW  - climate warming
KW  - climate zone
KW  - alpine treeline
KW  - refilling
KW  - Abies sibirica
KW  - growth trend
KW  - western Montana
KW  - light quantity
KW  - Picea abies
KW  - Mediterranean climate
KW  - forest climatology
KW  - altitude
KW  - environmental stress
KW  - sub-Antarctic
KW  - Erman’s birch
KW  - photoinhibition
KW  - tocopherol
KW  - elevational gradients
KW  - NDVI
KW  - long-term trends
KW  - sap flow
KW  - peat
KW  - tree seedlings
KW  - Southern Ocean
KW  - chlorophyll
KW  - non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs)
KW  - drought
KW  - upward advance
KW  - remote sensing data
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2173
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/40686
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9783039286317
SN  - 9783039286300
TI  - Alpine and Polar Treelines in a Changing Environmentnull
ER  - 
