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Pepin, Nick. "Understanding spatial patterns of elevation-dependent climate change and associated impacts in mountain regions of Europe and the world." ARPHA Conference Abstracts 8 (May 28, 2025): e155804. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.8.e155804.

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Mountain systems in Europe and around the world are known to be experiencing more rapid environmental changes than many other ecosystems, but our knowledge of, and ability to predict, future changes is hampered by lack of integrated long-term monitoring systems at high elevations and in areas of complex terrain. An analysis of the elevational distribution of weather stations in Europe shows bias towards lower elevations. This is unfortunate since physical theory suggests that future climate change will be elevation-dependent, with often faster warming observed and predicted at high elevations.

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Chen, Wenjun, Lori White, Sylvain G. Leblanc, Rasim Latifovic, and Ian Olthof. "Elevation-Dependent Changes to Plant Phenology in Canada’s Arctic Detected Using Long-Term Satellite Observations." Atmosphere 12, no. 9 (2021): 1133. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12091133.

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Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate since the industrial revolution. Some studies also reported a further amplified rate of climate warming at high elevations; namely, the elevation dependency of climate change. This elevation-dependent climate change could have important implications for the fate of glaciers and ecosystems at high elevations under climate change. However, the lack of long-term climate data at high elevations, especially in the Arctic, has hindered the investigation of this question. Because of the linkage between climate warming and plan

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Sun, Juying, Genxu Wang, Xiangyang Sun, Shan Lin, Zhaoyong Hu, and Kewei Huang. "Elevation‐dependent changes in reference evapotranspiration due to climate change." Hydrological Processes 34, no. 26 (2020): 5580–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13978.

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Tai, Xiaoli, Howard E. Epstein, and Bo Li. "Elevation and Climate Effects on Vegetation Greenness in an Arid Mountain-Basin System of Central Asia." Remote Sensing 12, no. 10 (2020): 1665. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12101665.

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Mountain-basin systems (MBS) in Central Asia are unique and complex ecosystems, wherein their elevation gradients lead to high spatial heterogeneity in vegetation and its response to climate change. Exploring elevation-dependent vegetation greenness variation and the effects of climate factors on vegetation has important theoretical and practical significance for regulating the ecological processes of this system. Based on the MODIS NDVI (remotely sensed normalized difference vegetation index), and observed precipitation and temperature data sets, we analyzed vegetation greenness and climate p

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Xianzhou, Zhang, Wang Ling, He Yongtao, et al. "Impact of Water Vapor on Elevation-Dependent Climate Change." Journal of Resources and Ecology 8, no. 1 (2017): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2017.01.002.

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Rameshan, Arathi, Prashant Singh, and Bodo Ahrens. "Cross-Examination of Reanalysis Datasets on Elevation-Dependent Climate Change in the Third Pole Region." Atmosphere 16, no. 3 (2025): 327. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16030327.

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The scarcity of in situ observation stations and the unreliability of long-term satellite data necessitate the use of reanalysis datasets to study elevation-dependent climate change (EDCC) in the third pole (TP) region. We analyzed elevation-dependent temperature and precipitation patterns over TP using the ECMWF Atmospheric Reanalysis Fifth Generation (ERA5), a global reanalysis product with coarse resolution, along with three high-resolution regional reanalysis datasets that cover our study domain: Indian Monsoon Data Assimilation and Analysis (IMDAA), High Asia Refined Analysis—Version 2 (H

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Işık, Fatih, Muhammet Bahadır, Halil İbrahim Zeybek, and İlter Kutlu Hatipoğlu. "Elevation-dependent growth trends of Picea orientalis (L.) Peterm forests in the Fırtına Creek Basin (Rize/Turkey)." Dendrobiology 91 (March 28, 2024): 56–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.12657/denbio.091.005.

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Changes in climatic conditions have ecological and economic consequences or impact for trees and forest stands. In this respect, it is crucial to understand the radial growth trends of trees, their ecological response across elevation gradients, and the possible impacts of climate change on the species. In this study, Picea orientalis (L.) Peterm, located in the Fırtına Creek Basin in the northern part of the Eastern Black Sea Mountains in northeastern Turkey, was investigated along different elevation gradients in the context of climate-growth response. In the study, six site chronologies alo

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Ghan, Steven J., and Timothy Shippert. "Physically Based Global Downscaling: Climate Change Projections for a Full Century." Journal of Climate 19, no. 9 (2006): 1589–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli3701.1.

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Abstract A global atmosphere–land model with an embedded subgrid orography scheme is used to simulate the period 1977–2100 using ocean surface conditions and radiative constituent concentrations for a climate change scenario. Climate variables simulated for multiple elevation classes are mapped according to a high-resolution elevation dataset in 10 regions with complex terrain. Analysis of changes in the simulated climate leads to the following conclusions. Changes in surface air temperature and precipitation differ from region to region in a manner similar to simulations without the subgrid s

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Minder, Justin R., Theodore W. Letcher, and Changhai Liu. "The Character and Causes of Elevation-Dependent Warming in High-Resolution Simulations of Rocky Mountain Climate Change." Journal of Climate 31, no. 6 (2018): 2093–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-17-0321.1.

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The character and causes of elevation-dependent warming (EDW) of surface temperatures are examined in a suite of high-resolution ([Formula: see text] km) regional climate model (RCM) simulations of climate change over the Rocky Mountains using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. A clear EDW signal is found over the region, with warming enhanced in certain elevation bands by as much as 2°C. During some months warming maximizes at middle elevations, whereas during others it increases monotonically with elevation or is nearly independent of elevation. Simulated EDW is primarily caused by

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Nila, Mst Umme Salma, Maria Bobrowski, and Udo Schickhoff. "Growing Season Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in the Nepal Himalaya and Adjacent Areas, 2000–2019: Sensitivity to Climate Change and Terrain Factors." Land 14, no. 4 (2025): 749. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040749.

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Precisely detecting and attributing changes in vegetation greenness is crucial for sustainable ecosystem management. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is highly responsive to changes in vegetation cover and is essential for assessing vegetation dynamics. This study integrates a digital elevation model (DEM) with climate data (temperature, precipitation, evapotranspiration, and solar radiation) and MODIS-NDVI imagery (2000–2019) to investigate NDVI fluctuations and their correlation with climate change in the central Himalaya. Trend analysis of NDVI time-series data examined veg

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Liu, Xue, Yifan Zhang, Haitao Wu, Dandan Liu, and Zhongsheng Zhang. "Vertical Variation in Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon Mineralization in Changbai Mountain, China: A Microcosm Study." Sustainability 16, no. 3 (2024): 1350. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16031350.

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Global warming may have a complex effect on soil carbon mineralization across mountain elevations. Elevational zonation governs the soil natural composition of mountain ecosystems due to different temperature conditions. Understanding the response of carbon mineralization to climate change, particularly the temperature sensitivity (Q10), is crucial for assessing the effects within mountain vertical zones. Despite this, the spatial variation and influencing factors of organic carbon mineralization at these zones remain unclear. We conducted a microcosm study in Changbai Mountain, Northeast Chin

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Macek, Martin, Jiří Prošek, Jiří Doležal, Jan Wild, Vít Ježek, and Martin Kopecký. "Elevation-dependent sensitivity of spectral greening to temperature and precipitation in the Western Himalayas." Environmental Research Letters 20, no. 5 (2025): 054078. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc9c7.

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Abstract Mountain ecosystems are experiencing significant changes due to climate change. Globally, a prevailing greening trend has been observed over the past decades using remote-sensing normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), suggesting increasing vegetation cover and primary productivity. However, NDVI responses to warming differ across regions. Cold, energy-limited alpine and tundra ecosystems tend to respond positively to warming, while arid, water-limited ecosystems may experience reduced NDVI due to higher transpiration rates limiting plant growth. Additionally, CO2 fertilization

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Narins, Peter M. "Climate change drives frog call change in Puerto Rico: Predictions and implications." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153, no. 3_supplement (2023): A61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0018164.

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Acoustic signal production and reception in ectotherms are acutely temperature-dependent. We recorded the advertisement calls of the Puerto Rican coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui) along an altitudinal gradient and repeated the measurements twenty-three years later. We found that over this period, at any given elevation, calls exhibited both significant shortening of their duration and increases in pitch. We also found that the observed differences are consistent with a movement to higher elevations for the population, a familiar response to rising ambient temperature. Using temperature data

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Wang, Keyi, Yang Zhou, Jingcheng Han, Chen Chen, and Tiejian Li. "Long-Term Tibetan Alpine Vegetation Responses to Elevation-Dependent Changes in Temperature and Precipitation in an Altered Regional Climate: A Case Study for the Three Rivers Headwaters Region, China." Remote Sensing 15, no. 2 (2023): 496. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15020496.

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Recent studies offer more evidence that the rate of warming is amplified with elevation, indicating thereby that high-elevation ecosystems tend to be exposed to more accelerated changes in temperature than ecosystems at lower elevations. The phenomenon of elevation-dependent warming (EDW), as one of the regional climate-change impacts, has been observed across the Tibetan Plateau. Studies have often found large-scale greening trends, but the drivers of vegetation dynamics are still not fully understood in this region, such that the local implications of vegetation change have been infrequently

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Keeley, Jon E., and Alexandra D. Syphard. "Different fire–climate relationships on forested and non-forested landscapes in the Sierra Nevada ecoregion." International Journal of Wildland Fire 24, no. 1 (2015): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf14102.

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In the California Sierra Nevada region, increased fire activity over the last 50 years has only occurred in the higher-elevation forests on US Forest Service (USFS) lands, and is not characteristic of the lower-elevation grasslands, woodlands and shrublands on state responsibility lands (Cal Fire). Increased fire activity on USFS lands was correlated with warmer and drier springs. Although this is consistent with recent global warming, we found an equally strong relationship between fire activity and climate in the first half of the 20th century. At lower elevations, warmer and drier condition

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Kumar, Pramod, and Khushboo Sharma. "Snowfall Shift and Precipitation Variability over Sikkim Himalaya Attributed to Elevation-Dependent Warming." Journal of Atmospheric Science Research 6, no. 4 (2023): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/jasr.v6i4.5854.

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Sikkim Himalaya hosts critical water resources such as glacial, rain, and snow-fed springs and lakes. Climate change is adversely affecting these resources in various ways, and elevation-dependent warming is prominent among them. This study is a discussion of the elevation-dependent warming (EDW), snowfall shift, and precipitation variability over Sikkim Himalaya using a high-resolution ERA5-land dataset. Furthermore, the findings show that the Sikkim Himalaya region is experiencing a warming trend from south to north. The majority of the Sikkim Himalayan region shows a declining trend in snow

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Draebing, Daniel. "Identification of rock and fracture kinematics in high alpine rockwalls under the influence of elevation." Earth Surface Dynamics 9, no. 4 (2021): 977–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-977-2021.

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Abstract. In alpine environments, tectonic processes, past glaciation and weathering processes fracture rock and prepare or trigger rockfalls, which are important processes of rock slope evolution and natural hazards. In this study, I quantify thermally and ice-induced rock and fracture kinematics and place these in the context of their role in producing rockfall and climate change. I conducted laboratory measurements on intact rock samples and installed temperature loggers and crackmeters at four rockwalls reaching from 2585 to 2935 m in elevation in the Hungerli Valley, Swiss Alps. My labora

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Hu, Wenfeng, Junqiang Yao, Qing He, and Jing Chen. "Elevation-Dependent Trends in Precipitation Observed over and around the Tibetan Plateau from 1971 to 2017." Water 13, no. 20 (2021): 2848. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13202848.

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The Tibetan Plateau (TP) are regions that are most sensitive to climate change, especially extreme precipitation changes with elevation, may increase the risk of natural disasters and have attracted attention for the study of extreme events in order to identify adaptive actions. Based on daily observed data from 113 meteorological stations in the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding regions in China during 1971–2017, we calculated the annual total precipitation and extreme precipitation indices using the R ClimDex software package and explored elevation-dependent precipitation trends. The resul

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Hu, Wenfeng, Junqiang Yao, Qing He, and Jing Chen. "Elevation-Dependent Trends in Precipitation Observed over and around the Tibetan Plateau from 1971 to 2017." Water 13, no. 20 (2021): 2848. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13202848.

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The Tibetan Plateau (TP) are regions that are most sensitive to climate change, especially extreme precipitation changes with elevation, may increase the risk of natural disasters and have attracted attention for the study of extreme events in order to identify adaptive actions. Based on daily observed data from 113 meteorological stations in the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding regions in China during 1971–2017, we calculated the annual total precipitation and extreme precipitation indices using the R ClimDex software package and explored elevation-dependent precipitation trends. The resul

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Rottler, Erwin, Klaus Vormoor, Till Francke, Michael Warscher, Ulrich Strasser, and Axel Bronstert. "Elevation-dependent compensation effects in snowmelt in the Rhine River Basin upstream gauge Basel." Hydrology Research 52, no. 2 (2021): 536–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2021.092.

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Abstract In snow-dominated river basins, floods often occur during early summer, when snowmelt-induced runoff superimposes with rainfall-induced runoff. An earlier onset of seasonal snowmelt as a consequence of a warming climate is often expected to shift snowmelt contribution to river runoff and potential flooding to an earlier date. Against this background, we assess the impact of rising temperatures on seasonal snowpacks and quantify changes in timing, magnitude and elevation of snowmelt. We analyse in situ snow measurements, conduct snow simulations and examine changes in river runoff at k

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Zhang, Yanyu, Xiangjin Shen, and Gaohua Fan. "Elevation-Dependent Trend in Diurnal Temperature Range in the Northeast China during 1961–2015." Atmosphere 12, no. 3 (2021): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12030319.

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The diurnal temperature range (DTR) is considered a signature of observed climate change, which is defined as the difference between the maximum (Tmax) and minimum temperatures (Tmin). It is well known that the warming rate of mean temperature is larger at high elevations than at low elevations in northeast China. However, it is still uncertain whether DTR trend is greater at high elevations. This study examined the spatiotemporal variation in DTR and its relationship with elevation in northeast China based on data from 68 meteorological stations from 1961 to 2015. The results show that there

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Allen, Robert B., Jennifer M. Hurst, Jeanne Portier, and Sarah J. Richardson. "Elevation‐dependent responses of tree mast seeding to climate change over 45 years." Ecology and Evolution 4, no. 18 (2014): 3525–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1210.

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McCombs, Audrey, and Diane Debinski. "Summary of an Ongoing Population Study of Parnassius Clodius Butterflies." UW National Parks Service Research Station Annual Reports 38 (January 1, 2015): 71–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/uwnpsrc.2015.4097.

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Climate change presents unique challenges to high-altitude, high-latitude flying insects such as butterflies, bees, and flies. Models predict that climate change will cause general range shifts toward the poles and high elevations (Parmesan and Yohe 2003, Root et al. 2003) and empirical studies confirm that these range shifts are occurring (Parmesan et al. 1999, Kerr et al. 2015). As the earth warms, animals already living at high elevations and/or high latitudes may have nowhere to go. Furthermore, the body temperature of insects is dependent on ambient temperatures, and therefore many aspect

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Cuffey, K. M. "Interannual variability of elevation on the Greenland ice sheet: effects of firn densification, and establishment of a multi-century benchmark." Journal of Glaciology 47, no. 158 (2001): 369–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/172756501781832151.

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AbstractIn order to interpret measurements of ice-sheet surface elevation changes in terms of climatic or dynamic trends, it is necessary to establish the range of stochastic variability of elevation changes resulting from interannual fluctuations of accumulation rate and firn density. The analyses presented here are intended to facilitate such interpretations by defining benchmarks that characterize elevation-change variability in central Greenland, in the current climate and over the past millennium. We use a time- dependent firn-densification model coupled to an ice- and heat-flow model, fo

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Byrne, Michael P., William R. Boos, and Shineng Hu. "Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms." Weather and Climate Dynamics 5, no. 2 (2024): 763–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024.

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Abstract. Observational data and numerical models suggest that, under climate change, elevated land surfaces warm faster than non-elevated ones. Proposed drivers of this “elevation-dependent warming” (EDW) include surface albedo and water vapour feedbacks, the temperature dependence of longwave emission, and aerosols. Yet the relative importance of each proposed mechanism both regionally and at large scales is unclear, highlighting an incomplete physical understanding of EDW. Here we expand on previous regional studies and use gridded observations, atmospheric reanalysis, and a range of climat

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Kowalski, Michael, Lydia Soifer, Michael Craig, and Amanda Freeman. "Lower reporting rates after two decades for most bird species at a Wet Tropics Field Station." Australian Field Ornithology 39 (2022): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo39031041.

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Across Australia’s Wet Tropics region, populations of rainforest-dependent birds have declined because of climate change. Reforestation and regenerating secondary forest on abandoned agricultural land may help bolster species’ populations by expanding and connecting habitat. However, little is known about the value of these habitats for rainforest birds, or the impacts of climate change on secondary forests and their fauna compared with primary forests. At a 62-ha, mid-elevation property with primarily secondary forest cover on the Atherton Tablelands, in the Wet Tropics region, Queensland, we

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Liakka, Johan, and Marcus Lofverstrom. "Arctic warming induced by the Laurentide Ice Sheet topography." Climate of the Past 14, no. 6 (2018): 887–900. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-887-2018.

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Abstract. It is well known that ice sheet–climate feedbacks are essential for realistically simulating the spatiotemporal evolution of continental ice sheets over glacial–interglacial cycles. However, many of these feedbacks are dependent on the ice sheet thickness, which is poorly constrained by proxy data records. For example, height estimates of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) topography at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ∼ 21 000 years ago) vary by more than 1 km among different ice sheet reconstructions. In order to better constrain the LIS elevation it is therefore important to understand

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Rangwala, Imtiaz, and James R. Miller. "Climate change in mountains: a review of elevation-dependent warming and its possible causes." Climatic Change 114, no. 3-4 (2012): 527–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0419-3.

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Nilsson, J., L. Sandberg Sørensen, V. R. Barletta, and R. Forsberg. "Mass change of Arctic ice caps and glaciers: implications of regionalizing elevation changes." Cryosphere Discussions 7, no. 6 (2013): 5889–920. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tcd-7-5889-2013.

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Abstract. Recent studies have determined mass changes of Arctic ice caps and glaciers from satellite altimetry. Determining regional mass balance of ice caps and glaciers using this technique is inherently difficult due to their size and geometry. Furthermore these studies have mostly relied on one method or the same types of methods to determine the regional mass balance, by extrapolating elevation changes using their relation to elevation. This makes the estimation of mass balance heavily dependent on the method used to regionalize the elevation changes. Left without consideration large disc

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Xu, Shiqin, Zhongbo Yu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim R. McVicar, and Xibin Ji. "Elevation-dependent response of vegetation dynamics to climate change in a cold mountainous region." Environmental Research Letters 15, no. 9 (2020): 094005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9466.

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Nufio, César R., Monica M. Sheffer, Julia M. Smith, et al. "Insect size responses to climate change vary across elevations according to seasonal timing." PLOS Biology 23, no. 1 (2025): e3002805. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002805.

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Body size declines are a common response to warming via both plasticity and evolution, but variable size responses have been observed for terrestrial ectotherms. We investigate how temperature-dependent development and growth rates in ectothermic organisms induce variation in size responses. Leveraging long-term data for six montane grasshopper species spanning 1,768–3 901 m, we detect size shifts since ~1960 that depend on elevation and species’ seasonal timing. Size shifts have been concentrated at low elevations, with the early emerging species (those that overwinter as juveniles) increasin

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Keith, Arthur R., Joseph K. Bailey, and Thomas G. Whitham. "Assisted migration experiments along a distance/elevation gradient show limits to supporting home site communities." PLOS Climate 2, no. 5 (2023): e0000137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000137.

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We addressed the hypothesis that intraspecific genetic variation in plant traits from different sites along a distance/elevation gradient would influence the communities they support when grown at a new site. Answers to this hypothesis are important when considering the community consequences of assisted migration under climate change; i.e., if you build it will they come?. We surveyed arthropod communities occurring on the foundation riparian tree species Populus angustifolia along a distance/elevation gradient and in a common garden where trees from along the gradient were planted 20–22 year

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Tian, Ye, Wan Zhang, Xiao Xu, Bingrong Zhou, Xiaoyun Cao, and Bin Qiao. "Response of Water-Use Efficiency (WUE) in Alpine Grasslands to Hydrothermal and Radiative Factors Across Elevation Gradients." Land 14, no. 6 (2025): 1173. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061173.

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Vegetation water-use efficiency (WUE), which represents the trade-off between carbon assimilation and water consumption, is a key indicator of ecosystem adaptation to environmental change. While previous studies have addressed the climatic controls on WUE in alpine ecosystems, the quantitative response mechanisms along elevation gradients remain insufficiently explored. This study investigated the growing season WUE patterns of alpine grasslands across elevation zones on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau by integrating partial correlation analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings

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Tao, Jian, Yangjian Zhang, Jinwei Dong, et al. "Elevation-dependent relationships between climate change and grassland vegetation variation across the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau." International Journal of Climatology 35, no. 7 (2014): 1638–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4082.

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Moiseev, Pavel A., and Nail’ F. Nizametdinov. "Climatic Effects on Position and Dynamics of Upper Open Forest Boundary in Altay and Western Sayan in the Last 60 Years." Forests 14, no. 10 (2023): 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14101987.

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The upper treeline ecotone is a global and typically climate-dependent phenomenon. Its elevation is usually coupled with the thermal limitations of tree growth. The air temperature rise connected with global warming is assumed as the main cause of treeline upslope shifts in the last century. It has been found that the treeline elevation also correlates with the distance from the coastline and the aridity or continentality of the climate or the mass elevation effect. However, previous and contemporary publications have not explained how the upper treeline position directly couples with climate

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Liu, Wei, Meng Zhu, Yongge Li, Jutao Zhang, Linshan Yang, and Chengqi Zhang. "Assessing Soil Organic Carbon Stock Dynamics under Future Climate Change Scenarios in the Middle Qilian Mountains." Forests 12, no. 12 (2021): 1698. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12121698.

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Soil organic carbon (SOC) simply cannot be managed if its amounts, changes and locations are not well known. Thus, evaluations of the spatio-temporal dynamics of SOC stock under future climate change are crucial for the adaptive management of regional carbon sequestration. Here, we evaluated the dynamics of SOC stock to a 60 cm depth in the middle Qilian Mountains (1755–5051 m a.s.l.) by combining systematic measurements from 138 sampling sites with a machine learning model. Our results reveal that the combination of systematic measurements with the machine learning model allowed spatially exp

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Russell, Alexandria M., Anand Gnanadesikan, and Benjamin Zaitchik. "Are the Central Andes Mountains a Warming Hot Spot?" Journal of Climate 30, no. 10 (2017): 3589–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-16-0268.1.

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Abstract Global climate model simulations project that the tropical Andes Mountains of South America, which are particularly vulnerable to climate change because of a reliance on snow and glacial melt for freshwater resources, will experience enhanced warming in the near future, with both higher rates of warming at higher elevations within the mountain range itself and localized enhancement of warming exceeding surrounding areas of the globe. Yet recent surface temperature changes in the tropical Andes do not show evidence for either elevation-dependent warming or regional enhancement of warmi

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TELLERÍA, JOSÉ LUIS. "Altitudinal shifts in forest birds in a Mediterranean mountain range: causes and conservation prospects." Bird Conservation International 30, no. 4 (2019): 495–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270919000455.

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SummaryMediterranean mountains are biodiversity hotspots where northern species occur surrounded by drier and warmer lowlands. In this context, global warming is pushing these species to higher elevations. This paper assesses whether forest birds have experienced a shift upwards over the elevation gradient in the last 35 years in the Guadarrama Mountains (600–2,400 m asl; central Spain). Alternatively, the paper tests whether the reported shifts are related to changes in forest structure resulting from rural abandonment and/or forest management. To do this, sampling carried out from 1976 to 19

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Liu, Xinsheng, Chunsong Wang, and Junkai Zhao. "Seasonal Drought Effects on Intra-Annual Stem Growth of Taiwan Pine along an Elevational Gradient in Subtropical China." Forests 10, no. 12 (2019): 1128. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10121128.

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Knowledge of intra-annual stem growth dynamics across environmental gradients is important for advancing our ability to understand the adaptability and vulnerability of subtropical tree species to future climate change. To assess the effects of seasonal drought on intra-annual stem growth, stem radial variation of Taiwan pine (Pinus taiwanensis Hayata) was monitored with band dendrometers for two years along an elevation transect from 921 to 1402 m in the Lushan Mountains, a transect that covers the contrasting climatic growing conditions for Taiwan pine in southeastern China. We found that th

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Getachew, Merkebu. "Coffee Leaf Traits, Bean Quality and Biochemistry across Elevation and Shade Gradients in Ethiopia." Afrika Focus 36, no. 2 (2023): 302–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-20230209.

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Abstract According to model projections, coffee cultivation areas will need to move to higher elevations as suitability moves upslope to compensate for increased temperatures. However, shifting coffee-growing areas upslope may bring conflicts with land use and crops other than coffee and induce adverse socio-economic and environmental impacts associated with deforestation for new coffee cultivation. Moreover, model projections are largely limited to ex-situ experiments based on downscaled global climate models, and thus empirical data are still needed to assess climate change impacts on coffee

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Lu, Liheng, Xiaoqian Shen, and Ruyin Cao. "Elevational Movement of Vegetation Greenness on the Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from the Landsat Satellite Observations during the Last Three Decades." Atmosphere 12, no. 2 (2021): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12020161.

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The Tibetan Plateau, the highest plateau in the world, has experienced strong climate warming during the last few decades. The greater increase of temperature at higher elevations may have strong impacts on the vertical movement of vegetation activities on the plateau. Although satellite-based observations have explored this issue, these observations were normally provided by the coarse satellite data with a spatial resolution of more than hundreds of meters (e.g., GIMMS and MODIS), which could lead to serious mixed-pixel effects in the analyses. In this study, we employed the medium-spatial-r

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Chen, Ruonan, Liangyun Liu, and Xinjie Liu. "Satellite-Based Observations Reveal the Altitude-Dependent Patterns of SIFyield and Its Sensitivity to Ambient Temperature in Tibetan Meadows." Remote Sensing 13, no. 7 (2021): 1400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13071400.

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Photosynthesis and its sensitivity to the changing environment in alpine regions are of great significance to the understanding of vegetation–environment interactions and other global ecological processes in the context of global change, while their variations along the elevation gradient remain unclear. Using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) derived from satellite observations, we discovered an increase in solar-induced fluorescence yield (SIFyield) with rising elevation in Tibetan meadows in the summer, related to the altitudinal variation in temperature sensitivity at both seaso

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Doležal, Jiri, Hiroaki Ishii, Tomáš Kyncl, et al. "Climatic factors affecting radial growth of Betula ermanii and Betula platypylla in Kamchatka." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40, no. 2 (2010): 273–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x09-179.

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Radial growth responses to climate were studied in two species of birch broadly distributed across Kamchatka Peninsula. Wood cores were obtained in different locations and environments, from upper to lower treelines, and from wet maritime sites at the Pacific to the subcontinental interior of the peninsula. Response functions were calculated using the four longest meteorological records (1920s–2000) in Kamchatka. In Betula ermanii Cham., the dominant species in mountains and maritime woodlands, ring width in high-elevation (500–600 m) trees increased with warm and less rainy June and July and

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Boateng, Daniel, Sebastian G. Mutz, Armelle Ballian, et al. "The effects of diachronous surface uplift of the European Alps on regional climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation." Earth System Dynamics 14, no. 6 (2023): 1183–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1183-2023.

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Abstract. This study presents the simulated response of regional climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation (δ18Op) to different along-strike topographic evolution scenarios. These simulations are conducted to determine if the previously hypothesized diachronous surface uplift in the Western and Eastern Alps would produce δ18Op signals in the geologic record that are sufficiently large and distinct to be detected using stable isotope paleoaltimetry. We present a series of topographic sensitivity experiments conducted with the water-isotope-tracking atmospheric general circula

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Pandey, Krishna Prasad, Camilla Wellstein, Achim Bräuning, and Dinesh Raj Bhuju. "Climatic Influence on Growth Performance of Abies spectabilis in the Himalayas." Forests 16, no. 3 (2025): 473. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16030473.

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Climate change has affected forest ecosystems across the world over the past century. However, its impact is particularly high in the Himalayas due to increasing temperatures, extreme precipitation events, and regional droughts. In this context, a review of the current stage of research was deemed necessary to understand the adaptation of a key conifer species to climate variability in the Central Himalayas. Hence, we conducted a systematic review of published peer-reviewed journal articles addressing the growth performance of Abies spectabilis (D. Don) Spach in the Central Himalayas. From thi

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Buerkert, Andreas, Eduardo Fernandez, Beke Tietjen, and Eike Luedeling. "Revisiting climate change effects on winter chill in mountain oases of northern Oman." Climatic Change 162, no. 3 (2020): 1399–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02862-8.

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Abstract For centuries, traditional high-altitude oases in Oman have depended on the cultivation of deciduous fruit trees. This study explores the effects of climate change on winter chill (estimated as Chilling Hours—CH and Chill Portions—CP), a prerequisite to overcoming dormancy and initiating flowering, in three Omani oases. The results are compared with findings from an earlier study which reported a decrease in the numbers of CH in high-elevation oases by an average of 1.2–9.5 CH year−1 between 1983 and 2008. Location-specific weather data were obtained by merging 15 years of in situ rec

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Warscher, Michael, Sven Wagner, Thomas Marke, et al. "A 5 km Resolution Regional Climate Simulation for Central Europe: Performance in High Mountain Areas and Seasonal, Regional and Elevation-Dependent Variations." Atmosphere 10, no. 11 (2019): 682. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos10110682.

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Mountain regions with complex orography are a particular challenge for regional climate simulations. High spatial resolution is required to account for the high spatial variability in meteorological conditions. This study presents a very high-resolution regional climate simulation (5 km) using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) for the central part of Europe including the Alps. Global boundaries are dynamically downscaled for the historical period 1980–2009 (ERA-Interim and MPI-ESM), and for the near future period 2020–2049 (MPI-ESM, scenario RCP4.5). Model results are compared t

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Nigrelli, Guido, and Marta Chiarle. "1991–2020 climate normal in the European Alps: focus on high-elevation environments." Journal of Mountain Science 20, no. 8 (2023): 2149–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11629-023-7951-7.

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AbstractAlps are an important geographical area of the European continent and, in this area, temperature increase is most evident. However, the 1991–2020 climate normal in the Alps has still not been thoroughly investigated. Aiming to fill this gap with a focus on high-elevation environments, minimum and maximum daily air temperature acquired by 23 automatic weather station were used. The results show that the mean annual values of minimum and maximum temperature for the 1991–2020 climate normal in the Alps are −2.4°C and 4.4°C, respectively, with a warming rate of 0.5°C/10 years. The mean ann

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Van Beusekom, Ashley E., Grizelle González, and Maria M. Rivera. "Short-Term Precipitation and Temperature Trends along an Elevation Gradient in Northeastern Puerto Rico." Earth Interactions 19, no. 3 (2015): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/ei-d-14-0023.1.

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Abstract As is true of many tropical regions, northeastern Puerto Rico is an ecologically sensitive area with biological life that is highly elevation dependent on precipitation and temperature. Climate change has the potential to increase the risk of losing endemic species and habitats. Consequently, it is important to explore the pattern of trends in precipitation and temperature along an elevation gradient. Statistical derivatives of a frequently sampled dataset of precipitation and temperature at 20 sites along an elevation gradient of 1000 m in northeastern Puerto Rico were examined for t

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Li, Hongyu, Xiaohuang Liu, Wenbo Zhang, et al. "Elevational Patterns of Forest Evapotranspiration and Its Sensitivity to Climatic Variation in Dryland Mountains." Water 16, no. 9 (2024): 1252. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w16091252.

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Elevational climatic heterogeneity, complex terrains, and varying subsurface properties affect the sensitivity of evapotranspiration (ET) in dryland mountain forests to hydrometeorological changes. However, the elevational distribution of ET sensitivity and its major influencing factors remain poorly understood. This study focused on the mid-altitude zone (1000–3500 m) forests in the Chinese Western Tianshan Mountains and assessed ET sensitivity to multiple climate variables, including precipitation (P) and potential evapotranspiration (PET), from 2000 to 2020. To evaluate the multi-year mean

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