Globalt øker omfanget av naturødeleggelse gjennom menneskelig aktivitet. I dag er økologisk restaurering et viktig virkemiddel for å redusere skaden av naturinngrep. Den internasjonale konvensjonen om biologisk mangfold ...

Species richness was sampled on 254 sites distributed along the altitudinal gradient of 23 mountains in Jotunheimen, Norway. The sampling was conducted during the summer of 2014, on sites that previously had been sampled ...

Across environmental gradients, community‐level functional traits of plants can change due to species turnover, intraspecific variation and their covariation. Studies on vascular plants suggest that species turnover is the ...

Question: Cold environments are stressful for vascular plants, and stress-tolerant non-vascular photoautotrophs, e.g. bryophytes and lichens, become relatively more important as competition from vascular plants decreases ...

Functional traits are becoming increasingly important tools to evaluate plant community response to climate change. Artificial warming treatments can shift community-level trait values as a consequence of intraspecific ...

Anthropogenic environmental changes cause direct and indirect negative effects on alpine ecosystems. Human activities are accelerating the greenhouse effect and fragmenting and changing habitats. Increased temperature has ...