Fires often are not lethal for trees, but rather trigger ... function of mountain forests, increase. Research questions and hypothesis This PhD-thesis aims at short- and long-term fire effects on the ...

The alpine plant community of the High Peaks region is truly a rare and limited Adirondack resource. This forest community, sometimes called the mountain boreal forest, is comprised largely of conifer ...

The study suggests that as today’s climate warms, tree lines could rise again, transforming areas of alpine tundra into forest. However, Pederson cautioned that factors such as precipitation, wind, ...

Alpine regions are coming ... from the Austrian Research Centre for Forests. Dr Trujillo Moya and colleagues have continued to monitor Norway spruce trees in the mountains of Austria, allowing ...

The cooler temperatures shifted the tree line downslope and transformed the high mountain landscape from forest to the alpine tundra that exists today. One of the paper's authors, David McWethy ...