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Plant Ecology & Diversity Volume 6, 2013 - Issue 3-4: Climate Change and Extreme Events in Alpine Ecosystems
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Conifer seedling recruitment across a gradient from forest to alpine tundra: effects of species, provenance, and site

C. Castanha Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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M.S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA; University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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M.J. Germino US Geological Survey, Boise, ID, USA
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B. Weibel Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland
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L.M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA; University of California, Merced, CA, USA
Pages 307-318 | Received 07 Feb 2012, Accepted 24 Jul 2012, Published online: 30 Oct 2012

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Katharine N. Suding, Emily C. Farrer, Andrew J. King, Lara Kueppers & Marko J. Spasojevic. (2015) Vegetation change at high elevation: scale dependence and interactive effects on Niwot Ridge. Plant Ecology & Diversity 8:5-6, pages 713-725.
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Sonja Wipf, Michael Gottfried & Laszlo Nagy. (2013) Climate change and extreme events – their impacts on alpine and arctic ecosystem structure and function. Plant Ecology & Diversity 6:3-4, pages 303-306.
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