Recovery of subalpine grasslands 15 years after landscape level fires

6170 Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands

Climatic teleconnections affecting subalpine fires 1 Running head: Climatic teleconnections affecting subalpine fires ENSO and PDO variability affect drought-induced fire occurrence in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests

Contrasting microbial biogeographical patterns between anthropogenic subalpine grasslands and natural alpine grasslands.

The effect of plant species composition on soil microbial communities was studied at the multiregional level. We compared the soil microbial communities of alpine natural grasslands dominated by Carex curvula and anthropogenic subalpine pastures dominated by Nardus stricta. We conducted paired sampling across the Carpathians and the Alps and used Illumina sequencing to reveal the molecular dive...

Learning to live with landscape fires

Catastrophic wildfires have become more frequent in the last few decades. The standard depiction in the media of fires as a disaster that has to be avoided and stopped at all cost fails to do justice to a more complex ecological balance of destruction and new growth. The emerging discipline of pyrogeography aims to gain a holistic understanding of the role that fire plays in nature and the ways...

Low impact of climate change on subalpine grasslands in the Swiss Northern Alps

While phenological shifts and migration of isolated species under climate change have already been observed on alpine summits, very few studies have focused on community composition changes in subalpine grasslands. Here we use permanent plots monitored since 1954 and precisely located phytosociological censuses from 1970 to study compositional changes of subalpine grasslands in two distinct reg...