Benjamin Blonder*, Cyrille Violle and Brian J. Enquist Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 E Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 519, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA; Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, København Ø DK-2100, Denmark; Centre d’Ecologie Fon...

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 E Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 619, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA, Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark, Sustainability Solutions Initiative, University of Maine, 5710 Norman Smi...

a School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia b Institute for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria c Department of Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands d Climate Change Research Centre, University of ...

The velocity of climate change is an elegant analytical concept that can be used to evaluate the exposure of organisms to climate change. In essence, one divides the rate of climate change by the rate of spatial climate variability to obtain a speed at which species must migrate over the surface of the earth to maintain constant climate conditions. However, to apply the algorithm for conservati...

A variation of the landslide activity is expected according to the climate change in the Alps, especially in permafrost environment. Mountain areas are not very well controlled by monitoring systems due to the high costs. Therefore, satellite data and especially repeatpass SAR interferometric techniques are an important option for the monitoring. In our contribution differential SAR interferome...

Despite the evidence that increased frequency and magnitude of extreme climate events (ECE) considerably affect plant performance, there is still a lack of knowledge about how these events affect mountain plant biodiversity and mountain ecosystem functioning. Here, we assessed the short-term (one vegetation period) effects of simulated ECEs [extreme drought (DR), advanced and delayed snowmelt (...

Soon, a decision will be made by the U.S. Secretary of Energy on whether to recommend Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the site for storage of highlevel radioactive waste. The waste would be stored in what is known as the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain. Here, water from rain and snow percolate downward to the water table, traveling along fractures in the rocks through the mountain and the reposito...

Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, Department of Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1181 HV, The Netherlands, CSIRO Land and W...

Reply: For physical models, like global and regional climate models, the grid spacing used for the simulation can affect the total precipitation volume over a region. This results mainly from terrain effects. With finer grid spacing, the mountain ranges are better resolved, which produces more intense precipitation over the domain. This is a reason why regional models, especially those run at r...

High mountain ecosystems are among the most sensitive environments to changes in climatic conditions occurring on global, regional and local scales. The article describes the changing conditions observed over recent years in the high mountain basin of the Claro River, on the west flank of the Colombian Andean Central mountain range. Local ground truth data gathered at 4150 m, regional data avai...