A high-throughput sequencing study of Rhododendron decorum foliar fungi across five alpine regions in northwestern Yunnan ...

Alpine ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change, and many of them are already experiencing rapid warming that is associated with noticeable shifts in alpine vegetation. After previous ...

A Dartmouth study found that "alpine greening," driven by warming temperatures and Midwestern nitrogen pollution, is ...

Alpine plants are dying off despite mountain summits getting greener, reveals a new study. European mountaintops may be gaining plant species as the climate warms, but researchers found that apparent ...

Researchers have studied how two characteristic Arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming. They did this by analyzing almost 500 million of their own readings from the mountainous region ...

Finan Rodinson gets down to the roots of alpine botany... If you're an altitude enthusiast, you've probably prepared a pack or two with a thought to the extreme daily temperature variations, lack of ...

Alpine plants that survived the Ice Ages in different locations still show accrued differences in appearance and features. These findings were made by botanists from the University of Basel using two ...

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change. Alpine plants face a number of threats: Recreation (trampling and disturbance ...

This summer, undergraduate students Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski are spending time hiking in the mountains—and trapping pikas and counting flowers. CU Boulder student Grace Kendziorski studies the ...