Université de Fribourg

The response of the alpine dwarf shrub Salix herbacea to altered snowmelt timing: lessons from a multi-site transplant experiment

Sedlacek, Janosch ; Wheeler, Julia A. ; Cortés, Andrés J. ; Bossdorf, Oliver ; Hoch, Guenter ; Lexer, Christian ; Wipf, Sonja ; Karrenberg, Sophie ; Kleunen, Mark van ; Rixen, Christian

In: PLoS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, no. 4, p. e0122395

Climate change is altering spring snowmelt patterns in alpine and arctic ecosystems, and these changes may alter plant phenology, growth and reproduction. To predict how alpine plants respond to shifts in snowmelt timing, we need to understand trait plasticity, its effects on growth and reproduction, and the degree to which plants experience a home-site advantage. We tested how the common,...

Université de Fribourg

Small-scale patterns in snowmelt timing affect gene flow and the distribution of genetic diversity in the alpine dwarf shrub Salix herbacea

Cortés, Andres J. ; Waeber, Stephan ; Lexer, Christian ; Sedlacek, J. ; Wheeler, J. A. ; Kleunen, Mark van ; Bossdorf, O. ; Hoch, G. ; Rixen, C. ; Wipf, S . ; Karrenberg, S.

In: Heredity, 2014, p. -

Current threats to biodiversity, such as climate change, are thought to alter the within-species genetic diversity among microhabitats in highly heterogeneous alpine environments. Assessing the spatial organization and dynamics of genetic diversity within species can help to predict the responses of organisms to environmental change. In this study, we evaluated whether small-scale heterogeneity...

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