The Changing Alpine Treeline - David R. Butler, George P. Malanson, Stephen J. Walsh, Daniel B. Fagre
The Changing Alpine Treeline - David R. Butler, George P. Malanson, Stephen J. Walsh, Daniel B. Fagre The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy…
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The Changing Alpine Treeline - David R. Butler, George P. Malanson, Stephen J. Walsh, Daniel B. Fagre
The alpine treeline ecotone (ATE) is an area of transition high on mountains where closed canopy forests from lower elevations give way to the open alpine tundra and rocky expanses above. The invasion of tundra by trees will have consequences for the tundra biome as invasion does for other island flora and fauna. Alpine tundra is an island biome and its ecotone with forest is subject to change, and like oceanic islands, alpine tundra is subject to invasion – or the upward advance of treeline.
To examine the invasibility of tundra we take a plant’s-eye-view, wherein the local conditions become