Trends in upward shift of alpine plants
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Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin. Trends in upward shift of alpine plants. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/syhrle accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-16.Description
Based on almost 100 years of monitoring in the Swiss Alps, we asked (1) whether the extraordinary warm climatic conditions of the 1990s are reflected in the floristic composition of Alpine summit vegetation and, if so, (2) what the magnitude and rate of species change has been over the last few decades compared to the documented increase in species richness within the first 80 years of the 20th century. Ten high mountain summits of the Bernina area in the southeastern Swiss Alps. Resurvey of the floristic composition of the uppermost altitudinal 10 m of these summits, applying the same methodology of former two surveys (1905 and 1985) and recording the presence of all vascular plant species.Taxonomic Coverages
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