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Braking effect of climate and topography on global change-induced upslope forest expansion

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Biometeorology, August 2016
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Title
Braking effect of climate and topography on global change-induced upslope forest expansion
Published in
International Journal of Biometeorology, August 2016
DOI 10.1007/s00484-016-1231-y
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Authors

Juha M. Alatalo, Alessandro Ferrarini

Abstract

Forests are expected to expand into alpine areas due to global climate change. It has recently been shown that temperature alone cannot realistically explain this process and that upslope tree advance in a warmer scenario may depend on the availability of sites with adequate geomorphic/topographic characteristics. Here, we show that, besides topography (slope and aspect), climate itself can produce a braking effect on the upslope advance of subalpine forests and that tree limit is influenced by non-linear and non-monotonic contributions of the climate variables which act upon treeline upslope advance with varying relative strengths. Our results suggest that global climate change impact on the upslope advance of subalpine forests should be interpreted in a more complex way where climate can both speed up and slow down the process depending on complex patterns of contribution from each climate and non-climate variable.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 18%
Student > Master 3 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 7 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 32%
Environmental Science 6 21%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 11%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Unknown 9 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 August 2016.
All research outputs
#5,905,904
of 22,883,326 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Biometeorology
#593
of 1,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#93,430
of 343,547 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Biometeorology
#14
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,883,326 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,297 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
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