Disturbance history of an old-growth sub-alpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Shennongjia Mountains of central China was reconstructed using dendroecological methods. Increment cores were ...

Climate change is affecting the hydrology of high-elevation mountain ecosystems, with implications for ecosystem functioning and water availability to downstream consumers. To quantify the water ...

Imagine yourself walking quietly through a high-elevation subalpine forest. You feel immersed in shady stillness while enveloped by a fresh scent of pine, spruce and fir. You gaze out at the trees ...

The Mullen fire looms near a property in Centennial last fall. Bryan Shuman, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, was a main co-author of a paper, titled “Rocky Mountain Subalpine ...

Snow covered area (SCA) represents the largest single component of the cryosphere that fluctuates seasonally. For the mountain west, the distribution and storage of snow is largely within the alpine ...

Over 4,800 years in the Northern Rockies during wet periods and dry periods, subalpine forests consistently recovered from wildfires, growing back vegetation and leaving evidence of their resilience ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration under snow was examined through two winter seasons at a 3100 m elevation subalpine site in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. CO2 was monitored every half hour at the ...

Prior to the 1970s, the boreal owl was known to breed from Alaska east across all of Canada, but not south of central British Columbia. Researchers then documented it in high elevation spruce and fir ...

Scientists expect trees will advance upslope as global temperatures increase, shifting the tree line—the mountain zone where trees become smaller and eventually stop growing—to higher elevations.

Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent research. Even in the ...