Freshly published papers!

APRIL 2021
We have been missing for a while but we are back with great news:
1) Global Ecology and Biogeography published two of our articles investigating the drivers of alpine vascular plant richness in European mountains and at the global scale;
2) Our analysis of the global functional variation in alpine vegetation has been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science's special issue 'Macroecology of Vegetation'.
Go check them out in the publications section!

Global seed germination spectrum of alpine plants

NOVEMBER 2020​
New Phytologist publishes our meta-analysis of alpine seed germination! This is the outcome of an international collaboration of scientists from Australia, China, Europe and South America.

New project funded

JULY 2020​
A new project entitled "Seed ecological spectrum of alpine plant communities - SEEDALP" has been funded by the Spanish Science Agency to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro for the next four years. The project will link seed trait ecology with community ecology along topographic gradients, using relict vegetation of the Cantabrian Mountains as the study system. A new Ph.D. student will join the team in spring 2021.

GLORIA co-ordinators join ALPVEG

APRIL 2020​
GLORIA co-ordinators Manuela Winkler and Harald Pauli have joined ALPVEG to strengthen the collaboration among global monitoring studies and other alpine projects.

The first global alpine paper is out!

MARCH 2020​
​First paper of Riccardo Testolin´s  PhD thesis on global bioclimatic patterns of alpine biomes has been published in Ecography. This paper provides the baseline for coming studies cross alpine regions.

ALPVEG workshop in northern Spain 

FEBRUARY 2020​
​George Malanson and Riccardo Testolin visited the ALPVEG parterns at UMIB, University of Oviedo, to discuss major points related to European alpine data and their use in on-going projects within our network. 

A new PhD on alpine plant regeneration

JANUARY 2020​
​Francesco Porro defended his PhD "Comparative seed germination and longevity studies of alpine plants in the context of climate change", supervised by Andrea Mondoni, at the University of Pavia (Italy). Congratulations!