Faster boundary shifts near the cold limit of species' niche

Xiangyu Zheng^{1

2}, J Julio Camarero³, Josep Peñuelas^{4

5}, Shalik Ram Sigdel¹, Xiaoming Lu¹, Shan Gao¹, Xiaoxia Li¹, Tao Wang¹, Eryuan Liang¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
³ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, 50059, Spain.
⁴ CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08193, Spain.
⁵ CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08193, Spain.

Xiangyu Zheng et al. New Phytol. 2025.

. 2025 Dec 12.

doi: 10.1111/nph.70812. Online ahead of print.

Xiangyu Zheng^{1

2}, J Julio Camarero³, Josep Peñuelas^{4

5}, Shalik Ram Sigdel¹, Xiaoming Lu¹, Shan Gao¹, Xiaoxia Li¹, Tao Wang¹, Eryuan Liang¹

¹ State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
³ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, 50059, Spain.
⁴ CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08193, Spain.
⁵ CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08193, Spain.

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Keywords: alpine treeline; climate change; cold tolerance; niche limits; species' range limits; thermal sensitivity.

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