Shalik Ram Sigdel
@sigdelshalik.bsky.social
Associate Reseacher at Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS Beijing, Passionate about alpine plant ecology, Treeline, #Himalayas, Global Change Ecology, Functional ecology, Dendroecology. Views are my own
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Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming - Nature Plants
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones, offering insight into future forest successio...
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Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reposted by Shalik Ram Sigdel
Patterns, dynamics and drivers of alpine treelines and shrublines
->Nature | More info from EcoSearch
->Nature | More info from EcoSearch
Patterns, dynamics and drivers of alpine treelines and shrublines
Körner, C. Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems (Springer, 2021). Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Vogel, J., Co, S. & Duo, L. Highest treeline in the Northern Hemisphere found in southern Tibet. Mt. Res. Dev. 27, 169–173...
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July 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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New online! Patterns, dynamics and drivers of alpine treelines and shrublines
Patterns, dynamics and drivers of alpine treelines and shrublines
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 24 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00703-9Alpine treelines and shrublines are advancing to higher elevations in the context of warming. This Review synthesizes global trends in ecotone dynamics, explores the underlying drivers and mechanisms, and considers the consequences to alpine regions.
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July 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
New online! Patterns, dynamics and drivers of alpine treelines and shrublines
Happy to share our new article published in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com !
Here, we investigated the global patterns, dynamics, and drivers of alpine treelines & shrublines, as well as their ecological consequences on alpine environments under a warming climate.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Here, we investigated the global patterns, dynamics, and drivers of alpine treelines & shrublines, as well as their ecological consequences on alpine environments under a warming climate.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Patterns, dynamics and drivers of alpine treelines and shrublines - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Alpine treelines and shrublines are advancing to higher elevations in the context of warming. This Review synthesizes global trends in ecotone dynamics, explores the underlying drivers and mechanisms,...
www.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Happy to share our new article published in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com !
Here, we investigated the global patterns, dynamics, and drivers of alpine treelines & shrublines, as well as their ecological consequences on alpine environments under a warming climate.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Here, we investigated the global patterns, dynamics, and drivers of alpine treelines & shrublines, as well as their ecological consequences on alpine environments under a warming climate.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! By Wentao Lin, Xiaoming Lu, @sigdelshalik.bsky.social, Jiangrong Li, Haifeng Zhu, Jian Sun, Lin Zhang, Gengxin Zhang, J. Julio Camarero & Eryuan Liang #SNFECO @tmtspringer.bsky.social
Read it here: ow.ly/c23y50Vu1VA
Read it here: ow.ly/c23y50Vu1VA
April 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! By Wentao Lin, Xiaoming Lu, @sigdelshalik.bsky.social, Jiangrong Li, Haifeng Zhu, Jian Sun, Lin Zhang, Gengxin Zhang, J. Julio Camarero & Eryuan Liang #SNFECO @tmtspringer.bsky.social
Read it here: ow.ly/c23y50Vu1VA
Read it here: ow.ly/c23y50Vu1VA
Happy to share our new publication. Here, we explored drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests.
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Disentangling the drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests of the Tibetan Plateau - Fire Ecology
Background Wildfires impact forests including understory composition and modify environmental conditions such as canopy cover and soil fertility. The recovery of understory plant community composition...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Happy to share our new publication. Here, we explored drivers of post-fire plant community dynamics in subalpine forests.
fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....
fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Our paper just published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Here, we tested the resilience of alpine shrub growth to changing climatic conditions.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Our paper just published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Here, we tested the resilience of alpine shrub growth to changing climatic conditions.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In this paper @joseppenuelas proposes the IME (information, mass, energy) theory, that integrates the 5 laws of life by determining the relationships among information, mass and energy through time and after disturbances ✍️
@csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
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@csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
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The way we are, function and change: The information, mass and energy theory
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January 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In this paper @joseppenuelas proposes the IME (information, mass, energy) theory, that integrates the 5 laws of life by determining the relationships among information, mass and energy through time and after disturbances ✍️
@csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
www.the-innovation.org/article/doi/...
@csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
www.the-innovation.org/article/doi/...
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🌱 Seminar on functional trait ecology 🌱
I'll be discussing my research on Arctic plant traits next 14 Jan at the ECR seminar organised by @dittemch.bsky.social & Nadine Artz. So excited to present alongside legends
@bjenquist.bsky.social & @lacapary.bsky.social. Join us! forms.gle/gemqP82kQgpN...
I'll be discussing my research on Arctic plant traits next 14 Jan at the ECR seminar organised by @dittemch.bsky.social & Nadine Artz. So excited to present alongside legends
@bjenquist.bsky.social & @lacapary.bsky.social. Join us! forms.gle/gemqP82kQgpN...
January 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🌱 Seminar on functional trait ecology 🌱
I'll be discussing my research on Arctic plant traits next 14 Jan at the ECR seminar organised by @dittemch.bsky.social & Nadine Artz. So excited to present alongside legends
@bjenquist.bsky.social & @lacapary.bsky.social. Join us! forms.gle/gemqP82kQgpN...
I'll be discussing my research on Arctic plant traits next 14 Jan at the ECR seminar organised by @dittemch.bsky.social & Nadine Artz. So excited to present alongside legends
@bjenquist.bsky.social & @lacapary.bsky.social. Join us! forms.gle/gemqP82kQgpN...
Reposted by Shalik Ram Sigdel
Hydrology Paper of the Day @sigdelshalik on modelling the biogeography of fir and birch trees under climate change scenarios: fir trees will move upslope faster than birch trees; competition and succession; spatial analyses via the Programita software; and effects of scale.
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming - Nature Plants
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones, offering insight into future forest successio...
www.nature.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @sigdelshalik on modelling the biogeography of fir and birch trees under climate change scenarios: fir trees will move upslope faster than birch trees; competition and succession; spatial analyses via the Programita software; and effects of scale.
Coverage of our recent research progress on Himalayan treeline dynamics (nature.com/articles/s41...) in Science News.
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The Himalayan tree landscape is shifting—and so are its ecosystems
At high elevations, fir trees are outcompeting once-dominant birches amid warmer, drier conditions
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December 15, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Coverage of our recent research progress on Himalayan treeline dynamics (nature.com/articles/s41...) in Science News.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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New paper by @sigdelshalik in Nature Plants using @gbif.org mediated data:
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01855-0
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01855-0
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming - Nature Plants
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones, offering insight into future forest successio...
www.nature.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 PM
New paper by @sigdelshalik in Nature Plants using @gbif.org mediated data:
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01855-0
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01855-0
Protect mountains to protect ecosystem goods and services to the planet. #InternationalMountainDay
December 11, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Protect mountains to protect ecosystem goods and services to the planet. #InternationalMountainDay
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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... In 2023, I was part of the symposium “Anthromes, CO2, and Terrestrial Carbon: From the deep past to net-zero”, after which J. Aaron Hogan masterfully led an interesting analysis on how the concept of Anthromes can be used to understand global land carbon.
Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change
Forest ecosystems absorb and store about 25% of global carbon dioxide emissions annually and are increasingly shaped by human land use and management. Climate change interacts with land use and fores...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:11 PM
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... In 2023, I was part of the symposium “Anthromes, CO2, and Terrestrial Carbon: From the deep past to net-zero”, after which J. Aaron Hogan masterfully led an interesting analysis on how the concept of Anthromes can be used to understand global land carbon.
Reposted by Shalik Ram Sigdel
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming - Nature Plants
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones, offering insight into future forest successio...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔥 in Ecology Letters 🔥
#Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits
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#Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities
We surveyed rainforest tree communities across the Australian subtropics (spanning 600 to 2500 mm rainfall year−1) and measured functional traits on 285 (91%) of all recorded species. Hydraulic strat....
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December 3, 2024 at 9:17 AM
🔥 in Ecology Letters 🔥
#Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#Traits describing hydraulic strategies and deciduousness explain the occurrence trends of almost 300 #rainforest #tree species across a steep rainfall gradient in Australia. #FunctionalTraits
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Did you know there is a #SoutheastAsia project for #Cyperaceae on @inaturalist.bsky.social? If you want to contribute, upload your pictures and they will be automatically added whenever you spot a sedge🧐🌾Let's speed up sedge knowledge for such a biodiverse region!
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http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sedges-of-southeast-asia-cyperaceae
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November 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Did you know there is a #SoutheastAsia project for #Cyperaceae on @inaturalist.bsky.social? If you want to contribute, upload your pictures and they will be automatically added whenever you spot a sedge🧐🌾Let's speed up sedge knowledge for such a biodiverse region!
t.co/5ohAUsKqm5
t.co/5ohAUsKqm5
Flora and Vegetation of Nepal
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link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Flora and Vegetation of Nepal
This volume highlights the flora and vegetation of Nepal, which accounts for 20% of the Himalayan biodiversity.
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December 3, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Flora and Vegetation of Nepal
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Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming. @natureplants.bsky.social
"The findings point to accelerating successional dynamics with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species."
Read more
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The findings point to accelerating successional dynamics with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species."
Read more
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming. @natureplants.bsky.social
"The findings point to accelerating successional dynamics with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species."
Read more
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"The findings point to accelerating successional dynamics with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species."
Read more
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Shalik Ram Sigdel
New Article: "Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming" rdcu.be/d0Izp
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones. #PlantScience
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones. #PlantScience
November 19, 2024 at 9:45 AM
New Article: "Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming" rdcu.be/d0Izp
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones. #PlantScience
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones. #PlantScience
Reposted by Shalik Ram Sigdel
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
Understanding how climate change influences succession is fundamental for predicting future forest composition
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #climate #nature #environment #future
Understanding how climate change influences succession is fundamental for predicting future forest composition
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #climate #nature #environment #future
November 19, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
Understanding how climate change influences succession is fundamental for predicting future forest composition
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #climate #nature #environment #future
Understanding how climate change influences succession is fundamental for predicting future forest composition
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #climate #nature #environment #future
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming - Nature Plants
Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones, offering insight into future forest successio...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...