Shrub growth and plant diversity along an elevation gradient: Evidence of indirect effects of climate on alpine ecosystems

• Francesco Boscutti ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: francesco.boscutti@uniud.it

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Plant Biology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4969-2752

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• Valentino Casolo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Plant Biology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

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• Paola Beraldo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Plant Biology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

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• Enrico Braidot,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Plant Biology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

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• Marco Zancani,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, Plant Biology Unit, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

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• Christian Rixen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WSL Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research SLF, Unit Ecosystem Boundaries, Alpine Ecosystems, Davos, Switzerland

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