Rising species numbers on Europe’s mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialists

September 3, 2026 · 6:00 pm 1 sources

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• Rising species numbers on Europe's mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialists
  Phys.org · September 3, 2026 18:00
  Decades of warming have relaxed cold-temperature constraints on mountain plant distribution and increased species numbers on mountaintops. An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna, together with BOKU University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, now shows…