Reposted by Karen De Pauw 🌼
More shrubs in the mountains?! 😮
Why would this be a problem for the local biodiversity? Shrubs are tall and can form dense canopies, eventually outcompeting many of the smaller alpine flowers.
📃by Thomas Vanneste
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Widespread Shrubification on European Mountain Summits
Based on vegetation resurveys from 572 plots of 1 m2 located on mountain summits spread across Europe's major mountain ranges, shrubification was calculated as the change in shrub cover between 2001 ...