Call for articles – Polar, alpine and mountain plants in climate change

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 2024

Extreme latitudes, like those of Arctic and Antarctic areas, share several features with mountain habitats, like short growing seasons with seasonally high solar irradiation, mostly cool temperatures and rugged terrains. Relatively rich flora can still be found especially in some of the Arctic and mountain regions (particularly alpine ones), even if low shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses dominate. Antarctica currently supports only two native vascular plant species, but high numbers of mosses, lichens and liverworts.

Plant life in all these areas has evolved to cope with rapidly fluctuating abiotic conditions across diurnal timeframes, but with consistent seasonal patterns (long winter and short growing season). However, climate change is strongly affecting seasonal patterns and is increasing the variability of short-term abiotic extremes, which may exceed the physiological capabilities of native plants in the polar and alpine regions.

This special issue invites articles (original research, methods, perspectives, conceptual papers, opinions and reviews) within the scope of ecology, physiology and biochemical aspects of polar and mountain/alpine plant life and how these will cope with changes in seasonal or short-term abiotic conditions.

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