To generalize the conceptual framework of plant plant interactions in alpine environments, we advocate that TAE should be investigated more thoroughly by applying designs, methods and hypotheses that are used currently in temperate areas and by conducting studies along large latitudinal gradients that include tropical regions.
For example, warmer average global temperatures may allow the geographic range of fungi typically restricted to tropical and subtropical environments, such as Cryptococcus gattii, to expand into areas that are currently more temperate (20 ).
That's necessary because a low-lying region that already has many hot days a year is likely to face bigger problems, sooner, than a higher-altitude location that currently has a temperate climate.
that are currently grown in temperate regions for combined heat and power bioenergy applications represent important feedstocks for liquid transportation fuels with agronomic and logistical advantages.
A high proportion of S. pneumoniae clinical isolates are lysogens [ 19– 21] and the vast majority of pneumophages currently identified are temperate phages.
Temperate forests currently cover only about 30 35% of their current potential extent versus about 45 and 65% respectively for tropical and boreal forests.
Net forest cover increment in most temperate forests currently leads to carbon sequestration [1].
Although atmospheric N deposition is currently high in some temperate forests relative to most of the tropics [57], and this has induced N saturation in parts of the eastern U.S. [58], [59] and northern Europe [60], it is unlikely to explain the biome-level difference in N-fixing tree abundance or the rarity of late-successional temperate N-fixing trees for three primary reasons.
Net forest cover increment in most temperate forests currently leads to carbon sequestration [ 1].
Although natural forests worldwide declined by 6% between 1990 and 2015, temperate forests, which currently cover only about 32 47% of their current potential extent and are more altered and reduced in original extent globally than boreal or tropical forests, have not suffered a net loss in surface area during that same time period.
