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Natural SciencesEcologyPhysical GeographyClimate ScienceClimatologyTerrestrial EcologyClimate ChangeClimate FeedbacksClimate ModelingMountain ClimatologyMountain EcologyMountain EcosystemsChanges In Alpine VegetationClimate-canopy InteractionsClimate-vegetation InteractionsVegetation Dynamics ModelingVegetation Response To Climate Change
High altitude plants are well adapted to their present environment (Komer 1992), but their ability to adapt to the changes in climate expected over the next century remains uncertain (Guisan, Holten, Tessier et aL 1995). Chapter 3 presented a few glimpses of plants and ecosystems ' reactions to chang-