The conditions in 2015 gave the team — consisting of doctoral student Elli Theobald, doctoral student Ian Breckheimer and biology professor Janneke Hille Ris Lambers — a preview of
what subalpine communities may look like by the end of this century.
His study, in the current issue of the Journal of Mammalogy, may be an «early signal» of
what alpine and
subalpine environments throughout the world will face if temperatures continue to rise as predicted, Beever said.