Lean Pattern in an Altitude Range Shift of a Tree Species: Abies pinsapo Boiss

Antonio González-Hernández, Diego Nieto-Lugilde, Julio Peñas de Giles, and Francisca Alba-Sánchez (2021). Lean Pattern in an Altitude Range Shift of a Tree Species: Abies pinsapo Boiss. Forest 12(11): 1451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111451

By comparing niche models fitted with adults and juveniles of Abies pinsapo, we have been able to identify an altitudinal shift in their distribution. This shift is not synchronous in the upper and lower range limits, leading to a lean pattern that, if continued in the future, might cause a strong range contration.