This is a dataset of treeline shift rates including 143 alpine treeline sites in the Northern Hemisphere. It gives the following information for each treeline site: treeline form, study site, latitude, longitude, reference, tree species, elevation, study period and annual mean elevational shift rate (m/yr).

File naming and required software

Treeline shift rates dataset in the Northern Hemisphere. xlsx

Data Citations Data citation guideline What's data citation?

Cite as:

Lu, X., Liang, E. (2020). Treeline shift rates dataset in the Northern Hemisphere. National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, DOI: 10.11888/Paleoenv.tpdc.270971. CSTR: 18406.11.Paleoenv.tpdc.270971. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

Related Literatures:

1. Lu, X., Liang, E., Wang, Y., Babst, F., Camarero, J.J. (2021). Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming. Global Ecol. Biogeogr., 30:305–315. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13214( View Details | Bibtex)

Using this data, the data citation is required to be referenced and the related literatures are suggested to be cited.

Copyright & License

To respect the intellectual property rights, protect the rights of data authors,expand servglacials of the data center, and evaluate the application potential of data, data users should clearly indicate the source of the data and the author of the data in the research results generated by using the data (including published papers, articles, data products, and unpublished research reports, data products and other results). For re-posting (second or multiple releases) data, the author must also indicate the source of the original data.

Example of acknowledgement statement is included below: The data set is provided by National Tibetan Plateau Data Center (http://data.tpdc.ac.cn).

License： This work is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)