No benefits from warming even for subnival vegetation in the central Himalayas

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
• ² State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
• ³ State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: liangey@itpcas.ac.cn.
• ⁴ International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal; Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
• ⁵ School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
• ⁶ Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
• ⁷ Water Research Institute-National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Brugherio 20861, Italy.
• ⁸ Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza 50080, Spain.
• ⁹ CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia 08913, Spain; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia 08913, Spain. Electronic address: josep.penuelas@uab.cat.