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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AlpineA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Simplified microbial network reduced microbial structure stability and soil functionality in alpine grassland along a natural aridity gradientInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FLORA IN THE ALPINE ZONE. 1Cited 4,199 times
- Go sideways: Alpine lake (disambiguation)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Trinity AlpsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timberline.
Adjective Alternative letter-case form of Alpine: Of, relating to, or inhabiting the Alps, a large mountain range in Europe.
Adjective Of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing.
Noun Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in rock gardens.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FLORA IN THE ALPINE ZONE. 1
Refugia, differentiation and postglacial migration in arctic‐alpine Eurasia, exemplified by the mountain avens ( Dryas octopetala L.)
Modelling hydrology and water quality in the pre-alpine/alpine Thur watershed using SWAT
Chromian spinel as a petrogenetic indicator in abyssal and alpine-type peridotites and spatially associated lavas
Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress
Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions
Plate Tectonics and the Evolution of the Alpine System
The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units
🆕 Influential since 2022
Simplified microbial network reduced microbial structure stability and soil functionality in alpine grassland along a natural aridity gradient
21st Century alpine climate change
Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems
Aldafermin in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (ALPINE 2/3): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2b trial
Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in alpine permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau
📚 Books worth reading
Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceAron Ralston · 2004
The call-girlsArthur Koestler · 1972
Hardy native and imported alpines and perennialsWm. Borsch & Son · 1932
My garden in springE. A. Bowles · 1914
Rock gardens & alpine plantsDavid Joyce, D. Joyce · 1984
Alpines and bog-plantsReginald John Farrer · 1908
Plant life in Alpine SwitzerlandEdward Alexander Newell Arber · 1910- 📕Alpine plantsDavid Wooster · 1872
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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