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2025

• Barrou Dumont, Z., Gascoin, S., Inglada, J., Dietz, A., Köhler, J., Lafaysse, M., Monteiro, D., Carmagnola, C., Bayle, A., Dedieu, J.-P., Hagolle, O., Choler, P., 2025. Trends in the annual snow melt-out day over the French Alps and Pyrenees from 38 years of high-resolution satellite data (1986–2023). The Cryosphere 19, 2407–2429. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2407-2025
• Bayle, A., Gascoin, S., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Choler, P., 2025. Snow melt-out date (SMOD) change spanning four decades in European temperate mountains at 30\,m from Landsat time series. Scientific Data 12, 706. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05044-2
• Bektaş, B., Rutten, G., Saillard, A., Arnoldi, C., Renaud, J., Guéguen, M., Foulquier, A., Poulenard, J., Lyautey, E., Clément, J-C., Thuiller, W., Münkemüller, T., 2025. Traits and functions of alpine plant communities respond strongly but not always sufficiently to in situ climate change. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70503
• Binet, M.-N., Gonindard-Melodelima, C., Marchal, C., Grigulis, K., Colace, M.-P., Tello-García, E., Laorden-Camacho, L., Périgon, S., Laporte, F., Paul-Traversaz, M., Leitinger, G., Lavorel, S., Mouhamadou, B., 2025. Effects of Juniperus Communis Encroachment on Soil and Root Fungal Communities in Herbaceous Grasslands . https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5348326
• Bonfanti, N., Choler, P., Khedim, N., Clément, J.-C., Barré, P., Goury, R., Baudin, F., Cécillon, L., Saillard, A., Thuiller, W., Poulenard, J., 2025a. Drivers of soil organic carbon stocks and stability along elevation gradients. Geoderma 461, 117452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117452
• Bonfanti, N., Clément, J.-C., Münkemüller, T., Barré, P., Baudin, F., Poulenard, J., 2025b. Prolonged warming leads to carbon depletion and increases nutrient availability in alpine soils. Applied Soil Ecology 213, 106239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106239
• Bonfanti, N., Poulenard, J., Barre, P., Baudin, F., Voisin, D., Clement, J.-C., 2025c. Seasonality Alters Soil Organic Matter Properties in Alpine and Subalpine Grasslands. Ecosystems 28, 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-025-00971-y
• Bonfanti, N., Poulenard, J., Clement, J.-C., Barre, P., Baudin, F., Turtureanu, P.D., Puscas, M., Saillard, A., Raguet, P., Hurdu, B.-I., Choler, P., 2025d. Influence of snow cover and microclimate on soil organic carbon stability in European mountain grasslands. Catena 250, 108744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108744
• Canella, M., Beltrán-Sanz, N., Gröger, A., Pungaršek, Š., Rome, M., Natale, S., Bonomi, C., Wiesinger, H., Mainetti, A., Scapin, A., Valecic, M., Sensato, S., Sommacal, M., Piutti, E., Bottelli, F., Pizzato, M., Senn, J., Monod, A., La Rocca, N., Dal Grande, F., 2025. The role of Alpine botanical gardens in integrating germplasm bank collections and mission. Plants, People, Planet n/a-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70120
• Cantera, I., Giachello, S., Münkemüller, T., Caccianiga, M., Gobbi, M., Losapio, G., Marta, S., Valle, B., Zawierucha, K., Thuiller, W., Ficetola, G.F., 2025. Describing functional diversity of communities from environmental DNA. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40, 170–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.10.007
• Chaffard, V., Coussot, C., Boudevillain, B., Braud, I., 2025. How the Theia/OZCAR information system make data from the French OZCAR critical observatory network more FAIR?, in: ARPHA Conference Abstracts. Presented at the Innovative methods for integrating and exploring heterogeneous environmental data, Pensoft Publishers, p. e152953. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.8.e152953
• Choler, P., Bonfanti, N., Reverdy, A., Bayle, A., Nicoud, B., Liger, L., Clément, J.-C., Cohard, J.-M., Corona, C., Gascoin, S., Voisin, D., Poulenard, J., 2025. Legacy of snow cover on alpine landscapes. Commun Earth Environ 6, 758. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02702-6
• Deville-Cavellin, M.S., Guillevic, F., Gonindard-Melodelima, C., Campillo-Cressot, S., Laporte, F., Arnoldi, C., Rossi, M., Foulquier, A., Raveton, M., 2025. Using integrated biomarkers to assess ecological risk from multi-metal and metalloid soil contamination. Chemosphere 393, 144770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144770
• Dumas, K., Bonfanti, N., Grange, A., Millery-Vigues, A., Gallet, C., Yannic, G., Poulenard, J., Lavergne, S., Ibanez, S., The Orchamp Consortium, 2025. Cushion plants as soil engineers: the formation of islands of fertility differs between species in nival environments. Plant Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07274-0
• Dumont, M., Monteiro, D., Filhol, S., Gascoin, S., Marty, C., Hagenmuller, P., Morin, S., Choler, P., Thuiller, W., 2025. The European Alps in a changing climate: physical trends and impacts. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience 357, 25–42. https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.288
• Ezzedine, J.A., Guenzi-Tiberi, P., Villain, G., Aiese Cigliano, R., Diagne, Y., Franceschi, E., Drula, E., Forêt, J., Valay, J.-G., Procházková, L., Remias, D., Terrapon, N., Amato, A., Maréchal, E., 2025. Snow- and ice-ecosystem cleaning capability of the pucciniomycotinous yeast Phenoliferia psychrophenolica. Commun Biol 8, 1084. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08506-w
• Goury, R., Münkemüller, T., Bonfanti, N., Calderón-Sanou, I., Poulenard, J., Consortium, O., Thuiller, W., 2025. The Role of Earthworms in Mediating Environmental Impacts on Mountain Ecosystem Functioning. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34, e70093. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70093
• Gousset, S., Legout, C., Choler, P., Barnola, S., Longuevergne, L., Voisin, D., 2025. Development and testing of a hyperspectral camera network to monitor plant canopies and sediment transport dynamics, in: ARPHA Conference Abstracts. Presented at the Advances in instrumentation to support a whole-system approach to socio-ecosystem research, Pensoft Publishers, p. e152517. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.8.e152517
• Gupta, A., Cohard, J.-M., Reverdy, A., Biron, R., Coulaud, C., Denis, H., Descloitres, M., Dumont, T., Garambois, S., Hector, B., Vandervaere, J.-P., Voisin, D., 2025. Balancing Subsurface Complexity and Model Simplicity: How Much Spatially Distributed Field Data Is Needed to Simulate Streamflow in a Subalpine Critical Zone.https://10.22541/essoar.175309119.95211682/v1
• ICOS RI et al., 2025. Ecosystem final quality (L2) product in ETC-Archive format - release 2025-1. https://doi.org/10.18160/S6HM-CP8Q
• Laorden-Camacho, L., Grigulis, K., Tello-García, E., Lyonnard, B., Colace, M.-P., Gallet, C., Tappeiner, U., Leitinger, G., Lavorel, S., 2025. Shrub encroachment modifies soil properties through plant resource economics traits. Plant Soil 514, 2083–2104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07506-3
• Lavergne, S., Pouchon, C., Roquet, C., Alberti, A., Boleda, M., Perrier, C., Renaud, J., Boyer, F., Bzeznik, B., Rome, M., Douzet, R., Lammers, Y., Orvain, C., Gavory, F., Labadie, K., Aubert, S., Consortium, PhyloNorway, Consortium, PhyloAlps, Wincker, P., Valay, J.-G., Zimmermann, N., Thuiller, W., Denoeud, F., Alsos, I., Coissac, E., 2025. Towards a comprehensive barcoding and phylogenomic reference for the European arctic-alpine flora. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6136147/v1
• Marchal, C., Tello-García, E., Laorden-Camacho, L., Binet, M.-N., Grigulis, K., Colace, M.-P., Périgon, S., Arnoldi, C., Rioux, D., Miquel, C., Laporte, F., Gallet, C., Gonindard-Melodelima, C., Leitinger, G., Mouhamadou, B., Lavorel, S., 2025. Ericaceous shrub encroachment influences the structure of soil fungal communities in subalpine grasslands. Applied Soil Ecology 208, 105985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105985
• Marchal, L., Gateuille, D., Naffrechoux, E., Thuiller, W., Saillard, A., Poulenard, J., 2025. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contents and distributions in soils of the northern French Alps. Environ Sci Pollut Res 32, 10945–10959. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-025-36354-y
• Piton, G., Foulquier, A., Bernard, L., Bonin, A., Pommier, T., Lavorel, S., Geremia, R., Clement, J.C., 2025. Mineral fertilization reduces the drought resistance of soil multifunctionality in a mountain grassland system through plant-soil interactions. Peer Community Journal 5. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.534
• Reverdy, A., Cohard, J.-M., Voisin, D., Gupta, A., Vermaut, S., Liger, L., Arnaud, L., Barral, H., Coulaud, C., Lay, M.L., 2025. Hyper-resolution decametric modeling of alpine catchments: development of a data processing framework to represent small-scale snow hydrological processes over complex topography, in: ARPHA Conference Abstracts. Presented at Unraveling the Mysterious Role of Groundwater in Ecosystem Dynamics, Pensoft Publishers, p. e151791. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.8.e151791
• Rousset, J., Menoli, S., François, A., Gaucherand, S., Evette, A., 2025a. Developing Nature-based Solutions in the Alps: an Ex-situ Experiment to Select Willows for Subalpine Soil and Water Bioengineering Structures. Environmental Management 75, 1950–1962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02211-4
• Schivalocchi, F., Sampsell, K., Piot, C., Larose, C., 2025. Sugars in Snow, Their Sources, and Fate Related to Microbial Metabolism: A Review. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 130, e2024JG008720. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008720
• Streb, P., Dubertrand, P., Cornic, G., Soudani, K., Finazzi, G., 2025. Estimation of light utilization and antioxidative protection in an alpine plant species (Soldanella alpina L.) during the leaf life cycle at high elevation. Physiologia Plantarum 177, e70045. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70045
• Voisin, C., Choler, P., Vacher, C., Perrier, C., Renaud, J., Rioux, D., Boucher, F.C., 2025. Deciphering the drivers of speciation in Alpine Noccaea (Brassicaceae) reveal an evolution predominantly shaped by geography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 211, 108381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108381
• Voisin, C., Vacher, C., Arnoldi, C., Renaud, J., Poulenard, J., Choler, P., Boucher, F.C., 2025. Edaphic diversity as a hidden driver of speciation in Alpine Scree plants. Plant Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-08193-w
• Wootton, L.M., Boucher, F.C., Pouchon, C., Roquet, C., Coissac, E., Renaud, J., Alsos, I.G., Valla, P.G., Husson, L., Bernet, M., Perrier, C., Douzet, R., Rome, M., Valay, J.-G., Alberti, A., Denoeud, F., Zimmermann, N.E., Wincker, P., Thuiller, W., Lavergne, S., 2025. The late rise of sky-island vegetation in the European Alps. Nat. Plants 11, 1142–1153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02001-0

2026

• Arpin, I., Poulenard, J., Ratouis, M., Augé, V., Biron, P.-E., Bonet, R., Choler, P., Foret, J., Lavorel, S., Spiegelberger, T., and Valay, J-G. (2026). Book chapter. Publisher: Iste Group, SCIENCES Encyclopedia, department: Ecology and Environment (pages 170 to 186). https://doi.org/10.51926/ISTE.482324
• Bonfanti, N., Poulenard, J., Salze, P., Forêt, J., Liger, L., Arnoldi, C., Goodall, T., Griffiths, R., Puissant, J., Clement, J-C. (2026). Snow drought alters soil microbial communities and greenhouse gas fluxes in a subalpine grassland. Geoderma 465, 117663.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117663
• Xing Wu, Tatiana Bellagio, Yunru Peng, Lucas Czech et al., 2026. Rapid adaptation and extinction across climates in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis thaliana, Science, Vol. 391, Issue 6792. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz0777