Raphael S. von Büren and Erika Hiltbrunner published a new paper in Journal of Biogeography. The paper represents a condensed piece of Raphi’s Master's thesis (defended 2021).

The cold range limits of the widespread alpine graminoids Carex curvula and Nardus stricta are evidently set by thermal extremes in winter. Microtopography, thus snow distribution pattern, in concert with the species' freezing resistance explains the cold edge of the fundamental niche of these two species.

Link to the publication: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14455