We thank many colleagues at the SLF and WSL for their assistance with field and laboratory measurements and for technical support throughout the soil-warming experiment. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for providing valuable suggestions for improving the paper. Major funding sources included: the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2007 to 2010 (grant 315200-116861 to CR), an ‘ANR-biodiversité’ grant to SH from 2006 to 2008
; the Velux foundation from 2007 to 2012 (grant 371 to FH) and the WSL from 2012 to 2014 (grant to CR). Additional financial support was provided by the CCES-ETH Project ‘MOUNTLAND’, Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (contributions by FH to COST Actions 639 and ES1203) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment.
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Zürcherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research – SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, Davos Dorf, Switzerland; Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive (CEFE UMR 5175), CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier – EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Recommended Citation:
Dawes M.A.,Schleppi P.,Hättenschwiler S.,et al. Soil warming opens the nitrogen cycle at the alpine treeline[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(1)