| 10 | | News box |
| | 10 | Climate change is proceeding unchecked and average temperatures are rising, forcing many wild animals and plants to move into new habitats. As species come together in new combinations, climate change reshuffles the deck of ecological interactions, with unexplored consequences. |
| | 11 | For alpine plants, this could mean that in the future they will face competition from species that were previously unknown to them: plants that are found at lower elevations today, but migrated due to climate change. |
| | 12 | Recently published in Nature, a new study by plant ecologists Jake Alexander, Jeff Diez and ETH Zurich Professor, Jonathan Levine provides the first empirical evidence that this new source of competition could be decisive. |
