Location of plant species in Norway gathered as a part of a survey vegetation mapping programme.

Georeferenced species data have a wide range of applications and are increasingly used for e.g. distribution modelling and climate change studies.

Are responses of herbivores to environmental variability spatially consistent in alpine ecosystems?

Animal responses to global climate variation might be spatially inconsistent. This may arise from spatial variation in factors limiting populations' growth or from differences in the links between global climate patterns and ecologically relevant local climate variation. For example, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has a spatially consistent relation to temperature, but inconsistent spatial relation to snow depth in Scandinavia.