Publications
Ulf Molau
Peer-reviewed publication
Molau, U. 1978. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. I. Taxonomic characters and generic subdivision.
Fasciculata, a new section. – Bot. Notiser 131: 219–227.
Molau, U. 1978. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. II. The sections Chasmatochila, Thamnobia,
Ericoides, and Lehmannina.. – Bot. Notiser 131: 293–316.
Molau, U. 1979. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. III. The sections Symplocophylla and
Dermatophylla.. – Bot. Notiser 132: 31–48.
Molau, U. 1979. New species of Calceolaria (Scrophulariaceae) from northern Peru. – Bot. Notiser 132: 233–238.
Molau, U. 1979. Calceolaria. – In: D'Arcy (ed.), Flora of Panama: Scrophulariaceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 66:
202–208.
Andersson, L. and Molau, U. 1980. The inflorescence of Calceolaria. – Bot. Notiser 133: 23–32.
Molau, U. 1980. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. IV. The sections Anacyrta, Polyclada, and
Phaeanthera. – Bot. Notiser 133: 33–45.
Molau, U. 1980. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. V. New taxa in the sections Lehmannina and
Dermatophylla. – Bot. Notiser 133: 363–366.
Molau, U. 1981. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. VI. The sections Urticopsis, Lobatae, and
Micranthera. – Nord. J. Bot. 1: 165–185.
Molau, U. 1981. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. VII. The section Zygophylla. – Nord. J. Bot. 1: 493–
519.
Molau, U. 1981. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. VIII. The section Calceolaria and appendices to parts
I–VIII. – Nord. J. Bot. 1: 595–615.
Molau, U. 1981. The genus Calceolaria in NW South America. Dissertation, Göteborgs universitet, 46 pp.
Løjtnant, B. and Molau, U. 1982. Analysis of a virgin paramo community on Volcán Sumaco; Ecuador. – Nord. J.
Bot. 2: 567–574.
Molau, U. 1983. Bixaceae. – In: Harling, G. and Sparre, B. (eds.), Flora of Ecuador 20: 1–8.
Molau, U. 1983. Cochlospermaceae. – In: Harling, G. and Sparre, B. (eds.), Flora of Ecuador 20: 9–16.
Molau, U. 1983. Elatinaceae. – In: Harling, G. and Sparre, B. (eds.), Flora of Ecuador 20: 17–24.
Molau, U. 1984. New taxa and combinations in Calceolaria (Scrophulariaceae) from Peru and Bolivia. – Nord. J.
Bot. 4: 629–654.
Molau, U. and Harling, G. 1984. Botanical expeditions from the University of Göteborg, with maps of localities of
Swedish collectors. – Rep. Bot. Inst. Univ. Aarhus (Denmark) 9: 59–71.
Holmgren, N. H. and Molau, U. 1984. Scrophulariaceae – In: Harling, G. and Sparre, B. (eds), Flora of Ecuador 21:
1–188.
Molau, U. and Sánchez Vega, I. 1986. Calceolaria (Scrophulariaceae): Las especies del Depto. de Cajamarca, Perú.
– Bol. de Lima (Peru) 8(43): 37–51. (In Spanish with summaries in English and German.)
Molau, U. 1988. Scrophulariaceae. Part I. Tribe Calceolarieae. – Flora Neotropica, vol. 47, 326 pp. New York
Botanical Garden.
Molau, U. 1988 Hedbergia, a new genus of Scrophulariaceae from Africa. – Nord. J. Bot. 8: 193–195.
Molau, U., Eriksen, B., and Teilmann Knudsen, J. 1989. Predispersal seed predation in Bartsia alpina. – Oecologia
81: 181–185.
Molau, U. 1990. The genus Bartsia (Scrophulariaceae-Rhinanthoideae). – Opera Bot. 102:1–99.
Molau, U. 1991. Gender variation in Bartsia alpina (Scrophulariaceae), a subarctic perennial hermaphrodite. –
Amer. J. Bot. 78: 326–339.
Molau, U. 1992. On the occurrence of sexual reproduction in Saxifraga cernua and S. foliolosa. – Nord. J. Bot. 12:
197–203.
Molau, U. and Prentice, H. C. 1992. Reproductive system and population structure in three arctic Saxifraga species.
– J. Ecol. 80: 149–161.
Bolliger, M. and Molau, U. 1992. Nothobartsia, a new genus of Scrophulariaceae from southwest Europe. – Plant
Syst. Evol. 179: 59–71
Stenström, M. and Molau, U. 1992. Reproductive biology in Saxifraga oppositifolia: phenology, mating system, and
reproductive success. – Arct. Alp. Res. 24: 337–343.
Molau, U. 1993. Relationships between flowering phenology and life history strategies in tundra plants. – Arctic and
Alpine Research 25: 391–402.
Molau, U. 1993. Phenology and reproductive ecology in six subalpine species of Rhinanthoideae (Scrophulariaceae).
– Opera Botanica 121: 7–17.
Molau, U. 1993. Reproductive ecology of the three Nordic Pinguicula species (Lentibularaceae). – Nordic Journal of
Botany 13: 149–157.
Eriksen, B., Molau, U., and Svensson, M. 1993. Reproductive strategies in two arctic Pedicularis species
(Scrophulariaceae). – Ecography 16: 154–166.
Lindgaard Hansen, J. E. and Molau, U. 1994. Pollination biology, mating system, and seed set in a Danish
population of Saxifraga granulata L. – Nordic Journal of Botany 14: 257–268.
Alatalo, J. M. and Molau, U. 1995. Female frequences and sex-associated morphological differences in
gynodioecious Silene acaulis (Caryophyllaceae). – Nordic Journal of Botany 15: 251–256.
Molau, U. 1995. Reproductive ecology and biology. – In M. C. Press and J. D. Graves (eds.), Parasitic Plants.
Chapman & Hall, London, pp. 141–176
Molau, U. and Murray, D. F. 1996. Taxonomic revision of the Pedicularis sudetica complex: the Arctic species. –
Symbolae Botanicae Upsaliensis 31:3, 33–46.
Molau, U. 1996. Climatic impacts on flowering, growth, and vigour in an arctic-alpine cushion plant, Diapensia
lapponica, under different snow cover regimes. – Ecologocal Bulletines 45: 210–219.
Molau, U. 1997. Age-related growth and reproduction in Diapensia lapponica, an arctic-alpine cushion plant. –
Nordic Journal of Botany 17: 225–234.
Molau, U. & G. R. Shaver. 1997. Controls on seed production and seed germinability in Eriophorum vaginatum. –
Global Change Biology 3 (Suppl. 1): 80–88.
Molau, U. 1997. Responses to natural climatic variation and experimental warming in two tundra plant species with
contrasting life forms: Cassiope tetragona and Ranunculus nivalis. – Global Change Biology 3 (Suppl. 1):
97–107.
Molau, U. and Alatalo, J. M. 1998. Responses of subarctic-alpine plant communities to simulated environmental
change: biodiversity of bryophytes, lichens, and vascular plants. – Ambio 27: 322–329.
Arft, A. M., M. D. Walker. J. Gurevitch, J. M. Alatalo, M. S. Bret-Harte, M. Dale, M. Diemer, F. Gugerli, G. H. R.
Henry, M. H. Jones, R. D. Hollister, I. S. Jónsdóttir, K. Laine, E. Lévesque, G. M. Marion, U. Molau, P.
Mølgaard, U. Nordenhäll, V. Raszhivin, C. H. Robinson, G. Starr, A. Stenström, M. Stenström, Ø. Totland, P.
L. Turner, L. J. Walker, P. J. Webber, J. M. Welker, and P. A. Wookey. 1999. Responses of tundra plants to
experimental warming: meta-analysis of the International Tundra Experiment Ecological Monographs 69(4):
491-511.
Kudo, G., Nordenhäll, U, and Molau, U. 1999. Effects of snow-melt timing on leaf traits, leaf production and shoot
growth of alpine plants: Comparisons along a snow-melt gradient in northern Sweden. Ecoscience 6: 439–
450.
Kudo, G. and Molau, U. 1999. Comparisons of reproductive traits between a subalpine and alpine population of a
subarctic legume, Astragalus alpinus. Plant Species Biology 14: 181–191.
Molau, U. and E.-L- Larsson. 2000. Seed rain and seed bank along an alpine altitudinal gradient. – Canadian Journal
of Botany 78: 728–747
Molau. U. 2001. Tundra plant responses to experimental and natural temperature changes. – Mem. Nat. Inst. Polar
Research, Special Issue, 54: 445–466.
Kudo, G., Molau, U, and Wada, N. 2001. Leaf-trait variation of tundra plants along a climatic gradient: an
integration of responses in evergreen and deciduous species. – Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 33:
181–190.
Molau, U. 2003. Two new species of Calceolaria (Scrophulariaceae) from the tropical Andes. – Novon 13: 101–
103.
Molau, U. 2004. Mountain biodiversity patterns at low and high latitudes. – Ambio, Special Report 13: 24–28.
Molau, U., Nordenhäll, U., & Eriksen, B. 2005. Onset of flowering and climate variability in an alpine landscape: a
10-year study from Swedish Lapland. – American Journal of Botany 92: 422-431.
Walker, M. D., C. H. Wahren, R. D. Hollister, G. H. R. Henry, L. E. Ahlquist, J. M. Alatalo, M. S. Bret-Harte, M. P.
Calef, T. V. Callaghan, A. B. Carroll, H. E. Epstein, I. S. Jónsdóttir, J. A. Klein, B. Magnússon, U. Molau, S.
F. Oberbauer, S. P. Rewa, C. H. Robinson, G. S. Shaver, K. N. Suding, C. C. Thomspon, A. Tolvanen, Ø.
Totland, P. L. Turner, C. E. Tweedie, P. J. Webber, and P. A. Wookey. 2006. Plant community responses to
experimental warming across the tundra biome. - PNAS 103: 1342-1346.
Jägerbrand, A. J., K. E. M. Lindblad, R. G. Björk, J. M. Alatalo, and U. Molau. 2006. Bryophyte and lichen diversity
under simulated environmental change compared with observed variation in unmanipulated alpine tundra. –
Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 4453-4475.
Björk, R. G. and Molau, U. 2007. Ecology of alpine snowbeds and the impact of global change. - Arctic, Antarctic,
and Alpine Research 39: 34-43.
Bronken Eideson, P., Carlsen, T., Molau, U., and Brochmann, C. 2007. Repeatedly out of Beringia: Cassiope
tetragona embraces the Arctic. Journal of Biogeography 34: 1559-1574.
Dullinger, S., Kleinbauer, I., Pauli, H., Gottfried, M., Brooker, R., Nagy, L., Theurillat, J.-P., Holten, J. I.,
Abdaladze, O., Benito, J.-L., Borel, J.-L., Coldea, G., Ghosn, D., Kanka, R., Merzouki, A., Klettner, C.,
Moiseev, P., Molau, U., Reiter, K., Rossi, G., Stanisci, A., Tomaselli, M., Unterlugauer, P., Vittoz, P., and
Grabherr, G. 2007. Weak and variable relationships between environmental severity and small-scale cooccurrence in alpine plant communities. – Journal of Ecology 95: 1284-1295.
Ryberg, M., Larsson, E., & Molau, U. 2009. Ectomycorrhizal diversity on Dryas octopetala and Salix reticulata in
an alpine cliff ecosystem. – Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 41: 506-514.
Lang, S.I., Cornelissen, J.H., Shaver, G. S., Ahrens, M., Callaghan, T. V., Molau, U., ter Braak, C. J. F., Hölzer, A.
& Aerts, R. 2012. Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and
mixed effects on bryophyte diversity. – Global Change Biology 18: 1096-1107.
Elmendorf,, S. C., Henry,, G. H. R., Hollister,, R. D., Björk, R. G., Bjorkman, A. D., Callaghan, T. V., Collier, L. S.,
Cooper, E. J. , Cornelissen, J. H. C., Day, T. A., Fosaa, A. M., Gould, W. A., Grétarsdóttir, J., Harte, J.,
Hermanutz, L., Hik, D. S., Hofgaard, A., Jarrad, F., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Keuper, F., Klanderud, K., Klein, J. A.,
Koh, S., Kudo, G., Lang, S. I., Loewen, V., May, J. L., Mercado, J., Michelsen, A., Molau, U., Myers-Smith,
I. H., Oberbauer, S. F., Pieper, S., Post, E., Rixen, C., Robinson, C. H., Schmidt, N. M., Shaver, G. R.,
Stenström, A., Tolvanen, A., Totland, Ø, Troxler, T., Wahren, C.-H., Webber, P. J., Welker, J. M., &
Wookey, P. A. 2012. Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity
over space and time. – Ecology Letters 15: 164-175.
Elmendorf,, S. C., Henry,, G. H. R., Hollister,, R. D., Björk, R. G., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Cooper, E. J. ,
Cornelissen, J. H. C., Day, T. A., Dorrepaal, E., Elumeeva, T. G., Gill, M., Gould, W. A., Harte, J., Hik, D. S.,
Hofgaard, A., Johnson, D. R., Johnstone, J. F., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Jorgenson, J. C., Klanderud, K., Klein, J. A.,
Koh, S., Kudo, G., Lara, M., Lévesque, E., Magnússon, B., May, J. L., Mercado-Díaz, J. A., Michelsen, A.,
Molau, U., Myers-Smith, I. H., Oberbauer, S. F., Onipchenko, V. G., Rixen, C., Schmidt, N. M., Shaver, G.
R., Spasojevic, M. J., Thórhallsdóttir, Th. E., Tolvanen, A., Troxler, T., Tweedie, C. E., Villareal, S., Wahren,
C.-H., Walker, X., Webber, P. J., Welker, J. M., & Wipf, S. 2012. Linking plot-scale evidence of tundra
vegetation change to recent summer warming. – Nature Climate Change 2: 453–457,
doi:10.1038/nclimate1465.
Gottfried, M., Pauli, H., Futschik, A. , Akhalkatsi, M., Barancok, P. , Benito Alonso, J. L. , Coldea, G., Dick, J.,
Erschbamer, B., Fernández Calzado, M. R., Kazakis, G., Krajci, J., Larsson, P., Mallaun, M., Michelsen, O.,
Moiseev, D., Moiseev, P., Molau, U., Merzouki, A., Nagy, L., Nakhutsrishvili, G., Pedersen, B., Pelino, G.,
Puscas, M., Rossi, G., Stanisci, A., Theurillat, J.-P., Tomaselli, M., Villar, L., Vittoz, P., Vogiatzakis, I. &
Grabherr, G. 2012. Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change. – Nature Climate
Change 2: 111-115.
Pauli, H., Gottfried, M., Dullinger, S., Abdaladze, O., Ahhalkatsi, M., Benito Alonso, J. L. , Coldea, G., Dick, J.,
Erschbamer, B., Fernández Calzado, M. R., Ghosn, D., Holten, J. I., Kanka, R., Kazakis, G., Kollár, J.,
Larsson, P., Moiseev, D., Moiseev, P., Molau, U., Molero Mesa, J., Nagy, L., B., Pelino, G., Puscas, M.,
Rossi, G., Stanisci, A., Syverhuset, A. O., Theurillat, J.-P., Tomaselli, M., Unterluggauer, P., Villar, L.,
Vittoz, P. & Grabherr, G. 2012. Recent plant diversity changes on Europe’s mountain summits. – Science
336: 353-355.
Other publications [in Swedish]
Molau, U. 1974. Växtekologiska undersökningar inom Lainio älvs deltaområde vid Liedakka, Torne lappmark.
Göteborgs universitet, off-set, 82 pp.
Molau, U. 1975. Växtekologisk undersökning och floristisk inventering av Svartedalens vildmarksområde.
Göteborgsregionens kommunalförbund, Göteborg, 196 pp.
Molau, U. 1978. Natur- och kulturvårdsprogram för Göteborg. Rapport 3: Vegetation, pp. 17–81. Göteborgs
kommun.
Molau, U. 1979. Natur- och kulturvårdsprogram för Göteborg. Bilaga: Vegetationskartering av Göteborgs kommun
1976: Inventeringsmetodik och utvärderingsmetodik. Göteborgs kommun, 16 pp.
Molau, U. 1980. Bredfjället-Väktorområdet. Naturvårdsinventering och förslag till skötselplan. Länsstyrelsen i
Göteborgs och Bohus län, off-set, 112 pp. + bilagor.