“…steppe populations), although it did not seem to influence growth. On the one hand, this context dependency in the effect of warmer temperature, depending on the soil moisture, aligns with recent experimental evidences from other cold systems (Cowles, Boldgiv, Liancourt, Petraitis, & Casper, 2018; Ronk, Liancourt, Boldgiv, Petraitis, & Casper, 2020) and global scale observations (Myers‐Smith et al., 2020; Zhang, Parazoo, Williams, Zhou, & Gentine, 2020). On the other hand, the promotion of growth at the cold end with warmer temperature and the absence of growth decline at the warmer end of the elevation range contradicts some common beliefs that cold‐adapted plants may suffer from rapid warming by exceeding their thermal optimum (Cowles et al., 2018; Wertin, Reed, & Belnap, 2015).…”