Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

MMPD Heijmans, RÍ Magnússon, MJ Lara… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Tundra vegetation productivity and composition are responding rapidly to climatic changes
in the Arctic. These changes can, in turn, mitigate or amplify permafrost thaw. In this Review …
ER Thomson, MP Spiegel, IHJ Althuizen… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, leading to rapid changes in
species composition and plant functional trait variation. Landscape-level maps of vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic tundra shrubification can obscure increasing levels of soil erosion in NDVI assessments of land cover derived from satellite imagery

G Kodl, R Streeter, N Cutler, T Bolch - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring soil erosion in the Arctic tundra is complicated by the highly fragmentated nature
of the landscape and the limited spatial resolution of even high-resolution satellite data. The …

Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest

MJL Peers, YN Majchrzak, AK Menzies… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) and snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) form a keystone
predator–prey cycle that has large impacts on the North American boreal forest vertebrate …

Remote sensing of tundra ecosystems using high spectral resolution reflectance: opportunities and challenges

PR Nelson, AJ Maguire, Z Pierrat… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observing the environment in the vast regions of Earth through remote sensing platforms
provides the tools to measure ecological dynamics. The Arctic tundra biome, one of the …

Aboveground biomass corresponds strongly with drone-derived canopy height but weakly with greenness (NDVI) in a shrub tundra landscape

AM Cunliffe, JJ Assmann, GN Daskalova… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Arctic landscapes are changing rapidly in response to warming, but future predictions are
hindered by difficulties in scaling ecological relationships from plots to biomes. Unmanned …