Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

LT Berner, R Massey, P Jantz, BC Forbes… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Arctic warming can influence tundra ecosystem function with consequences for climate
feedbacks, wildlife and human communities. Yet ecological change across the Arctic tundra …

New frontiers in tree-ring research

JK Pearl, JR Keck, W Tintor, L Siekacz… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
From its inception as a scientific discipline, tree-ring research has been used as a trans-
disciplinary tool for dating and environmental reconstruction. Tree-ring chronologies in some …

Spatial heterogeneity in climate change effects decouples the long‐term dynamics of wild reindeer populations in the high Arctic

BB Hansen, ÅØ Pedersen, B Peeters… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The 'Moran effect'predicts that dynamics of populations of a species are synchronized over
similar distances as their environmental drivers. Strong population synchrony reduces …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of using unmanned aerial system mounted sensors to measure plant above-ground biomass

A Bazrafkan, N Delavarpour, PG Oduor, N Bandillo… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Conventional measurement methods for above-ground biomass (AGB) are time-consuming,
inaccurate, and labor-intensive. Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have emerged as a …

Contrasting consequences of climate change for migratory geese: Predation, density dependence and carryover effects offset benefits of high‐arctic warming

K Layton‐Matthews, BB Hansen, V Grøtan… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is most rapid in the Arctic, posing both benefits and challenges for migratory
herbivores. However, population‐dynamic responses to climate change are generally …

A narrow window of summer temperatures associated with shrub growth in Arctic Alaska

L Andreu-Hayles, BV Gaglioti, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Warming in recent decades has triggered shrub expansion in Arctic and alpine tundra,
which is transforming these temperature-limited ecosystems and altering carbon and …

Contrasting growth response of evergreen and deciduous arctic‐alpine shrub species to climate variability

S Dobbert, R Pape, J Löffler - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Broad‐scale changes in arctic‐alpine vegetation and their global effects have long been
recognized and labeled one of the clearest examples of the terrestrial impacts of climate …

[HTML][HTML] Can dwarf birch (Betula nana) growth rings be used as indicators of permafrost degradation?

HW Linderholm, C Leifsson, M Fuentes, MP Björkman - Polar Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Accelerating Arctic permafrost thaw results in increasing methane emissions affecting
regional and global climates, but the rate of permafrost disappearance can be difficult to …

Vessels in a Rhododendron ferrugineum (L.) population do not trace temperature anymore at the alpine shrubline

S Piccinelli, L Francon, C Corona, M Stoffel… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Mean xylem vessel or tracheid area have been demonstrated to represent
powerful proxies to better understand the response of woody plants to changing climatic …