Recent Growth and Expansion of Birch Shrubs Across a Low Arctic Landscape in Continental Canada: Are These Responses More a Consequence of the Severely Declining Caribou Herd than of Climate Warming?

Topographic influences on ring widths of trees and shrubs across alpine treelines in southwest Yukon

(2018) Katherine D. Dearborn et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Landscape variability of vegetation change across the forest to tundra transition of central Canada

(2018) Mitchell T. Bonney et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Different parts, different stories: climate sensitivity of growth is stronger in root collars vs. stems in tundra shrubs

(2017) Pascale Ropars et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Arctic shrub growth trajectories differ across soil moisture levels

(2017) Daniel Ackerman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Arctic greening from warming promotes declines in caribou populations

(2017) Per Fauchald et al.   Science Advances

Species and site differences influence climate-shrub growth responses in West Greenland

(2016) Amanda B. Young et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Drivers of tall shrub proliferation adjacent to the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories, Canada

(2016) Emily A Cameron et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Plant production and nitrogen accumulation above- and belowground in low and tall birch tundra communities: the influence of snow and litter

(2016) Mathew R. Vankoughnett et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The vegetation greenness trend in Canada and US Alaska from 1984–2012 Landsat data

(2016) Junchang Ju et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A portfolio effect of shrub canopy height on species richness in both stressful and competitive environments

(2015) Kari Anne Bråthen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mammalian herbivores confer resilience of Arctic shrub-dominated ecosystems to changing climate

(2015) Elina Kaarlejärvi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How do climate and topography influence the greening of the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Québec? A dendrochronological analysis ofBetula glandulosa

(2015) Pascale Ropars et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

(2015) E. A. G. Schuur et al.   NATURE

Evergreen shrubs dominate responses to experimental summer warming and fertilization in Canadian mesic low arctic tundra

(2014) Tara J. Zamin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shrub cover in northern Nunavik: can herbivores limit shrub expansion?

(2014) Sabrina Plante et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Climate trends in the Arctic as observed from space

(2014) Josefino C. Comiso et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Tall shrub and tree expansion in Siberian tundra ecotones since the 1960s

(2013) Gerald V. Frost et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Caribou exclusion during a population low increases deciduous and evergreen shrub species biomass and nitrogen pools in low Arctic tundra

(2013) Tara J. Zamin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions

(2013) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Landscape Heterogeneity of Shrub Expansion in Arctic Alaska

(2012) Ken D. Tape et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Recent expansion of erect shrubs in the Low Arctic: evidence from Eastern Nunavik

(2012) Benoît Tremblay et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Birch shrub growth in the low Arctic: the relative importance of experimental warming, enhanced nutrient availability, snow depth and caribou exclusion

(2012) Tara J Zamin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Shrub expansion at the forest–tundra ecotone: spatial heterogeneity linked to local topography

(2012) P Ropars et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Effects of Snow, Soil Microenvironment, and Soil Organic Matter Quality on N Availability in Three Alaskan Arctic Plant Communities

(2011) Jennie DeMarco et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Relationships between Arctic shrub dynamics and topographically derived hydrologic characteristics

(2011) Adam T Naito et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Satellite observations of high northern latitude vegetation productivity changes between 1982 and 2008: ecological variability and regional differences

(2011) Pieter S A Beck et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Browsing interacts with climate to determine tree-ring increment

(2011) James D. M. Speed et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Impact of shrub canopies on understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra

(2011) A.M. Pajunen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Herbivores inhibit climate-driven shrub expansion on the tundra

(2009) JOHAN OLOFSSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows

(2009) BRUCE C. FORBES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil microbial biomass, nutrient availability and nitrogen mineralization potential among vegetation-types in a low arctic tundra landscape

(2009) Haiyan Chu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil nitrogen cycling rates in low arctic shrub tundra are enhanced by litter feedbacks

(2009) Kate M. Buckeridge et al.   PLANT AND SOIL