Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change

(2019) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring

(2019) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   AMBIO

Arctic greening associated with lengthening growing seasons in Northern Alaska

(2019) Kyle A Arndt et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

(2019) Eric Post et al.   Science Advances

Inconsistent relationships between annual tree ring-widths and satellite-measured NDVI in a mountainous subarctic environment

(2018) Lucas Brehaut et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Biodiversity monitoring, earth observations and the ecology of scale

(2018) Christopher B. Anderson   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contrasting shrub species respond to early summer temperatures leading to correspondence of shrub growth patterns

(2018) Stef Weijers et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A new NDVI measure that overcomes data sparsity in cloud-covered regions predicts annual variation in ground-based estimates of high arctic plant productivity

(2018) Stein Rune Karlsen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tundra plant above-ground biomass and shrub dominance mapped across the North Slope of Alaska

(2018) Logan T Berner et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Short term changes in moisture content drive strong changes in Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and gross primary productivity in four Arctic moss communities

(2018) Jeremy L. May et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Land surface phenology: What do we really ‘see’ from space?

(2018) David Helman   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost

(2018) Qiang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Reduced arctic tundra productivity linked with landform and climate change interactions

(2018) Mark J. Lara et al.   Scientific Reports

Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse North American biomes using PhenoCam imagery

(2018) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   Scientific Data

Patchy field sampling biases understanding of climate change impacts across the Arctic

(2018) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology

(2018) Lyndon Estes et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ecosystem warming extends vegetation activity but heightens vulnerability to cold temperatures

(2018) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   NATURE

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Acceleration of phenological advance and warming with latitude over the past century

(2018) Eric Post et al.   Scientific Reports

Limitations and Challenges of MODIS-Derived Phenological Metrics Across Different Landscapes in Pan-Arctic Regions

(2018) Siyu Wang et al.   Remote Sensing

Vegetation Indices Do Not Capture Forest Cover Variation in Upland Siberian Larch Forests

(2018) Michael Loranty et al.   Remote Sensing

Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

(2018) Janet S. Prevéy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Changing seasonality of panarctic tundra vegetation in relationship to climatic variables

(2017) Uma S Bhatt et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Shrub growth and expansion in the Arctic tundra: an assessment of controlling factors using an evidence-based approach

(2017) Andrew C Martin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tundra photosynthesis captured by satellite-observed solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

(2017) K. A. Luus et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

The effect of topography on arctic-alpine aboveground biomass and NDVI patterns

(2017) Henri Riihimäki et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Declining growth of deciduous shrubs in the warming climate of continental western Greenland

(2017) Cassandra M. Gamm et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

(2017) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale

(2017) Jacqueline Oehri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening?

(2017) Yulong Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Examining spectral reflectance features related to Arctic percent vegetation cover: Implications for hyperspectral remote sensing of Arctic tundra

(2017) Nanfeng Liu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

(2017) Noel Gorelick et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Understanding the drivers of extensive plant damage in boreal and Arctic ecosystems: Insights from field surveys in the aftermath of damage

(2017) Jarle W. Bjerke et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Collapsing Arctic coastlines

(2017) Michael Fritz et al.   Nature Climate Change

Landsat-Based Trend Analysis of Lake Dynamics across Northern Permafrost Regions

(2017) Ingmar Nitze et al.   Remote Sensing

Temporal Changes in Coupled Vegetation Phenology and Productivity are Biome-Specific in the Northern Hemisphere

(2017) et al.   Remote Sensing

Velocity of change in vegetation productivity over northern high latitudes

(2017) Mengtian Huang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Resource waves: phenological diversity enhances foraging opportunities for mobile consumers

(2016) Jonathan B. Armstrong et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-Term Release of Carbon Dioxide from Arctic Tundra Ecosystems in Alaska

(2016) E. S. Euskirchen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Changes in greening in the high Arctic: insights from a 30 year AVHRR max NDVI dataset for Svalbard

(2016) Hannah Vickers et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Increased wetness confounds Landsat-derived NDVI trends in the central Alaska North Slope region, 1985–2011

(2016) Martha K Raynolds et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Spatial heterogeneity of greening and browning between and within bioclimatic zones in northern West Siberia

(2016) Victoria V Miles et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Changes in growing season duration and productivity of northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data

(2016) Taejin Park et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Changing permafrost in a warming world and feedbacks to the Earth system

(2016) Guido Grosse et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Using phenocams to monitor our changing Earth: toward a global phenocam network

(2016) Tim B Brown et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Arctic browning: extreme events and trends reversing arctic greening

(2016) Gareth K. Phoenix et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biological soil crusts of Arctic Svalbard and of Livingston Island, Antarctica

(2016) Laura Williams et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Recent advances in space-borne optical remote sensing systems for monitoring global terrestrial ecosystems

(2016) Jadunandan Dash et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

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

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

Enhanced seasonal CO2 exchange caused by amplified plant productivity in northern ecosystems

(2016) M. Forkel et al.   SCIENCE

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

(2016) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Remotely Sensed High-Resolution Global Cloud Dynamics for Predicting Ecosystem and Biodiversity Distributions

(2016) Adam M. Wilson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ecological recovery in an Arctic delta following widespread saline incursion

(2015) Trevor C. Lantz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Trends in NDVI and Tundra Community Composition in the Arctic of NE Alaska Between 1984 and 2009

(2015) Robert R. Pattison et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant phenological responses to a long-term experimental extension of growing season and soil warming in the tussock tundra of Alaska

(2015) Roxaneh Khorsand Rosa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Greater deciduous shrub abundance extends tundra peak season and increases modeled net CO2uptake

(2015) Shannan K. Sweet et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Codominant water control on global interannual variability and trends in land surface phenology and greenness

(2015) Matthias Forkel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluating temporal consistency of long-term global NDVI datasets for trend analysis

(2015) Feng Tian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology

(2015) Robert Buitenwerf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

(2015) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Tall Deciduous Shrubs Offset Delayed Start of Growing Season Through Rapid Leaf Development in the Alaskan Arctic Tundra

(2014) Shannan K. Sweet et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Record-low primary productivity and high plant damage in the Nordic Arctic Region in 2012 caused by multiple weather events and pest outbreaks

(2014) Jarle W Bjerke et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Regional and landscape-scale variability of Landsat-observed vegetation dynamics in northwest Siberian tundra

(2014) Gerald V Frost et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Vegetation productivity patterns at high northern latitudes: a multi-sensor satellite data assessment

(2014) Kevin C. Guay et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

(2014) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Incorporating spatial information in spectral unmixing: A review

(2014) Chen Shi et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

(2014) Shilong Piao et al.   Nature Communications

A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series

(2014) Jorge Pinzon et al.   Remote Sensing

Patterns of Change within a Tundra Landscape: 22-year Landsat NDVI Trends in an Area of the Northern Foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska

(2013) Martha K. Raynolds et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Shifts in Arctic phenology in response to climate and anthropogenic factors as detected from multiple satellite time series

(2013) Heqing Zeng et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment

(2013) S. F. Oberbauer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Erosion of community diversity and stability by herbivore removal under warming

(2013) E. Post   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

(2013) Richard G. Pearson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra

(2013) Uma Bhatt et al.   Remote Sensing

Trend Change Detection in NDVI Time Series: Effects of Inter-Annual Variability and Methodology

(2013) Matthias Forkel et al.   Remote Sensing

Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011

(2013) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Remote Sensing

Multiple Effects of Changes in Arctic Snow Cover

(2012) Terry V. Callaghan et al.   AMBIO

Ecosystem Impacts of a Range Expanding Forest Defoliator at the Forest-Tundra Ecotone

(2012) Jane U. Jepsen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing

(2012) Adrian V Rocha et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Impact of sensor degradation on the MODIS NDVI time series

(2012) Dongdong Wang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series

(2012) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Spatial and temporal variation in primary productivity (NDVI) of coastal Alaskan tundra: Decreased vegetation growth following earlier snowmelt

(2012) John A. Gamon et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential for structurally novel ecosystems

(2012) Marc Macias-Fauria et al.   Nature Climate Change

Exclusion of brown lemmings reduces vascular plant cover and biomass in Arctic coastal tundra: resampling of a 50 + year herbivore exclosure experiment near Barrow, Alaska

(2011) D R Johnson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Does NDVI reflect variation in the structural attributes associated with increasing shrub dominance in arctic tundra?

(2011) Natalie T Boelman 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

Recent changes in phenology over the northern high latitudes detected from multi-satellite data

(2011) Heqing Zeng et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The response of Arctic vegetation to the summer climate: relation between shrub cover, NDVI, surface albedo and temperature

(2011) Daan Blok et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Surface hydrology of an arctic ecosystem: Multiscale analysis of a flooding and draining experiment using spectral reflectance

(2011) Santonu Goswami et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire

(2011) Michelle C. Mack et al.   NATURE

A method for trend-based change analysis in Arctic tundra using the 25-year Landsat archive

(2011) Robert Fraser et al.   POLAR RECORD

A new estimate of tundra-biome phytomass from trans-Arctic field data and AVHRR NDVI

(2011) Martha K. Raynolds et al.   Remote Sensing Letters

Analysis of monotonic greening and browning trends from global NDVI time-series

(2010) Rogier de Jong et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming

(2009) Melanie A. Harsch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

(2009) MICHAEL A. WHITE 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

Vegetation greening in the canadian arctic related to decadal warming

(2009) Gensuo J. Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Detecting trend and seasonal changes in satellite image time series

(2009) Jan Verbesselt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

PHENOLOGICAL SEQUENCES REVEAL AGGREGATE LIFE HISTORY RESPONSE TO CLIMATIC WARMING

(2008) Eric S. Post et al.   ECOLOGY