Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change?

Woody plant encroachment intensifies under climate change across tundra and savanna biomes

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Legacies of Historical Exploitation of Natural Resources Are More Important Than Summer Warming for Recent Biomass Increases in a Boreal–Arctic Transition Region

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Grazing and warming effects on shrub growth and plant species composition in subalpine dry tundra: An experimental approach

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Reproduction as a bottleneck to treeline advance across the circumarctic forest tundra ecotone

(2018) Carissa D. Brown et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Disequilibrium and relaxation times for species responses to climate change

(2018) Craig Loehle   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Limited validation of forecasted northward range shift in ten European tree species from a common garden experiment

(2018) Morgane Merlin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global drivers of tree seedling establishment at alpine treelines in a changing climate

(2018) Signe Lett et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climate change and permafrost thaw-induced boreal forest loss in northwestern Canada

(2018) Olivia A Carpino et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tree cover response to climate change in the forest-tundra of north-central Canada: fire-driven decline, not northward advance

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Can novel pest outbreaks drive ecosystem transitions in northern-boreal birch forest?

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

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How much does climate change threaten European forest tree species distributions?

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Constraints on treeline advance in a warming climate: a test of the reproduction limitation hypothesis

(2017) Dasvinder Kambo et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

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(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Constraints on treeline advance in a warming climate: a test of the reproduction limitation hypothesis

(2017) Dasvinder Kambo et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Arctic browning: extreme events and trends reversing arctic greening

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

Climate-induced changes in host tree–insect phenology may drive ecological state-shift in boreal forests

(2015) Deepa S. Pureswaran et al.   ECOLOGY

Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

(2015) Paul R. Elsen et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate-related range shifts - a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

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Elevational shifts, biotic homogenization and time lags in vegetation change during 40 years of climate warming

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Treeline advances along the Urals mountain range - driven by improved winter conditions?

(2014) Frank Hagedorn et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The uncertainty of biomass estimates from LiDAR and SAR across a boreal forest structure gradient

(2014) P.M. Montesano et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Fifty years of tree line change in the Khibiny Mountains, Russia: advantages of combined remote sensing and dendroecological approaches

(2013) Ingrid E. Mathisen et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Vegetation controls on northern high latitude snow-albedo feedback: observations and CMIP5 model simulations

(2013) Michael M. Loranty et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate warming feedback from mountain birch forest expansion: reduced albedo dominates carbon uptake

(2013) Heleen A. de Wit et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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Global, 30-m resolution continuous fields of tree cover: Landsat-based rescaling of MODIS vegetation continuous fields with lidar-based estimates of error

(2013) Joseph O. Sexton et al.   International Journal of Digital Earth

Tree Migration-Rates: Narrowing the Gap between Inferred Post-Glacial Rates and Projected Rates

(2013) Angelica Feurdean et al.   PLoS One

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Revisiting tree-migration rates: Abies alba (Mill.), a case study

(2013) Rachid Cheddadi et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

(2013) L. Xu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

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

Climate change impacts on tree ranges: model intercomparison facilitates understanding and quantification of uncertainty

(2012) Alissar Cheaib et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environment, vegetation and greenness (NDVI) along the North America and Eurasia Arctic transects

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Dynamics at the treeline: differential responses ofPicea marianaandLarix laricinato climate change in eastern subarctic Québec

(2012) Geneviève Dufour-Tremblay et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Latitudinal forest advance in northernmost Norway since the early 20th century

(2012) Annika Hofgaard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Contrasting climate- and land-use-driven tree encroachment patterns of subarctic tundra in northern Norway and the Kola PeninsulaThis article is a contribution to the series Tree recruitment, growth, and distribution at the circumpolar forest–tundra transition.

(2011) Sigrun Aune et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments

(2011) Ran Nathan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate, competition and connectivity affect future migration and ranges of European trees

(2011) Eliane S. Meier et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A century of tree line changes in sub-Arctic Sweden shows local and regional variability and only a minor influence of 20th century climate warming

(2011) Rik Van Bogaert et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Incorporating uncertainty in predictive species distribution modelling

(2011) C. M. Beale et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Object-based mapping of the circumpolar taiga–tundra ecotone with MODIS tree cover

(2011) K.J. Ranson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2011) M. T. Burrows et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Will changes in root-zone temperature in boreal spring affect recovery of photosynthesis in Picea mariana and Populus tremuloides in a future climate?

(2011) E. Frechette et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A Richer, Greener and Smaller Alpine World: Review and Projection of Warming-Induced Plant Cover Change in the Swedish Scandes

(2010) Leif Kullman   AMBIO

Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline

(2010) Uma S. Bhatt et al.   Earth Interactions

Experimental evidence for herbivore limitation of the treeline

(2010) James D. M. Speed et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change

(2010) Patrick Gonzalez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Comparing niche- and process-based models to reduce prediction uncertainty in species range shifts under climate change

(2009) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

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

Post-Little Ice Age tree line rise and climate warming in the Swedish Scandes: a landscape ecological perspective

(2009) Leif Kullman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

MODIS tree cover validation for the circumpolar taiga–tundra transition zone

(2009) P.M. Montesano et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The altitude-for-latitude disparity in the range retractions of woody species

(2009) Alistair S. Jump et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plant Propagation Fronts and Wind Dispersal: An Analytical Model to Upscale from Seconds to Decades Using Superstatistics

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