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(2014) P. Legagneux et al.   Nature Climate Change

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(2011) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   AMBIO

Plant and Vegetation Dynamics on Disko Island, West Greenland: Snapshots Separated by Over 40 Years

(2011) Terry V. Callaghan et al.   AMBIO

Four Decades of Plant Community Change in the Alpine Tundra of Southwest Yukon, Canada

(2011) Ryan K. Danby et al.   AMBIO

Flora and Vegetation of Tasiilaq, Formerly Angmagssalik, Southeast Greenland: A Comparison of Data Between Around 1900 and 2007

(2011) Fred J. A. Daniëls et al.   AMBIO

Tree and Shrub Expansion Over the Past 34 Years at the Tree-Line Near Abisko, Sweden

(2011) Sara Rundqvist et al.   AMBIO

Plant Responses to Natural and Experimental Variations in Temperature in Alpine Tundra, Southern Yukon, Canada

(2011) Sara J. Pieper et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Rapid, landscape scale responses in riparian tundra vegetation to exclusion of small and large mammalian herbivores

(2011) Virve Tuulia Ravolainen et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

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

Relationships between Arctic shrub dynamics and topographically derived hydrologic characteristics

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

Detecting long-term changes to vegetation in northern Canada using the Landsat satellite image archive

(2011) R H Fraser 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

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

Permafrost response to increasing Arctic shrub abundance depends on the relative influence of shrubs on local soil cooling versus large-scale climate warming

(2011) David M Lawrence 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

Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance

(2011) Guido Grosse et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Impact of shrub canopies on understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra

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

Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire

(2011) Michelle C. Mack et al.   NATURE

Below-ground carbon transfer among Betula nana may increase with warming in Arctic tundra

(2011) Julie R. Deslippe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline

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

Long-term experimental manipulation of climate alters the ectomycorrhizal community of Betula nana in Arctic tundra

(2010) J. R. DESLIPPE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in high arctic tundra plant reproduction in response to long-term experimental warming

(2010) REBECCA A. KLADY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Responses of High Arctic wet sedge tundra to climate warming since 1980

(2010) GEOFF B. HILL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Taller and larger: shifts in Arctic tundra leaf traits after 16 years of experimental warming

(2010) J. M. G. HUDSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Snowmelt energetics at a shrub tundra site in the western Canadian Arctic

(2010) P. Marsh et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Decomposition of old organic matter as a result of deeper active layers in a snow depth manipulation experiment

(2010) Nicole S. Nowinski et al.   OECOLOGIA

The interacting effects of temperature, ground disturbance, and herbivory on seedling establishment: implications for treeline advance with climate warming

(2010) Anne Munier et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Interannual variation in net ecosystem productivity of Canadian forests as affected by regional weather patterns – A Fluxnet-Canada synthesis

(2009) R.F. Grant et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Changes in vegetation in northern Alaska under scenarios of climate change, 2003–2100: implications for climate feedbacks

(2009) E. S. Euskirchen et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Increased plant biomass in a High Arctic heath community from 1981 to 2008

(2009) J. M. G. Hudson 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

Arctic alpine vegetation change over 20 years

(2009) SCOTT D. WILSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shrub expansion may reduce summer permafrost thaw in Siberian tundra

(2009) D. BLOK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake in the Northern High Latitudes in the 21st century from the Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate Model Intercomparison Project model projections

(2009) HAIFENG QIAN 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

Spectral vegetation indices for estimating shrub cover, green phytomass and leaf turnover in a sedge‐shrub tundra

(2009) K. Kushida et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Winter warming events damage sub-Arctic vegetation: consistent evidence from an experimental manipulation and a natural event

(2009) Stef F. Bokhorst et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species removal and experimental warming in a subarctic tundra plant community

(2009) Christian Rixen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Links between plant community composition, soil organic matter quality and microbial communities in contrasting tundra habitats

(2009) Anu Eskelinen et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

(2008) Edward A. G. Schuur et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest

(2008) MIKE FLANNIGAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The greening and browning of Alaska based on 1982–2003 satellite data

(2008) David Verbyla   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

High stocks of soil organic carbon in the North American Arctic region

(2008) Chien-Lu Ping et al.   Nature Geoscience

Report from the International Permafrost Association: state of permafrost in the first decade of the 21st century

(2008) Jerry Brown et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Initial effects of experimental warming on carbon exchange rates, plant growth and microbial dynamics of a lichen-rich dwarf shrub tundra in Siberia

(2008) Christina Biasi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change

(2008) Philip E. Higuera et al.   PLoS One

The effects of reindeer grazing on the composition and species richness of vegetation in forest–tundra ecotone

(2008) Anu Pajunen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Opposing plant community responses to warming with and without herbivores

(2008) E. Post et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA