Greening vs browning? Surface water cover mediates how tundra and boreal ecosystems respond to climate warming

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

(2020) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset

(2020) Ian Harris et al.   Scientific Data

Shrubs and Degraded Permafrost Pave the Way for Tree Establishment in Subarctic Peatlands

(2020) Juul Limpens et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Observational evidence of wildfire-promoting soil moisture anomalies

(2020) Sungmin O et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2020) Logan T. Berner et al.   Nature Communications

Abrupt changes across the Arctic permafrost region endanger northern development

(2019) B. Teufel et al.   Nature Climate Change

The role of land cover change in Arctic-Boreal greening and browning trends

(2019) Jonathan A Wang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

(2019) Eric Post et al.   Science Advances

Reduced arctic tundra productivity linked with landform and climate change interactions

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

Missing forest cover gains in boreal forests explained

(2018) Luc Guindon et al.   Ecosphere

Thaw pond development and initial vegetation succession in experimental plots at a Siberian lowland tundra site

(2017) Bingxi Li et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

Arctic browning: extreme events and trends reversing arctic greening

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

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes

(2016) Jean-François Pekel et al.   NATURE

Detection of landscape dynamics in the Arctic Lena Delta with temporally dense Landsat time-series stacks

(2016) Ingmar Nitze et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Hydrologic Impacts of Thawing Permafrost—A Review

(2016) Michelle A. Walvoord et al.   VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL

Positive shrub-tree interactions facilitate woody encroachment in boreal peatlands

(2015) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

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

A Changing Number of Alternative States in the Boreal Biome: Reproducibility Risks of Replacing Remote Sensing Products

(2015) Chi Xu et al.   PLoS One

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Permafrost thaw and soil moisture driving CO2 and CH4 release from upland tundra

(2015) Susan M. Natali et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Hydrological feedbacks in northern peatlands

(2014) J. M. Waddington et al.   Ecohydrology

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

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

Northern Eurasian Heat Waves and Droughts

(2014) Siegfried D. Schubert et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Spatiotemporal patterns of warming

(2014) Marc Macias-Fauria et al.   Nature Climate Change

Permafrost collapse after shrub removal shifts tundra ecosystem to a methane source

(2014) Ake L. Nauta et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Reorganization of vegetation, hydrology and soil carbon after permafrost degradation across heterogeneous boreal landscapes

(2013) M Torre Jorgenson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Cumulative geoecological effects of 62 years of infrastructure and climate change in ice-rich permafrost landscapes, Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska

(2013) Martha K. Raynolds et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

The response of Arctic vegetation and soils following an unusually severe tundra fire

(2013) M. S. Bret-Harte et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Thresholds for boreal biome transitions

(2012) M. Scheffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift

(2011) Pieter S. A. Beck et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Opportunities and limitations to detect climate-related regime shifts in inland Arctic ecosystems through eco-hydrological monitoring

(2011) Johanna Mård Karlsson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Impacts of multiple extreme winter warming events on sub-Arctic heathland: phenology, reproduction, growth, and CO2 flux responses

(2011) S. BOKHORST et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Hydrogeomorphic processes of thermokarst lakes with grounded-ice and floating-ice regimes on the Arctic coastal plain, Alaska

(2011) Christopher D. Arp et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Modern thermokarst lake dynamics in the continuous permafrost zone, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska

(2011) B. M. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Shrub expansion may reduce summer permafrost thaw in Siberian tundra

(2009) D. BLOK 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

Detecting trend and seasonal changes in satellite image time series

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

Changes in thaw lake drainage in the Western Canadian Arctic from 1950 to 2000

(2008) Philip Marsh et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES