Global maps of soil temperature

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

(2021) Sha Zhou et al.   Nature Climate Change

Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

(2021) Dana M. Bergstrom et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale

(2021) Alice S. A. Johnston et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

(2021) Pieter De Frenne et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Designing countrywide and regional microclimate networks

(2021) Jonas J. Lembrechts et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

On the measurement of microclimate

(2021) Ilya M.D. Maclean et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Microclimc: A mechanistic model of above, below and within-canopy microclimate

(2021) Ilya M.D. Maclean et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

(2020) Enzai Du et al.   Nature Geoscience

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

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

SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature

(2020) Jonas J. Lembrechts et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The influence of tree traits on urban ground surface shade cooling

(2020) Andrew Speak et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Microclimate shifts in a dynamic world

(2020) Jonas J. Lembrechts et al.   SCIENCE

Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

(2020) Florian Zellweger et al.   SCIENCE

Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems

(2020) Laura H. Antão et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

(2020) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Methods and approaches to advance soil macroecology

(2020) Hannah J. White et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

It Is Hot in the Sun: Antarctic Mosses Have High Temperature Optima for Photosynthesis Despite Cold Climate

(2020) Alicia V. Perera-Castro et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The problem of scale in predicting biological responses to climate

(2020) Luca Bütikofer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions

(2020) Pekka Niittynen et al.   Nature Climate Change

Significant shallow–depth soil warming over Russia during the past 40 years

(2020) Liangzhi Chen et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Climate at ecologically relevant scales: A new temperature and soil moisture logger for long-term microclimate measurement

(2019) Jan Wild et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

(2019) B. S. Steidinger et al.   NATURE

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

(2019) Pieter De Frenne et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1 km2 scale

(2019) Jaroslav Obu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in‐situ logging to remote sensing

(2019) Jonas J. Lembrechts et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

(2019) Johan van den Hoogen et al.   NATURE

Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests

(2019) Rebecca A. Senior et al.   Nature Climate Change

Tree species identity determines wood decomposition via microclimatic effects

(2019) Felix Gottschall et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Microclimatic conditions anywhere at any time!

(2019) Jonas J. Lembrechts et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A method for computing hourly, historical, terrain‐corrected microclimate anywhere on earth

(2019) Michael R. Kearney et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Monthly microclimate models in a managed boreal forest landscape

(2018) Caroline Greiser et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Impacts of snow on soil temperature observed across the circumpolar north

(2018) Yu Zhang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Environmental controls on ground temperature and permafrost in Labrador, northeast Canada

(2018) Robert G. Way et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

The 90 ways to describe plant temperature

(2018) Christian Körner et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Stay or go – how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

(2018) Bente J. Graae et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling

(2018) Giuseppe Amatulli et al.   Scientific Data

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Scientific Data

Microclima: an R package for modelling meso- and microclimate

(2018) Ilya M. D. Maclean et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Random forest as a generic framework for predictive modeling of spatial and spatio-temporal variables

(2018) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PeerJ

Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

(2018) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Global warming will happen faster than we think

(2018) Yangyang Xu et al.   NATURE

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

(2018) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone

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

Ad hoc instrumentation methods in ecological studies produce highly biased temperature measurements

(2017) Adam J. Terando et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

The sensitivity of soil respiration to soil temperature, moisture, and carbon supply at the global scale

(2016) Andrew Hursh et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fine-Scale Microclimatic Variation Can Shape the Responses of Organisms to Global Change in Both Natural and Urban Environments

(2016) Sylvain Pincebourde et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

(2016) T. W. Crowther et al.   NATURE

Global patterns of plant root colonization intensity by mycorrhizal fungi explained by climate and soil chemistry

(2015) Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Warmer Shorter Winters Disrupt Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2014) Elisabeth J. Cooper   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Testing the ability of topoclimatic grids of extreme temperatures to explain the distribution of the endangered brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)

(2014) Michael B. Ashcroft et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape

(2014) Øystein H. Opedal et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Design and evaluation of an inexpensive radiation shield for monitoring surface air temperatures

(2013) Zachary A. Holden et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

bioclim: the first species distribution modelling package, its early applications and relevance to most currentMaxEntstudies

(2013) Trevor H. Booth et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Microclimatic challenges in global change biology

(2013) Kristen A. Potter et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

(2013) P. De Frenne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Future Arctic climate changes: Adaptation and mitigation time scales

(2013) James E. Overland et al.   Earths Future

A review of global terrestrial evapotranspiration: Observation, modeling, climatology, and climatic variability

(2012) Kaicun Wang et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Elevational species shifts in a warmer climate are overestimated when based on weather station data

(2010) Daniel Scherrer et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species’ ranges

(2009) Michael Kearney et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An Indirect Data Assimilation Scheme for Deep Soil Temperature in the Pleim–Xiu Land Surface Model

(2009) Jonathan E. Pleim et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Influence of Forest Canopy and Snow on Microclimate in a Declining Yellow-Cedar Forest of Southeast Alaska

(2009) Paul E. Hennon et al.   NORTHWEST SCIENCE

The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer "cold-blooded" animals against climate warming

(2009) M. Kearney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Machine Learning Methods Without Tears: A Primer for Ecologists

(2008) Julian D. Olden et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Impact of snow cover on soil temperature and its simulation in a boreal aspen forest

(2007) Yinsuo Zhang et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY