Wildlife species benefitting from a greener Arctic are most sensitive to shrub cover at leading range edges

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Arctic greening from warming promotes declines in caribou populations

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Range Expansion of Moose in Arctic Alaska Linked to Warming and Increased Shrub Habitat

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Habitat selection and nest success of the Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) in Ivvavik National Park, Yukon, Canada

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Breeding habitat associations and predicted distribution of an obligate tundra-breeding bird, Smith's Longspur

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Species traits and climate velocity explain geographic range shifts in an ocean-warming hotspot

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A portfolio effect of shrub canopy height on species richness in both stressful and competitive environments

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Novel wildlife in the Arctic: the influence of changing riparian ecosystems and shrub habitat expansion on snowshoe hares

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How will the greening of the Arctic affect an important prey species and disturbance agent? Vegetation effects on arctic ground squirrels

(2015) H. C. Wheeler et al.   OECOLOGIA

Arctic ground squirrel population collapse in the boreal forests of the Southern Yukon

(2015) Jeffery R. Werner et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

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Giving-up densities and foraging behaviour indicate possible effects of shrub encroachment on arctic ground squirrels

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Nutritional implications of increased shrub cover for caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the Arctic

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EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

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Greater shrub dominance alters breeding habitat and food resources for migratory songbirds in Alaskan arctic tundra

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Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

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Climate-Driven Effects of Fire on Winter Habitat for Caribou in the Alaskan-Yukon Arctic

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Localized habitat change near Churchill, Manitoba and the decline of nesting Whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus)

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Disentangling the importance of interspecific competition, food availability, and habitat in species occupancy: Recolonization of the endangered Fennoscandian arctic fox

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Complementary impacts of small rodents and semi-domesticated ungulates limit tall shrub expansion in the tundra

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Range dynamics of the reindeer in Europe during the last 25,000 years

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Long-term monitoring at multiple trophic levels suggests heterogeneity in responses to climate change in the Canadian Arctic tundra

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Improving Transferability of Introduced Species’ Distribution Models: New Tools to Forecast the Spread of a Highly Invasive Seaweed

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Climate Events Synchronize the Dynamics of a Resident Vertebrate Community in the High Arctic

(2013) B. B. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

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Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

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Collapse of an arctic bird community resulting from ungulate-induced loss of erect shrubs

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Landscape Heterogeneity of Shrub Expansion in Arctic Alaska

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Bird Communities of the Arctic Shrub Tundra of Yamal: Habitat Specialists and Generalists

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Evidence for source - sink dynamics in a regional population of arctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus parryii plesius)

(2012) Scott A. Donker et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

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

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

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Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

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Large herbivores limit CO2 uptake and suppress carbon cycle responses to warming in West Greenland

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The importance of willow thickets for ptarmigan and hares in shrub tundra: the more the better?

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Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

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Population dynamics of tundra voles in relation to configuration of willow thickets in southern arctic tundra

(2010) John-André Henden et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Phenological variation in annual timing of hibernation and breeding in nearby populations of Arctic ground squirrels

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Habitat Type is Related to Nest Mass and Fledging Success of Arctic Warblers

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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

Fossil evidence and phylogeography of temperate species: ‘glacial refugia’ and post-glacial recolonization

(2009) Robert S. Sommer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social–ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia

(2009) Bruce C. Forbes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of range margins for metapopulations under climate change

(2009) B.J Anderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predicting extinction risks under climate change: coupling stochastic population models with dynamic bioclimatic habitat models

(2008) D. A Keith et al.   Biology Letters

Species traits explain recent range shifts of Finnish butterflies

(2008) JUHA PÖYRY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long- and short-term effects of reindeer grazing on tundra wetland vegetation

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