Winter climate change, plant traits and nutrient and carbon cycling in cold biomes

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Digging deep to open the white black box of snow root phenology

(2013) Vladimir G. Onipchenko et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Winter climate change in plant–soil systems: summary of recent findings and future perspectives

(2013) Kobayashi Makoto et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Dominant bryophyte control over high-latitude soil temperature fluctuations predicted by heat transfer traits, field moisture regime and laws of thermal insulation

(2013) Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of plants and grasshoppers

(2013) Sébastien Ibanez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of mosses in carbon uptake and partitioning in arctic vegetation

(2013) Lorna E. Street et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How endangered is sexual reproduction of high-mountain plants by summer frosts? Frost resistance, frequency of frost events and risk assessment

(2013) Ursula Ladinig et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

(2013) Sandra Díaz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Changing Face of Arctic Snow Cover: A Synthesis of Observed and Projected Changes

(2012) Terry V. Callaghan et al.   AMBIO

Ecosystem Response to Climatic Change: The Importance of the Cold Season

(2012) Stef Bokhorst et al.   AMBIO

Seasonal climate manipulations have only minor effects on litter decomposition rates and N dynamics but strong effects on litter P dynamics of sub-arctic bog species

(2012) R. Aerts et al.   OECOLOGIA

Alpine plant functional group responses to fertiliser addition depend on abiotic regime and community composition

(2012) V. G. Onipchenko et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The influence of non-sorted circles on species diversity of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in Sub-Arctic Tundra

(2012) K. Makoto et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

(2012) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Multi-Decadal Changes in Snow Characteristics in Sub-Arctic Sweden

(2011) Cecilia Johansson et al.   AMBIO

Evidence of Nonlinearity in the Response of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange to Increasing Levels of Winter Snow Depth in the High Arctic of Northwest Greenland

(2011) Matthew C. Rogers et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Local differentiation of flowering phenology in an alpine-snowbed herb Gentiana nipponica

(2011) Yuka Kawai et al.   Botany

The Cooling Capacity of Mosses: Controls on Water and Energy Fluxes in a Siberian Tundra Site

(2011) D. Blok et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Species traits and their non-additive interactions control the water economy of bryophyte cushions

(2011) Pascale Michel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The importance of colony structure versus shoot morphology for the water balance of 22 subarctic bryophyte species

(2011) Tatiana G. Elumeeva et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Absence of snow cover reduces understory plant cover and alters plant community composition in boreal forests

(2011) Juergen Kreyling et al.   OECOLOGIA

On the importance of intraspecific variability for the quantification of functional diversity

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   OIKOS

Winter warming pulses affect the development of planted temperate grassland and dwarf-shrub heath communities

(2011) Juergen Kreyling et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Resilience of Alaska’s boreal forest to climatic changeThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

(2010) F.S. Chapin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations

(2010) FRIDA KEUPER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Isotopic analysis of cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation associated with subarctic lichen and bryophyte species

(2010) Konstantin S. Gavazov et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Litter decomposition in two subalpine forests during the freeze–thaw season

(2009) Fuzhong Wu et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Winter climate change in alpine tundra: plant responses to changes in snow depth and snowmelt timing

(2009) Sonja Wipf et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

New nitrogen uptake strategy: specialized snow roots

(2009) Vladimir G. Onipchenko et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An experimental comparison of chemical traits and litter decomposition rates in a diverse range of subarctic bryophyte, lichen and vascular plant species

(2009) Simone I. Lang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect control by snow cover over decomposition in alpine tundra along a snowmelt gradient

(2009) Florence Baptist et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Snow-induced changes in dwarf birch chemistry increase moth larval growth rate and level of herbivory

(2009) Mikaela Torp et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

(2008) PHILIP A. WOOKEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How alpine plant growth is linked to snow cover and climate variability

(2008) Tobias Jonas et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Deep supercooling xylem parenchyma cells of katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) contain flavonol glycosides exhibiting high anti-ice nucleation activity

(2008) JUN KASUGA et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT