Decreasing snow cover alters functional composition and diversity of Arctic tundra

Patterns and trends of Northern Hemisphere snow mass from 1980 to 2018

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Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

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Snow cover trends in Finland over 1961-2014 based on gridded snow depth observations

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Changing Lake Dynamics Indicate a Drier Arctic in Western Greenland

(2019) R.A. Finger Higgens et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Snow is an important control of plant community functional composition in oroarctic tundra

(2019) Konsta Happonen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Contrasting drivers of community‐level trait variation for vascular plants, lichens and bryophytes across an elevational gradient

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The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

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Climate change causes functionally colder winters for snow cover-dependent organisms

(2019) Likai Zhu et al.   Nature Climate Change

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

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Biogeophysical controls on soil-atmosphere thermal differences: implications on warming Arctic ecosystems

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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

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Herbivore Effects on Ecosystem Process Rates in a Low-Productive System

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Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

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Forecasted homogenization of high Arctic vegetation communities under climate change

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Plant traits inform predictions of tundra responses to global change

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Snow cover is a neglected driver of Arctic biodiversity loss

(2018) Pekka Niittynen et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Revealing topoclimatic heterogeneity using meteorological station data

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What we use is not what we know: environmental predictors in plant distribution models

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Coupled long-term summer warming and deeper snow alters species composition and stimulates gross primary productivity in tussock tundra

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Increased wintertime CO2loss as a result of sustained tundra warming

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Modelling snow cover duration improves predictions of functional and taxonomic diversity for alpine plant communities

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Deeper snow alters soil nutrient availability and leaf nutrient status in high Arctic tundra

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Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Variations in functional diversity in snowbed plant communities determining snowbed continuity

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Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

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A resurvey of late-lying snowpatches reveals changes in both species and functional composition across snowmelt zones

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High Arctic wetting reduces permafrost carbon feedbacks to climate warming

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Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change

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

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An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

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Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches

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A user's guide to functional diversity indices

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A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

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NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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