Different parts, different stories: climate sensitivity of growth is stronger in root collars vs. stems in tundra shrubs

Greater effect of increasing shrub height on winter versus summer soil temperature

(2016) Mélissa Paradis et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Phenology and species determine growing-season albedo increase at the altitudinal limit of shrub growth in the sub-Arctic

(2016) Scott N. Williamson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The vegetation greenness trend in Canada and US Alaska from 1984–2012 Landsat data

(2016) Junchang Ju et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

(2015) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Winter warming as an important co-driver forBetula nanagrowth in western Greenland during the past century

(2015) Jørgen Hollesen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Ken D. Tape et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

(2015) Ulf Büntgen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

(2015) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Are low altitude alpine tundra ecosystems under threat? A case study from the Parc National de la Gaspésie, Québec

(2014) Catherine Dumais et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2014) Natalie T. Boelman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Herbivores Influence the Growth, Reproduction, and Morphology of a Widespread Arctic Willow

(2014) Katie S. Christie et al.   PLoS One

Wood anatomical analysis of Swiss willow (Salix helvetica) shrubs growing on creeping mountain permafrost

(2013) Isabelle Gärtner-Roer et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Patterned-ground facilitates shrub expansion in Low Arctic tundra

(2013) Gerald V Frost et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

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

Temperature modulates intra-plant growth of Salix polaris from a high Arctic site (Svalbard)

(2013) Agata Buchwal et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Shrub canopies influence soil temperatures but not nutrient dynamics: An experimental test of tundra snow-shrub interactions

(2013) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Architectural strategies of Rhamnus cathartica (Rhamnaceae) in relation to canopy openness

(2012) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   Botany

Continuously missing outer rings in woody plants at their distributional margins

(2012) M. Wilmking et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Recent expansion of erect shrubs in the Low Arctic: evidence from Eastern Nunavik

(2012) Benoît Tremblay et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Shrub expansion at the forest–tundra ecotone: spatial heterogeneity linked to local topography

(2012) P Ropars et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Satellite-based evidence for shrub and graminoid tundra expansion in northern Quebec from 1986 to 2010

(2012) kelly M. McManus et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Expansion of Canopy-Forming Willows Over the Twentieth Century on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

(2011) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   AMBIO

Climate determines upper, but not lower, altitudinal range limits of Pacific Northwest conifers

(2011) A. K. Ettinger et al.   ECOLOGY

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental change in the Great Whale River region, Hudson Bay: Five decades of multidisciplinary research by Centre d'études nordiques (CEN)

(2011) Najat Bhiry et al.   ECOSCIENCE

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

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

AFLP markers reveal high clonal diversity and extreme longevity in four key arctic-alpine species

(2011) LUCIENNE C. De WITTE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution of notions about relationships between photosynthesis and plant productivity

(2011) V. I. Chikov   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Snow-mediated ptarmigan browsing and shrub expansion in arctic Alaska

(2010) Ken D. Tape et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Shrubs as ecosystem engineers in a coastal dune: influences on plant populations, communities and ecosystems

(2010) J. Hall Cushman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Growth-climate relationships vary with height along the stem in lodgepole pine

(2010) S. Chhin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Environmental and Biotic Determinants of Growth and Height of Arctic Willow Shrubs along a Latitudinal Gradient

(2009) Anu Marjukka Pajunen   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows

(2009) BRUCE C. FORBES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do plant parts compete for resources? An evolutionary viewpoint

(2009) Victor O. Sadras et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climatic response of Picea glauca seedlings in a forest-prairie ecotone of western Canada

(2008) Sophan Chhin et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Potential effects of climate change on the growth of lodgepole pine across diameter size classes and ecological regions

(2008) Sophan Chhin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Growth-ring variations of dwarf shrubs reflect regional climate signals in alpine environments rather than topoclimatic differences

(2007) Annette Bär et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatially explicit fire-climate history of the boreal forest-tundra (Eastern Canada) over the last 2000 years

(2007) S. Payette et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES