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Divergent regional trends in alpine tundra productivity linked to changes in snow-free season length and summer warming Open

Mary Moore, Nancy C. Emery, Sarah C. Elmendorf · 2025

Borealisation of Plant Communities in the Arctic Is Driven by Boreal‐Tundra Species Open

Mariana García Criado, Isabel C. Barrio, James D. M. Speed, Anne D. Bjorkman, Sarah C. Elmendorf , et al. · 2025

Following rapid climate change, tundra plant communities are experiencing extensive compositional shifts. A conservation concern is the potential encroachment of boreal species into the tundra (‘borealisation’). Tundra borealisation has be…

Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic Open

Mariana García Criado, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Anne D. Bjorkman, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand , et al. · 2025

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average 1 and plant communities are responding through shifts in species abundance, composition and distribution 2–4 . However, the direction and magnitude of local changes in plant d…

Plant community borealization in the Arctic is driven by boreal-tundra boundary species Open

Mariana García Criado, Isabel C. Barrio, James D. M. Speed, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Anne D. Bjorkman , et al. · 2025

Following rapid climate change across the Arctic, tundra plant communities are experiencing extensive compositional shifts. One of the most prevalent changes is the encroachment of boreal species into the tundra (‘borealization’). Borealiz…

Partly cloudy with a chance of mosquitoes: Developing a flexible approach to forecasting mosquito populations Open

Travis McDevitt‐Galles, Arthur T. DeGaetano, Sarah C. Elmendorf, John R. Foster, Howard S. Ginsberg , et al. · 2024

Climate‐induced shifts in mosquito phenology and population structure have important implications for the health of humans and wildlife. The timing and intensity of mosquito interactions with infected and susceptible hosts are a primary de…

Shifting alpine plant distributions with global change: Testing the environmental matching hypothesis Open

Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Jane G. Smith, Katharine N. Suding · 2024

Species facing novel temperature, precipitation, and nitrogen (N) deposition regimes must move or adapt to persist. For long-lived plants, a primary form of climate acclimation is through shifting geographic range limits or establishing in…

Tundra vegetation community, not microclimate, controls asynchrony of above and belowground phenology Open

Elise Gallois, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Colleen M. Iversen, Verity Salmon, Laura Turner , et al. · 2024

The below-ground growing season often extends beyond the above-ground growing season in tundra ecosystems. However, we do not yet know where and when this occurs and whether these phenological asynchronies are driven by variation in local …

Divergent community trajectories with climate change across a fine‐scale gradient in snow depth Open

Meagan F. Oldfather, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Elisa Van Cleemput, Jonathan J. Henn, Jared D. Huxley , et al. · 2023

Fine‐scale microclimate variation due to complex topography can shape both current vegetation distributional patterns and how vegetation responds to changing climate. Topographic heterogeneity in mountains is hypothesized to mediate respon…

Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Mosquitoes: Developing a macroecological approach to forecasting mosquito populations and phenology under changing climates Open

Travis McDevitt‐Galles, Arthur Degaetano, Sarah C. Elmendorf, John R. Foster, Howard S. Ginsberg , et al. · 2023

Climate-induced shifts in mosquito phenology and population structure has important implications for the health of humans and wildlife. The timing and intensity of mosquito interactions with infected and susceptible hosts is a primary dete…

Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic Open

Mariana García Criado, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Anne D. Bjorkman, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand , et al. · 2023

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average, and plant communities are responding through shifts in species abundance, composition and distribution. However, the direction and magnitude of local plant diversity changes …

Limits on phenological response to high temperature in the Arctic Open

Sarah C. Elmendorf, Robert D. Hollister · 2023

Tundra plants are widely considered to be constrained by cool growing conditions and short growing seasons. Furthermore, phenological development is generally predicted by daily heat sums calculated as growing degree days. Analyzing over a…

A review of open top chamber (OTC) performance across the ITEX Network Open

Robert D. Hollister, Cassandra Elphinstone, Greg H. R. Henry, Anne D. Bjorkman, Kari Klanderud , et al. · 2022

Open top chambers (OTCs) were adopted as the recommended warming mechanism by the International Tundra Experiment network in the early 1990s. Since then, OTCs have been deployed across the globe. Hundreds of papers have reported the impact…

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems Open

Christian Rixen, Toke T. Høye, Petr Macek, Rien Aerts, Juha M. Alatalo , et al. · 2022

Snow is an important driver of ecosystem processes in cold biomes. Snow accumulation determines ground temperature, light conditions, and moisture availability during winter. It also affects the growing season’s start and end, and plant ac…

Global change re-structures alpine plant communities under 15 years of warming, nitrogen, and snow addition: disentangling density independent and dependent effects Open

Courtney G. Collins, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Jane G. Smith, Lauren G. Shoemaker, Megan Szojka , et al. · 2022

Global change is altering patterns of community assembly, with net outcomes dependent on species’ responses to the environment, both directly and mediated through biotic interactions. Here, we assess alpine plant community responses in a 1…

Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants Open

Courtney G. Collins, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Robert D. Hollister, Greg H. R. Henry, Karin Clark , et al. · 2021

The tundra phenology database: more than two decades of tundra phenology responses to climate change Open

Janet S. Prevéy, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Anne D. Bjorkman, Juha M. Alatalo, Isabel W. Ashton , et al. · 2021

Observations of changes in phenology have provided some of the strongest signals of the effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), initiated in the early 1990s, established a common pro…

Going beyond the spreadsheet - developing Best Practices in ‘long-tail’ environmental data curation and publishing Open

Corinna Gries, Renée F. Brown, Gastil Gastil-Buhl, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Robert H. Garritt , et al. · 2020

Earth and Space Science Open Archive PosterOpen AccessYou are viewing the latest version by default [v1]Going beyond the spreadsheet - developing Best Practices in ‘long-tail’ environmental data curation and publishingAuthorsCorinnaGriesiD…

Catchment scale observations at the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research site Open

Nels R. Bjarke, Ben Livneh, Sarah C. Elmendorf, N. P. Molotch, E.‐L. S. Hinckley , et al. · 2020

The Niwot Ridge and Green Lakes Valley (NWT) long-term ecological research (LTER) site collects environmental observations spanning both alpine and subalpine regimes. The first observations began in 1952 and have since expanded to nearly 3…

Change in Pictures: Creating best practices in archiving ecological imagery for reuse Open

Corinna Gries, Stace E. Beaulieu, Renée F. Brown, Gastil Gastil-Buhl, Sarah C. Elmendorf , et al. · 2020

The research data repository of the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is building on over 30 years of data curation research and experience in the National Science Foundation-funded US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. It pro…

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

Haydn J. D. Thomas, Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Jens Kattge , et al. · 2020

Author Correction: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities Open

Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Nadja Rüger, Toke T. Høye, Anne D. Bjorkman , et al. · 2019

Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities Open

Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Nadja Rüger, Toke T. Høye, Anne D. Bjorkman , et al. · 2018

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome Open

Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand, Nadja Rüger , et al. · 2018

Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits Open

W. Daniel Kissling, Ramona Walls, Anne Bowser, Matthew Jones, Jens Kattge , et al. · 2018

Increasing phenological asynchrony between spring green-up and arrival of migratory birds Open

Stephen J. Mayor, Robert Guralnick, Morgan W. Tingley, Javier Otegui, John C. Withey , et al. · 2017

Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny Open

Mark Vellend, María Dornelas, Lander Baeten, Robin Beauséjour, Carissa D. Brown , et al. · 2016

We present new data and analyses revealing fundamental flaws in a critique of two recent meta‐analyses of local‐scale temporal biodiversity change. First, the conclusion that short‐term time series lead to biased estimates of long‐term cha…

The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK) Open

Donald A. Walker, Amy Breen, L.A. Druckenmiller, Lisa W. Wirth, Will Fisher , et al. · 2016

The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK, GIVD-ID: NA-US-014) is a free, publically available database archive of vegetation-plot data from the Arctic tundra region of northern Alaska. The archive currently contains 24 datasets with 3,…

Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny Open

Mark Vellend, María Dornelas, Lander Baeten, Robin Beauséjour, Carissa D. Brown , et al. · 2016

Two recent meta-analyses of local-scale biodiversity change over time, by the authors of the present paper, have been subject to a harsh critique. Here we use new data and analyses to respond to the main points of this critique. First, a c…

The plant phenology monitoring design for The National Ecological Observatory Network Open

Sarah C. Elmendorf, Katherine D. Jones, Benjamin I. Cook, Jeffrey M. Diez, Carolyn A. F. Enquist , et al. · 2016

Phenology is an integrative science that comprises the study of recurring biological activities or events. In an era of rapidly changing climate, the relationship between the timing of those events and environmental cues such as temperatur…

Optimizing Available Network Resources to Address Questions in Environmental Biogeochemistry Open

Eve‐Lyn S. Hinckley, Suzanne P. Anderson, Jill S. Baron, Peter D. Blanken, Gordon B. Bonan , et al. · 2016

An increasing number of network observatories have been established globally to collect long-term biogeochemical data at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Although many outstanding questions in biogeochemistry would benefit from networ…

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