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  • Functional trait data could guide predictions of species responses to environmental change. Here, the authors show that winner and loser shrub species in the warming tundra biome overlap in trait space and may therefore be difficult to predict based on commonly measured traits.

    • Mariana García Criado
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Anna-Maria Virkkala
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-17

  • It is unclear whether climate driven phenological shifts of tundra plants are consistent across the plant growing season. Here the authors analyse data from a network of field warming experiments in Arctic and alpine tundra, finding that warming differentially affects the timing and duration of reproductive and vegetative phenology.

    • Courtney G. Collins
    • Sarah C. Elmendorf
    • Katharine N. Suding
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-12

  • As tundra ecosystems respond to rapid Arctic warming, satellite records suggest a widespread greening. This Perspective highlights the challenges of interpreting complex Arctic greening trends and provides direction for future research by combining ecological and remote sensing approaches.

    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Jeffrey T. Kerby
    • Sonja Wipf
    Reviews
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 10, P: 106-117

  • Warming temperatures and interactions between plants are the main drivers of changes in Arctic plant communities in response to climate change, and there is no evidence of overall biotic homogenization.

    • Mariana García Criado
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Mark Vellend
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 642, P: 653-661

  • Rapid climate warming has been linked to increasing shrub dominance in the Arctic tundra. Research now shows that climate–shrub growth relationships vary spatially and according to site characteristics such as soil moisture and shrub height.

    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Sarah C. Elmendorf
    • Mark Vellend
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 5, P: 887-891

  • Satellite data suggest that contemporary climate warming has already resulted in increased productivity and shrub biomass over much of the Arctic, but plot-level evidence for vegetation transformation remains sparse. Now research provides plot-scale evidence linking changes in vascular plant abundance to local summer warming in widely dispersed tundra locations across the globe.

    • Sarah C. Elmendorf
    • Gregory H. R. Henry
    • Sonja Wipf
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 2, P: 453-457

  • Analysing a global database of >40,000 tundra plant phenological observations monitored for up to 20 years, the authors show that community-level flowering has been contracting in response to recent warming, in contrast to findings from lower latitudes.

    • Janet S. Prevéy
    • Christian Rixen
    • Sonja Wipf
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 3, P: 45-52

  • Satellites provide clear evidence of greening trends in the Arctic, but high-resolution pan-Arctic quantification of these trends is lacking. Here the authors analyse high-resolution Landsat data to show widespread greening in the Arctic, and find that greening trends are linked to summer warming overall but not always locally.

    • Logan T. Berner
    • Richard Massey
    • Scott J. Goetz
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-12

  • Conservation biologists often assume that rare (or less abundant) species are more likely to be declining under anthropogenic change. Here, the authors synthesise population trend data for ~2000 animal species to show that population trends cover a wide spectrum of change from losses to gains, which are not related to species rarity.

    • Gergana N. Daskalova
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • John L. Godlee
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-13

  • Analyses of the relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits across the tundra and over time show that community height increased with warming across all sites, whereas other traits lagged behind predicted rates of change.

    • Anne D. Bjorkman
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Evan Weiher
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 562, P: 57-62

  • Although plant functional trait combinations reflect ecological trade-offs at the species level, little is known about how this translates to whole communities. Here, the authors show that global trait composition is captured by two main dimensions that are only weakly related to macro-environmental drivers.

    • Helge Bruelheide
    • Jürgen Dengler
    • Ute Jandt
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 2, P: 1906-1917

  • When considering how ecosystems will react to climate change the importance of dead matter has been largely overlooked. Here we discuss why dead material is integral to ecosystem form and function, and why its persistence or degradation must be explicitly included in models considering ecosystem futures in a rapidly changing world.

    • Kelsey Archer Barnhill
    • J. Murray Roberts
    • Sebastian J. Hennige
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 13, P: 113-115

  • Greening and vegetation community shifts have been observed across Arctic environments. This Review examines these changes and their impact on underlying permafrost.

    • Monique M. P. D. Heijmans
    • Rúna Í. Magnússon
    • Juul Limpens
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
    Volume: 3, P: 68-84