Browsing Institutt for biologi by Journals "Global Change Biology"
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Centennial relationships between ocean temperature and Atlantic puffin production reveal shifting decennial trends
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The current warming of the oceans has been shown to have detrimental effects for a number of species. An understanding of the underlying mechanisms may be hampered by the non-linearity and non-stationarity of the relationships ... -
Circumpolar dynamics of a marine top-predator track ocean warming rates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Global warming is a nonlinear process, and temperature may increase in a stepwise manner. Periods of abrupt warming can trigger persistent changes in the state of ecosystems, also called regime shifts. The responses of ... -
Climate–ecosystem modelling made easy: The Land Sites Platform
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) provide a state-of-the-art process-based approach to study the complex interplay between vegetation and its physical environment. For example, they help to predict how terrestrial ... -
Combination of herbivore removal and nitrogen deposition increases upland carbon storage
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Ecosystem carbon (C) accrual and storage can be enhanced by removing large herbivores as well as by the fertilizing effect of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition. These drivers are unlikely to operate independently, yet ... -
Contrasting consequences of climate change for migratory geese: Predation, density dependence and carryover effects offset benefits of high‐arctic warming
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Climate change is most rapid in the Arctic, posing both benefits and challenges for migratory herbivores. However, population‐dynamic responses to climate change are generally difficult to predict, due to concurrent changes ... -
Contrasting effects of summer and winter warming onbody mass explain population dynamics in a food-limitedArctic herbivore
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The cumulative effects of climate warming on herbivore vital rates and population dynamics are hard to predict, given that the expected effects differ between seasons. In the Arctic, warmer summers enhance plant growth ... -
Detecting climate signals in populations across life histories
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Climate impacts are not always easily discerned in wild populations as detecting climate change signals in populations is challenged by stochastic noise associated with natural climate variability, variability in biotic ... -
Environmental change and the rate of phenotypic plasticity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)With rapid and less predictable environmental change emerging as the ‘new norm’, understanding how individuals tolerate environmental stress via plastic, often reversible changes to the phenotype (i.e., reversible phenotypic ... -
Global maps of soil temperature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation ... -
How to quantify thermal acclimation capacity?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The capacity of organisms to acclimate will influence their ability to cope with ongoing global changes in thermal regimes. Here we highlight methodological issues associated with recent attempts to quantify variation in ... -
Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The globally widespread adoption of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) began in the mid-20th century. Yet, it is only in the last decade that a renewed research focus has emerged into its impacts on ecological and biological ... -
The neglected season: Warmer autumns counteract harsher winters and promote population growth in Arctic reindeer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Arctic ungulates are experiencing the most rapid climate warming on Earth. While concerns have been raised that more frequent icing events may cause die-offs, and earlier springs may generate a trophic mismatch in phenology, ... -
Sea ice loss increases genetic isolation in a high Arctic ungulate metapopulation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Sea ice loss may have dramatic consequences for population connectivity, extinction–colonization dynamics, and even the persistence of Arctic species subject to climate change. This is of particular concern in face of ... -
Signals from the south; humpback whales carry messages of Antarctic sea‐ice ecosystem variability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Southern hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) rely on summer prey abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) to fuel one of the longest‐known mammalian migrations on the planet. It is hypothesized that ... -
SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated climate data represents long-term ... -
Spatial heterogeneity in climate change effects decouples the long‐term dynamics of wild reindeer populations in the high Arctic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The ‘Moran effect’ predicts that dynamics of populations of a species are synchronized over similar distances as their environmental drivers. Strong population synchrony reduces species viability, but spatial heterogeneity ... -
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, and influence ecosystem ...