• Changes in greening in the High Arctic - insights from a 30-year AVHRR max NDVI dataset for Svalbard 

      Vickers, Hannah; Høgda, Kjell Arild; Solbø, Stian; Karlsen, Stein Rune; Tømmervik, Hans; Aanes, Ronny; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Satellite-aided studies ofvegetation cover, biomass and productivity are becoming increasingly important for monitoring the effects ofa changing climate on the biosphere. With their large spatial coverage and good temporal ...
    • Climate and density-dependence cause changes in adult sex ratio in a large Arctic herbivore 

      Peeters, Bart; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Stien, Audun; Irvine, Robert Justin; Aanes, Ronny; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Strand, Olav; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Variation in adult sex ratio (ASR) affects population demography and dynamics of large mammals. The mechanisms behind this variation are largely unclear, but may be partly related to climatic drivers and density dependence ...
    • Climate Events Synchronize the Dynamics of a Resident Vertebrate Community in the High Arctic 

      Hansen, Brage Bremset; Grøtan, Vidar; Aanes, Ronny; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Stien, Audun; Fuglei, Eva; Ims, Rolf Anker; Yoccoz, Nigel; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Recently accumulated evidence has documented a climate impact on the demography and dynamics of single species, yet the impact at the community level is poorly understood. Here, we show that in Svalbard in the high Arctic, ...
    • Habituation to humans in a predator-free wild ungulate 

      Hansen, Brage Bremset; Aanes, Ronny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Arctic caribou and reindeer face an increase in human activity, tourism and infrastructure, which impact may depend on the potential for habituation. Habituation to nonlethal human disturbance in wild animals depends on ...
    • Kelp and seaweed feeding by High-Arctic wild reindeer under extreme winter conditions 

      Hansen, Brage Bremset; Aanes, Ronny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      One challenge in current Arctic ecological research is to understand and predict how wildlife may respond to increased frequencies of “extreme” weather events. Heavy rain-on-snow (ROS) is one such extreme phenomenon ...
    • Reindeer turning maritime: Ice-locked tundra triggers changes in dietary niche utilization 

      Hansen, Brage Bremset; Lorentzen, Jon Runar; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Varpe, Øystein; Aanes, Ronny; Beumer, Larissa Teresa; Pedersen, Åshild Ø. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The rapid warming of the Arctic may not only alter species’ abundances and distributions, but likely also the trophic interactions within and between ecosystems. On the high‐arctic tundra, extreme warm spells and associated ...
    • Sea or summit? Wild reindeer spatial responses to changing high-arctic winters 

      Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Beumer, Larissa Teresa; Aanes, Ronny; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Because of climate change, wildlife is facing altered environments, including profound shifts in temperature and precipitation regimes. In snow-dominated ecosystems, winter warming and resulting changes in snowpack properties ...
    • Spatial heterogeneity in climate change effects decouples the long‐term dynamics of wild reindeer populations in the high Arctic 

      Hansen, Brage Bremset; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Peeters, Bart; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Albon, Steve D.; Herfindal, Ivar; Sæther, Bernt-Erik; Grøtan, Vidar; Aanes, Ronny (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 ...
    • Spatiotemporal patterns of rain-on-snow and basal ice in high Arctic Svalbard: detection of a climate-cryosphere regime shift 

      Peeters, Bart; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Loe, Leif Egil; Isaksen, Ketil; Veiberg, Vebjørn; Stien, Audun; Kohler, Jack; gallet, jean-charles; Aanes, Ronny; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Arctic winters have become increasingly warmer and rainier. Where permafrost prevails, winter rain (or rain-on-snow; ROS) is known to occasionally cause extensive ice layers at the snow/ground interface, i.e. "basal ice" ...
    • Ungulate population monitoring in an open tundra landscape:distance sampling versus total counts 

      Le Moullec, Mathilde; Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Yoccoz, Nigel Gilles; Aanes, Ronny; Tufto, Jarle; Hansen, Brage Bremset (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Researchers and wildlife managers strive for low bias and high precision (i.e. high accuracy) when estimating animal population sizes. Distance sampling is currently one of the most widely used monitoring methods. However, ...