• Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands 

      Jaroszynska, Francesca Orinda Holl; Althuizen, Inge; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Klanderud, Kari; Lee, Hanna; Telford, Richard James; Vandvik, Vigdis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Soil temperature and moisture are important regulators of a broad range of biotic and abiotic processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Vegetation can, in turn, play a role in regulating soil microclimate, which creates potential ...
    • Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming 

      Jonsdottir, Ingibjørg; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Christiansen, Casper Tai; Althuizen, Inge; Haugum, Siri Vatsø; Henn, Jonathan J.; Björnsdóttir, Katrín; Maitner, Brian Salvin; Malhi, Yadvinder; Michaletz, Sean T.; Roos, Ruben Erik; Klanderud, Kari; Lee, Hanna; Enquist, Brian J.; Vandvik, Vigdis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In the high Arctic, plant community species composition generally responds slowly to climate warming, whereas less is known about the community functional trait responses and consequences for ecosystem functioning. The ...
    • Legacy effects of herbivory on treeline dynamics along an elevational gradient 

      Mienna, Ida Marielle; Austrheim, Gunnar; Klanderud, Kari; Bollandsås, Ole Martin; Speed, James David Mervyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Treelines are expected to expand into alpine ecosystems with global warming, but herbivory may delay this expansion. This study quantifies long-term effects of temporally varying sheep densities on birch recruitment and ...
    • The relative role of climate and herbivory in driving treeline dynamics along a latitudinal gradient 

      Mienna, Ida Marielle; Speed, James David Mervyn; Klanderud, Kari; Austrheim, Gunnar; Næsset, Erik; Bollandsås, Ole Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Aim The treeline is an obvious ecotone between forest and tundra ecosystems. Climatic warming is expected to lead to the treeline advancing, although in many cases this has not been observed. This is most likely because ...
    • The role of plant functional groups mediating climate impacts on carbon and biodiversity of alpine grasslands 

      Vandvik, Vigdis; Althuizen, Inge; Jaroszynska, Francesca; Krüger, Linn Cecilie; Lee, Hanna; Goldberg, Deborah E.; Klanderud, Kari; Olsen, Siri Lie; Telford, Richard James; Hjortland Östman, Silje Andrea; Busca, Sara; Dahle, Ingrid Johnsen; Egelkraut, Dagmar Dorothea; Geange, Sonya Rita; Gya, Ragnhild; Lynn, Joshua Scott; Meineri, Eric Pierre F; Young, Sherry; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Plant removal experiments allow assessment of the role of biotic interactions among species or functional groups in community assembly and ecosystem functioning. When replicated along climate gradients, they can assess ...
    • Stay or go – how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change 

      Graae, Bente Jessen; Vandvik, Vigdis; Armbruster, W. Scott; Eiserhardt, Wolf L.; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Hylander, Kristoffer; Ehrlén, Johan; Speed, James D.M.; Klanderud, Kari; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Milbau, Ann; Opedal, Øystein Hjorthol; Alsos, Inger G.; Ejrnæs, Rasmus; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Birks, H. John B.; Westergaard, Kristine Bakke; Birks, Hilary H; Lenoir, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In the face of climate change, populations have two survival options − they can remain in situ and tolerate the new climatic conditions (“stay”), or they can move to track their climatic niches (“go”). For sessile and ...