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A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations

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A combination of functionally different plant traits provides a means to quantitatively predict a broad range of species assemblages in NW Europe

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A frozen feast: thawing permafrost increases plant-available nitrogen in subarctic peatlands

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A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

article by Jenny C. Ordoñez et al published March 2009 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

A novel way to understand plant species preferences in relation to groundwater discharge conditions using a trait-based approach

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A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

An experimental comparison of chemical traits and litter decomposition rates in a diverse range of subarctic bryophyte, lichen and vascular plant species

scientific article published on 11 August 2009

Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and mixed effects on bryophyte diversity

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Are growth forms consistent predictors of leaf litter quality and decomposability across peatlands along a latitudinal gradient?

scientific article published on 07 July 2005

Are litter decomposition and fire linked through plant species traits?

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Biomass production, N:P ratio and nutrient limitation in a Caucasian alpine tundra plant community

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Can differences in soil community composition after peat meadow restoration lead to different decomposition and mineralization rates?

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Carbon cycling traits of plant species are linked with mycorrhizal strategy

scientific article published on 13 July 2001

Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic

scientific article published in Nature

Changing leaf litter feedbacks on plant production across contrasting sub-arctic peatland species and growth forms

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Classification trees versus multinomial models in the analysis of urban farming systems in Central Africa

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Climate change effects on soil arthropod communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic

scholarly article by S. Bokhorst et al published July 2008 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Climate change threatens endangered plant species by stronger and interacting water-related stresses

scholarly article

Climate, Leaf Litter Chemistry and Leaf Litter Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Triangular Relationship

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Climatic modifiers of the response to nitrogen deposition in peat-forming Sphagnum mosses: a meta-analysis.

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Community adaptation to temperature explains abrupt soil bacterial community shift along a geothermal gradient on Iceland

scientific article published in February 2023

Competition in Heathland along an Experimental Gradient of Nutrient Availability

scientific article published in April 1990

Compositional Stability of the Bacterial Community in a Climate-Sensitive Sub-Arctic Peatland

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Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

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Contrasting impacts of non-native isopods and springtails on ecosystem processes under simulated Antarctic climate conditions

scientific article published in October 2023

Controls on coarse wood decay in temperate tree species: birth of the LOGLIFE experiment

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Critical soil conditions for oxygen stress to plant roots: Substituting the Feddes-function by a process-based model

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DECOMPOSITION OF SUB-ARCTIC PLANTS WITH DIFFERING NITROGEN ECONOMIES: A FUNCTIONAL ROLE FOR HEMIPARASITES

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Decadal warming causes a consistent and persistent shift from heterotrophic to autotrophic respiration in contrasting permafrost ecosystems

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Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Determinants of cryptogam composition and diversity inSphagnum-dominated peatlands: the importance of temporal, spatial and functional scales

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Disturbance and resource availability act differently on the same suite of plant traits: revisiting assembly hypotheses ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Do high levels of diffuse and chronic metal pollution in sediments of Rhine and Meuse floodplains affect structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems?

scientific article published on 15 August 2008

Do physical plant litter traits explain non-additivity in litter mixtures? A test of the improved microenvironmental conditions theory

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Does initial litter chemistry explain litter mixture effects on decomposition?

scientific article published on 19 September 2003

Does plant size affect growth responses to water availability at glacial, modern and future CO2 concentrations?

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East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Ecological consequences of the expansion of N₂-fixing plants in cold biomes.

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Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

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Effects of experimentally imposed climate scenarios on flowering phenology and flower production of subarctic bog species

scientific article published on 17 September 2004

Effects of fertilisation and irrigation on ‘foliar afterlife’ in alpine tundra

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Enzymology under global change: organic nitrogen turnover in alpine and sub-Arctic soils ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Experimentally increased nutrient availability at the permafrost thaw front selectively enhances biomass production of deep-rooting subarctic peatland species

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

External nutrient inputs into terrestrial ecosystems of the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic region

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Ferrous Iron Stimulates Phenol Oxidase Activity and Organic Matter Decomposition in Waterlogged Wetlands

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Filtering artefacts in bacterial community composition can affect the outcome of dissolved organic matter biolability assays

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Filtration artefacts in bacterial community composition can affect the outcome of dissolved organic matter biolability assays

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First estimates of fine root production in tropical peat swamp and terra firme forests of the central Congo Basin

scientific article published in 2023

Flourish or flush: effects of simulated extreme rainfall events on Sphagnum-dwelling testate amoebae in a subarctic bog (Abisko, Sweden).

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Foliar pH as a new plant trait: can it explain variation in foliar chemistry and carbon cycling processes among subarctic plant species and types?

scientific article published on 11 October 2005

Food choice of Antarctic soil arthropods clarified by stable isotope signatures

scientific article published on 21 February 2007

Fuel moisture content enhances nonadditive effects of plant mixtures on flammability and fire behavior

scientific article published on 22 August 2015

Functional traits of woody plants: correspondence of species rankings between field adults and laboratory-grown seedlings?

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Glasshouse vs field experiments: do they yield ecologically similar results for assessing N impacts on peat mosses?

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

scientific article published in 2001

Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

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Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

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Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages

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Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits-based approaches

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Heavy metal pollution affects consumption and reproduction of the landsnail Cepaea nemoralis fed on naturally polluted Urtica dioica leaves

scientific article published on 19 April 2006

Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 26 June 2012

Hungry and thirsty: Effects of CO2 and limited water availability on plant performance

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Icelandic grasslands as long-term C sinks under elevated organic N inputs

scholarly article by Niki I. W. Leblans et al published 27 July 2017 in Biogeochemistry

Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis

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Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types reduces the projected land carbon sink in an earth system model

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Increases in CO 2 from past low to future high levels result in “slower” strategies on the leaf economic spectrum

article by Andries A. Temme et al published December 2017 in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Interspecific and intraspecific differences in shoot and leaf lifespan of four Carex species which differ in maximum dry matter production

scientific article published in June 1995

Interspecific differences in wood decay rates: insights from a new short-term method to study long-term wood decomposition

scientific article published on 09 September 2011

Is the differential response of riparian plant performance to extreme drought and inundation events related to differences in intraspecific trait variation?

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Leaf habit and woodiness regulate different leaf economy traits at a given nutrient supply

scientific article published in November 2010

Litter Mixture Interactions at the Level of Plant Functional Types are Additive

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Litter stoichiometric traits of plant species of high-latitude ecosystems show high responsiveness to global change without causing strong variation in litter decomposition

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Macro-environment strongly interacts with warming in a global analysis of decomposition

Mapping nutrient resorption efficiencies of subarctic cryptogams and seed plants onto the Tree of Life

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Meta-analysis reveals profound responses of plant traits to glacial CO2 levels

scientific article (publication date: November 2013)

Methane Feedbacks to the Global Climate System in a Warmer World

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Moss Responses to Elevated CO2 and Variation in Hydrology in a Temperate Lowland Peatland

scientific article published in 2006

Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home-field advantage with a new hypothesis

scientific article published on 05 January 2012

Neighbour identity hardly affects litter-mixture effects on decomposition rates of New Zealand forest species

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Nitrogen Inputs by Marine Vertebrates Drive Abundance and Richness in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Nitrogen Partitioning between Resorption and Decomposition Pathways: A Trade-Off between Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Litter Decomposibility?

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Nitrogen supply differentially affects litter decomposition rates and nitrogen dynamics of sub-arctic bog species.

scientific article published on 16 September 2005

Nitrogen supply effects on productivity and potential leaf litter decay of Carex species from peatlands differing in nutrient limitation

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

No effects of experimental warming but contrasting seasonal patterns for soil peptidase and glycosidase enzymes in a sub-arctic peat bog

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Nonadditive effects of consumption in an intertidal macroinvertebrate community are independent of food availability but driven by complementarity effects.

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Northern peatland Collembola communities unaffected by three summers of simulated extreme precipitation

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Numerical Taxonomy of Bacillus Isolates from North Sea Sediments

scientific article published in October 1976

Nutrient Resorption from Senescing Leaves of Perennials: Are there General Patterns?

scientific article published on 17 June 2006

Nutrient use efficiency in evergreen and deciduous species from heathlands

scientific article published in October 1990

Nutritional and Plant-Mediated Controls on Leaf Litter Decomposition of Carex Species

scientific article published in January 1997

Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming

scientific article published in 2022

Patterns of free amino acids in tundra soils reflect mycorrhizal type, shrubification, and warming

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

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Plant strategies in relation to resource supply in mesic to wet environments: does theory mirror nature?

scientific article published in February 2010

Polar lessons learned: long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments

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Potential impacts of groundwater conservation measures on catchment-wide vegetation patterns in a future climate

scientific article published in 2014

Potential macro-detritivore range expansion into the subarctic stimulates litter decomposition: a new positive feedback mechanism to climate change?

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Process-based proxy of oxygen stress surpasses indirect ones in predicting vegetation characteristics

Projected vegetation changes are amplified by the combination of climate change, socio-economic changes and hydrological climate adaptation measures

scholarly article by Yasmijn A.M. van der Knaap et al published March 2018 in Land Use Policy

Publisher Correction: East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon

scientific article published on 22 April 2020

Raising groundwater differentially affects mineralization and plant species abundance in dune slacks

scientific article published in October 2006

Seasonal climate manipulations have only minor effects on litter decomposition rates and N dynamics but strong effects on litter P dynamics of sub-arctic bog species

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Separating the effects of partial submergence and soil oxygen demand on plant physiology

scientific article published in January 2008

Shifts in soil microorganisms in response to warming are consistent across a range of Antarctic environments

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Similar cation exchange capacities among bryophyte species refute a presumed mechanism of peatland acidification.

scientific article published in September 2010

Sixteen years of simulated summer and winter warming have contrasting effects on soil mite communities in a sub-Arctic peat bog

scientific article published on 29 December 2018

Size and structure of bacterial, fungal and nematode communities along an Antarctic environmental gradient

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Sphagnum-dwelling testate amoebae in subarctic bogs are more sensitive to soil warming in the growing season than in winter: the results of eight-year field climate manipulations

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Substantial nutrient resorption from leaves, stems and roots in a subarctic flora: what is the link with other resource economics traits?

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Succession-induced trait shifts across a wide range of NW European ecosystems are driven by light and modulated by initial abiotic conditions

scientific article published in 2011

Summer warming accelerates sub-arctic peatland nitrogen cycling without changing enzyme pools or microbial community structure

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Supplementary material to "Filtering artefacts in bacterial community composition can affect the outcome of dissolved organic matter biolability assays"

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Synthesis of ecosystem vulnerability to climate change in the Netherlands shows the need to consider environmental fluctuations in adaptation measures

scholarly article by P. M. van Bodegom et al published 23 July 2013 in Regional Environmental Change

Temperature sensitivity of peatland C and N cycling: Does substrate supply play a role?

The effect of environmental change on vascular plant and cryptogam communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic

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The need of data harmonization to derive robust empirical relationships between soil conditions and vegetation

article published in 2008

Towards a functional basis for predicting vegetation patterns; incorporating plant traits in habitat distribution models

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Traits explain the responses of a sub-arctic Collembola community to climate manipulation

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Tree species identity in high-latitude forests determines fire spread through fuel ladders from branches to soil and vice versa

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Tundra in the rain: differential vegetation responses to three years of experimentally doubled summer precipitation in Siberian shrub and Swedish bog tundra

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Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments - A response to Korell et al

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Usnea antarctica, an important Antarctic lichen, is vulnerable to aspects of regional environmental change

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Variable temperature effects of Open Top Chambers at polar and alpine sites explained by irradiance and snow depth

scientific article published on 18 October 2012

Variation in trait trade-offs allows differentiation among predefined plant functional types: implications for predictive ecology

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Vascular plant litter input in subarctic peat bogs changes Collembola diets and decomposition patterns

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Warming impacts potential germination of non-native plants on the Antarctic Peninsula

scientific article published on 25 March 2021

Winners always win: growth of a wide range of plant species from low to future high CO2

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