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Plant Traits

How do plant functional traits change across environmental gradients, and what are the consequences for carbon, water, and nutrient fluxes?

Plant traits provide an important link among plant communities, tundra biogeochemistry, and biophysical feedbacks to the atmosphere. Improved understanding of tundra plant traits, above- and belowground, have led to new approaches for scaling plant function from leaf to landscape using remotely-sensed data and models.

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2024

  • Huo, X, et al. “Integrating State Data Assimilation and Innovative Model Parameterization Reduces Simulated Carbon Uptake in the Arctic and Boreal Region”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences , vol. 129, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008004 .
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  • Berner, Logan T. “The Arctic Plant Aboveground Biomass Synthesis Dataset”. Scientific Data, vol. 11, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03139-w.
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2023

  • Yuan, Fengming, et al. “An Ultrahigh-Resolution E3SM Land Model Simulation Framework and Its First Application to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska”. Journal of Computational Science, vol. 73, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2023.102145.
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  • Conroy, Nathan A., et al. “Environmental Controls on Observed Spatial Variability of Soil Pore Water Geochemistry in Small Headwater Catchments Underlain With Permafrost”. The Cryosphere, vol. 17, no. 17, 2023, https://doi.org/ttps://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3987-2023.
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  • Weber, Sören E., and Colleen M. Iversen. “How Deep Should We Go to Understand Roots at the Top of the World?”. New Phytologist, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19220.
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  • Schore, Aiden I. G., et al. “Nitrogen Fixing Shrubs Advance the Pace of Tall-Shrub Expansion in Low-Arctic Tundra”. Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 4, 2023, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01098-5.
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  • Mevenkamp, Hannah, et al. “Reducing Uncertainty of High-Latitude Ecosystem Models through Identification of Key Parameters”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 18, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace637.
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2022

  • Thoman, Richard L., et al. “The Arctic”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 103, no. 8, 2022, pp. S257-S306, https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-22-0082.1.
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