• Bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions 

      Maitner, Brian S.; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Telford, Richard James; Strydom, Tanya; Chacon, Julia; Lamanna, Christine; Sloat, Lindsey L.; Kerkhoff, Andrew J.; Messier, Julie; Rasmussen, Nick; Pomati, Francesco; Merz, Ewa; Vandvik, Vigdis; Enquist, Brian J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      1. Estimating phenotypic distributions of populations and communities is central to many questions in ecology and evolution. These distributions can be characterized by their moments (mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis) ...
    • Consistent trait-environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities 

      Kemppinen, Julia; Niittynen, Pekka; le Roux, Peter C.; Momberg, Mia; Happonen, Konsta; Aalto, Juha; Rautakoski, Helena; Enquist, Brian J.; Vandvik, Vigdis; Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Maitner, Brian S.; Luoto, Miska (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      A fundamental assumption in trait-based ecology is that relationships between traits and environmental conditions are globally consistent. We use field-quantified microclimate and soil data to explore if trait–environment ...
    • From a crisis to an opportunity: Eight insights for doing science in the COVID‐19 era and beyond 

      Chacón-Labella, Julia; Boakye, Mickey; Enquist, Brian J.; Farfan-Rios, William; Gya, Ragnhild; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Middleton, Sara L.; von Oppen, Jonathan; Pastor-Ploskonka, Samuel; Strydom, Tanya; Vandvik, Vigdis; Geange, Sonya Rita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The COVID-19 crisis has forced researchers in Ecology to change the way we work almost overnight. Nonetheless, the pandemic has provided us with several novel components for a new way of conducting science. In this perspective ...
    • Globally important plant functional traits for coping with climate change 

      Kühn, Nicola; Tovar, Carolina; Carretero, Julia; Vandvik, Vigdis; Enquist, Brian J.; Willis, Katherine Jane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The last decade has seen a proliferation of studies that use plant functional traits to assess how plants respond to climate change. However, it remains unclear whether there is a global set of traits that can predict ...
    • 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 (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 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 ...
    • Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data 

      Thomson, Eleanor R.; Spiegel, Marcus P.; Althuizen, Inge; Bass, Polly; Chen, Shuli; Chmurzynski, Adam; Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Henn, Jonathan J.; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.; Klanderud, Kari; Li, Yaoqi; Maitner, Brian S.; Michaletz, Sean T.; Niittynen, Pekka; Roos, Ruben Erik; Telford, Richard James; Enquist, Brian J.; Vandvik, Vigdis; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Malhi, Yadvinder (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, leading to rapid changes in species composition and plant functional trait variation. Landscape-level maps of vegetation composition and trait distributions ...
    • Next-generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning 

      Geange, Sonya Rita; von Oppen, Jonathan; Strydom, Tanya; Boakye, Mickey; Gauthier, Tasha-Leigh J.; Gya, Ragnhild; Halbritter Rechsteiner, Aud Helen; Jessup, Laura H.; Middleton, Sara L.; Navarro, Jocelyn; Peirfederici, Maria Elisa; Chacón-Labella, Julia; Cotner, Sehoya Harris; Farfan-Rios, William; Maitner, Brian S.; Michaletz, Sean T.; Telford, Richard; Enquist, Brian J.; Vandvik, Vigdis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      As Open Science practices become more commonplace, there is a need for the next generation of scientists to be well versed in these aspects of scientific research. Yet, many training opportunities for early career researchers ...
    • Plant traits and vegetation data from climate warming experiments along an 1100 m elevation gradient in Gongga Mountains, China 

      Vandvik, Vigdis; Halbritter, Aud H.; Yang, Yan; He, Hai; Zhang, Li; Brummer, Alexander B.; Klanderud, Kari; Maitner, Brian S.; Michaletz, Sean T.; Sun, Xiangyang; Telford, Richard J.; Wang, Genxu; Althuizen, Inge H.J.; Henn, Jonathan J.; Erazo Garcia, William Fernando; Gya, Ragnhild; Jaroszynska, Francesca; Joyce, Blake L.; Lehman, Rebecca; Moerland, Michelangelo Sergio; Nesheim-Hauge, Elisabeth; Nordås, Linda Hovde; Peng, Ahui; Ponsac, Claire; Seltzer, Lorah; Steyn, Christien; Sullivan, Megan K.; Tjendra, Jesslyn; Xiao, Yao; Zhao, Xiaoxiang; Enquist, Brian J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Functional trait data enhance climate change research by linking climate change, biodiversity response, and ecosystem functioning, and by enabling comparison between systems sharing few taxa. Across four sites along a ...