The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

M Migliavacca, T Musavi, MD Mahecha, JA Nelson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

The contribution of understorey vegetation to ecosystem evapotranspiration in boreal and temperate forests: a literature review and analysis

P Balandier, R Gobin, B Prévosto… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
In the context of increasing heat periods and recurrence of droughts, and thus higher soil
water depletion, we explored and quantified the role of understorey vegetation in ecosystem …

Confounding effects of snow cover on remotely sensed vegetation indices of evergreen and deciduous trees: An experimental study

R Wang, KR Springer, JA Gamon - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Located at northern latitudes and subject to large seasonal temperature fluctuations, boreal
forests are sensitive to the changing climate, with evidence for both increasing and …

[HTML][HTML] Evapotranspiration and energy partitioning across a forest-shrub vegetation gradient in a subarctic, alpine catchment

EM Nicholls, SK Carey - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
As a result of altitude and latitude amplified climate change, widespread changes in
vegetation composition, density and distribution have been observed across northern …

Snow-corrected vegetation indices for improved gross primary productivity assessment in North American evergreen forests

R Wang, DR Bowling, JA Gamon, KR Smith… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
North American evergreen forests cover large areas and influence the global carbon cycle.
Satellite remote sensing has been used to track the phenology of ecosystem photosynthesis …

Increased high‐latitude photosynthetic carbon gain offset by respiration carbon loss during an anomalous warm winter to spring transition

Z Liu, JS Kimball, NC Parazoo… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic and boreal ecosystems play an important role in the global carbon (C) budget, and
whether they act as a future net C sink or source depends on climate and environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Forest floor fluxes drive differences in the carbon balance of contrasting boreal forest stands

J Chi, P Zhao, A Klosterhalfen, G Jocher, N Kljun… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The forest floor provides an important interface of soil-atmosphere CO 2 exchanges but their
controls and contributions to the ecosystem-scale carbon budget are uncertain due to …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-and intra-annual dynamics of photosynthesis differ between forest floor vegetation and tree canopy in a subarctic Scots pine stand

L Kulmala, J Pumpanen, P Kolari, S Dengel… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2019 - Elsevier
We studied the inter-and intra-annual dynamics of the photosynthesis of forest floor
vegetation and tree canopy in a subarctic Scots pine stand at the northern timberline in …

A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC)

B Qu, A Roy, JR Melton, TA Black… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change is rapidly altering composition, structure, and functioning of the boreal
biome, across North America often broadly categorized into ecoregions. The resulting …

Latitudinal gradient of spruce forest understory and tundra phenology in Alaska as observed from satellite and ground-based data

H Kobayashi, AP Yunus, S Nagai, K Sugiura… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The latitudinal gradient of the start of the growing season (SOS) and the end of the growing
season (EOS) were quantified in Alaska (61° N to 71° N) using satellite-based and ground …