ArticlePLoS biology2019
An ecosystem-wide reproductive failure with more snow in the Arctic.
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- Snowmelt and laying date impact the parental care strategy of a high-Arctic shorebird.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Different currencies for calculating resource phenology result in opposite inferences about trophic mismatches.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Stable pollination service in a generalist high Arctic community despite the warming climate.Ecological monographs · 2023Article
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- Life-history attributes of Arctic-breeding birds drive uneven responses to environmental variability across different phases of the reproductive cycle.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Hatching phenology is lagging behind an advancing snowmelt pattern in a high-alpine bird.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Long-term patterns in winter habitat selection, breeding and predation in a density-fluctuating, high Arctic lemming population.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Best environmental predictors of breeding phenology differ with elevation in a common woodland bird species.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Earlier springs enable high-Arctic wolf spiders to produce a second clutch.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
2018: Arctic researchers have just witnessed another extreme summer-but in a new sense of the word. Although public interest has long been focused on general warming trends and trends towards a lower sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, this summer saw the realization of another predicted trend: that of increasing precipitation during the winter months and of increased year-to-year variability. In a well-studied ecosystem in Northeast Greenland, this resulted in the most complete reproductive failure encountered in the terrestrial ecosystem during more than two decades of monitoring: only a few animals and plants were able to reproduce because of abundant and late melting snow. These observations, we suggest, should open our eyes to potentially drastic consequences of predicted changes in both the mean and the variability of arctic climate.
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