Rapid Arctic Transitions due to Infrastructure and Climate (RATIC). An initiative of the of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).

1. 2024

   1. Tassone, M.S., Epstein, H.E., Armstrong, A.H., Bhatt, U.S., Frost, G.V., Heim, B., Raynolds, M.K., and Walker, D.A 2024. Drivers of heterogeneity in tundra vegetation productivity on the Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. Environmental Research: Ecology, 3:015003. doi:10.1088/2752-664X/ad220f

1. 2019

   1. Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Balser, A., Bay, C., Campbell, M., Cherosov, M.M., Daniëls, F.J.A., Eidesen, P.B., Ermokhina, K.A., Frost, G.V., et al. 2019. A raster version of the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM). Remote Sensing of Environment, 232:111297. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111297
   2. Walker, D.A., Epstein, H.E., Sibik, J., Bhatt, U., Romanovsky, V.E., Breen, A.L., et al. 2019. Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700-km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect. Applied Vegetation Science, 2019; 22:150-167. doi:1111/avsc.12401 (PDF)

1. 2018

   1. Frost, G.V., Epstein H.E., Walker, D.A., Matyshak G., & Ermokhina, K. 2018. Seasonal and Long-Term Changes to Active-Layer Temperatures after Tall Shrubland Expansion and Succession in Arctic Tundra. Ecosystems, 21:507-520. doi:10.1007/s10021-017-0165-5
   2. Walker, D.A., Daniëls, F.J.A., Matveyeva, N.V., Sibik, J., Walker, M.D., Breen, A.L., Druckenmiller, L.A., Raynolds, M.K. & (...) Wirth, L.M. 2018. Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Classification. Phytocoenologia, 48:181-201. doi:10.1127/phyto/2017/0192(Open Access) (PDF)
   3. Walker, D.A., Shur, Y., Kanevskiy, M., Raynolds, M., Kofinas, G., Romanovsky, V., et al. 2018. Cumulative effects of oilfield infrastructure and climate change in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska, illustrate the need for an international strategy to address rapid arctic transitions due to infrastructure and climate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, submitted.

1. 2017

   1. Bhatt, U.S., Walker, D.A., Raynolds, M.K., Bieniek, P.A., Epstein, H.E., Comiso, J.C., Pinzon, J.E., Tucker, C.J., Steele, M.A., Ermold, W. and Zhang, J. 2017. Changing seasonality of Pan-Arctic tundra vegetation in relation to climatic variables. Environmental Research Letters, 12:055003. doi:1088/1748-9326/aa6b0b
   2. Bratsch, S.N., Epstein, H.E., Buchhorn, M., Walker, D.A. and Landes, H.A. 2017. Relationships between hyperspectral data and components of vegetation biomass in Low Arctic tundra communities at Ivotuk, Alaska. Environmental Research Letters, 12:025003.
   3. Epstein, H.E., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Forbes, B.C., Horstkotte, T., Macias-Fauria, M., Martin, A., Phoenix, G., Bjerke, J., Tømmervik, Hl, Fauchald, P., Vickers, H., Myneni, R. and Dickerson, C. 2017. Tundra Greenness. In: Arctic Report Card 2017. (Website)
   4. Frost, G.V., Epstein, H.E., Walker, D.A., Matyshak, G. and Ermokhina, K. 2017. Seasonal and long-term changes to active-layer temperatures after tall shrubland expansion and succession in arctic tundra. Ecosystems, 16, 1296. doi:1007/s10021-017-0165-5
   5. Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., Jorgensen, T., Brown, D.R.N., Moskalenko, N., Brown, J., Walker, D.A., Raynolds, M.K. & Buchhorn, M. 2017. Degradation and stabilization of ice wedges: Implications for assessing risk of thermokarst in northern Alaska. Geomorphology, 297:20-42. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.09.001
   6. Mård, J., Box, J.E., Brown, R., Mack, M., Mernild, S.H., Walker, D. and Walsh, J. 2017. Cross-cutting scientific issues. In: AMAP (Ed.), Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2017. Oslo, Norway: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), pp. 231-256. (Website)
   7. Romanovsky, V., Isaksen, K., Drozdov, D., Anisimov, O., Instanes, A., Leibman, M., et al. 2017. Changing permafrost and its impacts. In: AMAP (Ed.), Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2018. Oslo, Norway: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), pp. 65-102. (Website)
   8. Romanovsky, V.E., Smith, S.L., Shiklomanov, N.I., Streletskiy, D.A., Isaksen, K., Kholodov, A.L., Christiansen, H.H., Drozdov, D.S., Malkova, G.V. and Marchenko, S.S. 2017. [The Arctic] Terrestrial Permafrost [in State of the Climate in 2016]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98:S147-S151. (Website)
   9. Yu, Q., Epstein, H., Engstrom, R. and Walker, D. 2017. Circumpolar arctic tundra biomass and productivity dynamics in response to projected climate change and herbivory. Global Change Biology, 23:3895–3907. doi:1111/gcb.13632

1. 2016

   1. Bratsch, S.N., Epstein, H.E., Buchhorn, M. and Walker, D.A. 2016. Differentiating among Four Arctic Tundra Plant Communities at Ivotuk, Alaska Using Field Spectroscopy. Remote Sensing, 8(1):51. doi:10.3390/rs8010051
   2. Frost, G.V., Epstein, H.E., Walker, D.A. and Matyshak, G. 2016. Changes to active-layer temperature after tall shrub expansion in arctic tundra. Ecosystems, in prep.
   3. Grosse, G., Goetz, S., McGuire, A., Romanovsky, V. and Schuur, E. 2016. Review and synthesis: Changing permafrost in a warming world and feedbacks to the earth system. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4):040201. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/040201
   4. Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., Strauss, J., Jorgenson, M.T., Fortier, D., Stephani, E. and Vasiliev, A. 2016. Patterns and rates of riverbank erosion involving ice-rich permafrost (yedoma) in northern Alaska. Geomorphology, 253:370-384. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.10.023
   5. Khomutov, A., Dvornikov, Y., Gubarkov, A. and Mullanurov, D. 2016. Activation of thermal denudation under recent climatic fluctuations, Central Yamal, Russia. Geophysical Research Abstracts. EGU General Assembly 2016.
   6. Leibman, M., Kizyakov, A., Khomutov, A., Dvornikov Y., Streletskaya I. and Gubarkov, A. 2016. Gas-emission crater in Central Yamal, West Siberia, Russia, a new permafrost feature. Geophysical Research Abstracts. EGU General Assembly 2016.
   7. Liljedahl A.K., Boike, J., Daanen, R.P., Fedorov, A.N., Frost, G.V., Grosse, G., Hinzman, L.D., Iijma, Y., Jorgenson, J.C., Matveyeva, N., Necsoiu, M., Raynolds, M.K., Romanovsky, V.E., Jörg Schulla, Tape, K.D., Walker, D.A., Wilson, C.J., Yabuki, H. and Zona, D. 2016. Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology. Nature Geoscience, 9:312-318. doi:10.1038/NGEO2674
   8. Raynolds, M.K. and Walker, D.A. 2016. Increased wetness confounds Landsat-derived NDVI trends in the central Alaska North Slope region, 1985–2011. Environmental Research Letters, 11:085004. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/085004

1. 2015

   1. Bieniek, P.A, Bhatt, U.S., Walker, D.A., Raynolds, M.K., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Pinzon, J.E., Tucker, C.J., Thoman, R.L. & (...) Ermold, W. 2015. Climate drivers linked to changing seasonality of Alaska coastal tundra vegetation productivity. Earth Interactions, 19:1-29. doi:1175/EI-D-15-0013.1
   2. De Cáceres, M., Chytrý, M., Agrillo, E., Attorre, F., Botta-Dukát, Z., Capelo, J., Czúcz, B., Dengler, J., Ewald, J., Faber-Langendoen, D., Feoli, E., Franklin, S.B., Gavilán, R., Gillet, F., Jansen, F., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Krestov, P., Landucci, F., Lengyel, A., Loidi, J., Mucina, L., Peet, R.K., Roberts, D.W., Role?ek, J., Schaminée, J.H.J., Schmidtlein, S., Theurillat, J.-P., Tichý, L., Walker, D.A., Wildi, O., Willner, W., Wiser, S.K. 2015. A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification. Applied Vegetation Science, 18:543-560. doi:10.1111/avsc.12179
   3. Dvornikov, Yu. A., Khomutov, A. V., Mullanurov, D. R., Ermokhina, K. A., Gubarkov, A. A., Leibman, M. O. 2015. GIS- and field data based modeling of snow water equivalent in shrub tundra. Fennia, 193:2.
   4. Epstein, H.E., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Bieniek, P.A., Tucker, C.J., Pinzon, J., Myers-Smith, I.H., Forbes, B.C., Macias-Fauria, M., Boelman, N.T. and Sweet, S.K. 2015. Tundra Greenness. In: Arctic Report Card 2015. (Website)
   5. Epstein, H.E., Frost, G.V., Walker, D.A. and R. Kwok, R. 2015. [The Arctic] Declassified high-resolution visible imagery for observing the Arctic [in "State of the Climate in 2014"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96:S142-S143. doi:10.1175/2013BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
   6. Jorgenson, T., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Shur, Y., Moskalenko, N.G., Brown, D.R.N., Wickland, K., Striegl, R. and Koch, J. 2015. Ground ice dynamics and ecological feedbacks control ice-wedge degradation and stabilization. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 120(11):2280-2297. doi:1002/2015JF003602
   7. Khitun, O., Ermokhina, K., Czernyadjeva, I., Leibman, M.O. and Khomutov, A. 2015. Floristic complexes on landslides of different age in Central Yamal, West Siberian Low Arctic, Russia. Fennia, 193:31–52.
   8. Koven, C. D., Schuur, E. A. G., Schädel, C., Bohn, T., Burke, E.J., Chen, G., Chen, X., Ciais, P., Grosse, G., Harden, J. W., Hayes, D. J., Hugelius, G., Jafarov, E. E., Krinner, G., Kuhry, P., Lawrence, D. M., MacDougall, A. H., Marchenko, S. S., McGuire, A. D., Natali, S. M., Nicolsky, D. J., Olefeldt, D., Peng, S., Romanovsky, V. E., Schaefer, K. M., Strauss, J., Treat, C. and Turetsky, M. 2015. A simplified, data-constrained approach to estimate the permafrost carbon-climate feedback. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 373:20140423. doi:10.1098/rsta.2014.0423
   9. Matyshak, G.V., Goncharova, O.Y., Walker, D.A., Epstein, H.E., Moskalenko, N.G., and Shur, Y. 2015. Contrasting soil thermal regimes in the forest-tundra transition near Nadym, West Siberia, Russia. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 10.1002/ppp.1882.
   10. Muskett, R., Romanovsky, V., Cable, W. and Kholodov, A. 2015. Active-layer soil moisture content regional variations in Alaska and Russia by ground-based and satellite-based methods, 2002 through 2014. International Journal of Geosciences, 6(1):12-41. doi:10.4236/ijg.2015.61002
   11. Myers-Smith, I.H., Elmendorf, S., Beck, P., Wilmking, M., Hallinger, M., Blok, D., Tape, K.D., Rayback, S.A., Macias-Fauria, M., Forbes, B.C., Speed, J.D.M., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Rixen, C., Levesque, E., Schmidt, N.M., Baittinger, C., Trant, A., Dawes, M., Lantz, T., Weijers, S., Jørgensen, R.H., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Naito, A., Ravolainen, V., Schaepman-Strub, G., Wheeler, J., Wipf, S., Hik, D., Guay, K and Vellend, M. 2015. Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome. Nature Climate Change, 5:887–891. doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE2697
   12. Noetzli, J., Christiansen, H. H., Romanovsky, V.E., Shiklomanov, N.I., Smith, S.L., Vieira, G. and Zhao, L. 2015. [Global Climate] Cryosphere, permafrost thermal state [in “State of the Climate in 2014”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96(7):S17-S18. doi:10.1175/2015BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
   13. Romanovsky, V. E., Smith, S.L., Christiansen, H.H., Shiklomanov, N.I., Streletskiy, D.A., Drozdov, D.S., Malkova, G.V., Oberman, N.G., Kholodov, A. L. and Marchenko, S.S. 2015. [The Arctic] Terrestrial Permafrost [in "State of the Climate in 2014"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96(7):S139-S141. doi:10.1175/2015BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
   14. Yu, Q., Epstein, H. E., Engstrom, R., Shiklomanov, N. and Strelestskiy, D. 2015. Land cover and land use changes in the oil and gas regions of Northwestern Siberia under changing climatic conditions. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12):124020. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124020

1. 2014

   1. Bhatt, U.S., Walker, D.A., Walsh, J.E., Carmack, E.C., Frey, K.E., Meier, W.N., Moore, S.E., Parmentier, F.W., Post, E., Romanovsky, V.E. and Simpson, W.R. 2014. Implications of Arctic Sea Ice Decline for the Earth System. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 39:57-89. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-122012-094357 (Supplemental Materials) (PDF)
   2. Epstein, H.E., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Bieniek, P.A., Tucker C.J., Pinzon, J., Zeng, H., Jia, G.J., Guay, K.C. and Goetz, S.J. 2014. Tundra Greenness. In: Arctic Report Card 2014. (Website)
   3. Frost, G. V., Epstein, H. E. and Walker, D. A. 2014. Regional and landscape-scale variability of Landsat-observed vegetation dynamics in northwest Siberian tundra. Environmental Research Letters, 9(2) 025004. doi:1088/1748-9326/9/2/025004
   4. Raynolds, M. K., Walker, D. A., Ambrosius, K. J., Brown, J., Everett, K. R., Kanevskiy, M., et al. 2014. Cumulative geoecological effects of 62 years of infrastructure and climate change in ice-rich permafrost landscapes, Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska. Global Change Biology, 20(4):1211-1224. doi:10.1111/gcb.12500
   5. Timling, I., Walker, D. A., Nusbaum, C., Lennon, N. J. and Taylor, D. L. 2014. Rich and cold: Diversity, distribution and drivers of fungal communities in patterned-ground ecosystems of the North American Arctic. Molecular Ecology, 23: 3258–3272. doi:1111/mec.12743

1. 2013

   1. Bhatt, U., Walker, D., Raynolds, M., Bieniek, P., Epstein, H., Comiso, J., et al. 2013. Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra. Remote Sensing, 5(9):4229-4254. doi:10.3390/rs5094229
   2. Epstein, H.E., Myers-Smith, I., & Walker, D.A. 2013. Recent dynamics of arctic and sub-arctic vegetation. Environmental Research Letters, 8(1), 015040. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015040
   3. Frost, G. V., Epstein, H. E., Walker, D. A., Matyshak, G., & Ermokhina, K. 2013. Patterned-ground facilitates shrub expansion in Low Arctic tundra. Environmental Research Letters, 8(1), 015035. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015035
   4. Parmentier, F., Christensen, T.R., Sørensen, L.L., Rysgaard, S., McGuire, D., Miller, P.A. and Walker, D.A. 2013. The impact of lower sea-ice extent on Arctic greenhouse-gas exchange. Nature Climate Change, 3(3):195-202. doi:10.1038/nclimate1784

1. 2012

   1. Kumpula, T., Forbes, B.C., Stammler, F., Meschtyb, N. 2012. Dynamics of a Coupled System: Multi-Resolution Remote Sensing in Assessing Social-Ecological Responses during 25 Years of Gas Field Development in Arctic Russia. Remote Sensing: Human-Induced Global Change, 4(4):1046-1068. doi:10.3390/rs4041046 (PDF)
   2. Macias-Fauria, M., Forbes, B.C., Zetterberg, P. and Kumpula, T. 2012. Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential for novel ecosystems. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/nclimate1558
   3. Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Epstein, H.E., Pinzon, J.E., Tucker, C.J. 2012. A new estimate of tundra-biome phytomass from trans-Arctic field data and AVHRR NDVI. Remote Sensing Letters, 3:403-411. doi:10.1080/01431161.2011.609188 (PDF)
   4. Walker, D.A., Bhatt, U.S., Epstein, H.E., Bieniek, P.A., Comiso, J.C., Frost, G.V., Pinzon, J., Raynolds, M.K., Tucker, C.J. 2012. [The Arctic] Changing Arctic tundra vegetation biomass and greenness [in "State of the Climate in 2011"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(7):S138-139. doi:10.1175/2012BAMSStateoftheClimate.1 (PDF)

1. 2011

   1. Goetz, S.J., Epstein, H.E., Alcaraz, J.D., Beck, P.S.A., Bhatt, U.S., Bunn, A., Comiso, J.C., Jia, G.J., Kaplan, J.O., Lilschke, H., Lloyd, A., Walker, D.A., Yu, Q. 2011. Recent changes in Arctic vegetation: Satellite observations and simulation model predictions. In: G. Gutman and A. Reissell (eds.), Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate, pp. 9-36. Springer: New York, NY. (PDF)
   2. Kumpula, T., Pajunen, A., Kaarlejärvi, E., Forbes, B.C., Stammler, F. 2011. Land use and land cover change in Arctic Russia: Ecological and social implications of industrial development. Global Environ. Change. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.12.010 (PDF)
   3. Leibman, M.O., Moskalenko, N.G., Orekov, P.T., Khomutov, A.V., Walker, D.A., Epstein, H.E. 2011. Interaction of cryogenic and biotic components in cryolithozone of the West Siberia along the Yamal transect. In: Polar cryosphere and hydrosphere of the Land.
   4. Walker, D.A., Bhatt, U.S., Callaghan, T.V., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Forbes, B.C., Gill, M., Gould, W.A., Henry, G.H.R., Jia, G.J., Kokelj, S.V., Lantz, T.C., Oberbauer, S.F., Pinzon, J.E., Raynolds, M.K., Shaver, G.R., Tucker, C.J., Tweedie, C.E., Webber, P.J. 2011. [The Arctic] Land: Vegetation [in "State of the Climate in 2010"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92:S150-S152. doi:10.1175/1520-0477-92.6.S1 (Website)
   5. Walker, D.A., Bhatt, U.S., Callaghan, T.V., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Forbes, B.C., Gill, M., Gould, W.A., Henry, G.H.R., Jia, G.J., Kokelj, S.V., Lantz, T.C., Oberbauer, S.F., Pinzon, J.E., Raynolds, M.K., Shaver, G.R., Tucker, C.J., Tweedie, C.E., Webber, P.J. 2011. Vegetation. In: J. Richter-Menge, M.O. Jeffries and J.E. Overland (eds.), Arctic Report Card 2011. NOAA Arctic Research Program. (Website) (PDF)
   6. Walker, D.A., Forbes, B.C., Leibman, M.O., Epstein, H.E., Bhatt, U.S., Comiso, J.C., Drozdov, D.S., Gubarkov, A.A., Jia, G.J., Karlejaärvi, E., Kaplan, J.O., Khumutov, V., Kofinas, G.P., Kumpula, T., Kuss, P., Moskalenko, N.G., Raynolds, M.K., Romanovsky, V.E., Stammler, F. and Yu, Q. 2011. Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. In: G. Gutman and A. Reissel (eds.), Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate, pp. 206-236. Springer: New York, NY. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_9 (PDF)
   7. Walker, D.A., Kuss, H.P., Epstein, H.E., Kade, A.N., Vonlanthen, C., Raynolds, M.K., Daniëls, F.J.A. 2011. Vegetation of zonal patterned-ground ecosystems along the North American Arctic Transect. Applied Vegetation Science, 14:440-463. (PDF)
   8. Yu, Q., Epstein, H.E., Walker, D.A., Frost, G.V., Forbes, B. 2011. Modeling dynamics of tundra plant communities on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia, in response to climate change and grazing pressure. Environmental Research Letters, 6(4). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045505 (PDF)

1. 2010

   1. Alcaraz, J.D., Cabello, J., Epstein, H.E., Jia, G.J. 2010. Trends in the surface vegetation dynamics of the tundra and taiga network of protected areas in Eurasia as observed by satellite sensors. (in prep).
   2. Bhatt, U.S., Walker, D.A., Raynolds, M.K., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Jia, G.J., Gens, R., Pinzon, J.E., Tucker, C.J., Tweedie, C.E., Webber, P.J. 2010. Circumpolar Arctic tundra vegetation change is linked to sea-ice decline. Earth Interactions, 14:(8):1-20. (PDF)
   3. Forbes, B.C., Fauria, M.M., Zetterberg, P. 2010. Russian Arctic warming and 'greening' are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows. Global Change Biology, 1542-1554. (PDF)
   4. Kumpula, T., Forbes, B.C., Stammler, F. 2010. Remote sensing and local knowledge of hydrocarbon exploitation: the case of Bovanenkovo, Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia, Russia. Arctic, 63:(2):165-178.
   5. Walker, D.A., Bhatt, U.S., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Gould, W.A., Henry, G.H.R., Jia, G.J., Kokelj, S.V., Lantz, T.C., Mercado-Diaz, J.A., Pinzon, J.E., Raynolds, M.K., Shaver, G.R., Tucker, C.J., Tweedie, C.E., Webber, P.J. 2010. [The Arctic] Land: Vegetation [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91(7):S115-S116. doi:10.1175/BAMS-91-7-StateoftheClimate (Website) (PDF)

1. 2009

   1. Forbes, B.C., Stammler, F., Kumpula, T., Meschtyb, N., Pajunen, A., Kaarlejärvi, E. 2009. High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social-ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 106:(52):22041-22048. (PDF)
   2. Groisman, P.Y., Clark, E.A., Kattsov, V.M., Lettenmaier, D.P., Sokolik, I.N., Aizen, V.B., Cartus, O., Chen, J., Conard, S., Katzenberger, J., Krankina, O., Kukkonen, J., Machida, T., Maksyutov, S., Ojima, D., Qi, J., Romanovsky, V.E., Santoro, M., Schmullius, C.C., Shiklomanov, A.I., Shimoyama, K., Shugart, H.H., Shuman, J.K., Sofiev, M.A., Sukhinin, A.I., Vorosmarty, C., Walker, D.A., Wood, E.F. 2009. The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership: An example of Science Applied to Societal Needs. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90:671-688. doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2556.1 (PDF)
   3. Jia, G.J., Epstein, H.E., Walker, D.A. 2009. Vegetation greening in the Canadian Arctic related to decadal warming. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 11:2231-2238. doi:10.1039/B911677J (Purchase PDF)
   4. Ravilious, K. 2009. Siberia's Arctic landscape is getting greener. Environmental Research Web. (Environmental Research Web)
   5. Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A. 2009. Effects of deglaciation on circumpolar distribution of arctic vegetation. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 35:(2):118-129. (Permanent link) (PDF)
   6. Walker, D.A., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Jia, G.J. 2009. [The Arctic] Land: Vegetation [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(8):S104-S105. doi:10.1175/BAMS-90-8-StateoftheClimate (Website) (PDF)
   7. Walker, D.A., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Comiso, J.C., Epstein, H.E., Jia, G.J., Pinzon, J.E., Tucker, C.J. 2009. Vegetation. In: J. Richter-Menge, M.O. Jeffries and J.E. Overland (eds.), Arctic Report Card 2008. NOAA Arctic Research Program. (Website) (PDF)
   8. Walker, D.A., Leibman, M.O., Epstein, H.E., Forbes, B.C., Bhatt, U.S., Raynolds, M.K., Comiso, J., Gubarkov, A.A., Khomutov, A.V., Jia, G.J., Kaarlejärvi, E., Kaplan, J.O., Kumpula, T., Kuss, H.P., Matyshak, G., Moskalenko, N.G., Orechov, P., Romanovsky, V.E., Ukraientseva, N.K., Yu, Q. 2009. Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index. Environmental Research Letters, 4:16. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045004 (PDF)
   9. Yu, Q., Epstein, H.E., Walker, D.A. 2009. Simulating soil organic nitrogen and grazing effects on arctic vegetation dynamics on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Environmental Research Letters, 4(4). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045027 (PDF)

1. 2008

   1. Comiso, J.C., Nishio, F. 2008. Trends in the sea ice cover using enhanced and compatible AMSR-E,SSM/I, and SMMR data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113:C02S07. doi:10.1029/2007JC004257 (PDF)
   2. Comiso, J.C., Parkinson, C.L., Gersten, R., Stock, L. 2008. Accelerated decline in the Arctic sea ice cover. Geophysical Research Letters, 35:L01703. doi:10.1029/2007GL031972 (Abstract) (PDF)
   3. Cook, B., Bonan, G., Levis, S., Epstein, H. 2008. Rapid vegetation responses and feedbacks amplify climate model response to snow cover changes. Climate Dynamics, 30(4):391-406. doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0296-z (PDF)
   4. Cook, B.I., Bonan, G.B., Levis, S., Epstein, H.E. 2008. The thermoinsulation effect of snow cover within a climate model. Climate Dynamics, 31(1):107-124. doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0341-y (PDF)
   5. Epstein, H.E., Walker, D.A., Raynolds, M.K., Jia, G.J., Kelley, A.M. 2008. Phytomass patterns across a temperature gradient of the North American arctic tundra. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 113:1-11. (Permanent link) (PDF)
   6. Raynolds, M.K., Comiso, J.C., Walker, D.A., Verbyla, D. 2008. Relationship between satellite-derived land surface temperatures, arctic vegetation types, and NDVI. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(4):1884-1894. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.09.008 (PDF)
   7. Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Munger, C.A., Vonlanthen, C.M., Kade, A.N. 2008. A map analysis of patterned-ground along a North American Arctic Transect. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 113:1-18. doi:10.1029/2007JG000512 (Abstract) (PDF)
   8. Vonlanthen, C.M., Walker, D.A., Raynolds, M.K., Kade, A., Kuss, H.P., Daniëls, F.J.A., Matveyeva, N.V. 2008. Patterned-ground plant communities along a bioclimate gradient in the High Arctic, Canada. Phytocoenologia, 38:23-63. doi:10.1127/0340-269X/2008/0038-0023 (Abstract) (PDF)
   9. Walker, D.A., Epstein, H.E., Romanovsky, V.E., Ping, C.L., Michaelson, G.J., Daanen, R.P., Shur, Y., Peterson, R.A., Krantz, W.B., Raynolds, M.K., Gould, W.A., Gonzalez, G., Nicolsky, D.J., Vonlanthen, C.M., Kade, A.N., Kuss, P., Kelley, A.M., Munger, C.A., Tarnocai, C.T., Matveyeva, N.V., Daniëls, F.J.A. 2008. Arctic patterned-ground ecosystems: A synthesis of field studies and models along a North American Arctic Transect. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 113:G03S01. doi:10.1029/2007JG000504 (PDF)

1. 2007

   1. Epstein, H.E., Yu, Q., Kaplan, J.O., Lischke, H. 2007. Simulating future changes in arctic and subarctic vegetation. Computing in Science and Engineering, 9(4):12-23. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2007.84 (PDF)
   2. van Bogaert, R., Walker, D.A., Jia, G.J., Grau, O., Hallinger, M., De Dapper, M., Jonasson, C. and Callaghan, T.V. 2007. Recent changes in vegetation. In: J. Richter-Menge, M.O. Jeffries and J.E. Overland (eds.), Arctic Report Card 2007. NOAA Arctic Research Program. (Website) (PDF)

1. 2006

   1. Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Maier, H.A. 2006. NDVI patterns and phytomass distribution in the circumpolar Arctic. Remote Sensing of Environment, 102:271-281. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.02.016 (PDF)
   2. Richter-Menge, J., Overland, J., Proshutinsky, A., Romanovsky, V., Bengtsson, L., Brigham, L., Dyurgerov, M., Gascard, J.C., Gerland, S., Graversen, R., Hass, C., Karcher, M., Kuhry, P., Maslanik, J., Melling, H., Maslowski, W., Morison, J., Perovich, D., Przybylak, R., Rachold, V., Rigor, I., Shiklomanov, A., Stroeve, J., Walker, D., Walsh, J. 2006. State of the Arctic Report. NOAA/OAR/PMEL. Seattle, WA. NOAA OAR Special Report(2952). 36 . (State of the Arctic) (PDF)

1. 2005

   1. Raynolds, M.K., Walker, D.A., Maier, H.A. 2005. Plant community-level mapping of arctic Alaska based on the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map. Phytocoenologia, 35:821-848. doi:10.1127/0340-269X/2005/0035-0821 (Abstract) (PDF)

1. 2003

   1. Comiso, J.C. 2003. Warming trends in the Arctic from clear sky satellite observations. Journal of Climate, 16:3498-3510. (Permanent link) (PDF)
   2. Kaplan, J.O., Bigelow, N.H., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P., Bartlein, P.J., Christensen, T.R., Cramer, W., Matveyeva, N.V., McGuire, A.D., Murray, D.F., Razzhivin, V.Y., Smith, B., Walker, D.A., Anderson, P.M., Andreev, A.A., Brubaker, L.B., Edwards, M.E., Lozhkin, L.V. 2003. Climate change and Arctic ecosystems II: Modeling, paleodata-model comparisons, and future projections. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (D19). doi:10.1029/2002JD002559 (Abstract) (PDF)

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