Michael M. Loranty

TL;DR: The authors showed that climate change could lead to a major redistribution of vegetation across the Arctic, with important implications for biosphere-atmosphere interactions, as well as for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services.

TL;DR: In this paper, a consensus is emerging that the underlying causes and future dynamics of so-called Arctic greening and browning trends are more complex, variable and inherently scale-dependent than previously thought.

TL;DR: In this paper, the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth is described, and the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize regional in situ observations of CO2 flux from Arctic and boreal soils to assess current and future winter carbon losses from the northern permafrost domain.

TL;DR: This work compares satellite observations and coupled climate model representations of albedo and tree cover for the boreal and Arctic region to demonstrate a relationship between tree cover and snow-albedo feedback that may be used to accurately constrain high latitude alBedo feedbacks in coupled climate models under current and future vegetation distributions.