Emerging priorities in terrestrial herbivory research in the Arctic
Research on Arctic herbivory has a long tradition, but recent literature syntheses have highlighted important knowledge gaps. Given the rapid ...
The identity of the herbivore community shapes vegetation in Arctic tundra — but isolating the effects of herbivore diversity remains challenging
Arctic ecosystems are strongly influenced by herbivores, yet the role of herbivore diversity in shaping ecosystem structure and functioning has ...
Growth rings show limited evidence for ungulates’ potential to suppress shrubs across the Arctic
Herbivores may counteract climate warming impacts on tundra by reducing plant growth. However, the strength of this effect may depend ...
A protocol for conducting a systematic review on the effects of herbivore diversity on tundra ecosystems
How do the effects of different herbivores combine to affect tundra ecosystem? This is the question we want to address ...
Will borealization of Arctic tundra herbivore communities be driven by climate warming or vegetation change?
Arctic ecosystems are changing fast, and these changes involve both plant and herbivore communities. Poleward shifts of species distributions, termed ...
Systematic map of herbivore studies in the Arctic
Herbivores modify arctic vegetation and can counteract some of the climate-change driven increases in shrub cover and treeline advance induced ...
Measuring herbivory across the tundra from plots to landscapes
Ecological monitoring requires sustained, coordinated efforts. We need to standardize what and how we measure so that data are comparable ...
Stomping in silence: Conceptualizing trampling effects on soils in polar tundra
Across the world, soils are impacted by disturbances caused by trampling of large animals and us, humans, as well as ...
Hiding in the background: community-level patterns in invertebrate herbivory across the tundra biome
In a paper recently published in Polar Biology, Sarah Rheubottom and collaborators investigate patterns of invertebrate herbivory across the tundra ...
Trophic interactions and abiotic factors drive functional and phylogenetic structure of vertebrate herbivore communities across the Arctic tundra biome
It is important to understand how biotic communities are organized, because that will determine how they respond to environmental changes ...