Publications

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Journal Papers

• • Phoenix, G.K., Khafsha, A.H., (2023). Untangling the influences of air quality and climate change on biodiversity in space and time. Global Change Biology 29, 5115-5116. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16858

  • Auffret, A.G., Vangansbeke, P., De Frenne, P., Auestad, I., Basto, S., Grandin, U., Jacquemyn, H., Jakobsson, A., Kalamees, R., Koch, M.A., Marrs, R., Marteinsdóttir, B., Wagner, M., Bekker, R.M., Bruun, H.H., Decocq, G., Hermy, M., Jankowska-Błaszczuk, M., Milberg, P., Måren, I.E., Pakeman, R.J., Phoenix, G.K., Thompson, K., Van Calster, H., Vandvik, V., Plue, J., (2023). More warm-adapted species in soil seed banks than in herb layer plant communities across Europe. Journal of Ecology , 111, 1009-1020.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14074

  • Bokhorst, S., Bjerke, J.W., Phoenix, G.K., Jaakola, L., Mæhre, H.K., Tømmervik, H., (2023). Sub-arctic mosses and lichens show idiosyncratic responses to combinations of winter heatwaves, freezing and nitrogen deposition. Physiologia Plantarum, 175, e13882. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13882

  • Rantanen, M., Kämäräinen, M., Niittynen, P., Phoenix, G.K., Lenoir, J., Maclean, I., Luoto, M., Aalto, J. (2023). Bioclimatic atlas of the terrestrial Arctic. Sci Data 10, 40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01959-w

  • Phoenix, G.K., Treharne, R., (2022) Arctic greening and browning: Challenges and a cascade of complexities. Global Change Biology 28, 3481–3483. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16118

  • Lembrechts, J.J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., [and many] Phoenix, G.K., [and many] Nijs, I., Lenoir, J., (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28, 3110–3144. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

  • Rixen, C., Høye, T.T., Macek, P., Aerts, R., Alatalo, J.M., Anderson, J.T., Arnold, P.A., Barrio, I.C., Bjerke, J.W., Björkman, M.P., Blok, D., Blume-Werry, G., Boike, J., Bokhorst, S., Carbognani, M., Christiansen, C.T., Convey, P., Cooper, E.J., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Coulson, S.J., Dorrepaal, E., Elberling, B., Elmendorf, S.C., Elphinstone, C., Forte, T.G.W., Frei, E.R., Geange, S.R., Gehrmann, F., Gibson, C., Grogan, P., Halbritter, A.H., Harte, J., Henry, G.H.R., Inouye, D.W., Irwin, R.E., Jespersen, G., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Jung, J.Y., Klinges, D.H., Kudo, G., Lämsä, J., Lee, H., Lembrechts, J.J., Lett, S., Lynn, J.S., Mann, H.M.R., Mastepanov, M., Morse, J., Myers-Smith, I.H., Olofsson, J., Paavola, R., Petraglia, A., Phoenix, G.K., Semenchuk, P., Siewert, M.B., Slatyer, R., Spasojevic, M.J., Suding, K., Sullivan, P., Thompson, K.L., Väisänen, M., Vandvik, V., Venn, S., Walz, J., Way, R., Welker, J.M., Wipf, S., Zong, S. (2022). Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems. Arctic Science 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0058

  • Callaghan TV, Cazzolla Gatti R, Phoenix G (2021) The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01607-w

  • Taylor CR, Janes-Bassett V, Phoenix GK, Keane B, Hartley IP, Davies JAC. (2021). Organic phosphorus cycling may control grassland responses to nitrogen deposition: a long-term field manipulation and modelling study. Biogeosciences 18, 4021–4037. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4021-2021

  • Williams M, Zhang Y, Estop-Aragonés C, Fisher JP, Xenakis G, Charman DJ, Hartley IP, Murton JB, Phoenix GK (2020) Boreal permafrost thaw amplified by fire disturbance and precipitation increases. Environ. Res. Lett. 15, 114050. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbeb8

  • Kropp, H., Loranty, M.M., Natali, S.M., Kholodov, A.L., Rocha, A.V., Myers-Smith, I., Abbot, B.W., Abermann, J., Blanc-Betes, E., Blok, D., Blume-Werry, G., Boike, J., Breen, A.L., Cahoon, S.M.P., Christiansen, C.T., Douglas, T.A., Epstein, H.E., Frost, G.V., Goeckede, M., Høye, T.T., Mamet, S.D., O’Donnell, J.A., Olefeldt, D., Phoenix, G.K., Salmon, V.G., Sannel, A.B.K., Smith, S.L., Sonnentag, O., Vaughn, L.S., Williams, M., Elberling, B., Gough, L., Hjort, J., Lafleur, P.M., Euskirchen, E.S., Heijmans, M.M., Humphreys, E.R., Iwata, H., Jones, B.M., Jorgenson, M.T., Grünberg, I., Kim, Y., Laundre, J., Mauritz, M., Michelsen, A., Schaepman-Strub, G., Tape, K.D., Ueyama, M., Lee, B.-Y., Langley, K., Lund, M., (2020). Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 015001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc994

  • Keane B, Hoosbeek MR, Taylor CR, Miglietta F, Phoenix GK, Hartley IP (2020). Soil C, N and P cycling enzyme responses to nutrient limitation under elevated CO2 Biogeochemistry. 151: 221–235 (2020) DOI: 10.1007/s10533-020-00723-1

  • Plue J, Calster HV, Auestad I, Basto S, Bekker RM, Bruun HH, Chevalier R, Decocq G, Grandin U, Hermy M, Jacquemyn H, Jakobsson A, Jankowska-Błaszczuk M, Kalamees R, Koch MA, Marrs RH, Marteinsdóttir B, Milberg P, Måren IE, Pakeman RJ, Phoenix GK, Thompson K, Vandvik V, Wagner M, Auffret AG (2020) Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography (2020) https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13201

  • Treharne R, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Phoenix GK (2020). Extreme event impacts on CO2 fluxes across a range of high latitude, shrub-dominated ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters 15: 104084 [https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abb0b1/meta]

  • Pascual D, Åkerman J, Becher M, Callaghan TV, Christensen TR, Dorrepaal E, Emanuelsson U, Giesler R, Hammarlund D, Hanna E, Hofgaard A, Jin H, Johansson C, Jonasson C, Klaminder J, Karlsson J, Lundin E, Michelsen A, Olefeldt D, Persson A, Phoenix GK, Rączkowska Z, Rinnan R, Ström L, Tang J, Varner RK, Wookey P, Johansson M (2020) The missing pieces for better future predictions in subarctic ecosystems: A Torneträsk case study. Ambio. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01381-1]

  • Treharne R, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Phoenix GK (2020) Development of new metrics to assess and quantify climatic drivers of extreme event driven Arctic browning. Remote Sensing of the Environment 243: Article number 111749 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111749]

  • Phoenix GK, Johnson DA, Muddimer SP, Leake JR, Cameron DD (2020) Niche differentiation and plasticity in soil phosphorus acquisition among co-occurring plants. Nature Plants 6:349-54 [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0624-4] [free share]

  • Myers-Smith IH, Kerby JT, Phoenix GK, Bjerke JW, Epstein HE, Assmann JJ, John C, Andreu-Hayles L, Angers-Blodin S, Beck PSA, Berner LT, Bhatt US, Bjorkman  AD, Blok D, Bryn A, Christiansen CT, Cornelissen JHC, Cunliffe AM, Elmendorf SC, Forbes BC, Goetz SJ, Hollister RD, de Jong R, Loranty MM, Macias-Fauria M, Maseyk K, Normand S, Olofsson J, Parker TC, Parmentier F-JW, Post E, Schaepman-Strub G, Stordal F, Sullivan PF, Thomas HJD, Tømmervik H, Treharne R, Tweedie TE, Walker DA, Wilmking M, Wipf S (2020) Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic. Nature Climate Change 10: 106–117 [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1] [free share]

  • Edmondson JL, Cunningham H, Densley Tingley DO, Dobson MC, Grafius DR, Leake JR, McHugh N, Nickles J, Phoenix GK, Ryan AJ, Stovin V, Taylor Buck N, Warren PH, Cameron DD (2020) Space to grow: understanding the hidden potential of urban horticulture. Nature Food 1: 155–159. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-020-0045-6]

  • Sabater AM, Ward HC, Hill TC, Gornall JL, Wade TJ, Evans JG, Prieto-Blanco A, Disney M, Phoenix GK, Williams M, Huntley B, Baxter R, Mencuccini M, Poyatos R. (2020) Transpiration from subarctic deciduous woodlands: environmental controls and contribution to ecosystem evapotranspiration. Ecohydrology 13, e2190 [https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2190]

  • Treharne R, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Stendardi L, Phoenix GK (2019) Arctic browning: impacts of extreme climatic events on dwarf shrub heathland ecosystem CO2 fluxes. Global Change Biology 25: 489-503 [https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14500]

  • Austen A, Lake JA, Walker H, Phoenix G, Cameron DD (2019) The regulation of plant secondary metabolism in response to abiotic stress: interactions between heat shock and elevated CO2.  Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 1463 [doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01463]

• Lewis E, Phoenix GK, Alexander P, David J, Cameron RWF (2019) Rewilding in the Garden: are garden hybrid plants (cultivars) less resilient to the effects of hydrological extremes than their parent species? A case study with Primula. Urban Ecosystems 22: 841–854

• Loranty MM, Abbott BW, Blok D, Douglas TA, Epstein HE, Forbes BC, Jones BM, Kholodov AL, Kropp H, Malhotra A, Mamet SD, Myers-Smith IH, Natali SM, O'Donnell JA, Phoenix GK, Rocha AV, Sonnentag O, Tape KD and Walker DA (2018). Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions. Biogeosciences 15: 5287–5313

  • Bokhorst S, Berg MP, Edvinsen GK, Ellers J, Heitman A, Jaakola L, Maehre HK, Phoenix GK, Tømmervik H, Bjerke JW (2018) Impact of multiple ecological stressors on a sub-arctic ecosystem: no interaction between extreme winter warming events, nitrogen addition and grazing. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9: 1787 [https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01787]

  • Phoenix GK (2018) News and Views: Arctic plants threatened by winter snow loss . Nature Climate Change  8: pages942–943  [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0327-2]

• Bjerke JW, Wierzbinski G, Tømmervik H, Phoenix GK, Bokhorst S (2018) Stress-induced secondary leaves of a boreal deciduous shrub (Vaccinium myrtillus) overwinter then regain activity the following growing season. Nordic Journal of Botany 36 (10): e01894. doi: 10.1111/njb.01894.

  • Estop-Aragonés C, Cooper MDA, Fisher JP, Thierry A, Garnett MH, Charman DJ, Murton JB, Phoenix GK, Treharne R, Sanderson NK, Burn CR, Kokelj SV, Wolfe SA, Lewkowicz AG, Williams M, Hartley IP (2018) Limited release of previously-frozen C and increased new peat formation after thaw in permafrost peatlands.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 118, 115-129

  • Cooper M, Estop-Aragones C, Fisher J, Thierry A, Garnett M, Charman D, Murton J, Phoenix G, Treharne R, Kokelj S, Wolfe S, Lewkowicz A, Williams M, Hartley I (2017)  Limited contribution of permafrost carbon to methane release from thawing peatlands. Nature Climate Change 7: 507-511

  • Davidson SJ, Santos MJ, Sloan VL, Reuss-Schmidt K, Phoenix GK, Oechel WC, Zona D (2017) Upscaling CH4 fluxes using high-resolution imagery in arctic tundra ecosystems. Remote Sensing 9, 1227.

• Koller EK, Phoenix GK (2017) Seasonal dynamics of soil and plant nutrients at three environmentally contrasting sites along a subarctic catchment sequence. Polar Biology 40: 1821-1834.

  • Bjerke JW, Treharne T, Vikhamar-Schuler D, Karlsen SR, Ravolainen V, Bokhorst S, Phoenix GK, Bochenek Z, Tømmervik H (2017) Understanding the drivers of extensive plant damage in boreal and Arctic ecosystems: insights from field surveys in the aftermath of damage. Science of the Total Environment. 599-600:1965-1976

  • Bjerke, JW, Bokhorst S, Callaghan TV, Phoenix GK (2017) Persistent reduction of segment growth and photosynthesis in a widespread and important sub-Arctic moss species after cessation of three years of experimental winter warming. Functional Ecology 31, 127-134

  • Phoenix GK, Bjerke JW (2016) Arctic Browning: extreme events and trends reversing arctic greening. Global Change Biology 22, 2960-296

  • Davidson SJ, Santos MJ, Sloan VL, Watts JD, Phoenix GK, Oechel WC, Zona D (2016) Mapping Arctic Tundra Vegetation Communities Using Field Spectroscopy and Multispectral Satellite Data in North Alaska, U.S.A. Remote Sensing 8: 978-978

  • Klodd AE, Nippert JB, Ratajczak Z, Waring H, Phoenix GK (2016). Tight coupling of leaf area index to canopy nitrogen and phosphorus across heterogeneous tallgrass prairie communities. Oecologia 182, 889–898

  • Davidson SJ, Sloan VL, Phoenix GK, Wagner R, Fisher JP, Oechel WC, Zona D (2016) Vegetation type dominates the spatial variability in CH4 emissions across multiple Arctic tundra landscapes. Ecosystems 19: 1116-1132

  • Fisher JP, Estop-Aragonés C, Thierry A, Charman DJ, Wolfe SA, Hartley IP, Murton JB, Williams M, Phoenix GK (2016) The influence of vegetation and soil characteristics on active-layer thickness of permafrost soils in boreal forest. Global Change Biology 22, 3127-3140

    • Bokhorst S, Phoenix GK, Berg MP, Callaghan TVC, Kirby-Lambert C, and Bjerke JW (2015). Climatic and biotic extreme events moderate long-term responses of above- and belowground sub-Arctic heathland communities to climate change.  Global Change Biology 21: 4063-4075 

  • Sloan VL, Fletcher BJ, Phoenix GK (2015) Contrasting synchrony in root and leaf phenology across multiple sub-Arctic plant communities. Journal of Ecology 104:239-248

  • Koller EK, Press MC, Callaghan TV, Phoenix GK (2015) Tight coupling between shoot level foliar N and P, leaf area, and shoot growth in arctic dwarf shrubs under simulated climate change.  Ecosystems 19: 326-338

  • Choudhary S, Blaud A, Osborn AM, Press MC, Phoenix GK (2016) Nitrogen accumulation and partitioning in High Arctic tundra ecosystem from extreme atmospheric N deposition events. Science of the Total Environment 554-555: 303-310

  • Blaud A, Lerch TZ, Phoenix GK, Osborn AM (2015) Arctic soil microbial diversity in a changing world. Research in Microbiology 166: 796–813

• Young TM, Cameron DD, Phoenix GK (2015) Increasing green roof plant drought tolerance through substrate modification and the use of water retention gels. Urban Water Journal 14: 551-560

  • Kikvidze Z, Brooker RW, Butterfield BJ, Callaway RM, Cavieres LA, Cook BJ, Lortie CJ, Michalet R, Pugnaire FI, Xiao S, Anthelme F, Björk RG, Cranston BH, Gavilán RG, Kanka R, Lingua E, Maalouf J-P, Mark A, Noroozi J, Parajuli R, Phoenix GK, Reid A, Ridenour W, Rixen C, Schöb C (2015) The effects of foundation species on community assembly: a global study on alpine cushion plant communities. Ecology 96: 2064-2069

  • Blaud A, Phoenix GK, Osborn AM (2015) Variation in bacterial, archaeal and fungal community structure and abundance in High Arctic tundra soil. Polar Biology 38: 1009-1024

  • Basto S, Thompson K, Phoenix G, Sloan V, Leake J, Rees M (2015) Long-term nitrogen deposition depletes grassland seed banks. Nature Communications 6:#6185, doi:10.1038/ncomms7185

  • Young TM, Cameron DD, Phoenix GK (2015) Using AMF inoculum to improve the nutritional status of Prunella vulgaris plants in green roof substrate during establishment. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 14: 959–967

  • Zona D, Lipson D, Richards JH, Phoenix GK, Liljedahl AK, Ueyama M, Sturtevant C, and Oechel WC (2014) Delayed responses of an Arctic ecosystem to an extreme summer: impacts on net ecosystem exchange and vegetation functioning.  Biogeosciences 11: 5877-588

  • Young T, Cameron DD, Edwards T, Sorrill J, Phoenix GK (2014) Importance of different components of green roof substrate on plant growth and physiological performance. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 13: 507-516

  • Field CD, Dise NB, Payne RJ, Britton AJ, Emmett BA, Helliwell RC, Hughes S, Jones LM, Leake JR, Leith I, Phoenix GK, Power S, Shepperd L, Southon G, Stevens C, Caporn SJM (2014) The Role of Nitrogen Deposition in Widespread Plant Community Change Across Semi-Natural Habitats.” Ecosystems 17: 864-877

• Cavieres L, Brooker R, Butterfield B, Cook B, Kikvidze Z, Lortie Chris, Michalet R, Pugnaire F, Schöb C, Xiao Sa, Anthelme F, Björk R, Dickinson K, Cranston B, Gavilán R, Gutiérrez-Girón A, Kanka R, Maalouf J-P, Mark A, Noroozi J, Parajuli R, Phoenix G, Reid A, Ridenour W, Rixen C, Wipf S, Zhao L, Escudero A, Zaitchik B, Aschehoug E, Lingua E, Callaway R (2014) Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity. Ecology Letters 17: 193-202

• Sloan VL, Fletcher BJ, Press MC, Williams M, Phoenix GK (2013) Leaf and fine root carbon stocks and turnover are coupled across multiple Arctic ecosystems. Global Change Biology 19: 3668–3676

• Street LE, Subke J-A, Sommerkorn M, Sloan V, Ducrotoy H, Phoenix GK, Williams M (2013) The role of mosses in carbon uptake and partitioning in arctic vegetation, New Phytologist 199: 163-175.

  • Butterfield BJ, Cavieres LA, Callaway RM, Cook BJ, Kikvidze Z, Lortie CJ, Michalet R, Pugnaire FI, Schöb C, Xiao S, Zaitchek B, Anthelme F, Björk RG, Dickinson K, Gavilán R, Kanka R, Maalouf J-P, Noroozi J, Parajuli R, Phoenix GK, Reid A, Ridenour W, Rixen C, Wipf S, Zhao L, Brooker RW (2013) Foundation species eliminate a phylogenetic diversity – productivity relationship across alpine plant communities globally. Ecology Letters 16: 478-486

• Callaghan TV, Jonasson C, Thierfelder T, Zhenlin Y, Hedenås H, Johansson M, Molau U, Van Bogaert R, Michelsen A, Olofsson J, Gwynn-Jones D, Bokhorst S, Phoenix G, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Christensen TR, Hanna H15, Koller EK, Sloan VL (2013) Ecosystem change and stability over multiple decades in the Swedish sub-Arctic: complex processes and multiple drivers.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 368: 20120488

• Bjerke JW, Bokhorst S, Callaghan TV, Zielke M, Phoenix GK (2013) Rapid photosynthetic recovery of snow-covered feather moss and Peltigera lichen during sub-Arctic midwinter warming. Plant Ecology and Diversity 6: 383–392

• Fisher JP, Phoenix GK*, Childs DZ, Press MC, Smith SW, Pilkington MG, Cameron DD* (2013) Parasitic plant litter input: A novel indirect mechanism influencing plant community structure. New Phytologist 198: 222-231 (*equal contribution)

• Preece C & Phoenix GK (2013) Impact of early and late winter icing events on sub-arctic dwarf shrubs. Plant Biology 16: 125-132

• Preece C & Phoenix GK (2013) Responses of sub-arctic dwarf shrubs to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide conditions. Environmental and Experimental Botany 85: 7-15

• Hartley IP, Garnett MH, Sommerkorn M, Hopkins DW, Fletcher BJ, Sloan VL, Phoenix GK & Wookey PA (2012). A potential loss of carbon associated with greater plant growth in the European Arctic. Nature Climate Change 2: 875–879

• Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Preece C, Phoenix GK (2012). Ecosystem responses to climate change: the importance of the cold season.  Ambio 41, Suppl. 3. 246-255.

  • Phoenix GK, Emmett BA, Britton AJ, Caporn SJM, Dise NB, Helliwell R, Jones MLM, Leake JR, Leith ID, Sheppard LJ, Sowerby A, Pilkington MG, Rowe EC, Ashmore MR, Power SA (2012). Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long-term field experiments. Global Change Biology 18: 1197-1215.

• Bokhorst S, Phoenix GK, Bjerke JW, Callaghan TV, Huyer-Brugman F, Berg MP (2012). Extreme winter warming events more negatively impact small rather than large soil fauna: shift in community composition explained by traits not taxa. Global Change Biology 18: 1152–1162

• Preece C, Callaghan TV, Phoenix GK (2012). Impacts of winter icing events on the growth, phenology and physiology of sub-arctic dwarf shrubs. Physiologia Plantarum 146: 460-472

• Bokhorst S, Tømmervik H, Callaghan TV, Phoenix GK, Bjerke JW (2012). Vegetation recovery following extreme winter warming events in the sub-Arctic estimated using NDVI from remote sensing and handheld passive proximal sensors. Environmental and Experimental Botany 81: 18-25.

• Fletcher BJ, Gornall JL, Poyatos R, Press MC, Stoy PC, Huntley B, Baxter R, Phoenix GK (2012). Photosynthesis and productivity in heterogeneous arctic tundra: consequences for ecosystem function of mixing vegetation types at stand edges. Journal of Ecology 100: 441-451.

• Bjerke JW, Bokhorst S, Zielke M, Callaghan TV, Bowles FW & Phoenix GK (2011). Contrasting sensitivity to extreme winter warming events of dominant sub-Arctic heathland bryophyte and lichen species. Journal of Ecology 99: 1481-1488.

• Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Street LE, Callaghan TV & Phoenix GK (2011). Impacts of multiple extreme winter warming events on sub-Arctic heathland: phenology, reproduction, growth, and CO2 flux responses. Global Change Biology 17: 2817–2830

• Dise NB & Phoenix GK (2011). Peatlands in a Changing World. New Phytologist 191: 309–311

• Callaghan TV, Johansson M, ...Phoenix GK..., et al. (2011) Multiple effects of changes in Arctic snow cover. Ambio 40: 32–45

• Payne RJ, Stevens CJ, Dise NB, Gowing DJ, Pilkington MG, Phoenix GK, Emmett BA &Ashmore MR (2011).  Impacts of atmospheric pollution on the plant communities of British acid grasslands. Environmental Pollution 159, 2602-2608

• Arróniz-Crespo M, Gwynn-Jones D, Callaghan TV, Núñez-Olivera E, Martínez-Abaigar J, Horton P & Phoenix GK (2011). Impacts of long-term enhanced UV-B radiation on bryophytes in two sub-Arctic heathlands of contrasting water availability.  Annals of Botany 108: 557-565

• O´Sullivan OS, Horswill P, Phoenix GK, Lee JA and Leake JR (2011). Recovery of soil nitrogen pools in species rich grasslands after 12 years of simulated pollutant nitrogen deposition: a 6 year experimental analysis. Global Change Biology 17: 2615–2628

• Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Davey MP, Taulavuori K, Taulavuori E, Laine K, Callaghan TV & Phoenix GK. (2010)  Impacts of extreme winter warming events on plant physiology in a sub-Arctic heath community. Physiologia Plantarum 140, 128–140

• Fletcher BJ, Press MC, Baxter R & Phoenix GK. (2010) Transition zones between vegetation patches in a heterogeneous Arctic landscape: how plant growth and photosynthesis change with abundance at small scales. Oecologia 163, 47–56

• Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Melillo J, Callaghan TV & Phoenix GK. (2010)  Impacts of extreme winter warming events on litter decomposition in a sub-Arctic heathland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 611-617

• Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Callaghan TV, Phoenix GK. (2009). Winter warming events damage sub-Arctic vegetation: consistent evidence from an experimental manipulation and a natural event. Journal of Ecology 97, 1408-1415 (featured in Nature’s science highlights)

• Arróniz-Crespo M, Leake JR, Horton P, Phoenix GK. (2008). Bryophyte physiological responses to, and recovery from, long-term nitrogen deposition and phosphorus fertilisation in acidic grassland.  New Phytologist 180, 864-874

• Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Bowles FW, Melillo JM, Callaghan TV, Phoenix GK. (2008). Impacts of extreme winter warming in the sub-Arctic: growing season responses of dwarf-shrub heathland. Global Change Biology 14, 2603-2612

• Phoenix GK, Johnson D, Grime JP, Booth RE (2008). Sustaining ecosystem services in ancient limestone grassland: importance of major component plants and community composition.  Journal of Ecology 96, 894-902

• Johnson D, Phoenix GK, Grime JP (2008).  Does plant species diversity regulate soil respiration in grasslands? Biology Letters 4, 345–348

• Horswill P, O’Sullivan O, Phoenix GK, Lee JA, Leake JR (2008). Base cation depletion, eutrophication and acidification of species-rich grasslands in response to long-term simulated nitrogen deposition. Environmental Pollution 155, 336-349

• Arróniz-Crespo M, Phoenix G, Núñez-Olivera E Martínez-Abaigar (2008) Age-specific physiological responses to UV radiation in the aquatic liverwort Jungermannia exsertifolia subsp. cordifolia. Cryptogamie, Bryologie 29, 115-126.

• Pilkington MG, Caporn SJM, Carroll JA, Cresswell N,  Phoenix GK, Lee JA, Emmett BA, Sparks T. (2007) Impacts of burning and increased nitrogen deposition on nitrogen pools and leaching in an upland moor. Journal of Ecology 95, 1195–1207.

• Phoenix GK. Hicks WK, Cinderby S, Kuylenstierna JCI, Stock W, Dentener FJ, Giller KE, Austin AT, Lefroy RDB, Gimeno BS, Ashmore MR &  Ineson P (2006). Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in World Biodiversity Hotspots:  the need for a greater global perspective in assessing N deposition impacts.  Global Change Biology 12, 470-476.

• Phoenix GK. & Press MC. (2005). Linking physiological traits to impacts on community structure and function: the role of root hemiparasitic Orobanchaceae (ex-Scrophulariaceae).  Journal of Ecology 93, 67-78.

• Press MC. & Phoenix GK. (2005) Tansley Review:  Impacts of parasitic plants on natural communities.  New Phytologist 166, 737-751.

• Phoenix GK. & Press MC. (2005).  Effects of climate change on root hemiparasitic plants. Folia Geobotanica 40, 205-216.

• Phoenix, G.K, Booth R.E, Leake, J.R, Read, D.J., Grime, J.P. & Lee, J.A. (2004)  Simulated pollutant nitrogen deposition increases P stress and enhances root-surface phosphatase activities of three plant functional types in a calcareous grassland.  New Phytologist 161, 279-289.

• Phoenix, G.K, Leake, J.R, Read, D.J., Grime, J.P. & Lee, J.A. (2004) Accumulation of pollutant nitrogen in calcareous and acidic grasslands: evidence from N flux and 15N tracer studies.  Water, Air and Soil Pollution 4, 159–167.

• Phoenix, G.K. & Lee, J.A. (2004) Predicting impacts of Arctic climate change: past lessons and future challenges.  Ecological Research 19, 65-74.

• Phoenix, G.K, Booth R.E, Leake, J.R, Read, D.J., Grime, J.P. & Lee, J.A. (2003)  Effects of enhanced nitrogen deposition and phosphorus limitation on nitrogen budgets of semi-natural grasslands.  Global Change Biology 9, 1309-1321.

• Semerdjieva, S.I., Sheffield, E., Phoenix, G.K., Gwynn-Jones, D., Callaghan, T.V. &.  Johnson, G.N (2003).  Contrasting strategies for UV-B screening in sub-Arctic dwarf shrubs.  Plant, Cell and Environment 26, 957-964.

• Phoenix, G.K., Gwynn-Jones, D., Lee, J.A. & Callaghan, T.V. (2003) Ecological importance of ambient solar ultraviolet radiation to a sub-Arctic heath community.  Plant Ecology 165, 263-273.

• Semerdjieva, S.I., Phoenix, G.K., Hares, D., Gwynn-Jones, D., Callaghan, T.V. & Sheffield E.  (2003) Surface morphology, leaf and cuticle thickness of four dwarf shrubs from a sub-Arctic heath following long-term exposure to enhanced levels of UV-B.  Physiologia Plantarum 117, 289-294.

• Phoenix, G.K., Gwynn-Jones, D., Callaghan, T.V., Sleep, D. & Lee, J.A. (2001)  Effects of global change on a sub-arctic heath: effects of enhanced UV-B radiation and increased summer precipitation.  Journal of Ecology 89, 256-267.  (John L Harper Prize, commended paper)

• Cornelissen, J.H.C., Callaghan, T.V. …Phoenix, G.K.,…et al. (2001) Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?.  Journal of Ecology 89, 984-994.

• Phoenix, G.K., Gwynn-Jones, D., Lee, J.A. & Callaghan, T.V. (2000) The impacts of UV-B radiation on the regeneration of a sub-arctic heath community.  Plant Ecology 146, 67-75.

Refereed Expert Reports and Syntheses

Frost, G.V., M.J. Macander, U.S. Bhatt, L.T. Berner, J.W. Bjerke, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes, M.J. Lara, R.Í. Magnússon, P.M Montesano, G.K. Phoenix, S.P. Serbin, H. Tømmerik, C. Waigl, D.A. Walker, and D. Yang. (2023). Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2023, R.L. Thoman, T.A. Moon, and M.L. Druckenmiller (eds.). https://doi.org/10.25923/s86a-jn24

Frost, G. V., M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. J. Lara, R. Í. Magnússon, G. K. Phoenix, S. P. Serbin, H. Tømmervik, O. Tutubalina, D. A. Walker, and D. Yang (2023). Tundra greenness [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104:S305–S308. https://doi.org/10.1175/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0079.1.

Frost, G.V., M.J. Macander, U.S. Bhatt, L.T. Berner, J.W. Bjerke, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes, S.J. Goetz, M.J. Lara, G.K. Phoenix, S.P. Serbin, H. Tømmerik, D.A. Walker, and D. Yang (2022). Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2022. M.L. Druckenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon (eds.). https://doi.org/10.25923/g8w3-6v31.

Frost GV, Macander MJ, Bhatt US, Berner LT, Bjerke JW, Epstein HE, Forbes BC, Goetz SJ, M. Heijmans MPD, Lara MJ, Magnússon RÍ, Park T, Phoenix GK, Pinzon JE, Serbin SP, Tømmervik H, Tucker CJ, Walker DA, and Yang D. 2022. Tundra greenness in: State of the Climate in 2021”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103:S291–S293. DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0082.1.

Frost GV, Macander MJ, Bhatt US, Berner LT, Bjerke JW, Epstein HE, Forbes BC ,Goetz SJ, Lara MJ, Park T, Phoenix GK, Serbin P, Tømmervik H, Walker DA, and Yang D. (2021)Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2021 (TA Moon, ML Druckenmiller, and RL Thoman, Eds), http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.

Frost GV, Macander MJ, Bhatt US, Epstein HE, Berner LT, Bjerke JW, Forbes BC, Goetz SJ, Lara MJ, Park T, Phoenix GK, Raynolds MK, Tømmervik H, Walker DA (2021) Tundra Greenness. in: State of the Climate 2020. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102 (8): S298-S299.

Frost GV, Bhatt US, Epstein HE, Berner LT, Bjerke JW, Forbes BC, Goetz SJ, Lara MJ, Macander MJ, Phoenix GK, Raynolds MK, Tømmervik H, Walker DA (2020) Tundra Greenness. Chapter 5i in: State of the Climate 2019. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101: S272-S274.

 Frost GV, Bhatt US, Epstein HE, Myers-Smith I, Phoenix GK, Berner LT, Bjerke JW, Forbes BC, Goetz SJ, Kerby JT, Macander MJ, Park T, Raynolds MK, Tømmervik H, Walker DA (2020). Tundra Greenness, In: Arctic Report Card 2020 (RL Thoman, J Richter-Menge and ML Druckenmiller, Eds), http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

Frost GV, Bhatt US, Epstein HE, Walker DA, Raynolds MK, Berner LT, Bjerke JW, Breen AL, Forbes BC, Goetz SJ, Iversen CM, Lara MJ, Macander MJ, Phoenix GK, Rocha AV, Salmon VG, Thornton PE, Tømmervik H, Wullschleger SD (2019) Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2019 (Richter-Menge J, Druckenmiller ML, Jeffries M. eds), http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.

Epstein HE, Bhatt U S, Raynolds MK, Walker DA, Forbes BC, Phoenix G, Bjerke J, Tømmervik H, Karlsen S-R. Myneni R, Park T, Goetz S, Jia G (2018) Tundra Greenness. Chapter 5i in: State of the Climate 2018. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100: S163-S165.

Epstein HE, Bhatt U S, Raynolds MK, Walker DA, Forbes BC, Phoenix G, Bjerke J, Tømmervik H, Karlsen S-R. Myneni R, Park T, Goetz S, Jia G (2018) Tundra Greenness. In: Arctic Report Card 2018 (Osborne E, Richter-Menge J, and Jeffries M. eds). NOAA, Silver Spring, MD. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

Epstein HE, Bhatt U S, Raynolds MK, Walker DA, Forbes BC, Macias-Fauria M, Martin A, Phoenix G, Bjerke J, Tømmervik H, Fauchald P, Vickers H, Myneni R, Dickerson C  (2017) Tundra Greenness. In: Arctic Report Card 2017 (eds Richter-Menge J, Overland JE, Mathis JT, Osborne E). NOAA, Silver Spring, MD. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

Epstein HE, Bhatt U S, Raynolds MK, Walker DA, Forbes BC, Macias-Fauria M, Loranty M, Phoenix G, Bjerke J (2017) Tundra Greenness. Chapter 5h in: State of the Climate 2017. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98: S145-S147

Epstein HE, Bhatt U S, Raynolds MK, Walker DA, Forbes BC, Macias-Fauria M, Loranty M, Phoenix G, Bjerke J (2016) Tundra Greenness. In: Arctic Report Card 2016 (eds Richter-Menge J, Overland JE, Mathis JT). NOAA, Silver Spring, MD. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

Review of Transboundary Air Pollution. (2012). Co-author of Chpt 5 “Effects on soils, vegetation and freshwaters”.  DEFRA, London.

SWIPA: Climate Change and the Cryosphere: Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic (2012) Co-author of chapter 3 “snow and the terrestrial cryosphere”.  The Arctic Council.

Refereed Book Chapters

Cameron DD & Phoenix GK (2012) Ecology of the hemiparasitic Orobanchaceae with special reference to their interactions with plant communities.  Chapter 4, pp 287-305 in: Root Parasitic Orobanchaceae: Parasitic Mechanisms and Control Strategies. D.M. Joel & J. Gressel (eds). Springer, Heidelberg

Clark CM, Bai Y, Bowman WD, Cowles JM, Fenn ME, Gilliam FS, Phoenix GK, Siddique I, Stevens CJ, Sverdrup HU, Throop HL (2012) Nitrogen Deposition and Terrestrial Biodiversity. In: Levin S.A. (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity, second edition, Volume 5, pp. 519-536.

Gwynn-Jones, D., Lee, J.A., Johanson, U., Phoenix, G.K., Callaghan, T.V. & Sonesson, M. (1999) The responses of plant functional types to enhanced UV-B. In: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion.  The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on terrestrial ecosystems (Ed. J. Rozema), pp 173-185. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Gwynn-Jones, D., Johanson, U., Phoenix, G.K., Gehrke, C., Callaghan, T.V., Björn, L.O., Sonesson, M., & Lee, J.A. (1999)  UV-B impacts and interactions with other co-occurring variables of environmental change: an arctic perspective. In: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion.  The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on terrestrial ecosystems (Ed. J. Rozema), pp 187-201. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Other publications

Bokhorst S, Bjerke JW, Tømmervik H, Callaghan TV, & Phoenix GK. (2011) Impacts of extreme winter warming events in the Arctic.  Proceedings of the ATANS programme, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (in press).

Phoenix G.K. (2008) Extreme Arctic Climate Change: challenges in assessing the impacts of extreme warming events.  INTECOL Bulletin, 2(1), 1-2.

Phoenix, G.K. (2003).  Flowers under threat.  Planet Earth (NERC magazine), winter edition, 12-13.

Brooker, R., Phoenix, G.K., & Potter, J.  (2002). The state of Ecology in the UK.  Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 33, 30-31.