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Kari Anne Bråthen is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental sciences, with a particular focus on ecology, plant science, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers a range of fields including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of focus include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Lichen and fungal ecology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kari Anne Bråthen include:

  • "The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research", 2021, Fungal Diversity
  • "Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi", 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia", 2022, Science Advances
  • "The paradox of forbs in grasslands and the legacy of the mammoth steppe", 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Maria Tuomi
  • Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
  • Isabel C. Barrio
  • Francis Q. Brearley
  • Matteo Petit Bon

Kari Anne Bråthen has published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Ecography
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

  • Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

    Philip A. Wookey;Rien Aerts;Richard D. Bardgett;Florence Baptist

  • New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems.

    Laura S. Epp;Sanne Boessenkool;Eva P. Bellemain;James Haile;James Haile

  • DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity

    N. G. Yoccoz;K. A. Bråthen;L. Gielly;J. Haile;J. Haile

  • Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

    Jonathan Lenoir;Bente Jessen Graae;Per Arild Aarrestad;Inger Greve Alsos

  • Induced Shift in Ecosystem Productivity? Extensive Scale Effects of Abundant Large Herbivores

    Kari Anne Bråthen;Rolf A. Ims;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Per Fauchald

  • Stay or go - how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

    Bente Jessen Graae;Vigdis Vandvik;W. Scott Armbruster;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Wolf L. Eiserhardt

  • Species distribution models reveal apparent competitive and facilitative effects of a dominant species on the distribution of tundra plants

    Loïc Pellissier;Kari Anne Bråthen;Julien Pottier;Christophe F. Randin

  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

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  • The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research

    Leho Tedersoo;Vladimir Mikryukov;Sten Anslan;Mohammad Bahram

  • Reindeer reduce biomass of preferred plant species.

    Kari Anne Bråthen;Jari Oksanen

  • What are the impacts of reindeer/caribou (Rangifer tarandus L.) on arctic and alpine vegetation?: A systematic review

    Claes Bernes;Kari Anne Bråthen;Bruce C. Forbes;James David Mervyn Speed

  • Structural characteristics of a low Arctic tundra ecosystem and the retreat of the Arctic fox

    Siw T. Killengreen;Rolf Anker Ims;Nigel Gilles Yoccoz;Kari Anne Bråthen

  • Terrestrial trophic dynamics in the Canadian Arctic

    Charles J Krebs;Kjell Danell;Anders Angerbjörn;Jep Agrell

  • Can Reindeer Overabundance Cause a Trophic Cascade

    Rolf A. Ims;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Kari Anne Bråthen;Per Fauchald

  • More efficient estimation of plant biomass

    Kari Anne Bråthen;Oskar Hagberg

  • Rapid, landscape scale responses in riparian tundra vegetation to exclusion of small and large mammalian herbivores

    Virve Tuulia Ravolainen;Kari Anne Bråthen;Rolf Anker Ims;Nigel Gilles Yoccoz

  • Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia

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  • Arctic Small Rodents Have Diverse Diets and Flexible Food Selection

    Eeva M. Soininen;Virve T. Ravolainen;Kari Anne Bråthen;Nigel G. Yoccoz

  • Shedding new light on the diet of Norwegian lemmings: DNA metabarcoding of stomach content

    Eeva M. Soininen;Lucie Zinger;Lucie Zinger;Ludovic Gielly;Eva Bellemain

  • Complementary impacts of small rodents and semi-domesticated ungulates limit tall shrub expansion in the tundra

    Virve T. Ravolainen;Kari Anne Bråthen;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Julie K. Nguyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Rolf A. Ims
Rolf A. Ims University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Inger Greve Alsos
Inger Greve Alsos University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
James D. M. Speed
James D. M. Speed Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Mary E. Edwards
Mary E. Edwards University of Southampton
James Haile
James Haile Murdoch University
Tomasz Goslar
Tomasz Goslar Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University

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