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Overview

Kari Klanderud is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway. The research focuses on environmental sciences with a strong interdisciplinary approach spanning earth and planetary sciences as well as agricultural and biological sciences.

The primary subfields of study include atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecological modeling. Research topics cover diverse areas such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, climate change and permafrost, species distribution and climate change, peatlands and wetlands ecology, plant and animal studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent publication venues where Kari Klanderud has contributed include:

  • Arctic Science
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Scientific Data
  • Oikos

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kari Klanderud include:

  • Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • A review of open top chamber (OTC) performance across the ITEX Network (2022, Arctic Science)
  • Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming (2022, Ecological Monographs)

Klanderud collaborates regularly with multiple researchers, including frequent coauthors:

  • Vigdis Vandvik
  • Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
  • Robert D. Hollister
  • Richard J. Telford
  • Ruben E. Roos

Best Publications

  • Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

  • Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H.R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Björk

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Recent increases in species richness and shifts in altitudinal distributions of Norwegian mountain plants

    Kari Klanderud;Harry John Betteley Birks

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERED DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES AND DIVERSITY OF AN ALPINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT

    Kari Klanderud;Ørjan Totland

  • The relative importance of neighbours and abiotic environmental conditions for population dynamic parameters of two alpine plant species

    Kari Klanderud;Ørjan Totland

  • 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

  • Climate change effects on species interactions in an alpine plant community

    Kari Klanderud

  • Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes

    Janet Prevéy;Mark Vellend;Nadja Rüger;Robert D. Hollister

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Intraspecific trait variation and phenotypic plasticity mediate alpine plant species response to climate change

    Jonathan J. Henn;Vanessa Buzzard;Brian J. Enquist;Aud H. Halbritter;Aud H. Halbritter

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • 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

  • Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment

    S F Oberbauer;S C Elmendorf;T G Troxler;R D Hollister

  • From facilitation to competition: temperature-driven shift in dominant plant interactions affects population dynamics in seminatural grasslands.

    Siri L. Olsen;Joachim P. Töpper;Joachim P. Töpper;Olav Skarpaas;Vigdis Vandvik

  • Identifying the driving factors behind observed elevational range shifts on European mountains

    John‐Arvid Grytnes;Jutta Kapfer;Jutta Kapfer;Gerald Jurasinski;Hilary H. Birks

  • Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities

    Janet S. Prevéy;Christian Rixen;Nadja Rüger;Toke T. Høye

  • The importance of Biotic vs. Abiotic drivers of local plant community composition along regional bioclimatic gradients

    Kari Klanderud;Vigdis Vandvik;Deborah Goldberg

  • Seed banks are biodiversity reservoirs: species–area relationships above versus below ground

    Vigdis Vandvik;Kari Klanderud;Kari Klanderud;Eric Pierre F Meineri;Eric Pierre F Meineri;Inger Elisabeth Måren

  • Species-specific responses of an alpine plant community under simulated environmental change

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Frequent Co-Authors

Vigdis Vandvik
Vigdis Vandvik University of Bergen
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Ørjan Totland
Ørjan Totland University of Bergen
Deborah E. Goldberg
Deborah E. Goldberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard J. Telford
Richard J. Telford University of Bergen
Robert D. Hollister
Robert D. Hollister Grand Valley State University
Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Elisabeth J. Cooper
Elisabeth J. Cooper University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Juha M. Alatalo
Juha M. Alatalo Qatar University

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