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Logan T. Berner is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these areas, they focus extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

Berner's research topics include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

The scientist has contributed publications to several frequent venues, including:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Global Change Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift, 2022, Global Change Biology

Additional influential works in related fields, though with different lead authorship, include:

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage in Forests East of the Cascade Crest in the United States Pacific Northwest, 2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Berner include:

  • S. J. Goetz
  • Bruce C. Forbes
  • Howard E. Epstein
  • Gerald V. Frost
  • Uma S. Bhatt

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Jeffrey T. Kerby;Gareth K. Phoenix;Jarle W. Bjerke

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

    Logan T. Berner;Richard Massey;Patruc Jantz;Bruce C. Forbes

  • Vegetation productivity patterns at high northern latitudes: a multi‐sensor satellite data assessment

    Kevin C. Guay;Pieter S. A. Beck;Logan T. Berner;Logan T. Berner;Scott J. Goetz

  • Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

    Zelalem A Mekonnen;William J Riley;Logan T Berner;Nicholas J Bouskill

  • Within-species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum.

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Logan T. Berner;Logan T. Berner;Grayson Badgley;Meera L. Sethi

  • Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests

    Beverly E. Law;Tara W. Hudiburg;Logan T. Berner;Jeffrey J. Kent

  • Vegetation controls on northern high latitude snow‐albedo feedback: observations and CMIP5 model simulations

    Michael M. Loranty;Michael M. Loranty;Logan T. Berner;Scott J. Goetz;Yufang Jin

  • Plant response to climate change along the forest-tundra ecotone in northeastern Siberia

    Logan T. Berner;Pieter S. A. Beck;Andrew G. Bunn;Scott J. Goetz

  • Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift

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  • Effects of changing glacial coverage on the physical and biogeochemical properties of coastal streams in southeastern Alaska

    Eran Hood;Logan Berner

  • High-latitude tree growth and satellite vegetation indices: Correlations and trends in Russia and Canada (1982–2008)

    Logan T. Berner;Pieter S. A. Beck;Andrew Godard Bunn;Andrea H. Lloyd

  • A latitudinal gradient in tree growth response to climate warming in the Siberian taiga

    Andrea H. Lloyd;Andrew G. Bunn;Logan Berner

  • Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States

    Polly C. Buotte;Beverly E. Law;William J. Ripple;Logan T. Berner

  • Tundra plant above-ground biomass and shrub dominance mapped across the North Slope of Alaska

    Logan T Berner;Patrick Jantz;Ken D Tape;Scott J Goetz

  • Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012)

    Logan T Berner;Logan T Berner;Beverly E Law;Arjan J H Meddens;Jeffrey A Hicke

  • Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage in Forests East of the Cascade Crest in the United States Pacific Northwest

    David J. Mildrexler;Logan T. Berner;Beverly E. Law;Richard A. Birdsey

  • Detecting early warning signals of tree mortality in boreal North America using multiscale satellite data

    Brendan M. Rogers;Kylen Solvik;Edward H. Hogg;Junchang Ju

  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

    H. J. D. Thomas;A. D. Bjorkman;A. D. Bjorkman;I. H. Myers-Smith;S. C. Elmendorf

  • Comparing forest measurements from tree rings and a space-based index of vegetation activity in Siberia

    Andrew Godard Bunn;Malcolm Kenneth Hughes;Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Mark Losleben

  • Biomass allometry for alder, dwarf birch, and willow in boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of far northeastern Siberia and north-central Alaska

    Logan T. Berner;Logan T. Berner;Heather D. Alexander;Michael M. Loranty;Peter Ganzlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
Michelle C. Mack
Michelle C. Mack Northern Arizona University
Pieter S. A. Beck
Pieter S. A. Beck Woods Hole Research Center
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Brendan M. Rogers
Brendan M. Rogers Woodwell Climate Research Center
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Bruce C. Forbes
Bruce C. Forbes University of Lapland
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu

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