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Overview

Paul Grogan is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, as well as peatlands and wetlands ecology.

The scientist has contributed to a number of subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, General Health Professions, Plant Science, and Oncology. Their work also intersects with Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

Frequent publication venues for Paul Grogan include Nature Communications, Public Health Research & Practice, Arctic Science, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research.

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Johan Olofsson, Bruce C. Forbes, Juha M. Alatalo, Matthias Siewert, and Esther Lévesque.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Paul Grogan are:

  • Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems, 2022, Arctic Science
  • Canadian permafrost stores large pools of ammonium and optically distinct dissolved organic matter, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Deepened snow enhances gross nitrogen cycling among Pan-Arctic tundra soils during both winter and summer, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Recent Growth and Expansion of Birch Shrubs Across a Low Arctic Landscape in Continental Canada: Are These Responses More a Consequence of the Severely Declining Caribou Herd than of Climate Warming?, 2020, Ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

    Isla H Myers-Smith;Isla H Myers-Smith;Bruce C Forbes;Martin Wilmking;Martin Hallinger

  • Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes

    Haiyan Chu;Haiyan Chu;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Christian L. Lauber;J. G. Caporaso

  • 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

  • Freeze–thaw regime effects on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in sub-arctic heath tundra mesocosms

    P Grogan;Anders Michelsen;P Ambus;Sven Evert Jonasson

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Fire effects on ecosystem nitrogen cycling in a Californian bishop pine forest

    P. Grogan;T. D. Burns;F.S. Chapin

  • Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities

    Steven D. Siciliano;Anne S. Palmer;Tristrom Winsley;Tristrom Winsley;Eric Lamb

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Detection of forest stand‐level spatial structure in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities

    Erik A. Lilleskov;Thomas D. Bruns;Thomas R. Horton;D. Lee Taylor

  • Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Snow‐Covered Environments

    Paul D. Brooks;Paul Grogan;Pamela H. Templer;Peter Groffman

  • Contrasting elevational diversity patterns between eukaryotic soil microbes and plants

    Congcong Shen;Wenju Liang;Yu Shi;Xiangui Lin

  • Deepened snow alters soil microbial nutrient limitations in arctic birch hummock tundra

    Kate M. Buckeridge;Paul Grogan

  • Below-ground ectomycorrhizal community structure in a recently burned bishop pine forest

    P. Grogan;J. Baar;T.D. Bruns

  • Soil microbial biomass, nutrient availability and nitrogen mineralization potential among vegetation-types in a low arctic tundra landscape

    Haiyan Chu;Haiyan Chu;Paul Grogan

  • Deeper Snow Enhances Winter Respiration from Both Plant-associated and Bulk Soil Carbon Pools in Birch Hummock Tundra

    Sonia Nobrega;Paul Grogan

  • The Influence of Vegetation Type on the Dominant Soil Bacteria, Archaea, and Fungi in a Low Arctic Tundra Landscape

    Haiyan Chu;Josh D. Neufeld;Virginia K. Walker;Paul Grogan

  • The seasonal pattern of soil microbial community structure in mesic low arctic tundra

    Kate M. Buckeridge;Samiran Banerjee;Steven D. Siciliano;Paul Grogan

  • Arctic Soil Respiration: Effects of Climate and Vegetation Depend on Season

    P. Grogan;F. S. Chapin

  • CO2 FLUX MEASUREMENT USING SODA LIME: CORRECTION FOR WATER FORMED DURING CO2 ADSORPTION

    Paul Grogan

  • Soil nitrogen cycling rates in low arctic shrub tundra are enhanced by litter feedbacks

    Kate M. Buckeridge;Erik Zufelt;Haiyan Chu;Haiyan Chu;Paul Grogan

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Michelsen
Anders Michelsen University of Copenhagen
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen
Bruce C. Forbes
Bruce C. Forbes University of Lapland
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Elisabeth J. Cooper
Elisabeth J. Cooper University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu
Sven Jonasson
Sven Jonasson University of Copenhagen
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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