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Sonja Wipf is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Other key areas include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Wipf's work cover Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Plant and Animal Studies. Additional subjects examined include Climate Change and Permafrost, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Wipf's recent papers illustrate their engagement with climate and ecological shifts, particularly in cold environments and mountainous regions. Notable publications include:

  • "Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic" (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps" (2021, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • "SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment" (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • "Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems" (2022, Arctic Science)

Frequent coauthors who appear regularly in Wipf's research collaborations include:

  • Christian Rixen (11 coauthored works)
  • Isla H. Myers-Smith (5 coauthored works)
  • Jonathan Lenoir (5 coauthored works)
  • Alessandro Petraglia (5 coauthored works)
  • Sabine B. Rumpf (5 coauthored works)

Wipf's research has been published multiple times in several scientific venues, reflecting a focus on conservation biology, ecology, and arctic science. Regular publication venues include:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Arctic Science
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

  • Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf

  • Winter climate change in alpine tundra: plant responses to changes in snow depth and snowmelt timing

    Sonja Wipf;Sonja Wipf;Veronika Stoeckli;Peter Bebi

  • 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

  • A review of snow manipulation experiments in Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

    Sonja Wipf;Christian Rixen

  • Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

    Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Rob W. Brooker;Bradley J. Butterfield;Bradley J. Cook

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps.

    Yann Vitasse;Sylvain Ursenbacher;Geoffrey Klein;Thierry Bohnenstengel

  • Effects of ski piste preparation on alpine vegetation

    Sonja Wipf;Christian Rixen;Markus Fischer;Bernhard Schmid

  • Effect of low-intensity grazing on the species-rich vegetation of traditionally mown subalpine meadows

    Markus Fischer;Sonja Wipf

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

    B. J. Butterfield;L. A. Cavieres;R. M. Callaway;B. J. Cook

  • Phenology, growth, and fecundity of eight subarctic tundra species in response to snowmelt manipulations

    Sonja Wipf

  • Advanced snowmelt causes shift towards positive neighbour interactions in a subarctic tundra community

    Sonja Wipf;Christian Rixen;Christa P. H. Mulder

  • Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Martin Hallinger;Daan Blok;Ute Sass-Klaassen

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Frank Hagedorn
Frank Hagedorn Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Robert D. Hollister
Robert D. Hollister Grand Valley State University
Robert G. Björk
Robert G. Björk University of Gothenburg
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Elisabeth J. Cooper
Elisabeth J. Cooper University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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