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Ulf Molau is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research predominantly focuses on atmospheric science and related subfields.

The scientist's main subfields of study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics within their research encompass:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

They have published in several notable venues, including:

  • Arctic Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Alpine Botany
  • Nature Communications
  • AoB Plants

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Juha M. Alatalo (12 collaborations)
  • Christian Rixen (8 collaborations)
  • Annika K. Jägerbrand (8 collaborations)
  • Robert G. Björk (7 collaborations)
  • Mats P. Björkman (7 collaborations)

Recent publications by Ulf Molau include:

  • Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A review of open top chamber (OTC) performance across the ITEX Network, 2022, Arctic Science
  • Bryophyte cover and richness decline after 18 years of experimental warming in alpine Sweden, 2020, AoB Plants
  • The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX): 30 years of research on tundra ecosystems, 2022, Arctic Science
  • Decomposition rate and stabilization across six tundra vegetation types exposed to >20 years of warming, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

    Marilyn D Walker;C Henrik Wahren;Robert D Hollister;Greg H R Henry

  • Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

    Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli;Andreas Futschik;Maia Akhalkatsi

  • RESPONSES OF TUNDRA PLANTS TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING:META‐ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TUNDRA EXPERIMENT

    A. M. Arft;M. D. Walker;J. Gurevitch;J. M. Alatalo

  • 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

  • Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe’s Mountain Summits

    Harald Pauli;Michael Gottfried;Stefan Dullinger;Otari Abdaladze

  • 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

  • Open‐top designs for manipulating field temperature in high‐latitude ecosystems

    G.M. Marion;G.H.R. Henry;D.W. Freckman;J. Johnstone

  • 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

  • Tundra plants and climate change: The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX).

    G.H.R. Henry;U. Molau

  • Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

    J. H.C. Cornelissen;J. H.C. Cornelissen;T. V. Callaghan;J. M. Alatalo;A. Michelsen

  • Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Peter M. van Bodegom;Rien Aerts;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Relationships between flowering phenology and life history strategies in tundra plants.

    Ulf Molau

  • 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

  • Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Anna Maria Fosaa

  • Ecology of Alpine Snowbeds and the Impact of Global Change

    Robert G. Björk;Ulf Molau

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

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

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

  • Detection and attribution of observed impacts

    W. Cramer;G.W. Yohe;M. Auffhammer;C. Huggel

  • Onset of flowering and climate variability in an alpine landscape: a 10-year study from Swedish Lapland.

    Ulf Molau;Urban Nordenhäll;Bente Eriksen

  • Responses of Dryas octopetala to ITEX environmental manipulations : a synthesis with circumpolar comparisons

    Jeffery M Welker;Jeffery M Welker;Ulf Molau;Andrew N Parsons;Clare H Robinson

  • 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

Juha M. Alatalo
Juha M. Alatalo Qatar University
Robert G. Björk
Robert G. Björk University of Gothenburg
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Gregory H. R. Henry
Gregory H. R. Henry University of British Columbia
Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Steven F. Oberbauer
Steven F. Oberbauer Florida International University
Robert D. Hollister
Robert D. Hollister Grand Valley State University
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh

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