Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

Spatial ecology and remote sensing; Arctic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Arctic land surface albedo and energy budget; Radiation-vegetation interaction; Spectral and multi-angular signatures of vegetation; Reflectance and albedo terminology

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• Thomas, H.J.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Bjorkman, A.D., Elmendorf, S.C., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Forbes, B.C., Hollister, R.D., Normand, S., Prevéy, J.S., Rixen, C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Wilmking, M., Wipf, S., Cornwell, W.K., Kattge, J., Goetz, S.J., Guay, K.C., Alatalo, J.M., Anadon-Rosell, A., Angers-Blondin, S., Berner, L.T., Björk, R.G., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Carbognani, M., Christie, K., Siegwart Collier, L., Cooper, E.J., Eskelinen, A., Frei, E.R., Grau, O., Grogan, P., Hallinger, M., Heijmans, M.M.P.D., Hermanutz, L., Hudson, J.M.G., Hülber, K., Iturrate-Garcia, M., Iversen, C.M., Jaroszynska, F., Johnstone, J.F., Kaarlejärvi, E., Kulonen, A., Lamarque, L.J., Lévesque, E., Little, C.J., Michelsen, A., Milbau, A., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Nielsen, S.S., Ninot, J.M., Oberbauer, S.F., Olofsson, J., Onipchenko, V.G., Petraglia, A., Rumpf, S.B., Semenchuk, P.R., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Spasojevic, M.J., Speed, J.D.M., Tape, K.D., te Beest, M., Tomaselli, M., Trant, A., Treier, U.A., Venn, S., Vowles, T., Weijers, S., Zamin, T., Atkin, O.K., Bahn, M., Blonder, B., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Chapin III, F.S., Dainese, M., de Vries, F.T., Díaz, S., Green, W., Jackson, R.B., Manning, P., Niinemets, Ü., Ozinga, W.A., Peñuelas, J., Reich, P.B., Schamp, B., Sheremetev, S., van Bodegom, P.M. (2019) Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28, 78-95. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12783

• Ksenofontov, S., Backhaus, N., Schaepman-Strub, G. (2019). ‘There are new species’: indigenous knowledge of biodiversity change in Arctic Yakutia. Polar Geography 42, 34-57. DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2018.1547326

• Bjorkman AD., Myers-Smith IH., Elmendorf SC., Normand S., Rüger N., Beck PSA., Blach-Overgaard A., Blok D., Cornelissen JHC., Forbes BC., Georges D., Goetz SJ., Guay KC., Henry GHR., HilleRisLambers J., Hollister RD., Karger DN., Kattge J., Manning, P., Prevéy JS., Rixen C., Schaepman-Strub G., Iturrate-Garcia M., Little CJ., et al. (2018). Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7
• Deplazes-Zemp A., Abiven S., Schaber P., Schaepman M., Schaepman-Strub G., Schmid B., Shimizu KK. and Altermatt F. (2018). The Nagoya Protocol could backfire on the Global South. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 917-919. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0561-z
• Jeong SJ., Bloom AA., Schimel D., Sweeney C., Parazoo NC., Medvigy D., Schaepman-Strub G., Zheng CM., Schwalm CR., Huntzinger DN., Michalak AM. and Miller CE. (2018). Accelerating rates of Arctic carbon cycling revealed by long-term atmospheric CO2 measurements. Science Advances 4. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao1167
• Oehri J., Schmid B., Schaepman-Strub G., Niklaus P. (2017). Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703928114
• Iturrate-Garcia M., Heijmans MMMP., Schweingruber F., Simeon R., Niklaus PA., Schaepman-Strub G. (2017). Shrub growth rate and bark responses to soil warming and nutrient addition ‒ an experimental dendroecological approach, Dendrochronlogia, 45, 12-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2017.07.001
• Loew A., Bell W., Brocca L., Bulgin C., Burdanowitz J., Calbet X., Donner R.V., Ghent D., Gruber A., Kaminski T., Kinzel J., Klepp C., Lambert J-C., Schaepman-Strub G., Schröder M., Verhoelst T. (2017). Validation of earth observation data products - a review, Review of Geophysics. DOI: 10.1002/2017RG000562
• Ksenofontov S., Backhaus N., Schaepman-Strub G. (2017). ‘To fish or not to fish?’: fishing communities of Arctic Yakutia in the face of environmental change and political transformations. Polar Record, 1-15. DOI: 10.1017/S0032247417000134
• Juszak I., Iturrate-Garcia M., Gastellu-Etchegorry JP., Schaepman ME., Maximov TC., Schaepman-Strub G. (2017). Drivers of shortwave radiation fluxes in Arctic tundra across scales. Remote Sensing of Environment, 193, 86-102. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.02.017
• Iturrate-Garcia M., O'Brien MJ., Khitun O., Abiven S., Niklaus PA., Schaepman-Strub G. (2016). Interactive effects between plant functional types and soil factors on tundra species diversity and community composition. Ecology and Evolution, 6(22):8126-8137. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2548
• Juszak I., Eugster W., Heijmans MMPD., Schaepman-Strub G. (2016). Contrasting radiation and soil heat fluxes in Arctic shrub and wet sedge tundra. Biogeosciences, 13, 4049-4064. DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-4049-2016