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    Changes in vegetation cover and composition in the Swedish mountain region

    Climate change, higher levels of natural resource demands, and changing land use will likely lead to changes in vegetation configuration in the mountain regions. The aim of this study was to determine if the v...

    Henrik Hedenås, Pernilla Christensen in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2016)

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    On the decline of ground lichen forests in the Swedish boreal landscape: Implications for reindeer husbandry and sustainable forest management

    Lichens are a bottleneck resource for circumpolar populations of reindeer, and as such, for reindeer husbandry as an indigenous Sami land-use tradition in northern Sweden. This study uses ground lichen data an...

    Per Sandström, Neil Cory, Johan Svensson, Henrik Hedenås, Leif Jougda in Ambio (2016)

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    Changes Versus Homeostasis in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Vegetation Over Three Decades in the Sub-Arctic

    Plant species distributions are expected to shift and diversity is expected to decline as a result of global climate change, particularly in the Arctic where climate warming is amplified. We have recorded the ...

    Henrik Hedenås, Bengt Å. Carlsson, Urban Emanuelsson, Alistair D. Headley in AMBIO (2012)

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    Tree and Shrub Expansion Over the Past 34 Years at the Tree-Line Near Abisko, Sweden

    Shrubs and trees are expected to expand in the sub-Arctic due to global warming. Our study was conducted in Abisko, sub-arctic Sweden. We recorded the change in coverage of shrub and tree species over a 32– to...

    Sara Rundqvist, Henrik Hedenås, Anneli Sandström, Urban Emanuelsson in AMBIO (2011)

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    Changes in Tree Growth, Biomass and Vegetation Over a 13-Year Period in the Swedish Sub-Arctic

    This study was conducted in the Swedish sub-Arctic, near Abisko, in order to assess the direction and scale of possible vegetation changes in the alpine–birch forest ecotone. We have re-surveyed shrub, tree an...

    Henrik Hedenås, Håkan Olsson, Christer Jonasson, Johan Bergstedt, Ulrika Dahlberg in AMBIO (2011)

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    Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

    Understanding the responses of tundra systems to global change has global implications. Most tundra regions lack sustained environmental monitoring and one of the only ways to document multi-decadal change is ...

    Terry V. Callaghan, Craig E. Tweedie, Jonas Åkerman, Christopher Andrews in AMBIO (2011)