Published articles

Award for CHARTER supported publication and new paper published

Jan 14, 2025adminProject News, Published articlesBruce Forbes, Joachim Otto Habeck, Lake Inari, Mariana Verdonen, Otto Habeck, Philip Burgess, Sirpa Rasmus, Sirpa Rasmus, Timo Kumpula

Every year, the Editors of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research select an article from the previous year’s issue for the Editors’ Choice Award. The award recognizes an influential paper demonstrating research excellence contributing substantially to our understanding of physical and environmental science in cold environments. We are thrilled to post that the academic article “Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems

CHARTER: New Circumarctic Data

Dec 16, 2024adminCryosphere, Project News, Published articlesAnnett Bartsch, bgeos, Remote sensing

Annett Bartsch and others have just published an updated Circumarctic Landcover Units map. It now also includes Northern Scandinavia and Southern Greenland and many other areas have been reprocessed, representing an important addition to circumarctic remote sensing data. You can access and download all the data on the open source Zenodo platform here It includes an axillary dataset with dates

New Publication: Focus on the Arctic Snowpack..

Oct 9, 2024adminProject News, Published articlesCecile Menard, Cryosphere

A new publication has just come out with input from multiple CHARTER researchers, led by Cecile B. Menard. Published in EGU’s The Cryosphere, it is titled Exploring the decision-making process in model development: focus on the Arctic snowpack To summarise the article, the Arctic faces significant challenges for climate and snow models, which often struggle to accurately simulate key processes

CHARTER work featured in CNN article

Sep 23, 2024adminBiodiversity, Project News, Published articlesBruce Forbes, CNN, Marc-Macias Fauria, Marcus Spiegel

Excellent article in CNN published a few days ago that featured the challenges that Sámi reindeer herders in the Gran Sameby are experiencing due to loss of pastures and encroachment, issues that are not only limited to their district but are shared reindeer herders across the entire reindeer herding in Fennoscandi. Written by a journalist (Neill Lewis) who clearly spent

The Arctic Plant Aboveground Biomass Synthesis Dataset – New Publication

Aug 14, 2024adminBiodiversity, Published articlesArctic, Data, Logan T. Berner, Plant biomass

This publication, led by Logan T Berner came out a few months ago and has input from several CHARTER project participants including – from the abstract: Plant biomass is a fundamental ecosystem attribute that is sensitive to rapid climatic changes occurring in the arctic. Nevertheless, measuring plant biomass in the arctic is logistically challenging and resource intensive. Lack of accessible field

Comparing Jokkmokk and Savukoski through an environmental stressor lens

May 29, 2024adminArctic climate change, Biodiversity, Climate change, Published articlesBruce Forbes, Joachim Otto Habeck, Jokkmokk, Nora Fagerholm, Salla Eilola, Savukoski, Sirpa Rasmus, Teresa Komu, Tim Horstkotte

A new peer reviewed CHARTER publication has dropped – titled “Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two communities in northern Fennoscandia”. Salla Eilola of University of Turku is the lead author, with six co authors, all of whom are affiliated with the CHARTER project. The article looks at local perceptions of local

New CHARTER publication on Plant Biomass

Mar 25, 2024adminBiodiversity, Project Documents, Published articlesPlant biomass

A new CHARTER publication has just gone online in journal Nature, lead authored by Logan T. Berner with numerous CHARTER researchers providing input. The article is open access, and available here. Plant biomass is a fundamental ecosystem attribute that is sensitive to rapid climatic changes occurring in the Arctic. Nevertheless, measuring plant biomass in the Arctic is logistically challenging and

Meet the Nexus: New CHARTER Publication

Jan 11, 2024adminProject News, Published articlesArctic, European Arctic, Nexus, Policy, Sirpa Rasmus

The CHARTER project is entering its final year and concluding publications are beginning to roll out. An important new one led by Sirpa Rasmus, supported by a large number of CHARTER affiliated researchers has just been published in the One Earth journal. With the snappy title of ‘Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal

Critical Seasons for Reindeer Herders – New CHARTER publication

Nov 29, 2023adminProject News, Published articlesBruce Forbes, Hans Tømmervik, Heidrun Matthes, Joachim Otto Habeck, Jussi Eronen, Kirill Istomin, Komi, Nenets, Reindeer Herders, Roza Laptander, Sámi, Sirpa Rasmus, Teresa Komu, Tim Horstkotte

Ten CHARTER researchers led by the Nenets scholar Roza Laptander new article has just been published. Titled ‘Critical seasonal conditions in the reindeer-herding year: A synopsis of factors and events in Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia’, the authors explore key aspects of the yearly reindeer herding cycle as perceived by reindeer herders in Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia. Indigenous Sámi and Yamal

Arctic Holocene Biodiversity Map Now Live!

Oct 30, 2023adminBiodiversity, Project News, Published articlesAndrew Martin, Holocene, Jakob Assmann, James Speed, Marc-Macias Fauria, Mari Kuoppamaa

A major CHARTER project deliverable is now live! The Arctic Holocene Biodiversity Database (AHBD) is an evolving metadata database of time-series biodiversity metrics covering the last 11,750 years in the Arctic region. T The academic underpinnings of the map were outlined in a 2022 CHARTER publication (What evidence exists for temporal variability in Arctic terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity throughout the